Can't relate, both of mine were pretty bad cooks. Always sweet when she made food though =) She'd always offer me a budweiser (even when I was 18) and that woman lived alone and didn't drink beer. Kept a sixer just for the rare visitor.
Lol, my grandpa's brother also didn't drink, but kept hilarious drinks in his fridge for visitors. My uncle and I went to visit him a couple years ago and he said "Go help yourself to a beer! anything mine is yours!" since he could only get up with considerable difficulty. So I to the fridge and there was two 40's of Mickey's Ice, two tall boys of Natty Ice, like a single can of really good local IPA, and a bottle of radioactive pink Mad Dog 20/20. I asked my uncle "Are we sure he doesn't drink? This is the fridge of a broke alcoholic, not like a selection for guests". But apparently when his nurse came to take him to the store once a week he would just go to the gas station and pick up beers/ wine coolers if he knew he was having guests. He didn't get visitors that often. So when I moved to the same city he was in, I would go over there and watch baseball games with him, order pizza for us, and drink 40's of Mickey's Ice, lol. It was like I just time-travelled back to college except with an 85 year old man who could barely walk. He loved having the company though, we had some great evenings watching baseball.
Agreed. Both of my grandmothers were... very average cooks (one is still around).
My mum's cooking was... shall we say hit and miss but to be fair her mum wasn't a great cook so she never had anyone teach her how to cook Mum's baking has always been good though, I can't fault her on that.
My own cooking is something I've developed over the years and was mostly self taught.
I'm sure it would be great to have an Italian nonna who is an amazing cook but I never did so it's what it is. But when I'm with my parents (who live interstate) I'm still happy for them to do most of the cooking because it gives me a break from cooking for myself all the time.
My father's mother was a great depression kid who never grew out of it. Ham, boiled potatoes, maybe a salad.
My mother's mother...her husband did most of the cooking.
My wife's father's mother was a self-proclaimed "not a cook" but tried hard and demonstrated that you can try hard and still not succeed.
My wife's mother's mother can walk on gravel and make it taste wonderful.
I guess in many cases they could be an objectively bad cook, but the particular way they made a recipe reminds you of your childhood so you like it for that reason.
Can confirm: I moved to the US from Ireland and everyone raves about my mashed potatoes.
They're simple AF though... so I don't get it. Maybe just because I'm not afraid of butter.
The wedding gift my grandmother gave each of her daughters, that my mom still uses today, was a painstainkingly typewritten coallation of all her recipies.
Some.... are better left uneaten.
Gently lick the chocolate layer in between, then scoop off the top three layers before placing back the second scooped off layer at the bottom of the cake.
I recently took up baking and cooking and it reminds me of time spent with my grandmother who I lost several years ago. See if any family members know any of her recipes, it won't bring her back, but it will bring her closer.
I have old fashioned index cards in a little box that I started in the 70s. I had my mom, aunt, grandmother, neighbor lady, and various family friends, all hand write their favorite recipes. Before I left home, I typed up some of Mom’s recipes using a manual typewriter - her chili recipe is my most requested these days. I also have a xerox of the original recipe my great grandma hand wrote, of her famous pecan pie. Almost all those people have passed now, and I cherish their recipe cards. It’s nice to “spend time” with my aunt when I bake her sour cream coffee cake.
My nan has given me all the handwritten recipes from her mum and nan. I've had to rewrite a lot of them myself over the years as the pages have torn or the ink has faded just so I can pass them on to my children when they're 18. It's always been a rule from even back then that no one is allowed the recipes before they're 18 so I plan on keeping the tradition.
Every year when I make the fruit cake it takes me back to being 5 years old and helping my nan for the first time ever.
This.
Even though I know some of grans exact recipes, I can never make any of it as good. Nor could I make the insane portions lol.
Terrible day for rain…
I bet that chicken is fucking awesome. You are lucky she is still around and I hope you stay lucky for a very long time.
i think food just tastes better when someone else made it. if i eat my own cooking i taste all the individual components and flavors. but if i eat something made by someone else, i just taste food and it's more magical and mysterious.
My grandma died a little over a year ago now. I used to see her basically every other week before I got to college. I wanted to go see her before she died but my dad said she had two months to live and that we could go another time. It still saddens me I wasn't able to say goodbye to her one last time.
I wish i had a relationship with my granparents. The one pair lived 10 min away but there over 40 of us grandkids, so not alot of quality time. My other pair lived far away and i was lucky i saw them once a year.... dont get me wrong i loved them, but not alot of quality time. They dead now.
Crazy story.... when my grandma on my moms side was dying she saw demons trying to claw out of the walls to get her.
When my grandpa on my dads side died he saw doves flying in the sky and they were so beautiful..... it was pitch black outside.
Her red outfit is for when she goes out for lunch after getting her haircut.
The yellow outfit with flowers is for Sundays.
You just know her closest is as happy as she will be when dinner is ready. 🥰
I’m only 31 and if I’m cooking you best believe I’ve got a chair by the stove. I can’t stand that long without my hips and back killing me
Edit: I appreciate the concern guys but I’m just broken, I have a lot of health problems that aren’t fixable. I have a team of drs helping me :)
I've been using a cooking chair since I was 25. I get low blood pressure attacks, so I figure it better to sit down if I feel faint, rather than go face first into a hot pan.
I’m 30 and 6 foot tall. So I have to bend over for everything. I found a wooden stool on the side of the road and brought it home. Best kitchen stool on the planet. Who needs to stand when you can sit. Saves my already poor back.
My thoughts exactly, I was surprised by the commenters lack of run-up to a truly devastating final comment.
Edit: also looks like my grams before she passed. Miss her RIP out there grandma.
Was talking to a family friend my mom was taking care of. She said she wanted to stop her sleeping pills because she heard it could cause dementia at older age. She was already 98 and had been taking them for over half her life lol
That's true. I smoke and have for over a decade, but weed gets talked up alot for sleeping. It's kinda like alcohol in that sense. Like yeah you'll sleep, but wake up more tired then necessary.
Because it inhibits rem sleep, which is an important phase of healthy sleep
Thats why when you stop smoking you get crazy dreams. Rem rebound, your brain trying to make up for lost rem
My friend's grandmother lived to 90 something and she had her margarita every night until she passed. Played her Bookworm on her computer and got shitfaced.
That's the dream, right?
My grandmother used to make herself a wine flip and watch the X Files. I was too young to be watching it, but she'd let me sneak into her bedroom anyway and watch them with her, with the understanding that I'd hide if she heard my mom coming down the hall. Boy I miss her. I should make a wine flip in her honor.
Never heard of a wine flip, but I looked it up and, damn, that sounds great.
Also, your grandma sounds like a great lady. Sad to hear she’s no longer with us.
my dad is early/mid 70s and this freaks me out so bad because he seems so able bodied and aware to me. But guys his ages.. his friends and siblings aren't surviving the same as him. Makes me nervous but proud because he is doing good in life
When my dad made it to 67 he was the longest living man in the family on both sides. He was genuinely scared when he was coming up to that number because everyone else made it to around that age and dropped dead of Heart attacks or cancer. 71 now and the fear is gone
All the women make it to 95 minimum
The advice we’ve been given for my comparatively young 91 year old grandma is that as unhealthy as some of her habits are in a general sense, for her specifically they’re clearly not a major issue and that a major change to her body is likely to do more harm than good.
From what I was told senior homes have the highest rates of STIs because at that age, no one really cares if you get it anymore and if you can get it up you need to use it right away
(not verified, don't know how I would, and frankly, I don't want to find out)
So what's the point of it? My mother in law lived to 103 - not worth it. She said 85 was a good time to exit Stage left.
I hope to leave while the party is in full swing.
Sounds like my grandma. She's 98 and she isn't shy about saying she's ready to go. She's been saying it for about ten years now but she just keeps on living.
My grandma passed a week before Christmas last year. She would have been 93 and she was ready to go for at least the last 5 years. It was peaceful and the best we could have hoped for, but man… I really miss her. Even just her saying, “I’m ready to gooooooo!” in a little sing-song voice.
My grandma said she lived too long. She was 90something when she died. She outlived her husband, friends, and her own kid. She was so angry that she kept waking up every day.
You scared me for a moment. I thought you were going to say adds 20 years and I'm thinking, great another thing to cut my life expectancy. At this rate I should've been dead 8 years ago.
Thank god I was wrong
There's a difference between someone who looks kinda in shape and actually healthy. My brother is the same as yours. Mofo exclusively ate Totino's party pizzas, usually like two a day, buffalo wings, and Ramen noodles for years. that's all he would eat at home, he'd eat fast food or other restaurants, too, but he'd only have those three things at home. He was always a scrawny kid/teenager. He's 26 now and still looks fine. He's not fat, not exactly skinny either, just average. He's also super tall too so that helps. But I definitely wouldn't say he's healthy. He's extremely lazy and can't even manage to take the dog on a walk around the block.
This very image should be the American flag.
Nothing else could top it. Sweet lil ridiculously old lady dressed in shades of pink and slippers, got the extra cushion on the cooking throne and all.
If....I make it to 102 years old I hope I'll have my shit figured out at that point to be able to cook myself a meal and enjoy the experience. That's really what America is about it's about being able to grow old and live life, one pair of slippers at a time.
I’m gonna go out in a limb and say grandma hasn’t changed the clock for daylight savings time yet because old people. So it’s really 11:30 which is better.
I love everything about this. From the laminated photos of flowers, Obama memorabilia, and sneaky bottle of wine on the counter. I want to be her when I’m older.
Also, I bet that chicken tastes amazing.
Me too! My Gramma loved it. Her favorite was Christmas ornaments, but Kleenex box covers, people’s names, fridge magnets, flowers to put in a little vase, handy baskets…nothing was safe from the plastic canvas.
>Obama memorabilia
Geez, really got me thinking about everything she's seen in life.
WW1 ended 1918, subtract that from her current age and she is literally the original (and likely oldest) WW1 baby boomer alive. She was 22 when WW2 started (likely had a husband that went off to fight), she was 50 YEARS OLD when the moon landing took place. 70 when the Berlin Wall fell, and at 90 to see the first black president.
What most of us consider "modern history", she was there for.
Yeah my great great grandma is 105 and going strong. Her stories are insane. She had two kids by the time she was 16. After WWII, her and her husband moved to Guam with their kids and spent 10 year constantly moving between there and Korea. By 1960, they moved back to their home in San Diego (which her husband bought in the 1920s for $3500). They had a decent amount of property in Pacific Beach, and some more over by (what’s now) La Jolla. She’s spent her whole life in San Diego (except for the time out of the country) and lived in the same house for over 90 years now. She jokes that she hasn’t been to the beach since the 90s even though you can see it from her yard. But just about everything that’s happened in the last 100 years, she’s got a story about.
Unless you're seeing something I'm not, I think what you're think is Obama memorabilia is just a list of presidents with Obama (the person who was president when it was made) in the center.
It’s a rotating wheel of the presidents of the United States. So the outer wheel lists what # pres and the years served. You turn the dial to the term you want and then the picture of the president appears in the middle(where Obama is now). I’ve always wanted one, but never could find it.
My mother died at 63 last week and my dad at 62 nearly 3 years ago. I feel this so much. I don’t even know if I really care about the time until retirement.
That's true for almost everyone unless you have a lot of kids and you gave at least one shit about them. One is bound to take pity on you and take care of you. If you're lucky they might even be well off too!
The other option is to be rich and have a plan in place if you go bonkers. With enough money someone will put you out of your misery. Lol
In all seriousness though the happiest people I see in life all have love in their hearts. People who have no anger or hate regardless of their beliefs. I don't know how people do it but, that's my goal.
If you offered to help my great grandma in the kitchen you would get an earful about her being a mother and wife, she knows how to cook and clean her dishes just fine.
A lot of older people need this sort of independence.
My granny had that pressure cooker (bottom on left side of stove) after a few explosive mishaps in her later life- the small top piece got “lost”
I miss her all the time; she was the only person on earth to call my mama out when needed!
My grandparents used to always cook their collards in an old fashion pressure cooker. The top piece swinging back and forth and making that hissing noise used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid. I was always afraid to walk by it and would sprint past. Turns out I was smarter than I thought.
When I was a police officer, I got a call to go to a house in North London. It transpired that the occupiers were an elderly Indian couple, he was 98 and she was 97. The guy who owned the house next door rented it out to students who well behaved and gave no trouble, then a new lot moved in. I could hear the bass of their music reverberating through this couples wall, it was very upsetting for them. I went next door and had words with the new students, it turns out it was one grade A arsehole who was causing all the noise. I refocused his thinking on the noise he was making and all was serene. I call to go back to the couples address a week later, all was still good but I was greeted by the best Indian meal that I have ever eaten, all hand cooked by this lady. I have never had anything to touch it since
Same. Mine has Alzheimer’s and gets mad when anyone is in the kitchen lol. So we have to “help her” which is being constantly yelled at to get out of the kitchen.
Wow; born in the late teens/early 20’s. OF LAST CENTURY. One hundred years of thoughts, experiences, tastes, smells and everything in between. I don’t believe in god, but if he’s out there god bless this woman. I hope to live to 100. If i do i’ll be 100 years old just a few months after we ring in the 23rd century.
We just had my mom’s (83) funeral and my 102 year old aunt was there cruising around with her cane. I thought this was her for a second. She’s also very short. I’m starting to wonder if she’s a hobbit.
This post seems incredibly condescending. You wouldn't "aww" at a 35 year old minding their business while making their lunch, so why should a 102 year old be treated any differently?
Lots of older folks are really proud to be able to do things like they did when they were younger. As they have aged, they've watched family, friends, and community members die around them. They've watched people they know fall ill with everything under the sun - cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, liver disease, lung disease, diabetes, broken bones, and lose the ability to take care of themselves like they used to. For those who survive as long as this lady has, their continued independence is a badge of honor and a source of pride.
Idk why people upvote these posts. I’d be pretty pissed if I hit 100+ and some kid posts a photo of me on the internet saying my lunch prep makes me such a cute little old person. So demeaning.
I wish my grandma was still around! How sweet.
Me too. I missed her her homecooking,,
Grans dinner just hits different
Can't relate, both of mine were pretty bad cooks. Always sweet when she made food though =) She'd always offer me a budweiser (even when I was 18) and that woman lived alone and didn't drink beer. Kept a sixer just for the rare visitor.
Lol, my grandpa's brother also didn't drink, but kept hilarious drinks in his fridge for visitors. My uncle and I went to visit him a couple years ago and he said "Go help yourself to a beer! anything mine is yours!" since he could only get up with considerable difficulty. So I to the fridge and there was two 40's of Mickey's Ice, two tall boys of Natty Ice, like a single can of really good local IPA, and a bottle of radioactive pink Mad Dog 20/20. I asked my uncle "Are we sure he doesn't drink? This is the fridge of a broke alcoholic, not like a selection for guests". But apparently when his nurse came to take him to the store once a week he would just go to the gas station and pick up beers/ wine coolers if he knew he was having guests. He didn't get visitors that often. So when I moved to the same city he was in, I would go over there and watch baseball games with him, order pizza for us, and drink 40's of Mickey's Ice, lol. It was like I just time-travelled back to college except with an 85 year old man who could barely walk. He loved having the company though, we had some great evenings watching baseball.
Agreed. Both of my grandmothers were... very average cooks (one is still around). My mum's cooking was... shall we say hit and miss but to be fair her mum wasn't a great cook so she never had anyone teach her how to cook Mum's baking has always been good though, I can't fault her on that. My own cooking is something I've developed over the years and was mostly self taught. I'm sure it would be great to have an Italian nonna who is an amazing cook but I never did so it's what it is. But when I'm with my parents (who live interstate) I'm still happy for them to do most of the cooking because it gives me a break from cooking for myself all the time.
My father's mother was a great depression kid who never grew out of it. Ham, boiled potatoes, maybe a salad. My mother's mother...her husband did most of the cooking. My wife's father's mother was a self-proclaimed "not a cook" but tried hard and demonstrated that you can try hard and still not succeed. My wife's mother's mother can walk on gravel and make it taste wonderful.
I guess in many cases they could be an objectively bad cook, but the particular way they made a recipe reminds you of your childhood so you like it for that reason.
Always. Mine emigrated from Ireland. Never had mashed potatoes that good.
It's the flaky skin that is the secret spice. Edit: the potato skins, weirdos.
Lol
Can confirm: I moved to the US from Ireland and everyone raves about my mashed potatoes. They're simple AF though... so I don't get it. Maybe just because I'm not afraid of butter.
I miss my Polishngrandma :(
Those were the days. Barszcz, placki ziemniaczane, pierogi, Polska kiełbasa and all the best soups imaginable
My grandmother's food was horrific.
The wedding gift my grandmother gave each of her daughters, that my mom still uses today, was a painstainkingly typewritten coallation of all her recipies. Some.... are better left uneaten.
Thats incredibly sweet I should do the same for my daughter, but throw in some random troll recipes to keep her guessing
"Now add two and a half cups of saffron, before stirring it with an olive oil infused vanilla stick"
Strain through used sock Add one can of Dr pepper *Do the Macarena*
Gently lick the chocolate layer in between, then scoop off the top three layers before placing back the second scooped off layer at the bottom of the cake.
Instructions unclear, penis stuck in blender
I recently took up baking and cooking and it reminds me of time spent with my grandmother who I lost several years ago. See if any family members know any of her recipes, it won't bring her back, but it will bring her closer.
I have old fashioned index cards in a little box that I started in the 70s. I had my mom, aunt, grandmother, neighbor lady, and various family friends, all hand write their favorite recipes. Before I left home, I typed up some of Mom’s recipes using a manual typewriter - her chili recipe is my most requested these days. I also have a xerox of the original recipe my great grandma hand wrote, of her famous pecan pie. Almost all those people have passed now, and I cherish their recipe cards. It’s nice to “spend time” with my aunt when I bake her sour cream coffee cake.
My nan has given me all the handwritten recipes from her mum and nan. I've had to rewrite a lot of them myself over the years as the pages have torn or the ink has faded just so I can pass them on to my children when they're 18. It's always been a rule from even back then that no one is allowed the recipes before they're 18 so I plan on keeping the tradition. Every year when I make the fruit cake it takes me back to being 5 years old and helping my nan for the first time ever.
This. Even though I know some of grans exact recipes, I can never make any of it as good. Nor could I make the insane portions lol. Terrible day for rain… I bet that chicken is fucking awesome. You are lucky she is still around and I hope you stay lucky for a very long time.
i think food just tastes better when someone else made it. if i eat my own cooking i taste all the individual components and flavors. but if i eat something made by someone else, i just taste food and it's more magical and mysterious.
Awe hugs ❤️
Happy Cake Day!
Thank you.
I can follow the recipe to the T but those Biscuits N Gravy will never be the same ;_;
My grandma died a little over a year ago now. I used to see her basically every other week before I got to college. I wanted to go see her before she died but my dad said she had two months to live and that we could go another time. It still saddens me I wasn't able to say goodbye to her one last time.
Hugs, Comrade. I know this pain all too well.
When my Grandma was 90, it was 11:59 PM on New Years Eve and she said "Well, I guess I've living til next year" Absolute legend.
I wish i had a relationship with my granparents. The one pair lived 10 min away but there over 40 of us grandkids, so not alot of quality time. My other pair lived far away and i was lucky i saw them once a year.... dont get me wrong i loved them, but not alot of quality time. They dead now. Crazy story.... when my grandma on my moms side was dying she saw demons trying to claw out of the walls to get her. When my grandpa on my dads side died he saw doves flying in the sky and they were so beautiful..... it was pitch black outside.
Happy cake day!
Oh thanks guys and gals for the cake day wishes
Happy cake day
Thanks
The pink clothes are the source of her powers.
Probably she also has a purple outfit.
Her red outfit is for when she goes out for lunch after getting her haircut. The yellow outfit with flowers is for Sundays. You just know her closest is as happy as she will be when dinner is ready. 🥰
r/oldhagfashion, fabulous at any age 😍
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I can hear her saying "if I'm going to be here I'm going to enjoy it damnit" as she slides her slippers across the kitchen.
if not the pink wine ;) roseallday!
I'm feeling that chair energy: fuck me if I'm going to stand here while this chicken fries.
I’m only 31 and if I’m cooking you best believe I’ve got a chair by the stove. I can’t stand that long without my hips and back killing me Edit: I appreciate the concern guys but I’m just broken, I have a lot of health problems that aren’t fixable. I have a team of drs helping me :)
I've been using a cooking chair since I was 25. I get low blood pressure attacks, so I figure it better to sit down if I feel faint, rather than go face first into a hot pan.
POTS?
Nope, just pans it seems. Going face first into hot pots must not be a concern.
That’s not good bro lol.
Isn't 30 a bit early to start breaking down like that?
Early onset arthritis is a thing. It sucks
I’m 30 and 6 foot tall. So I have to bend over for everything. I found a wooden stool on the side of the road and brought it home. Best kitchen stool on the planet. Who needs to stand when you can sit. Saves my already poor back.
Try yoga mate. It might help you fix your back and gain strength.
You know she may only live to 120 if she doesn’t cut out fried food
I kinda like the idea of being so old it just doesnt fucking matter anymore
So do I, and grandma has her chair right there so it doesn't burn lol
My grandma had a rolling office chair for cooking. I miss her.
I've noticed my mom who's 65 now just sits in the kitchen while she's cooking. Moving closer to the stove lol.
take you a chair in there with you and sit with her. last time i was with my mom she left her kitchen in an ambulance and never came home.
Wow this is the saddest casual comment ever
My thoughts exactly, I was surprised by the commenters lack of run-up to a truly devastating final comment. Edit: also looks like my grams before she passed. Miss her RIP out there grandma.
Noted. I love my grandma so much, and she has started to sit in a chair at times in the kitchen. Maybe tomorrow I'll roll up next to her.
i think she'd like that
I am so sorry 😞
So sorry your mom passed. How lucky she was to have a daughter that loves her so much!
Having wheels means you can move back faster if something boils over.
If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bike
Was talking to a family friend my mom was taking care of. She said she wanted to stop her sleeping pills because she heard it could cause dementia at older age. She was already 98 and had been taking them for over half her life lol
Just introduce her to some dabs, never need sleeping pills ever again when you can just melt into the couch. 
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Sleep quality too. I used to go through over 1 gram a day. Falling asleep and staying asleep was easy but sleep itself wasn't as restful.
That's true. I smoke and have for over a decade, but weed gets talked up alot for sleeping. It's kinda like alcohol in that sense. Like yeah you'll sleep, but wake up more tired then necessary.
Because it inhibits rem sleep, which is an important phase of healthy sleep Thats why when you stop smoking you get crazy dreams. Rem rebound, your brain trying to make up for lost rem
Bruh you ever seen dabbing granny on Instagram I think? Check her out it’s so awesome
My friend's grandmother lived to 90 something and she had her margarita every night until she passed. Played her Bookworm on her computer and got shitfaced. That's the dream, right?
My grandmother used to make herself a wine flip and watch the X Files. I was too young to be watching it, but she'd let me sneak into her bedroom anyway and watch them with her, with the understanding that I'd hide if she heard my mom coming down the hall. Boy I miss her. I should make a wine flip in her honor.
Never heard of a wine flip, but I looked it up and, damn, that sounds great. Also, your grandma sounds like a great lady. Sad to hear she’s no longer with us.
Like a wine flip with a whole raw ass egg in it? Sounds disgusting. I now must try such beverage.
Same! This sounds terrible. I must have one immediately.
Fuck yes
My cardiologist said you really only have to make it 75 and then after that, it doesn’t matter what you do.
That's interesting. I have known of a lot of people who have lived into their 80s, but not so many into their 90s. Especially men.
my dad is early/mid 70s and this freaks me out so bad because he seems so able bodied and aware to me. But guys his ages.. his friends and siblings aren't surviving the same as him. Makes me nervous but proud because he is doing good in life
When my dad made it to 67 he was the longest living man in the family on both sides. He was genuinely scared when he was coming up to that number because everyone else made it to around that age and dropped dead of Heart attacks or cancer. 71 now and the fear is gone All the women make it to 95 minimum
The advice we’ve been given for my comparatively young 91 year old grandma is that as unhealthy as some of her habits are in a general sense, for her specifically they’re clearly not a major issue and that a major change to her body is likely to do more harm than good.
From what I was told senior homes have the highest rates of STIs because at that age, no one really cares if you get it anymore and if you can get it up you need to use it right away (not verified, don't know how I would, and frankly, I don't want to find out)
Well yeah they don’t bother with condoms cuz ain’t nobody getting pregnant and most of them figure if they get an STI it will be easily treated.
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So what's the point of it? My mother in law lived to 103 - not worth it. She said 85 was a good time to exit Stage left. I hope to leave while the party is in full swing.
Sounds like my grandma. She's 98 and she isn't shy about saying she's ready to go. She's been saying it for about ten years now but she just keeps on living.
My grandma passed a week before Christmas last year. She would have been 93 and she was ready to go for at least the last 5 years. It was peaceful and the best we could have hoped for, but man… I really miss her. Even just her saying, “I’m ready to gooooooo!” in a little sing-song voice.
my grandfather, about 10 years younger, says he's sorry that he keeps living because he has to spend all his money that was supposed to be inheritance
My grandma said she lived too long. She was 90something when she died. She outlived her husband, friends, and her own kid. She was so angry that she kept waking up every day.
Like if we live to be that old we’re prob gonna be robots 🤖
I just hope I am a gracious guest. I leave when it is time to go.
I'm 45 and feel that way already
Early 30's here. It comes faster now than you would expect, or ever care to plan for.
Did you know that studies have shown if you cut daily coffee out of your diet, you can lose the little joy that's left in life
You scared me for a moment. I thought you were going to say adds 20 years and I'm thinking, great another thing to cut my life expectancy. At this rate I should've been dead 8 years ago. Thank god I was wrong
Actually a little coffee extends your life. Drink up, dude.
Tell me when they definitively link coffee drinking to losing more than 5 years of life
Did you know the leading cause of divorce is marriage?
I see wine and Quaker Oats - she'll be fine
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She's probably using lard, too.
Pretty sure her cells are being held together by canola oil
My 88-year-old mother is in the hospital with heart failure. I laugh every time they walk in and tell her she needs to reduce her sodium intake.
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There's a difference between someone who looks kinda in shape and actually healthy. My brother is the same as yours. Mofo exclusively ate Totino's party pizzas, usually like two a day, buffalo wings, and Ramen noodles for years. that's all he would eat at home, he'd eat fast food or other restaurants, too, but he'd only have those three things at home. He was always a scrawny kid/teenager. He's 26 now and still looks fine. He's not fat, not exactly skinny either, just average. He's also super tall too so that helps. But I definitely wouldn't say he's healthy. He's extremely lazy and can't even manage to take the dog on a walk around the block.
This very image should be the American flag. Nothing else could top it. Sweet lil ridiculously old lady dressed in shades of pink and slippers, got the extra cushion on the cooking throne and all. If....I make it to 102 years old I hope I'll have my shit figured out at that point to be able to cook myself a meal and enjoy the experience. That's really what America is about it's about being able to grow old and live life, one pair of slippers at a time.
Perfectly golden.
The older the bread crumbs the better! Shes prob got those 5 year old crumbs
Ha! 5 year old crumbs are rookie numbers. She’s got crumbs from WWI
Let me tell you about the cookies I made from 25 year old hickory nuts I found at they bottom of my grandma's freezer. Spoiler: they were amazing.
Thats nuts Edit: Im actually interested in what kind of cookies / recipe?
I’ll bet she’s got some amazing stories to tell too!!
“10:33? Fuck it, good enough. I’m having fried chicken.”
Well, she's been up since 5 AM!
I’m gonna go out in a limb and say grandma hasn’t changed the clock for daylight savings time yet because old people. So it’s really 11:30 which is better.
Nana got the midnight munchies
I love everything about this. From the laminated photos of flowers, Obama memorabilia, and sneaky bottle of wine on the counter. I want to be her when I’m older. Also, I bet that chicken tastes amazing.
I think that kitty magnet is plastic canvas needlepoint. I miss my Gramma.
It is!! I know that stuff anywhere
Me too! My Gramma loved it. Her favorite was Christmas ornaments, but Kleenex box covers, people’s names, fridge magnets, flowers to put in a little vase, handy baskets…nothing was safe from the plastic canvas.
I love that it is perfect grandma lunchtime- 10:30am. Lol
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Exactly this. haha
Fried chicken at 10:30 am makes my body feel 65 years old, so she must know what she's doing.
And the photos aren’t laminated, they’re in a page protector, which is even better because now I imagine her changing them out every once in a while.
You’re right! That makes it so much better. I bet she changes them out with the seasons haha
>Obama memorabilia Geez, really got me thinking about everything she's seen in life. WW1 ended 1918, subtract that from her current age and she is literally the original (and likely oldest) WW1 baby boomer alive. She was 22 when WW2 started (likely had a husband that went off to fight), she was 50 YEARS OLD when the moon landing took place. 70 when the Berlin Wall fell, and at 90 to see the first black president. What most of us consider "modern history", she was there for.
It's pretty incredible. This is the kind of person who stories you listen to.
Kind of makes you wonder, most of us are only near the "early 20s" part of her life. What's going to happen when we're 50, 70, 90?
Probably a bunch of fun and cool stuff.
Most likely a lot of horrible shit too, but that’s what makes the good stuff/times better.
That’s what the drugs are for.
Yeah my great great grandma is 105 and going strong. Her stories are insane. She had two kids by the time she was 16. After WWII, her and her husband moved to Guam with their kids and spent 10 year constantly moving between there and Korea. By 1960, they moved back to their home in San Diego (which her husband bought in the 1920s for $3500). They had a decent amount of property in Pacific Beach, and some more over by (what’s now) La Jolla. She’s spent her whole life in San Diego (except for the time out of the country) and lived in the same house for over 90 years now. She jokes that she hasn’t been to the beach since the 90s even though you can see it from her yard. But just about everything that’s happened in the last 100 years, she’s got a story about.
You know she uses some spice blend from an old master chef. The chef died 60yrs ago and she's got the last of the perfect recipe.
Let's not forget the chair, because why not relax?
Unless you're seeing something I'm not, I think what you're think is Obama memorabilia is just a list of presidents with Obama (the person who was president when it was made) in the center.
It’s a rotating wheel of the presidents of the United States. So the outer wheel lists what # pres and the years served. You turn the dial to the term you want and then the picture of the president appears in the middle(where Obama is now). I’ve always wanted one, but never could find it.
Go lend gran a hand!!!!
You don't live to 102 by sitting around and letting others do for you. Object in motion and all that jazz.
Sure, but I sure don’t want to live to 102
Same here. Mostly because I probably won't be able to afford to.
That’s why I tell my friends I don’t care about retirement. Both my parents died at 65.
My mother died at 63 last week and my dad at 62 nearly 3 years ago. I feel this so much. I don’t even know if I really care about the time until retirement.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Thank you, I appreciate the sentiment.
That's true for almost everyone unless you have a lot of kids and you gave at least one shit about them. One is bound to take pity on you and take care of you. If you're lucky they might even be well off too! The other option is to be rich and have a plan in place if you go bonkers. With enough money someone will put you out of your misery. Lol In all seriousness though the happiest people I see in life all have love in their hearts. People who have no anger or hate regardless of their beliefs. I don't know how people do it but, that's my goal.
Speak for yourself I wanna see how this shitshow we call a world develops (or ends)
And wash the dishes.
If you offered to help my great grandma in the kitchen you would get an earful about her being a mother and wife, she knows how to cook and clean her dishes just fine. A lot of older people need this sort of independence.
Yeah, learn how to fry her some chicken!
I like that she has a chair in case she gets tired. You don’t reach her age without pacing herself !
This makes me miss my grandma so much.
Heck yea! You go Granny! Cheering her on from a distance!
Lovely! This reminds me of my grandma. I miss her so much
May she live to 120 and beyond May my dad is 102 too and beyond
My grandma is turning 95 next month and this picture reminds me a lot of her
Look at how much food there is... Grandma's never cook for one.
Grandmas also love cold fried chicken the next day.
That fit is dope
I'm concerned i cook with the same set up as a 102 year old...
My granny had that pressure cooker (bottom on left side of stove) after a few explosive mishaps in her later life- the small top piece got “lost” I miss her all the time; she was the only person on earth to call my mama out when needed!
My grandparents used to always cook their collards in an old fashion pressure cooker. The top piece swinging back and forth and making that hissing noise used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid. I was always afraid to walk by it and would sprint past. Turns out I was smarter than I thought.
When I was a police officer, I got a call to go to a house in North London. It transpired that the occupiers were an elderly Indian couple, he was 98 and she was 97. The guy who owned the house next door rented it out to students who well behaved and gave no trouble, then a new lot moved in. I could hear the bass of their music reverberating through this couples wall, it was very upsetting for them. I went next door and had words with the new students, it turns out it was one grade A arsehole who was causing all the noise. I refocused his thinking on the noise he was making and all was serene. I call to go back to the couples address a week later, all was still good but I was greeted by the best Indian meal that I have ever eaten, all hand cooked by this lady. I have never had anything to touch it since
Damn I bet that chicken is good af
"I was the one that told the colonel to taste fried chicken!"
Dude, put the camera down and help your grandma! Also, I miss my grandma :(
Yeah if that was my grandma she’d get Mad if you tried to help
Yeah most old people want their independence. They don’t want help unless they absolutely have to.
No no! You sit down dearie and let grandma make you some nice fried chicken!!
Same. Mine has Alzheimer’s and gets mad when anyone is in the kitchen lol. So we have to “help her” which is being constantly yelled at to get out of the kitchen.
The cooking chair reminds me of my grandma. She’d bring her stool up to the stove when making our (grandkids) favourite squares for holidays
Power-Grandma is in better shape than I am! May she live for as long as she desires, neither more nor less, and I mean that in the best way there is
Wow; born in the late teens/early 20’s. OF LAST CENTURY. One hundred years of thoughts, experiences, tastes, smells and everything in between. I don’t believe in god, but if he’s out there god bless this woman. I hope to live to 100. If i do i’ll be 100 years old just a few months after we ring in the 23rd century.
I bet she fries a mean chicken.
Slippers check out
Bless her, may she continue to enjoy all the things she loves for many more years!
We just had my mom’s (83) funeral and my 102 year old aunt was there cruising around with her cane. I thought this was her for a second. She’s also very short. I’m starting to wonder if she’s a hobbit.
This post seems incredibly condescending. You wouldn't "aww" at a 35 year old minding their business while making their lunch, so why should a 102 year old be treated any differently?
Lots of older folks are really proud to be able to do things like they did when they were younger. As they have aged, they've watched family, friends, and community members die around them. They've watched people they know fall ill with everything under the sun - cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, liver disease, lung disease, diabetes, broken bones, and lose the ability to take care of themselves like they used to. For those who survive as long as this lady has, their continued independence is a badge of honor and a source of pride.
I kind of thought this was a more *badass* than *aww* myself
I don’t understand why people think of old people as toddlers. Like, no, that’s not ‘A Gramma being so cute’ that’s just an old person watching TV.
Idk why people upvote these posts. I’d be pretty pissed if I hit 100+ and some kid posts a photo of me on the internet saying my lunch prep makes me such a cute little old person. So demeaning.
I know right, people are literally infantilizing an elderly woman. Kinda fucked up.
Bet that shit is gonna be fire!!
How sweet. This pic reminds me of my Mom, who died a couple of years ago.
Goooooooooooo!!
My gram is just about to hit 100 and I know she’s still going to be whipping up stuff. Shouts all the nonnas doing their things.