you know that you are getting old when....

["couldbecousin"]

  ... you start thinking about making a will, appointing an executor, leaving instructions for the disposal
    of your body, forbidding your kin from having a cheesy Catholic wake, grown-up shit like that. 

["couldbecousin"]

  ... you look around your apartment and ponder the likelihood that the building will probably
    still be standing long after you're dust.  Hell, just pondering the notion of being dust. 

['andersom']

  ... you suddenly realize most of your furniture is ugly shabby hand-me-down shite,
  and that you want some nicer things before you die, so you'd better get on that pronto,
  because time's a-wasting and ya never know.     

So, visit more second hand shops, and when you are drawn to a chair, a table, or something like that, buy it and throw out a thing you do not like. Don't buy anything anymore that does not make you happy. Only go for things that do make you happy.

I've been doing that for a while now. And I love the gradual changes. All stuff still is pre-loved. But all is quality I like to have around me. Still things to change. But I will, I'm not in a hurry.

Have been doing the same with my clothes. Started three years ago with that I think. Started carefully, but not anymore. I want clothes that are both pretty and comfy. And I will not settle for less. And all second hand, not costly. Only takes a good spin in the washing machine before I will wear it.

I don't want to go back to only buying clothes when I desperately needed something new, and then settling for the first reasonable option. I'm too old to settle for less than pretty and comfy.

Edited to fix quoting gone wrong.

["couldbecousin"]

  ... you feel oddly wistful about the fact that your old toilet is being replaced.


  This toilet has been in the apartment at least as long as I have, so 17 years or more.
  We've been through so much together.  Or, rather, so much has been through us together. 


   I suppose I could cross-post this to a hypothetical  "You know you need to get a life when ..."  thread. 

['andersom']

  ... you feel oddly wistful about the fact that your old toilet is being replaced.


  This toilet has been in the apartment at least as long as I have, so 17 years or more.
  We've been through so much together.  Or, rather, so much has been through us together. 


   I suppose I could cross-post this to a hypothetical  "You know you need to get a life when ..."  thread. 

You make a toiletbowl sound like a therapist in overdrive, without any holding back. Going through shit with everyone visiting. Again and again.

Those toiletbowls should get a life.

[Yuri Bezmenov]

You think most modern pop music is crap.

[Gopher Gary]

You think most modern pop music is crap.

I thought you think old pop music is crap too. 

[odeon]

Most modern pop music *is* crap.

["couldbecousin"]

  ... when your knee pops with almost every step!   

[Graelwyn]

... you have to arm yourself with tena lady before skipping rope.

[Walkie]

You think most modern pop music is crap.

ooh. I was born old!

[Walkie]

...when you finally give up on deciding what to do when you grow up, because  it's high time you thought about  retirement instead

[Jack]

...when you finally give up on deciding what to do when you grow up, because  it's high time you thought about  retirement instead

... you have to arm yourself with tena lady before skipping rope.

The two of you should get avatars.

[Walkie]

...when you finally give up on deciding what to do when you grow up, because  it's high time you thought about  retirement instead

... you have to arm yourself with tena lady before skipping rope.

The two of you should get avatars.

I'm terminally indecisive re. Avatar . At present, I kinda  think I'd like to nab one of Paul Kee's paintings for my ava, but that 's prolly breaking copyright laws.

[Pyraxis]

If you mean Paul Klee, he died in 1940. I don't think his estate is going to come hunt you down for an internet avatar.