Are You A Senior Who Enjoys The Simple Life?

I was never a social butterfly so just didn't go anywhere I had to dress up for. That is just not my scene and they are not my kind of preferred company. A 3 week holiday spent barefooted was far preferable to one spent in posh digs.

I like 'toys' but only ones that appeal to me. Still drive a beat up old car because it goes well and no one cares that it doesn't get washed and no one will pinch it from the carpark. Don't even use a mobile/cell phone. But the kitchen is full of electric whizzbang gadgets I can't even remember the purpose of. The simple life is by choice for me. Never been rich but never had to borrow a dollar either. I grew up 'low income' but not poverty level and now 'comfortably well off' by the standards of how I choose to live, but my lifestyle and tastes haven't changed with my 'bottom line.'
I stopped buying lottery tickets when I couldn't think what the hell I'd spend the extra money on. You can only drive one car and sleep in one bed and wear one outfit at a time. I'm not physically up to travelling now either so it doesn't leave much to luxuriate in.

Maybe if I had a few spare mill I'd set myself up somewhere with 'staff' but it's really not how I'd want to live. Still, a cleaning lady would be nice and access to delivered take-aways would be a luxury I can't access here but that's as 'up market' as I'm going.

I've known a few millionaires and by and large none were miserable, but none of them were ostentatious types either. They weren't jet setters, although some were biz class frequent flyers, and lived in houses much the same as everyone else. Lets face it, if they didn't like the simple life they wouldn't have hung out with we mob.
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They did 'simple' in more relaxed style than those forced to live that way but not all that much differently at all. Their 'worth' was never mentioned. Most were rural types and stayed that way. The city business wheeler dealers did it for the 'game' of making money more than for the trappings it offered. They drove flasher cars but still turned up at a barbie in old jeans and a jumper. They bought a few bottles of better wine but also a slab of beer.

It seems the almost theres and wanna bes who go in for the fancy labels and McMansions. Basically it's down to personality how simple we need to keep our lives.
 

Had a mouse here recently. In the pantry... aaagh. Had to shift every damned thing in there to flush it out. Belle was poised to pounce when it ran out but she's not as good as she was (are any of us?) and had a bit of slippage on the vinyl and the damned thing beat her to the garage door and went under it. It's the only one that ever made it, she's been a better mouser than any cat alive. She also does cockroaches and spiders for practice.

2 days later.. back again! Set Belle up, did the shifting and flushing thing... same result! siiiiiigh. So I set up traps and waited, and waited... it never came back. Feeling her hot breath on it's arse twice must have been hint enough. Got the cuz to put a strip on the bottom of the pantry door so it's practically airtight in there now.

Now I just have to figure out how to keep those little black crickets out of the rest of the house, anyone else getting those? The noise of the damned things! Thankfully they're seasonal, and Belle catches stupid ones but if they get in a crevice somewhere they sing half the night.
 
The wife & I have lived in the same house for 43 years. Raised two sons, add two daughter inlaws + 5 grand children and a dog.
I mostly wear jeans (6 pair to choose from), 1 suit(once or twice a year, worn). I mostly wear golfing shirts with my jeans,
& a sport jacket if we go out. Haven't worn a tie since my younger sons wedding.
To be smart looking & to please my G/daughters I keep a two day beard on occasions, then I'm assured they will hold my
hand when we are out & about!:rose::hatlaugh1:
 

My old retriemer (12 years) kills all rats, but she will catch and bring me hurt birds & chickens, and stands around to make sure I do it right. She then hovers until she thinks their better. :goodone:
 
Belle's a bit strange like that too, kills rodents and reptiles (or used to till I trained her to come and get me first for permission) but chases birds something fierce. Never killed one, and usually never catches any except one. She had a game going with a very old Peewit in Singleton. It would pick about in what passed for a garden and she would pounce on it. She'd chew on it's tail while it squawked and hollered then walk off very chuffed with herself and ignore it while it went back to pickin' as though nothing had happened. It's tail was about an inch and half long by the time it moulted and grew new feathers, I worried it would run out of feathers before she realised it.

One day she came in very agitated and took me out to find it lying flat in the 'garden'. It was really old and on it's last ticks so I made it comfortable in a box, got some water into it and she sat vigil on it all afternoon and it died around sundown. There wasn't a mark on it so she hadn't done it any harm, just old age.
I binned it next morning but she looked for that bird until we left there.
Still chases them all here but never catches any I'm aware of, it's more for the thrill of the chase.
 
I lived in a rental in the 80's that was riddled with mice, they would be on the stove eating out of the saucepans as we were eating , we would find them in our bed and in all the clean clothes, mouse sh*t everywhere so forgive me if i don't believe in catching and putting them outside, as far as i'm concerned the only good mouse is a dead one:grin:
 
Yes, Jillaroo.
That is why I will set a cage trap and drown any mice in it and also set baits for the ones I don't see.
I'm not altogether silly.

Just a softie, who is still capable of doing hard, but sensible things.
 
My mama dog will catch roof rats - and also ground squirrels. The other day I saw one hiding behind a bale of alfalfa - I stationed her right next to the bale then moved it and said - the ground squirrel darted out - I said "get it" and in a split second my girlie got it!!! I was so proud!

I would leave tree squirrels alone. But these ground squirrels have to be controlled. Too much damage
 
Warrigal said:
Yes, Jillaroo.
That is why I will set a cage trap and drown any mice in it and also set baits for the ones I don't see.
I'm not altogether silly.

Just a softie, who is still capable of doing hard, but sensible things.
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Oh Warri, that's not behing 'soft' that's harder than using spring traps! Quick, clean (usually) and drop 'em down the loo. Has to be harder drowning them than that surely?
I only used baits in the roof for sheds. Hate to think they're eating that stuff and spewing it in the back of a cupboard, or tracking it through the pantry. Not delighted at finding poisoned corpses in cupboards in either.
 
Mice - phft!

Try having rats in your place that, when they see you, stand up on their hind legs to their full 12" height with their fists clenched in front of them like little Rockys, their eyes glowing a dull, deadly red ...

THEN you have a problem! :cower:
 
That Guy said:
Since he surly has a couple million relatives to take his place . . . explode and/or get sick and die little fella. Next!
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Maaan - are ALL surfer dudes this cruel?

You probably LOVE sharks and rays, though, huh? Take 'em home for a widdle bath? Take 'em for a walk down the street with that cute little tie-dyed leash? ;)
 
SifuPhil said:
Maaan - are ALL surfer dudes this cruel?

You probably LOVE sharks and rays, though, huh? Take 'em home for a widdle bath? Take 'em for a walk down the street with that cute little tie-dyed leash? ;)
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Not cruel . . . but, maybe . . . matter of fact and somewhat hard hearted. I do love sharks. They do the perfect job of apex predators.
 
Agreed - they are one of the few critters (like gators) that are throwbacks to a different, crueler time.
 

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