Do People Get Lazier As They Get Older Or Just Want An Easy Life Or Something Else

[bednobs]

When I was growing up 30 ish years ago my parents made all our food from scratch and my mum used to set aside half a day the weekends for cleaning. I am currently staying with them and have noticed that they eat a lot more of convenience food eg microwave potatoes, boil in the bag rice and so on. Their house is spotless but I notice they use packaged wipes clean things. Do you reckon it's just because these things exist now, or people just want an easier life as they get older?

[TheWinner]

The poem by John Updike was covered in school, but our children (at the time) didn't know what a Bendix was................

• BENDIX
This porthole overlooks a sea
Forever falling from the sky,
The water inextricably
Involved with buttons, suds, and dye.

Like bits of shrapnel, shards of foam
Fly heavenward; a bedsheet heaves,
A stocking wrestles with a comb,
And cotten angels wave their sleeves.

The boiling purgatorial tide
Revolves our dreary shorts and slips,
While Mother cooly bakes beside
Her little jugged apocalypse.

when I explained what a "Bendix" was, it all fell into place.

[belindabee]

Life gets harder as you get older ! I tell my knees that every time I'm on the stairs !

[Mammar]

Having peeled potatoes, baked etc all my life I can't tell what joy it gives me to be able cut a few corners. I still haven't resorted to too many convenience foods yet but I'm tempted!
And having just wrapped up Xmas gifts for the people who have to help me at home I discover I seem to have 5 staff!
Blimey!

[DaisyNonna]

Not lazier, just tireder.

[FredPuli43]

TheWinner, excellent ! Younger people, and those who were not as rich as Americans post-war, would not know the washing machine but they might know the "Bendix" on a car, it being part of the starting mechanism

[gness]

I don't cook much at all now...not laziness but if I can garden and sew I won't cook.

However I don't think I compromise on good food. I have a wonderful farm shop nearby which uses local produce...much of it free range and I like that... and I know where everything I buy comes from.
They prepare meals on site and buy in meals from local farmers so I can buy good, tasty, prepared meals for one to stock my freezer and with the odd dash of wine and a little titivating I can eat well....☺

[jim360]

For me I'm not sure this is even possible...

[gness]

Get on that bike, young man!!