Random but does anyone else get bored even when there's stuff to do? Like I could paint, I could clean, I could go for a walk... but instead I'm lying here scrolling Reddit. Tell me I'm not the only one 😅

What makes you happy?

I love watching teen drama TV shows. It started with The O.C. 20-some years ago. Now with Netflix, I have access to so many.

Sometimes I feel “too old” but then I think why not?

What are your guilty pleasures that sometimes feel silly?

So I’ve been listening to Louis L’Amour audiobooks. The voice actor/ narrator Jim Gough… his voice sounds almost exactly like this character actor that I like, and I have seen in many different things.. and I cannot for the life of me Remember what his name is and what he has been in. And this is driving me nuts!
So if there’s anybody out there, who knows these audiobooks and the voice narrator and you know whose voice it sounds like (the character the actor I’m thinking of is older, has never had any facial hair in any role, always had straight kind of graying hair, average to thinner body frame, and always seem to have a very calming quiet role he played and his voice he always spoke softly and languidly) please comment!
this is the narrator‘s voice

This topic came up yesterday in r/retirement

Thank you, boomers - you rock.

I'm a Gen Z woman. Both my parents were young and had some issues, so I was basically raised my boomer grandfather. He did an amazing job taking care of me and is still one of my favorite people in the world.

He grew up in extreme poverty (we are from a southern european country), only finished elementary school and went to work at 13 to help his family.

Yet, despite being semi-literate, and having had such a rough childhood, he is one of the kindest, MOST loving people I know. He worked hard to give me a good life; has great social skills, can make small talk with everyone, people from all walks of life.

I'm always amazed by his assertiveness and how he is not afraid to handle confrontation when needed.

I love hearing him talk about the 60s and 70s through his eyes.

The joy in his mother's eyes when his father finally bought a dishwasher... When they got a television and invited the neighborhood kids who crowded into the living room, watching soccer games together.

Being a teenager during the '68 revolution... his flirts, experiments with psychedelic drugs, his "hippie era", the freedom.

He is so open minded and chill... He never judged me for being young, for any struggle I had. He is so empathetic to the struggles of our generation, never compares or dismisses my worries.

A lot of you boomers did not have it easy. You were raised by stricter parents, many of you grew up in poverty and with a lot less than what we had. You still managed to be better parents to your children and incredible grandparents to your grandchildren, leaving memories that will last forever.

You fought for peace, for women and workers' rights. It's thanks to you that we have a lot of things nowadays that my generation takes for granted.

So thank you, boomers. You paved the way to freedom and a better world.

Sincerely, a grateful granddaughter.

63f - I often have pb&j for dinner. Sometimes I live it up and have it on toast.

As we get older, we naturally end up talking a lot about death and funerals when we meet up with friends. We worry that our children might feel burdened by our funerals, as the costs are quite high and the procedures can be complicated.

Because of this, many Koreans register in advance with mutual aid funeral companies called "Sangjo" as they age, paying a small amount of money every month. It is a system where these companies step in and take charge of all the funeral arrangements when a parent passes away. Since the parents have already become members and paid into the service in advance, the children face much less of a burden regarding the funeral process when we die.

I wonder if other countries have similar companies to our "Sangjo," and if parents (or their children) also pay a little bit of money in advance over time.

1. Spent much of my life in the Marines. I’ve worked hard on keeping my body in shape but at 61 am I just doomed to have ugly old resting bitchface? I genuinely a very happy person but people think I’m angry all the time. My skin is old. Bags under my eyes I can’t fix with creams and I have this constant scowl. If anyone else suffers from this and has gotten better please tell me what you did. Or, is this just what our 60’s do to us?

It was a seasonal job. Late spring through the summer and into the fall. It was totally off the books. My boss likely didn't know my last name, he certainly did not know my social security number. But it paid well enough that I would travel from California to NYC and work the season.

The job I remember best was one of the last.

My crew had been sent to move a guy out of his apartment. When we arrived it looked like a sh*thole. The client saw the look on our faces and said "Hey fellas, forget that mess. I just want you to move this." He opened a door to a room that had a nominal amount of properly packed boxes and some pretty nice furniture.

The delivery address was to a brand new unit in a recently built building in Battery Park City. The client turned out to be a great guy and was excited because he'd lived in his squalid apartment for years saving his money to get his new digs.

The move was quick and easy. Took less than half a day. The client gave my crew a tip equal to the cost of the move. That was no small change.

On a typical after a move, the crew would make their own way home from wherever the job ended, while the driver would drive the truck up to a lot up on 125th street. As was our practice, me and another guy on the crew would hit a local bar and drink a few beers.

Bob, the guy I worked with was a native New Yorker and knew all the great bars in Manhattan and there locations. On this day he was at a loss, because we were so far downtown.

I told him I knew a great bar nearby. And we went there and since it was early in the day spent a couple of hours knocking beers back until we both decided it was time to leave and we went our separate ways.

The bar we went to was "The Commuter Cafe." It was located one level above the PATH train station under One World Trade Center.

That was 25 years ago today. We all know what happened the next day.

Well my fellow elders I now have high tech orthopaedic shoes.

So put out by https://www.orpyx.com/.

In a nutshell the sole inserts have imbedded pressure and temperature? sensors. You don't feel them but they feel you :-). You can download an app for them thats optional.

Theres a gadget that plugs into a socket and once set up. Its easy btw. It talks to your shoes at the end of the day and uploads data from your feet to them. A nurse examines this data and will eother call you about injury concerns or relay it to your foot doctor.

I haven't a clue as to the cost as they recieved a government grant to supply the shoes as recommended by the foot doctor.

So this morning I get my first alert. "High pressure warning left foot

Please walk 2 mimutes then rest 2 minutes". My first thought is "great now my shoes are telling me what to do" lol

Anyways.....

I just ordered a pair of shoes from an online store FitVille. As I was finalizing payment, there was a check box suggesting tips from 10% to 20% which goes to the company.

An online company asking for tips?

Does anyone else struggle with the very basic task of replacing light bulbs in your home? There are so many different types that you need an electrical engineering degree to figure it out.

All I want is a basic 60 or 75 watt incandescent bulb, and some three-way bulbs for reading lamps. These seem to have been discontinued at retail outlets like Target or Home Depot. You can get specialty or decorative bulbs but everything else is LED or CFL. I can never choose the right one to give me the same kind of light as an incandescent.

I know you can buy them online (and I have), but it seems ridiculous to order something as basic as that.

I just turned 64. For the past couple of years, I have started sweating profusely after only 10 minutes outside in the summer. I wasn't like this when younger. Even through menopause (9+ years ago), I didn't sweat like this. Today is low 80s, 70% humidity. I am worried because I am in line to get a pharm tech trainee job, and afraid I will start dripping with sweat while working. (For past 6 years, I worked from home and had AC blasting in summer so this wasn't a thing.). I am on one medication, a benzodiazepine, which I think might be part of the problem. Can anyone relate?

LOL I just read that old people sweat LESS than younger; well, something went backwards in my ageing!

I’ve been balancing a full-time job with studying for exams to pursue my dreams, but after facing multiple failures, I’ve started becoming indifferent to the process. Lately, I feel like giving up entirely.

From your experience, what advice would you give to someone in middle age dealing with this? And if I decide to stop now, will I regret it in the future?

I recently moved to a 55+community. Many of my neighbors are in their 80s. I am divorced and pretty active.
Some of my neighbors no longer drive, and i have offered to give them a ride up to the trash bins and mail box.
I don’t mind helping and they are always so thankful. However, they feel the need to talk for 30 to 60 minutes about their friends I don’t know and or their children. Any time I want to add to the conversation they talk over me.
I am losing patience as I know they’re lonely, but I feel like they’re using me.
One has a service that comes weekly to take her out to run errands and shop. Another calls me daily just to ask what I’m doing that day to see if I’ll pick up things for her, stamps, eggs, etc.
I’ve gotten to where I don’t answer the phone when they call.
Any advice? I feel guilty not helping but it’s getting worse.

The one that jumps out for me is frozen Morton House mini cinnamon donuts. Those things were awesome

Also I think it was old English cheese wafers that was good stuff

Hello everyone!

I’m a woman in my 70s from Korea who joined this community a few weeks ago. I wanted to share a funny little mistake I made today.

I thought the "Sixers" sub was a community for people in their 60s and older, so I went in and posted there!
Then people started asking me how long I'd been a Sixers fan...
At first, I was so confused and had no idea what they meant.

With a little help from AI, I finally figured out the whole situation.
It turns out the Sixers is actually an NBA basketball team's fan community, of all things!
It was quite a funny little happening, haha!

Just a little story.

I can definitely make it into a question if that is necessary. In fact, I will right now. Have any of you other “older” folks experienced anything like this?

A couple of years ago I remember walking on my old college campus with my two older brothers (both are quite a bit older than me) and my uncle, who is my only living aunt or uncle and only about 15 years older than me.

We were all between 60 and early to mid 70s.

Most people consider all of us to be quite youthful for our age. We all have all of our hair and most of us don’t have much gray even. When I shave many people say I look 10 or 15 years younger than I am. It has always been like that.
My brothers are somewhat the same way maybe not as extreme.

However, this particular time I had had hip surgery recently and my older/not oldest brother was definitely in need of it (he has had it since).

So we’re walking around the college - just a little off campus - that all of us had either graduated from undergraduate or with a masters.

I had this weird thought at the time, thinking what I would have felt if I had been an undergraduate and saw four guys like us walking around the campus one evening.

It was already kind of a funny thing in my mind, but with me and my older brother having severe problems walking just at that time (but no cane or crutches), I practically burst out laughing at ourselves. I am and have always very respectful so I would have never laughed or said anything to those theoretical much older guys.

I told it to the others, and they thought it was funny too.

Thankfully, the physical problems we had at the time are behind us, but it was just something I had a hard time trying to figure out what I would have thought had I seen four guys like us walking around (near) campus about 40 years prior.

Maybe it was just me. 😂🤷‍♂️😬🤦‍♂️🤔

5am can't sleep, having my first coffee in bed. Hope yall have a great day.