I Hate Getting Old

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My memory is getting like a sieve these days, I was browsing through TP when a post reminded me of something, I thought I'll go to Google and look it up, wife distracted me for about 3 seconds, by the time I fired up Google about 10 seconds later I couldn't remember what the he'll I was going to look for, it was gone.

Am I the only guy in his mid 60''s like this, wife says she is going to tie a label around my neck with my name and address on it:)
 
Notepad and pencil for you then Frank. You know it makes sense (and you can change it because it's pencil :whistle:)
 
frank said:
My memory is getting like a sieve these days, I was browsing through TP when a post reminded me of something, I thought I'll go to Google and look it up, wife distracted me for about 3 seconds, by the time I fired up Google about 10 seconds later I couldn't remember what the he'll I was going to look for, it was gone.

Am I the only guy in his mid 60''s like this, wife says she is going to tie a label around my neck with my name and address on it:)
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Know exactly what you are talking about. I'm 62 and I am going through the same things as yourself. I will think about something to do in the kitchen which is in the back of the house. By the time I get half way down the hallway, I'm thinking "What am I supposed to be doing?" And I can't use google to provide me with the answer!!!!!
 
Hell, I'm early 50s and have the same problem! Then again, I really DO have a hole in my head, although it has had the gap filled in and the scar's fairly well hidden. I have loads of little pads of scrap paper dotted around to jot down notes but by the time I've found a pen(cil) to write with, I expect you know what's happened!
 
I LOVE getting old! Retirement is great!
It's also amazing just what you can get way with. :shifty:
 
@frank

One way that I have found to try and maintain my memory is with the shopping. I go around the house and make a list of what we need. The human brain is supposed to be able to memorise eight pieces of information.
I take the list with me to the stupidmarket supermarket BUT, without referring to it, go and do the shopping. When I think I have done all the shopping I will then refer to the list and see what I have missed.
Eight items I can remember because I have a routine in shopping that allows me to do this. However if there are extra items on that list, I congratulate myself for remembering them if they are in the shopping trolley and I don't have to go back around the store and get them. Give that a try and see how you go.
 
Don't worry. It happens to me and I'm only mid 40's o_O

I very often find myself standing in the middle of a room wondering what the heck I'm doing there.
 
My memory has definitely deteriorated since I retired, put it down to having a much more laid back way of life.
 
Gentlemen

A proposition for you. Shall we all go senile together????? :LOL:
 
frank said:
My memory is getting like a sieve these days, I was browsing through TP when a post reminded me of something, I thought I'll go to Google and look it up, wife distracted me for about 3 seconds, by the time I fired up Google about 10 seconds later I couldn't remember what the he'll I was going to look for, it was gone.

Am I the only guy in his mid 60''s like this, wife says she is going to tie a label around my neck with my name and address on it:)
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No need to start worrying until you don't recognise yourself in the mirror.
 
At 82 I have not yet needed to make a shopping list for my weekly shop. I just check the cupboards before I leave.

My problm is that I can no longer write, with out great difficulty. I have the shakes with intention... the harder I try the more I shake.
Strangely I can still take photographs with out too many problems.
 
If you find yourself needing a list, type and print one. Even if you only do one and keep it with you as a reminder of what you might need.
 
frank said:
Am I the only guy in his mid 60''s like this, wife says she is going to tie a label around my neck with my name and address on it
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Same here. :rolleyes:

SWMBO is just the same though. :wacky:
 
Terrywoodenpic said:
At 82 I have not yet needed to make a shopping list for my weekly shop. I just check the cupboards before I leave.

My problem is that I can no longer write, with out great difficulty. I have the shakes with intention... the harder I try the more I shake.
Strangely I can still take photographs with out too many problems.
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My father, who will be 90 in June, has the same problem. He writes very shakily - although he did have a stroke a few years ago - but, so he tells me, his hands are very steady in other things that he does.

Strange old world is it not???
 
It gets worse as you get older I can remember the words from hundreds of songs from the 60's but not what I did this afternoon
 
frank said:
I thought I'll go to Google and look it up
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If using Firefix (don`t know if it works for other Browsers) Highlight the word, Name or Phrase you wish to look up and then right click the Highlight in the Dropdown Menu, an option to "Search Google for -----" where ---- is what you`re looking for
appears select this and Google will find it for you. TaTa!!!
 
stryvya said:
If using Firefix (don`t know if it works for other Browsers) Highlight the word, Name or Phrase you wish to look up and then right click the Highlight in the Dropdown Menu, an option to "Search Google for -----" where ---- is what you`re looking for
appears select this and Google will find it for you. TaTa!!!
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probably won`t remember that though:(
 
Apparently I will be 62 next birthday but not sure....

What was this Fred on about?
 
Yes I find a little vinegar in the water helps clean the windows, Sorry I forget what was your question?
Notes for shopping; usually forget to take it with me!
Glad to hear it is not just me.
 
Oh I don't know, I think quite often peeps are not much worse in later life than they were when they were younger.
Peeps become more aware of their age the older they get and find it more convenient to blame age for the reason they forgot something.
When you are young and forget something, you can't use that as an excuse and you hardly care anyway, you forgot something, so what, ce le vie.
This of course does not include peeps who genuinely do have obvious memory problems.
 
I keep opening this thread with the intention of contributing, but then wonder why I'm not reading the football results
 
Steep said:
If you find yourself needing a list, type and print one. Even if you only do one and keep it with you as a reminder of what you might need.
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I use a memo thing on my phone all the time, even if it's just for popping to the shops for a few things. Takes the stress away from worrying about forgetting something and leaves grey matter available for remembering more important things.
 
and another thing about getting old is i still feel like a 18 year old ,which is great as long as i can find one without the wife catching me :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
 
I get around that by sticking an old print of a young me on the mirror. Makes shaving difficult so I wear a full beard!
 
I asked for a couple of CD's for Chrstmas - music I had heard on Radio Paradise and liked.
I got them, and it was only when I ripped them to my hard drive that I realised that I already owned both..
 
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I always used to say "You're only as old as the woman you feel"


Now that just depresses me :(
 
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