What's the most "old person" thing you own?

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A certain type of slipper is starting to look very appealing to me in my old age.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Cardigans. Loads of them.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

a certain type of slipper

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Leather slippers (not in a pervy way). I also use (pretend) coal tar soap - does that count? More than anything, my fogeyness comes across in my character - my intolerance of stupidity, non-punctuality (or punctionality as I just wrote it) and anything I perceive as dumbass.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

my granny's old armchair

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything! I am rapidly turning into Bea Arthur.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

My pimp slips:
http://www.zappos.com/images/L/LBE56/36025-d.jpg

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

A crockpot maybe?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Nostril hair clippers

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I got those too Andrew. Electric ones. But they give me ingrown nose hairs after i trim em up and it hurts like a bitch.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(mine look just like Chris' except they are seamless and lower-profile and worn out)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

black shoes. I don't have trainers.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

There is a half-eaten bag of barley sugars right beside this monitor.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i got a brown longcoat at the thrift store, which i refer to as "my Royal Tennebaum coat." My siblings describe it as "my old man jacket" for some reason.

― Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i also own a giant bottle of Omega 3.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

this little rubber mat eyeglass holder on my car dashboard
the fact that i can even be bothered to go see many live shows anymore.

― kephm, Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

My hats.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My Iron Cross.

― Lord Byron Lived Here, Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, I own my nan's old rocking chair too!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Viagra left over from surgical aftermath. I got a weird kind of midlifecrisisfunk vibe off of "okay, so here's what I'm budgeting for sex next month," at the time.

Also, there's something in my silverware drawer which is almost certainly some kind of cozy.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Massive blankets on my bed, that I like to cuddle up in at night. Never mind a few old cardies in the bottom of my closet

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

how hot would it be to roll one of these!
http://www.electropedicbeds.com/jazz21.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"but I call it Slurricane!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

That would go with my laddered tights and new blue hair-do.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

My brother sells those. I have ridden one. They fucking ROCK.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 4 December 2003 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

A heating pad.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

back hair

― man, Friday, 5 December 2003 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

In a few more years, all the CDs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

a record player

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, but does it play 78s?

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

the knowledge that I'm wearing jeans less and less and wearing more trousers :o(

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I've a manual (i.e non electric) lawnmower.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Heck, it plays 16's.

No, I'm fibbing. it's a box/dansette style thing..

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

HSA's mum just recently got a record player that plays 78s. So we all spent the weekend going through boxes of old records looking for crazy 78s. Like the Russian Army Band playing the Volga Boatmen Song, stuff like that. Apparently they've started making them again. As seen advertised in the back of the Telegraph, of course.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

a pillbox that separates your doses so you don't forget to take your medicine or OD
If 78 players count then I have a Zenith Cobramatic

― Dara (Dara), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually the one I got 'recently' ...

Imagine a ghettoblaster.

In wood.

Fold down record turntable in the middle.

am/fm/shortwave radio.

Portable. But you need big arms.

(It is way cool btw)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate answer my email!!!
you're famous
My friend Matt Smith knows of you thru his good friend Joe Foster!

― Dara (Dara), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Do I owe you email? Damn, I do, don't I. I thought I'd answered you because I was thinking about what I was going to write you on the bus the other day, and therefore thought I'd written the email already. God, that's an old person thing to do!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

no jeans?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

marmalade and cardigans

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

haha!

i just wrote an angry letter to the editor. i am now officially a curmudgeon

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmmmmmm
marmalade...mmmmmm

― Dara (Dara), Saturday, 6 December 2003 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

One of those pill divider things that was mentioned upthread. And my grandfather's rosary.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 6 December 2003 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

This shirt I'm wearing now. It's a Dickies short sleeve button-up work shirt, the same color as those blue doctors' scrubs. My friend says I stole it from his grandpa---and I do remember him wearing a very similar shirt.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 6 December 2003 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

cardigans. drinking a lot of tea.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 6 December 2003 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, always being inexplicably cranky and crotchety.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 6 December 2003 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a heating pad, too. And Aspercreme. My record player isn't really an "old people" sort of thing considering it's "just" 14 years old and can only play 45s and 33 1/3s. I have a Good Housekeeping subscription, but that's just diving into the pool of the middle-aged. I would mention my lifestyle, but the original question was "What's the most 'old person' thing you own?", not "What's the most 'old person' thing you have?". Difference!

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 6 December 2003 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

also, Gold Bond Lotion. Every winter my knuckles get super-dry and sometimes bleed.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 6 December 2003 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

but actually, Gold Bond doesn't seem to help much. Anybody know of something better to use?

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 6 December 2003 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

This supposedly works wonders (be sure to watch the intro). They must have a human version because I saw it in the appropriate section last time I was in a Target.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 6 December 2003 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Old man slippers are a must have. The thick fuzzy ones are just too hot and the rubber soles on the old man slippers make them usefull enough for walking outside to get the paper. I've even worn mine to the corner store.

― David Beckh0u5e (Dave Beckh0u5e), Saturday, 6 December 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Incontinence pads

― Saskia, Saturday, 6 December 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess my Roberts travel radio tuned to Radio 4 long wave is kinda of an old persons thing.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 6 December 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

My furniture, easy. Very grandparenty.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 6 December 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

A tin of Ovaltine and some smelly Germaline

― Saskia, Saturday, 6 December 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, always wear gloves outside in the winter and put on some hand cream stuff before you put gloves on to go out. The burt's bees hand salve is good, but really anything thickish is fine. And put vaseline or something similarly greasy (crisco works too) on your hands right before bed. You could of course use normal lotion, but a lot of it isn't thick enough and anyway, vaseline is cheap. Preferably with cotton gloves or socks on your hands if that isn't too dorky.

I have really horrible dry skin so I'm always full of advice on such things.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I own 12 different varieties of tea.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you have to use all cotton socks? I have been looking around for some, but I can never find any.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

All cotton helps. As long as they're mostly cotton, they're probably fine though.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

two ancient sewing machines, most of my clothing is "grandma like".

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Sunday, 7 December 2003 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My Barry Sisters records

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 7 December 2003 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Or maybe the Percy Faith and Mantovani ones?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 7 December 2003 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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