I turned 60 a few weeks ago. That was a tough milestone for me. But I am over it now. I don't have a favorite decade.

I am 47. I loved the 80's but I am glad that fashion is over!

VERY!!

I'll be 66 later this month . Each decade has it ups and downs but this year's turn with cancer I'm looking to the next 10 years to be my best !

Will be 56 next month. Happiest times for me were the middle 70"s and early 90's.

On June 21st. I will be 93. I guess my memory is failing, because I thought I posted this yesterday. Guess I didn't; or wonder what I said, or maybe Houzz made a boo-boo. Any how, I'm second to the oldest one here. Hi, Senior Gal!

Well, that just goes to show you, no one should be posting about serious stuff when they have a migrain! Sorry I completely misworded my thoughts. My daughter is the light of my life and being her Mom was the only thing that kept me going. She literally has the most beautiful smile I've ever seen. :c)

I'm 63. Pros and a few cons to all the decades.

I'm 59 for just a wee bit longer. I can't pick a favorite decade.

68 here, I loved the 60's

Sabbath, I never understood being called an empty nester when the kids go off to college. Yes, they are away, but you are still very much involved. They are home for all the holidays and breaks and the summer. Plus you visit them on parent's weekend.

To me, the empty nest is now. Both DD's have their own apartment in the city.

Eld6161- I think I will have a hard adjustment because I am always with my son, he is just about 18 but isn't driving yet. I drive him an hour each way to school everyday and treasure the time in the car when we talk. He will be going to college out of state. My husband travels 75% of the time, so I will be mostly alone when my son goes to college. My son's nickname for me is omnipresent- hahaha. I am very attached to him, as we just get along very well. I know it's going to be hard.

Yes, I see your point. I have two DD's so when the oldest went, I still had the youngest. But then, they were both out.

I don't know. Maybe it is because I did not have the opportunity to go away for college (I walked to my college!) I really wanted both of my daughters to have the experience. I was so excited for them.

I certainly see your point with an only child.

Why isn't he driving? My oldest couldn't wait to drive and did everything as soon as she could. My youngest was so busy with volunteering in the school's theater group I didn't think that she would get her license before heading off to college. I had to make sure she viewed it as a priority. I didn't want to think about fitting it in when she came back and forth.

Eld6161- It's funny with boys they don't call and text like daughters. My daughter and I talk everyday. My son is on a trip with his school and has texted me one sentence in last six days lol. The sentence was, " I am good, love you".

I'll be 60 next month. My favorite years were those when my kids were young, but I'd go back to any time when my DH was still alive.

Those of you who are in your 90's and using a computer are my heroes/heroines!

"It's funny with boys they don't call and text like daughters. "

You're may be describing your own kids and not necessarily everyone else's. My experience is that this varies by individual personality and not by the gender of the kid. It also varies by how busy each individual's schedule is or isn't at any particular time in their life and the amount of communication increases and decreases as that changes.

My dad's not a thrilled-by-having-a-phone call conversation-sort of guy, but we talk over his ipad and my iphone which still lets him play his computer games like call of duty and what have you, and I call/text my mom all the time from my iphone to her iphone (she was an early adopter of the iPhone first launched, likes her mac laptop and ipad a lot, while dad, brother, and I use PCs for the most part, I have a kindle library on an ipad mini because that takes up a lot less room than a full on hardback/paperback library of all the books I have read or have waiting to be read next)...Parents are the earliest of the baby boomers but they fully embraced each technological change that came, they taught school 40 years each before retiring then relocating all the way across the country to be close to their 4 grandchildren and take their golden years at a less hectic pace even with the pension uncertainties they were responsible about working with a financial manager to diversify/maximize additional retirement funds.

Plan, save, invest, delay gratification until you have the money to buy or do what you *really* want instead of constantly bleeding cash on cheap substitutes.

I am 80. (I learned to drive using a 1928 Model A Ford and for working the farm, drove an early model 1947 Ferguson tractor.) My best decade was the 1960s. There were plenty of manufacturing jobs; I was a newly wed with an engineering degree and kids were in our future; We were not well off, but our future was promising and we were happy; Popular music was good; Developments in electronics was taking great strides - the invasion of the transistor was rampant and desired. It killed off the vacuum tube, but spawned a wonderful new technology and made personal computers, pocket calculators, and cell phones possible. In the '60s, we could not have guessed the changes the transistor would bring. It was an exciting time.

Career wise, my best output was probably from 1975 through 1985.

Like OutsidePlaying, I will be 69 in August. My favorite part of my life is now. I am very happy.

No time like the present. Having survived advanced breast cancer and more recently a rare blood disease I'm lucky to celebrate my 65th birthday. There is no time in my past that I would want to revisit. I've lost a parent and 3 siblings. I have no nostalgia at all for any of yesteryear.

I turned 74 last month. My mother had just turned 38 when she died, so I'm well aware that every year--every day--is a gift. I consider myself a lucky person, and I enjoy many things about my present life. But my thirties, when my children were little and all living, my husband was alive and well, and my parents were the same, was special.

Anyone wanna tackle an age average for this thread?

Happy birthday to us Sue_va. Our birthdays are on the same day. Just a few years difference. (22)

Average age: 64

:)

How anyone loved the fashion of high cut leotards over tights (a la Jane Fonda's 'buns of steel') and the shoulder pads of the 1980's is beyond my comprehension. I've seen the pictures. And they were horrifying! ;)

What's the median? (I'll guess it's higher than the mean)

Another 74 here. I was waiting for my number to go down before posting but hasn't so far! :) There was good and bad in all of the decades. So far though my health has been good .. So thankful for that.

Turned 67 in April. Very thankful for each and every day!

56, so I guess I bring the average down, lol. I don't have a favorite decade, each has been wonderful in its own way and I hope that trend continues.

48...don't think I have a favorite decade...some good,some bad in all. But, in my heart I am a child of the 50's. LOL The Decade of Renewal....wish I could have

been a part of some of it. Not sure who's old soul I inherited.

I am 82. Favorite decade is the '40s

JenniferD, the fashions of an era--any era--look normal at the time. Sure, the clothes and hairstyles of the 1980s look silly now, but rest assured today's fashions will look bizarre someday. It may take awhile, but it'll happen. Maybe one of your descendants will ask, "How could you have worn that??"

Someone said that I was built for the fashions of the 50's not too long ago, unfortunately those dimensions don't quite work with the clothes of today. It would be nice if I could just go to a store and buy something that didn't have to be altered to fit right, or run through the wash *and* the dryer to shrink it in just the right way before I wear it. Well, except for the corsets but those aren't bought at a physical store location, those I buy online and determining fit is entirely different from the way one does with average clothing item.

I will be 58 end of May. Can't believe I am that old, and i certainly don't feel like it. I don't really have a favorite decade, I have fun all the time. Just different kinds of fun, lol.

I'm nearly 57. How did that happen?? I have always felt an affinity for the 30s and 40s-- not sure why. I guess I've rather glamorized that era in my mind though for most people life was rather difficult, especially for non-Caucasian people. My mother would never discuss in detail her life in the thirties (she was born in 1920,) because it was a most depressing and worrisome time. I loved having young children but because we had no relatives living near us and because money was tight, it was also a stressful time.

OMG...I lied. I am 49. Must be a wishful slip of the tongue.

I'm 55, looks like I'm the only one! I love the music of the 70's and 80's when life was so carefree. Our youngest daughter will let me jam out with her every day we ride to school, one more year there. All three of our daughters were born in the 90's, our youngest was born with Down Syndrome and are the reasons for living and giving most days. I hope to enjoy many more days as time has a way of moving to fast!!

Hi, foggyj2. Nice day for a birthday, right? In my case it is not just a birthday; It is also the day I was married. Uncle Sam had a small part in choosing that. My DH2be was in the Air Force at the time, and just lucked into getting that date. It is also the date my parents were married, many years prior. No special decade. Life has been good in all of them. I just love having fun and that always means a good time especially on a birth day. Hope yours will be special this year, since you and I will be sharing it.

I will be 73 in November.I have lost my parents,siblings and husband.,but I am so blessed to have my 3 children,7 grandchildren and 2 great grandsons and a great granddaughter who will be born in early June.

I'll be 71 on the longest day of the year. That's another good thing about that day! Boy Sue, you really have a lot to celebrate! I'll try to remember to congratulate you for making another year!

60's were probably my favorite decade, but all of them have been good.

I'm 68. Just have to wonder HOW anyone under 40 ended up here with all us "old heads"?!? Maybe in hopes of soaking up the knowledge that just OOZES out of our heads?!?

...Rats, the 'olds' are onto us. To the exit strategy everyone, regroup as specified in the mission plan document! ;) *sirens begin to wail and a recording that says "Abort mission" is heard several times*

Jennifer D... you mentioned Jane Fonda and shoulder pads (not together) and someone else mentioned how sooner or later (I'm paraphrasing) every eras fashions will look ridiculous. I work with HS aged kids who can never be more than inches from their phones or minutes from a selfie. I always tell them to keep EVERY picture they take... save them somewhere. Then haul them all out 10, 15, 20 years from now. Those skinny jeans (on guys) look totally silly. But then so did the wide-leg bell bottoms, striped, horizontally (least flattering direction) are scary looking now!... maybe today's HS kids would get into that "retro" look.

I would prefer not to leave evidence of any...questionable.... personal fashion choices I may or may not have made (or in other words, won't admit to which evidence kind of prevents one from successfully doing.). This may affect my perspective when it comes to evidence of such sort others permit to exist regarding themselves.

I would say that being one without a proper kitchen table of my own, and very hungry, when I saw such a lovely table here I couldn't help but come in and take a seat in hopes that I'd just blend in at least long enough for some dinner...but I don't think anyone would fall for that. ;)

58.... My favorite decade would have to overlap with my son's life at home with us, but ten years doesn't cover enough of it, as he lived with us to age 18....My least favorite decade would be the 1970s when.... well, never mind--- something that shaped who I am even if it was unpleasant.

I'll be 78 next month. Really don't have a favorite decade, or an 'unfavorite' one, either. There's been good and bad in all of them. I've always tried not to dwell of the bad, and keep a positive attitude about things. So all in all, life has been good.

Rusty

I didn't know that June 21 is the longest day of the year. Thanks for that info, foggyj2. Something else to celebrate!

I will be 63 in one more month. I can't say I have a favorite as all had good, bad and challenges all rolled into each.

I have to say that age usually doesn't seem apparent except when members share deaths, illness etc that make it clear that they are up there in age.

When we share other topics, I'd be hardpressed to know how old anyone was.

I'm 59 for a few more months. I don't have a favorite decade as each has had lots of fun and some angst. My favorite year is 1992 when my son was born after a decade of yearning for a child. Can't believe I will be 60 this year as I sure don't feel like it (except for my arthritic knees :-)

so interesting seeing the span of ages. I am 63. Not sure about a favorite decade.