Some advantages to being old(er)
03-26-2018, 09:41 AM
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endora - i would love to get my hands on a dozen of those curity gauze unfolded rectanglar diapers. they are the very best dish towels!!! the last of mine gave up a few years ago. sigh.
i did not mind folding diapers. not so fond of changing a baby that was poopy from end to end and the baby required a bath before rediapering the little one.
i did not mind folding diapers. not so fond of changing a baby that was poopy from end to end and the baby required a bath before rediapering the little one.
I'm still using old leftover cloth diapers as dusting cloths, however, the ones I have are flannelette.
03-26-2018, 10:09 AM
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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.
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.
03-26-2018, 10:54 AM
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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!
03-27-2018, 05:00 AM
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i found pre folded cloth diapers at a garage sale and snatched them up for washing windows, gave one to our SIL and he went out and bought a box, he loves them for windows too. Our kids wore cloth diapers, I washed them in a wringer washer and hung them on the line. It was a feeling of satisfaction when they were all folded and stacked. I would do it all again, but not the wringer washer, thank you. My Mother carried and heated water to wash clothes so sometimes she washed diapers by hand.
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.
03-27-2018, 05:12 AM
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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.
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.
03-27-2018, 05:39 AM
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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.
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.
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.
06-24-2018, 08:57 AM
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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 
06-24-2018, 09:27 AM
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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.
Discount? what discount? I"m in my70's and never remember to ask. rats.
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