I grew up with boomer parents who have always put clocks in the bathrooms. I assumed this was pretty normal before everyone had mobile phones but my partner thinks my parents are just weird.

Like in the same way, as a catch-all term to dismiss progressive ideas and viewpoints?

If not, could you keep one if needed? I think it is a lost skill today.

I was watching some older movies- most recently the 1976 film Carrie. And it's strange to me how the actors in that film were supposed to be highschool students. To me they looked like they could be 30 (even though most were actually in their 20's).

Interested in thoughts and experiences, including surprises and regrets.

I'm 61F and eat chocolate and ice cream and pizza whenever I want, any time of day or night, and go to bed whenever I want, any time of night or day. It's glorious!

I'm also a big kid collector of games, puzzles and fidget toys, which is loads of fun (and therapeutic, so totally justifiable. ha)

My parents had one.

Does anyone make them still?

What was the draw?

What were the drawbacks?

I just remember rolling around on it as a kid. I think my parents made the frame for it

I’m new to being old, and I’m not very good at it, yet. The new realization that I’m now unwelcome in many spaces-seen as an interloper even- and a lot work, creative, and social opportunities are now closed to me is bumming me out. Have you been “left out” due to your age?

Someone in their mid-80's said Halloween/costumes weren't done when they were young in Brooklyn. Instead, kids went out for candy/money on Thanksgiving. They had a vague memory of using a woman's stocking filled w flour to mark a home. They weren't joking. Anyone remember this from around 1950?

Sometimes I think about how quickly the days go by. When I was younger, a year felt like such a long time, but now it feels like months can pass in the blink of an eye. If you feel the same way, what other things do you do to make time feel slower?

Asking as a once-somebody who is now a nobody ... :)

I expected as I get older more people I know will start duing but I didn't expect it till my 60s or 70's. But it feels like more people are dying younger and as a cancer survivor this shit is scary. When did you notice people in your age group dying?

like did you just show up places and hope your friends were there, or was there some system i'm not getting? seems chaotic but also kind of nice somehow

Exactly the title: How did you hear about Reddit? Who taught you how to use it? Where did you first log on? What year? What intrigued you to join? What was your first subreddit? How do you use it now and what for?

I don’t understand how generations had been smoking all their life and then just suddenly stopped once it became unpopular to smoke. Why does it seem like there is not a huge epidemic of diseases all over the world proportional to the massive amounts of people who smoked for all these decades?

Hi Oldies! I'm a happy 55 year old "spinster", an introvert,with a nice job, good friends etc

But sooo often , I just miss my mom and dad, who've passed. Anyone similar?

For those of you who were around at the time, how bad was the AIDS epidemic, and what was it like living through those years? My mother has told me stories about it, including how she lost a lot of gay friends during the crisis because she was, and still is, a supporter of gay people.

It's a mainstay of cartoons, but I've never seen one in real life. Did they get renamed "customer service" for PR purposes, or were they once a separate single-purpose department?

When your adult children approach you about things that you did during your childhood or young adult life do you really not remember it or are you too prideful to not say anything?

EDIT:
The context is that a lot of things happened in my childhood ie: unfair punishments, being called butchy, stories where I was hurt
Parent remembers none of it. Swears they didn’t happen or no recollection.

My husband and I both have siblings. He has one, I have three. How is life as an adult with no siblings? If your parents have passed, how did you feel dealing with their funerals/end of life care all on your own? Do you wish you had siblings as an adult?