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They took that puppy away as soon as you posted it....it would not even let me respond to the thread...I was going to say T.V. is not much better....I have a nephew who is a hypocondriac and all the ads on T.V. have talked him into several illnesses it is not funny when it is someone you love.

Oh I took if off,Michelle...I got to feeling guilty that I was being grumpy and complaining! I did remove all those ads in my magazine so I can enjoy it now instead of feeling all panicky that I could be getting a new syndrome, or yet ANOTHER reminder of the stuff I've got!!!

Love the one's you get in the mail about the scooters to get you around, they arrive after hitting a "certain" age. I guess all the better to collect the pretties in the quilt shop?? Look ouuuuttttt

piney

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Originally posted by michelle1538:
...who is a hypochondriac and all the ads on T.V. have talked him into several illnesses...

My DMIL that had Alzheimer's thought she needed that little blue pill for men advertized and asked the Dr. about it. *sigh*

piney

Wish I knew what you were talking about (the ads), but SIGH...I always come to the dance a day late and a dollar short.

"Grumpy & complaining" is good sometimes. I've read that if you suppress things, they go to your hips.

Stick with me, Starrysky. I dont know either.

I posted last night, feeling grumpy about all the medicine ads in my new Country Living. By the end of just flipping through it, I felt sick...Lyrica,depression, diabetes,arthritis,personal dryness,stroke,heart medicine,blood thinners, and heartworm (dogs...whew!) medicine ads. Usually the magazine cheers me up! I tore all of them out...now I'm more willing to go through and read the magazine!

I deleted it right after posting , but Michelle had seen it!

When the AARP Membership came to my house I thought for sure the mailman had put it in the wrong mailbox so I started to walk over to give it to the elderly neighbors next door THEN I SAW IT HAD MY NAME ON IT.....I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT DAY. It was just before I turned 50...now I'm getting ads in the mail for HIP REPLACEMENTS YIKES.

I was 49 when I got my AARP notice. A friend was over, sitting on the sofa near me, watching TV. I was at my desk, idly watching while filtering through my mail. I opened this non-descript envelope (no return address) addressed to me.

I actually screamed. My friend jumped and almost fell off the sofa. It was a quite unpleasant jolt.

The year that I turned 35, the local cemetary started calling me about buying a plot. I told them that I wasn't quite ready for it, and that I certainly did not want to spend eternity in that city. At 48 or 49, I got my first AARP letter. This sent DH into gales of laughter (I am slightly older than he.) until he got his several months later. Now my phone is bombarded by folks from the diabeties supplies and "mobility chairs". We have bought our plots though, so know where we will be. One less thing for DS to deal with at a difficult time. (Lesson I learned the hard way when I lost my Dear Cousin.Something to consider!! Please.)

Gals, you've got me giggling. Woke my cat up so I'm trying to type around her. She wants to know what's so funny! It's hilarious...how many little old ladies ask their doctors for the little blue pill! Bet the doctors get some interesting conversations! How many of us were insulted by our first AARP letter? I decided to embrace my age by enjoying all the discounts we get just by aging. Even Michaels gives AARP members discounts.

The first day of teachers meetings I was sitting at a big round table discussing our summer. Eight of us were 60+ years old and one brand new teacher. During lunch we got on the topic of colonoscopies and scopes we'd had over the summer, lots of hilarious gory detail. After lunch the new teacher was sitting at a much younger table! Poor girl...I don't think I'd heard the word "colonoscopy" when I was her age and certainly never wanted to discuss it over lunch. The older we get we have to just laugh off our common age related problems. Want to discuss sagging bre@sts? LOL

Thanks for the clue! I thought you were complaining about ads in QUILTING magazines. I thought..."What's wrong with ads there?" Sometimes that's all I have time to look at; forget those nice long articles!

I, too, get Country Living (have for probably more than 10 years), and they ain't what they used to be. I bought some really old ones (70's? 80's?) at a flea market & WOW -- the interesting & amusing essays that used to be in there! Gone....replaced by 2-page spreads with fine print about some medicine.

So I agree! To a point. Look at the ads as GRAPHICS. If you need to punch out some tiny black & white print to use in a collage or something, there are 2 pages of it for you. If you are transferring random words to fabric to make a statement with an art quilt, all those warnings could be of help there, too. I keep a stack of old glossy magazines around here at all times. Never know when my creative muse might attack!

Re the AARP "greetings" -- DH got his first, then I did. Now when one comes in from them, before we look at the name on it, we play "Hot Potato," tossing it back & forth. "It's for you!" "No, it HAS to be for YOU!" "Aaaaak!" (Then into the circular file it goes!) Laughter keeps you from needing anything AARP has to offer, at least that's our theory.

Last year when I turned 60, I started getting "funeral insurance" ads telling me that SS would not pay much of my impending funeral costs so, in order not to burden my loved ones, I needed to purchase their insurance to pay for my funeral expenses!

Sheesh!!! I hadn't been feeling that "over the hill and at death's door" until those ads started showing up in the mail!!!

pat

One more "positive" thing about some of those ads.... They kept DH & me from having to explain a thing or three to DS. He learned all sorts of strange facts of life sitting around the dinner table watching the 6:30 evening news and the commercials they always run.

We even learned ourselves about the potential danger of sitting in two side-by-side bathtubs on a hilltop...

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Originally posted by StarrySky:

We even learned ourselves about the potential danger of sitting in two side-by-side bathtubs on a hilltop...

LOL...never did get why that is supposed to be so romantic! Every time I see that, all I can think of is "cold water" and "mosquitos".

Not to mention shrivels & wrinkles from sitting in the tub for so long!!

I was coming out of my doc's office one day & a drug rep held the door open for me. As we took the elevator down, I asked him which company and said, "I hope it's not the one with the 2 goofy bathtubs." He said no, but that he didn't get the point about the 2 tubs either.

He reached in his briefcase and gave me a handful of his company's advertising pens as we parted ways.

Some of you commented on ads for scooters and AARP membership. Lately I've been getting ads for funeral homes. YIKES!

I will never forget the ad for a cemetery plot I read in one of those little local ad newspapers that used to land on the doorstep each week when I was a kid:

FOR SALE: Cemetery plot. Owner moved.


(Think about it! )

I have no intention of spending eternity in the ground. Ashes to ashes and "Dust in the Wind". Spread my ashes on a quilt and pick a windy day and give it a good shake.

What's your quilt preference? Dove in the Window? Birds in the Air? We could sing. "I'll Fly Away Old Glory, I'll fly away....

I rememeber when my grandparents actually used that kind of bathtub "FOR REAL" I had no idea it was so romantic. I don't think my grandma thought it was so romantic heating that water and all. LOL....

My pet peeve is every doctor think if you are over 55 your are diabetic. I know diabetees is bad but not everyone has it and the doctors want to blame everything on it

WE get many ads in the mail for hearing aids. My DH wears them, I don't--but I get my share, too. They're usually in a plain envelope. (big grin--now my emoticons won't work!) grr

Indy Anny

Oh, the malady du jour!! Everyone has Diabetes and high cholestoral.

My baby sister is 6 years younger than I am...when she turned 40 I signed her up for an AARP membership. Every month when my nephew got his Highlights magaqzine she got the magamzine from AARP She still loves me....