The Seniors Thread :-)

[darksideofthemoon]

"This is for the Senior members of CS, those born before 1947. Baby Boomers and Generations X & Y are welcome providing you are over 18 🙂

But this is definitely for people who are facing the last long haul.  We have survived babyhood, childhood, being teens and twenties... We have learned to read and write, to drive, have probably been married and the women have survived child birth.

The challenges are constant and the near misses of death are also there.  If we have become a senior we have learned to survive so much, and along the way we have, of course, gathered a great deal of knowledge about life.

The  belief that age diminishes us is not true, it changes us and not all of it is bad.  Yes there can be various forms of dementia for some, but that is also a disease that can happen in younger people.  Alzheimer's can also occur - it is another form of dementia and generally occurs in people over 65, although that can occur much earlier too and not everyone is going to get it.

Most of us keep our mental alertness up to the moment of death, even if we lose our hearing and our eyesight, but of course this can happen at any age too.

What changes is our physical strength, which diminishes but our mental strength and patience grows, it has to of course, to deal with this aging thing.

Arthritis, heart trouble, strokes - all these things associated with age can happen at any time in your life - arthritis can happen when you are a child but they don't like giving out new hips and knees until you are in your 50s and 60s or later.  We can talk about that too.

Cancer can happen any time and that is also something we can discuss here if you like.

The point of this thread is to give the Seniors a chance to talk about how they are coping with age, the challenges it presents and the fears that can come with it... loss of hearing or sight, aging spouses, living alone, retirement villages, even death...

So I will ask that the Juniors treat us in kindly fashion and remember, all this is going to happen to you too - providing you avoid death before you get here 🙂

So, onward and upward.  Let's go...."

[freddie*rooster]

I remember crying my eye's out that santa didn't bring me a rope petticoat on Christmas morning. Funnily enough santa misplaced it and left in my Brothers bedroom :^O

Margo, wow that's expensive, but when you think about it it's only 2 good bottles of wine :^O

[grandmoon]

Purple Haize the broken biscuits were soo much cheaper than the unbroken ones.  Mum would always buy the broken ones too.

I remember ironing the full circle skirts on sheets on the floor. (before the ironing boards) 

[lifechange2007]

"The thing i am remembering the most today is that you could go to the movies for one shilling and buy a heap to eat for another shilling.

Today I took one little grandaughter to see I bought A Zoo

and it cost $60 for seniors ticket kids ticket 2 choc tops and 2 waters."

I remember my mother telling me, when she went to the pictures it's was 1 penny each way on the tram, 3 pence to get in and 1 penny for a battered sav.

[freddie*rooster]

My treat was a halfpenny of broken biscuits in a brown paper bag from the local corner shop on my way to school. Those biscuits would probably last a week 😄

[bluepanda555]

Darki I honestly don't remember which argonaut I was.What a shame. 

Purple I think the broken biscuits were cheaper than the others. 

Oh yes loved those petticoats, weren't they a pain to wash, and iron though?

And speaking of Elvis and rock n' roll do you remember the Bodgies and the Widgies?  My twin brother went around in fluorescent socks and that thong tie thing, and stovepipe pants. 

[grandmoon]

Remember 6 O"clock closing

[freshwater-2]

Gee Margo, I used to get into the 'flicks' on the northern beaches for threepence downstairs in the stalls, and sixpence upstairs.

And for that you got three serials (you know the ones where the hero disappeared in the quicksand and the next week he was miraculously rescued),  a B grade movie, then after interval 4 cartoons and then the main feature, hopefully a Tarzan movie or Hopalong Cassidy.

Another thing I recalll....I had never heard of the word asthma  and there was not one overweight kid at school or with my gang.

[donnashuggy]

I remember 6 o'clock closing vividly as my dad would come home early from the pub lol.

I also remember overweight children were uncommon.

I remember what being hot thirsty and hungry meant.

I think we should set up a retreat and teach our children about life lol, I'm not 50 yet!

[purple_haize]

Bluepanda.  I remember the Bodgies & Widgies the clothes they wore and the hair on the Bodgies & they use to go around hanging out car windows (no seat belts then).

My dad use to come home when the pubs closed at 6.00pm, he would walk in the door with his brown leather kit bag.

I remember most people walked to the shops and you never saw many women driving & there was only one car per family.

When I first went to school we had a slate to write on.

Every one sat at the table to eat & you had to eat everything that was on your plate.

[grandmoon]

Remember my Dad taking me to school on his push bike.