Now I'm 50 what can I get free or discounts on

Fran

Savvy_Sue wrote:

it's all relative ... I've had colleagues commuting from Cardiff!

Yes it's not far at all, the only thing that stops me going to Bristol area is someone holding their hand out for £4.90 when I try to get back. :mad:

djohn2002uk

Fran wrote:

Yes it's not far at all, the only thing that stops me going to Bristol area is someone holding their hand out for £4.90 when I try to get back. :mad:

You can use the one where you just throw your money in. It used to annoy me too when our daughter lived in Rhoose but now she's moved to Abergavenny we don't have to pay.:T

Fran

djohn2002uk wrote:

You can use the one where you just throw your money in. It used to annoy me too when our daughter lived in Rhoose but now she's moved to Abergavenny we don't have to pay.:T

Then it would feel like throwing my money away! Do you still get the ticket and the receipt? I always ask for a receipt as I pretend I've got something for the money. :rolleyes: I look at their special offer too, usually half price on a tea and pastry which cost some extortionate price in the first place. :mad: :rolleyes: Sorry, have taken the thread off track, it is free if you approach from the top though. :rolleyes:

Savvy_Sue

Fran wrote:

Then it would feel like throwing my money away! Do you still get the ticket and the receipt? I always ask for a receipt as I pretend I've got something for the money. :rolleyes: I look at their special offer too, usually half price on a tea and pastry which cost some extortionate price in the first place. :mad: :rolleyes: Sorry, have taken the thread off track, it is free if you approach from the top though. :rolleyes:

Oooooh, I've never looked at the special offers, and we came across to go to the Forest of Dean for my birthday. But it's not really worth stopping for coffee on that or our visits to Cardiff - or at least, if you're going to stop, there are better places than M-Way services to do it! :rotfl: Oh, and last time I went to Cardiff, DH made me go on the train so I didn't buy too much!

But just a reminder that if you've got a Blue Badge for disability you can get across the bridge for free. It's not age related.

Marisan

janb5 wrote:

Sadly not all of us do.I`m 52 and still going strong - startedat 10! When I asked a locum GP as to whether I could have a test to determine if I was near to starting the menopause, he poo pood the idea and said of course I was!

Sadly he was wrong!

Same here,ladies. I thought at least that had to be one benefit of entering my Fifties.

SooTee_2

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Its not an eye it's a camera!!! Now would'nt that be spooky? GoG

How can I get a picture as my Avatar? Whatever I try it seems to be toooooo large!!

Fran

SooTee wrote:

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Its not an eye it's a camera!!! Now would'nt that be spooky? GoG

How can I get a picture as my Avatar? Whatever I try it seems to be toooooo large!!

You can get info about your avatar and many other things too on sra's unofficial A-Z.

Pepita_2

I read in a magazine today that people who have an optimistic attitude towards growing older live on average eight years longer than people who fear it and worry about it.

margaretclare

bevheth wrote:

I read in a magazine today that people who have an optimistic attitude towards growing older live on average eight years longer than people who fear it and worry about it.

There is absolutely no point at all in being afraid of something which will inevitably happen. If you stay alive long enough i.e. don't die young, you will grow older - it's a fact of life! A new baby starts to grow older - on day two of life it is a day older than on day one, and so on. So what's the point? And what's to worry about anyway? What I WOULD worry about was if I had to live in an 'older people's ghetto' and have to listen to all the whingeing about the weather - either too hot or too cold - the long dissertations all about their illnesses, their medications, what the doctor said/didn't say...Don't tell me this is a stereotype, I hear it every week from (most of) the people at church. There's a lady there who I know means well, but she comes up to me while we're all chatting over a cup of tea after the service, leans over me and asks in sepulchral tones: 'And how are you?' The emphasis is on the 'how'. We always reply: 'Absolutely fine - great - lovely weather we're having' or something like that.

We give thanks for every day that dawns, every day that we're here and together to enjoy life as we see fit. A lot better off than my 25-year old granddaughter who is at present jobless and homeless, and doesn't fit into any of the 'at risk' categories in which people would pull out all the stops to help her. As long as I have enough income to do so I will continue to send her the odd £50 or so and no questions asked. She's my flesh and blood and I can't do otherwise.

Margaret

seven-day-weekend

funnyguy wrote:

women can save on tampax &panti liners cos they normally have gone through the menopause by 50

I am 56 (57 in January) and only went through the menopause two years ago.

I thought I was pregnant when I was 53 :eek: :eek: and had to go and buy a pregnancy test from Boots. If anyone had said anything about it I was going to say it was for my daughter (haven't got one).

Didn't tell husband till it had proved negative!!! After he'd picked himself up off the floor and we'd mopped his fevered brow, it made us start thinking what we would have done if I had been pregnant and the only answer that came up was, we'd have had to have got on with it and coped. To us there was no other choice.

It would have scuppered our plans for early retirement and moving to Spain though!

(Hey! it's my 1000th post! Do I get anything for that?)