Living in the Past

Yes, make a bucket list!

I think I know what you mean. I always think my best days are behind me and there isn't much to look forward to too so in a positive frame of mind one day I told DH we need to always have something to do and look forward to. So now we plan on doing something not always an expensive thing every month especially through the winter which I dread as I hate the cold and my aches and pains get far worse. I do tend to daydream abut my salad days though.

I go onto a website about old Birmingham and it shows photos of the areas where I lived and went to school. Part of me loves it but another part of me feels very uncomfortable about seeing those places. It doesn't make me sad but it doesn't make me happy either. Tricia; if you're worried about turning into an old misery it's very unlikely that you will do so. Those that do don't worry about it! I'm not sure about bucket lists, having started to do one myself. Much as I enjoy doing those things at the time afterwards I get a sort of 'well, that's another step closer, then ' feeling. But I do agree about planning things to look forward to, especially holidays.

I hate it when my OH says things like "well we will get a good (cooker/bed/whatever) as it's probably the last one we will ever buy". Now that gets me really depressed!

My in laws used to say "That will see us out" whenever they bought a new appliance or piece of furniture. They were only in their fifties then and I used to find it really annoying. I see these tendencies in my OH and have forbidden him ever to use these words. Suspect he thinks them though!
TriciaF. I agree that planning ahead is a good idea, especially living abroad as you do, but maybe in a contingency planning way so you feel you know what to do if something nasty happens and then put the plans away firmly! Then you can do as teetime suggests and plan things to look forward to each month. So much more fun

I had to look up "bucket list" on Google - never heard of it! One thing I would love to do is follow the WW2 escape route over the Pyrenees which takes place every July, but I couldn't do it, I know.
Oh dear - back to WW2 again
Planning things to look forward to each month is a good idea - get thinking Tricia!

DH and I often say 'This will see us out!' but we are joking, I hope!

Oh dear, sounds a bit like me, exactly what I said when we bought a newish car a couple of years ago, "this will last until I can't drive any more". Might have been true had I not had an argument with a truck and wrote it off, perhaps our replacement will see me out.

I say 'this will see us out' to make my sister groan as our Mother started saying it in her forties! I do hate that philosophy although I keep saying when these golf clubs give out I'm not buying any more- I will!

Oh, pompa I had to laugh! even though it must have been somewhat traumatic at the time.

We are getting to the point when we are only half joking when we say "this should see us out".

We are getting to the point when we are only half joking when we say "this should see us out".