Elders
Sooo I feel like we need maybe a stuff pack with everything elders ! I hate that the Teens/YA/Adults/Elders all have the same wardrobe. In the pack it could include an all new wardrobe for granny's, n...
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Ok, Speaking as so called Sims Elder, There's been a great deal of change since the Millenium in the uk anyway. We want most of what the young people want but lots don't have the computer experience to tell you themselves here. Lots actually didn't think it would affect their lives, which it has.
We are much fitter than previous generations. Free health service helps in the uk anyway. Pensioners have lots of time unless caring for sick wives or husbands. Lots of my older friends are out walking their dogs or helping exercise dogs from our local cat and dog home and if they haven't got a pet, in walking groups going up and down the local hills to keep their weight down! Some older person I know walked their cat (an Abyssinian which could well see off a dog), and another their ferrets in our park (a National one). My doc. is pressing me to get another dog for exercise too. Not too old according to her.
Some elders are going to the Mediterranean for the warmer weather, get sunburnt or to move there in their retirement, going on cruises if they can afford them, I'm thinking of joining one myself soon. Maybe an excuse for a holiday pack?
Some are twitchers, chasing rare bird visitors - all over the country sometimes. Even exploring the country bus services with free bus transport cards. A couple of my own family travel to historic homes and castles by car or on coach trips with friends, another couple are currently on an Owl course and have just come back from looking for birds in Costa Rica. They came back with sore backs because of the bumpy roads! They all want to explore and experience life before they cannot any more and that age comes well after 80 unless they become sick. I see those over 80's go to the local departmental stores in groups of 2 to 4 or more for a gossip and they always dress up for the occasion.
I want my elders to have the option to walk properly upright until the last few days of their Sim lives (drooping, as at present, could be an indication to get ready for their ending).
I would like new neat stylish clothes that don't show too much leg, skirts, jeans and trousers too, that I see on my friends (who are not rich either). Handbags maybe?
Maybe a storyline....an elder's bucketlist?
PS: What's the fixation about canning? Is it an American hobby or the same as making chutney and pickle jars? That's for the middle classes here. :D
We are much fitter than previous generations. Free health service helps in the uk anyway. Pensioners have lots of time unless caring for sick wives or husbands. Lots of my older friends are out walking their dogs or helping exercise dogs from our local cat and dog home and if they haven't got a pet, in walking groups going up and down the local hills to keep their weight down! Some older person I know walked their cat (an Abyssinian which could well see off a dog), and another their ferrets in our park (a National one). My doc. is pressing me to get another dog for exercise too. Not too old according to her.
Some elders are going to the Mediterranean for the warmer weather, get sunburnt or to move there in their retirement, going on cruises if they can afford them, I'm thinking of joining one myself soon. Maybe an excuse for a holiday pack?
Some are twitchers, chasing rare bird visitors - all over the country sometimes. Even exploring the country bus services with free bus transport cards. A couple of my own family travel to historic homes and castles by car or on coach trips with friends, another couple are currently on an Owl course and have just come back from looking for birds in Costa Rica. They came back with sore backs because of the bumpy roads! They all want to explore and experience life before they cannot any more and that age comes well after 80 unless they become sick. I see those over 80's go to the local departmental stores in groups of 2 to 4 or more for a gossip and they always dress up for the occasion.
I want my elders to have the option to walk properly upright until the last few days of their Sim lives (drooping, as at present, could be an indication to get ready for their ending).
I would like new neat stylish clothes that don't show too much leg, skirts, jeans and trousers too, that I see on my friends (who are not rich either). Handbags maybe?
Maybe a storyline....an elder's bucketlist?
PS: What's the fixation about canning? Is it an American hobby or the same as making chutney and pickle jars? That's for the middle classes here. :D
