• Kaput@lemmy.world
    20·
    6 months ago

    Your fifties is where you have already bought everything cool at Costco and start regularly checking your toilet for signs of needing to be changed.

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
      13·
      6 months ago

      As a 30 YO with a perfectly functional toilet, but the bowl awkwardly is 1/2" larger than the seat… This hits too close to home.

      I need to clean it constantly or have urine splatter on my legs when it’s time for a #2.

      • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        go buy a replacement seat, after measuring. sounds like you got round instead of oval shaped. its a $20 problem.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    14·
    6 months ago

    This was my best laugh of the day. I’m looking forward to a trip to a book store tomorrow. I wanna confirm an author’s position on the topic before I buy it.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    I’m 39, and this but entirely unironically. Think about your teens and twenties, and all the incredible shit that was happening. The parties, the music, the friends and new experiences that you look back on now wistfully. The world felt so big and new. But then take a second to think about how you actually felt. You were really unhappy a lot of the time, weren’t you? I certainly was. I spent what were supposed to be the “best” years of my life pissy, moody, convinced that the whole world was full of things that I was missing out on and obsessed with finding “authenticity” in myself and, and this is the shitty part, disproving authenticity in others.

    Now I’m nearly but not entirely sober, I have a steady group of friends and an incredible partner, and I spend my life mostly doing whatever I want to whenever I want. It’s just that what I want has changed. I’m thrilled on an average Sunday to wake up, put on an audiobook and immediately start cooking dinner. I like mowing my lawn and tending to my garden in the evenings. Going to the grocery store with my partner is just the best, we pal around and make each other laugh and get hype about little specials. Who I am has changed, what I want has changed, and I’m realizing that it was never anything external to me. I’ve just become the kind of person who is capable of being happy. My world has gotten smaller, more familiar and so much brighter.

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      I’m almost 30. I never partied. I still don’t have friends to look forward too. I was unhappy then. I am still unhappy a lot of times now, but there are a lot of happier times. My life will continue to be pathetic tho, but I’ll just continue to age. Not all of us have the best years of our life as we’re older.

  • Fixbeat@lemmy.ml
    132·
    6 months ago

    Smart, green tea has less caffeine, so you won’t be too edgy.

  • oxomoxo@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 months ago

    Honestly my forties have been some of the best, most adventurous years of my life. I truly appreciate the important things in life, and I have the means to do things I couldn’t when I was younger.

    • filtoid@lemmy.ml
      7·
      6 months ago

      I’m in my forties and I think every milestone decade has been better than the last. I also wholeheartedly agree with the above statements. I hope you continue to do the things that make you happy and carry on your enjoyment of them :)

      • oxomoxo@lemmy.world
        31·
        6 months ago

        It happens, funny thing is, you should have enough experience and be young enough for it to be pretty easy to get a new job and probably a better one. Sometimes these things end up being blessings in disguise…

            • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
              3·
              6 months ago

              Hopefully. I’m in a position of needing to replace some equipment, it’s not cheap. I’m currently too leveraged to buy it on credit, but I only have about a month before what I currently have becomes essentially useless.

              I need to find about $3000 dollars to do it, and I’m kind of out of options.

              Once that’s taken care of, I can coast and pay bills until something else breaks.

              I will say that the new job is fantastic. The people are good, my employer seems to be going in a good direction and they’re clearly growing. I did have to take a small pay cut with this job, only about 3%, but I like the job a lot more, and I’m dropping about 3-4k/yr in expenses. The previous job didn’t pay for parking near the office and didn’t have a parking lot for employees to use. The new job is also WFH, so most of the savings are from gas and parking. In a way, I’m taking more money “home” at the end of the day. Definitely a positive move, but I’m still stuck with a lot of credit card and other debts from my time unemployed, so I’m having difficulty keeping everything paid.

              Hopefully I find some money to replace that equipment, and I can settle into a routine to pay back all the losses from being unemployed.

  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
    7·
    6 months ago

    I’ve lost track of the number of times I’m “just going to nip and speak to the customer service lot about renewing my membership” just to get a hotdog and coke, and a pizza to take home.

    It feels like I’ve “saved” £30 each time.

    • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      you dont need to have a membership to get their hotdog and coke and pizza.

  • TheRTV@lemm.ee
    5·
    6 months ago

    I’m 35. I bought a Dyson V15 and it’s arriving today. I cannot wait to use that badboy!

  • Daxtron2@startrek.website
    51·
    6 months ago

    Green tea is best freshly brewed, it probably is the same cost between that case and some good quality loose leaf. Cute sentiment though :)