Are you Feeling your age , how many of these resonate with you?

hollydolly said:
Yes unfortunately we don't get free bus passes etc in England at 60...not for another 6 years, so I've got nothing to look forward to , to soften the blow... :cry:
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No discounts at all? How about the senior rail pass? Home heating allowance? Senior discount on Historic England? We get great discounts on Historic Scotland and National Trust memberships.

Well, don't greet. Life begins at 60! Really!
 

third off senior rail pass..which I will rarely use anyway..

definitely no Winter fuel allowance until State pension age..

I think the only thing I'm entitled to when I reach 60 is free prescriptions and free eye tests..which the rest of the UK have been getting free for years regardless of age..
 
hollydolly said:
third off senior rail pass..which I will rarely use anyway..

definitely no Winter fuel allowance until State pension age..

I think the only thing I'm entitled to when I reach 60 is free prescriptions and free eye tests..which the rest of the UK have been getting free for years regardless of age..
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Scotland takes better care of its OAPs! I get winter fuel allowance, though smaller than the normal one as DH also gets it. We don't use the railcard that often. Infrequent trips to London mainly.
 

When I was young I always looked for the back to open a bra, I could do it one handed. Oh yes I did, I know I am shameless. I am a nice ole guy now though.
 
AZ Jim said:
When I was young I always looked for the back to open a bra, I could do it one handed. Oh yes I did, I know I am shameless. I am a nice ole guy now though.
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My DH complains that he could undo a one or two hook bra one-handed. But he can't undo an old lady 3 hook. :p
 
There are those who need to hook up their bras from the back because they need to have things 'fall into place' so to speak. Others like myself, are more or less already 'in place' so can hook any way they want. I usually put my sports bra (hookless) on over my head like a t-shirt. Easy peasy, no hooking required. LOL

Jim, thanks for sharing with us, you must have been one smooth operator, LOL.
 
Feel so much better now as I can relate to most of the statements!
Also have to scroll a long way before I get to 1929.
On public transport one look and 2 or 3 persons will jump up and offer their seats.
Haven't forgotten my grandchildren's names, but they've already forgotten mine.
So happy to read that I'm not the only one with backache, knee ache, toe ache, arthritic joints, even the little finger!
Yes, how does the Queen still manage to get around--so impressed by her!

:cool1:
 
Ameriscot said:
My DH complains that he could undo a one or two hook bra one-handed. But he can't undo an old lady 3 hook. :p
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Ha! All these guys think they are so cool.... Let them handle THIS!!


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hollydolly said:
Yes unfortunately we don't get free bus passes etc in England at 60...not for another 6 years, so I've got nothing to look forward to , to soften the blow... :cry:
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Don't cry Holly, once you reach 60 the other years fly by quickly, :giggle: we get a seniors card when we turn 60 but don't really get any benefits from the SA government, if we go to NSW we can go on a 800 km bus trip for $ 2.50 return its called a seniors excursion, you can go anywhere in NSW and stay overnight but it costs you $5 return if you stay O/N, we have been a trip in NSW twice stayed O/N once We are planning on going somewhere in NSW while we are up in Qld this winter.
( Where we go each winter I s on the NSW/ Qld border)
 
Pam said:
I received my bus pass and winter fuel allowance when I was 60. State retirement age has increased since then of course.
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I started getting my first state pension at age 61 and 11 months, which was just over a year ago. A friend of mine who was born 9 months later won't get hers until she is 63.
 
Actually I've just checked that and this is what it says on the DWP page ..

What is my State Pension age?
The date you reach State Pension age depends on when you
were born.
For men born before 6 December 1953, the current State
Pension age is 65.
For women born after 5 April 1950 but before 6 December
1953, their State Pension age is between 60 and 65.
Table 1 on page 10 shows the State Pension age for women
born on or after 6 April 1951 but before 6 April 1953.
Increase in State Pension age to 66
From December 2018 the State Pension age for both men
and women will start to increase to reach 66 in October 2020.
These changes affect you if you were born on or after 6
December 1953 but before 6 April 1960


https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...ent_data/file/372563/dwp026-state-pension.pdf
 
I lucked out. I was born in 1952 in Feb and my friend was born in November. My DH got his at 65, just two months before I got mine.
 

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