I turned 49 in December so I too remember the origional Mr. Potato Head 
. I was talking to my 94 year old grandfather the other day and made the remark that I was getting old. He laughed and told me "no, I'M OLD!" He said "you know you're getting old when your children are old enough to draw social security."
The great thing about being in your fifties is you just don't care anymore about plucking those straggly black hairs growing out of your chin. I mean, it's just to hard to try and maintain all this. I'm goin for the full beard look
Thank you, you've just made my evening after a long day. I laughed so hard I almost fell of the chair.
I'm "only" 27 but my friends are all having babies and getting married while I'm just finishing my education and don't even have a boyfriend, talk about feeling old!
Loucinda, seriously, you're not like 30? haha. Too funny! Amazing how we "think" people online look, act, and how old they are!
I don't even wanna hear about plucking hairs...at only 35, being a lovely BRUNETTE I certainly have my share of plucking to do, and I've never had baby butt smooth legs since I was like a toddler!!!! By the time I'm in my fifties I'll totally have to be doing laser treatments.
The great thing about being in your fifties is you just don't care anymore about plucking those straggly black hairs growing out of your chin. I mean, it's just to hard to try and maintain all this. I'm goin for the full beard look
Thank you, you've just made my evening after a long day. I laughed so hard I almost fell of the chair. I'm "only" 27 but my friends are all having babies and getting married while I'm just finishing my education and don't even have a boyfriend, talk about feeling old!
I don't have a boyfriend either!!! Could it be the beard????
You all are really making me laugh during my lunch break!! My "On no I am getting moment" happened about 15 years ago when I was watching my friend's son and he asked to use the phone. I pointed to the red princess rotary phone sitting on the table. He walked over, picked it up and turned to me with a look of panic on this face. "What's wrong?" I asked. His lip trembling he said, "I don't know how to use this!" He only knew a touch pad and had the pattern on the pad memorized as the number......
linstead, hubby and I have said for a long time that someday we will see the question on Trivial Pursuit: "Why do we say DIAL a phone?" because our kids have no idea what that means.
I was heart broken when the Fischer Price telephone went to push button! Married daughter informed me yesterday, though, that they brought back the dial version! 
linstead, hubby and I have said for a long time that someday we will see the question on Trivial Pursuit: "Why do we say DIAL a phone?" because our kids have no idea what that means.
I was heart broken when the Fischer Price telephone went to push button!
Married daughter informed me yesterday, though, that they brought back the dial version!
Yes, they have the dial version. lol It was the only gift I REALLY wanted for my baby shower. Go figure. lol but my DD still loves it and she's amost 3.
Remember the old 8 tracks?
Who else remembers sitting up late to watch the first moon walk?
You are not old! I'm 23 and I still feel like a baby, haha! IMO 23 is too young to get married... I know girls who are already divorced
I think 30 is the new 20, anyway.
My goodness I love yah for saying that !!!! I feel so old sometimes, I know I cried when I got my first gray hair
So you saying that means alot lol !!!
You know you're getting old(er), when:
- You start describing everyone as a "kid"
- YOu realize you're tired because you got up so many times last night to go pee
- the first time you use the phrase "Back in MY day" ..... and you're NOT trying to be sarcastic or funny!
- It takes you a while to not walk funny when you first get out of bed, until your joints and muscles get into sync
- when people describe your furniture and decor as "Oh! So retro!"
- when you see the toys you played with as a kid in a museum (oh yeah, THAT one hurt!)
- when you're the only one in the room who was actually old enough to vote in the election between Reagan and Carter. (Heck, I've been in the situation where I was the only one who was actually ALIVE during that election!)
- Your grandchildren measure how old something is by seeing how young gramma was at the time (The TV show "The Munsters" came out when gramma was 5 years old .... wow! that is ANCIENT said my granddaughter!) ..... and you actually remember watching the show in primetime!!
I love your list, but I think you should add one more in. That's when you say, "does this mean I must be getting old if I ......." Sorry OP, just couldn't resist.
And yes, I had a Chatty Cathy, but hated dolls, couldn't get the easy bake oven because "you have to keep buying supplies". That's what my mom told me. Does anyone remember Gaylord the Dog? He was the first dog that actually walked. (I have one now). and a Mr. Mixit? (I have 3 of them)
... couldn't get the easy bake oven because "you have to keep buying supplies". That's what my mom told me.
We took the cheap way out on those. My mom REFUSED to pay that kind of money for special mixes. She bought the Jiffy Brand cake, biscuit, muffin mixes (back then, they were like 10 cents a box). We'd make up a batch and keep it in a bowl in the 'frig and just use what we needed when we fired up the easy bake.
That was my life lesson in "yes you CAN make cake batter ahead of time and store it in the 'frig." We did it all the time! 
You know you're getting old(er), when......
sometimes when the young ladies in my office are whining about their blackberry being 30secs slow or how their 24" screen needs to be bigger i tell them what it was like way back in my days as a office junior (23yrs ago btw).
noone had a computer, didnt have a fax machine, i had to go to the stationary store to use their fax machine, accounts were all done via a manual hand written Kalamazoo method (and it balanced & worked everytime!) ...... they have no idea what it was like back then!
i also do payroll and i remember when the 1980's born babies started hitting my employment records and i would make coment about it.. now im getting 1990'S born babies - thats scary
linstead, hubby and I have said for a long time that someday we will see the question on Trivial Pursuit: "Why do we say DIAL a phone?" because our kids have no idea what that means. .....
when my only niece was younger she walked into the living room and asked what was wrong with our tv, i said nothing, she said but there is no colour-is it broken?
yep, it was an old black and white movie (betty davis i think) and she didnt know that once upon a time.. before colour tv's......
Hey I also remember when you could go to mcdonalds with one or two dollars and get a complete meal.
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Boy, you are young, I remember when we would drive out to Harrisburg, Pa. to visit my uncle in the hospital. It was a real treat because there was this McDonald's we could go to (none near us in NJ), and we got a hamburger, french fries and a coke for a quarter. Then when I was a little older in high school, we would go to the local pizza place for lunch, 2 slices and a coke for 50 cents.
I remember going to a friends to watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan
I remember watching JFK's funeral on tv
My first car was a chevy vega, manual transmission of course
and in college, we didn't have computers but did programming with punch cards ........ for the life of me, I can't remember how that worked........
damn I'm old.
oh gosh... i remember visiting my dad in hospital in the late 70's and patients were allowed to smoke in their beds back then and my first office job in the late 80's, people where allowed to smoke at their desks and i remember the factory staff went on strike when no smoking rules came into force
down here we have almost a zero tolerance to smoking so no smoking in shopping centres, restaurants, outdoor cafes etc so when i tell the young ones in the office about this they are shocked
I have old Donny Osmond albums and The Osmond Brother's albums somewhere still. Nothing to play them on, and they are probably scratched beyond recognition at this point. I think they are in my mom's attic.
Oh and I was a BIG Jack Wild fan. I would watch HR Puff N'Stuff every Saturday just to see that hottie!
I bought my "Meet the Beatles" album when it first came out, and still have it. I still have all my albums that I ever bought, plus tons more we still buy all the time. AND, we listen to them all the time. I prefer listening to my 33's, and 45's to a CD any day. Anyone remember the episode of Raymond when he tries to replace records of Frank's with new CD's and can't understand why Frank doesn't like them, but is in heaven when Robert finds copies of his old albums for him? Oh yes, definitely vinyl.
I remember going to a friends to watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan
I remember watching JFK's funeral on tv
My first car was a chevy vega, manual transmission of course
and in college, we didn't have computers but did programming with punch cards ........ for the life of me, I can't remember how that worked........
damn I'm old.
I remember when they announced JFK's assassination over the loudspeaker in school. I still remember which kids sat crying at their desks even after school got out. And I remember my dad making us stay in the watch the funeral when we wanted to be outside playing. I've always been thankful he made us watch it.
I remember being so upset and simply could NOT understand why my parents wouldn't let me go see the Beatles t Shea Stadium. The fact that I was 9 years old may have had something to do with it, but you couldn't convince me back then. Didn't they know how much I loved the Beatles?
Remember, "You can't trust anyone over 30"!
Hey I also remember when you could go to mcdonalds with one or two dollars and get a complete meal.
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Boy, you are young, I remember when we would drive out to Harrisburg, Pa. to visit my uncle in the hospital. It was a real treat because there was this McDonald's we could go to (none near us in NJ), and we got a hamburger, french fries and a coke for a quarter.
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Yep! I remember it costing a quarter also! Any one have their Tiny Tears doll? or Thumbalina? My mom almost killed me when I gave Tiny Tears away to a neighbor girl. But I have Thumbalina (in perfect condition). What about the original Barbie (blonde in a B&W stripe one piece), original Ken, then Bubble Barbie, Midge, and Ken's friend Andy? Ricky Nelson's Bee Bop Baby on 45? Man! Those were the days! (Wasn't this a song back then too? lol Sure is nice to know after all this time that I'm in good company here!!!
I have old Donny Osmond albums and The Osmond Brother's albums somewhere still. Nothing to play them on, and they are probably scratched beyond recognition at this point. I think they are in my mom's attic.
Oh and I was a BIG Jack Wild fan. I would watch HR Puff N'Stuff every Saturday just to see that hottie!
Cakesdivine, I thought for sure I was going to marry Donny! When he won Dancing with the Stars a little piece of long and happily married me thought, "that should be me up there with him" 
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David Cassidy, (presurgeries) Michael Jackson, and Jack Wild (gosh, hardly anyone knows who he is!) were pretty close on his heels, though.
I remember when my Dad and I would drive to the Ginn gas station to fill up because gas was 25 cents a gallon and all the other stations it was 27 cents
I don't remember Jack Wild, who as that??
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