60 soon what can I expect?

PennyForThem_2

I love being 60 + - I got freedom - to be who I want - I can dress exactly as I please - who cares as I am pleasing me.


I can dye my hair, wear punk, do outrageous things - what is not to like? And all free-ish

Happychappy

jblessing wrote: »

At age 60 you also get a bowel cancer screening kit!

You know where they can stick that

p00hsticks

PennyForThem wrote: »

I love being 60 + - I got freedom - to be who I want - I can dress exactly as I please - who cares as I am pleasing me.


I can dye my hair, wear punk, do outrageous things - what is not to like? And all free-ish

Why the need to wait until you are 60+ to do that ?

PlymouthMaid

Unfortunately I have to wait until i am 67 to dye my hair outrageous colours and dress how I like as it is not the done thing if I want to have a job.

Savvy_Sue

BTW, I have a date with my siblings for a Tuesday in June next year at the garden centre near where our parents' ashes are buried.

They give 10% off to the over 60s on Tuesdays, and I have said I will treat everyone!

Last of the big spenders, me.

PennyForThem_2

PlymouthMaid wrote: »

Unfortunately I have to wait until i am 67 to dye my hair outrageous colours and dress how I like as it is not the done thing if I want to have a job.

Yes, that is why I haven't gone whole hog yet!

TableTop

A great benefit is the Senior Railcard - you can get significant savings on rail travel and its definitely worth getting. £30 per year (or cheaper from the Town Hall, in my area). And you qualify at 60, no need to wait until state retirement age.

Savvy_Sue

TableTop wrote: »

A great benefit is the Senior Railcard - you can get significant savings on rail travel and its definitely worth getting. £30 per year (or cheaper from the Town Hall, in my area). And you qualify at 60, no need to wait until state retirement age.

Disabled Rail Card is better VFM if you qualify, eg if you have a hearing aid. No lower age limit either.

HOWMUCH

annabel14 wrote: »

They have moved retirement for me to 65 .....:j

Sorry but you will be 66 they moved it on yet another year

Gers

HOWMUCH wrote: »

Sorry but you will be 66 they moved it on yet another year

the website tells me:

Your State Pension age is 65 years, 4 months, 10 days

Five years four months and 10 days longer than I believed most of my life.