Endora

Bearisgray. I remember the baths. Messy diapers that messed the inside of the rubber pants almost always guaranteed a bath for baby.

I'm still using old leftover cloth diapers as dusting cloths, however, the ones I have are flannelette.

cashs_mom

I just thought of another advantage. I can sometimes talk my way into what I want with younger guys because you can tell they're like "OMG, this is like arguing with my mother!" One year at Quilt Festival, I didn't want to park where the guy directed me because I wanted to be on the end of the row. He came over and told me to move and gave up after a few minutes of agruing. The next day he just directed me to a space on the end of the row.

madamekelly

Oh Lynnie, you and I have the opposite problem. I am sixty and only have about twenty gray hairs on my head, and most of them are right in front of my ears, so they seldom show. I am asked contstantly to prove how old I am. I finally get a senior discount, and have to prove it all the time. It would probably happen a lot less it I wore my hair back, but I have always worn bangs. I can’t wait for my gray hair, lord knows I have earned everyone of them!

Endora

Like yourself, I remember the self-satisfaction I enjoyed when walking past the baby room and seeing that big stack of folded diapers sitting (ready and waiting) on the dresser top... just as I remember the self-satisfaction I got at change-time, when smartly pinning those very same diapers.

Having experienced the old-fashioned method of diapering, I'd repeat the exact same again today if I was raising a family... rubber didy pants and all.

bearisgray

my dh was able to pin those didies so they stayed put on the babies better than i ever could.

somhow diapering babies seems less " icky" than diapering an adult.

incontinence sometimes comes when one is an adult. *not* one of the perks. but an elimination system that has failed is also a problem.


i try to remember to be grateful for whatever is still - more or less - functioning.

Endora

Oh, Bearisgray, how I wish my husband changed didies back in the day. I would have even accepted droppy, sagging diapers from him. LOL!

I've never had to deal with an adult in diapers (thank heavens), but when my baby sister had her 50th Birthday, we put a diaper on her at one point, which consisted of an old flannel crib sheet (folded just like a baby's cloth diaper), fastened with an old set of real diaper pins. Not at all like changing a baby!

I could be as poor as poor could be, yet having my good health would trump everything.

gramma nancy

No more hair growing on my legs! I didn't expect this and never heard of it. I'm 69. Unfortunately, I am also losing hair on my head and am less enthused about it.

bearisgray

I think the hair that used to grow on my scalp has migrated to my face!

cashs_mom

I just found another benefit to being older. I had to have a plumber out to reset the toilet because it was leaking. He gave me the over 65 discount! Who knew that plumbers would give discounts? I'm not sure how happy I am about the fact that he didn't ask me how old I was. He just told me he was giving me the over 65 discount. So much for thinking I look younger than I am

nativetexan

ha, ha. i had a skin graft from my arm to my right temple. My Dermatologist was a woman and did not mention wrinkles. good woman!
Discount? what discount? I"m in my70's and never remember to ask. rats.