60 and excited about free prescriptions …..
By Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (12614)
United Kingdom
July 28, 2026 5:35pm CST
No secret that I turned 60 in January ……I don’t feel it or look it ….
So, obviously all my friends I went to school with are turning 60 too.
One friend …..let’s call him Carl ….mainly ‘cos that’s his name ( he is not on here so he will never ever know I have posted about him ……you don’t tell will you ? )…..turned 60 today….
He just posted on FB saying thanks for all the Happy Birthday messages ….and ….this is the part that made me laugh out loud ….saying that he is getting free prescriptions now !
He hasn’t been to the Drs for at least 25 years …..but is still happy that when he does need to go , he will get free meds !
I guess getting older means different things to different people …..
Are their any benefits to being the age you are now ?
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@toniganzon (78213)
• Philippines
7h
Free cinema, 25% discount on restaurants and essential grocery items including meds. But no free prescriptions.
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@Deepizzaguy (123715)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
8h
One benefit of getting older is getting social security payments monthly and getting medical insurance from health companies.
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@Traceyjayne (12614)
• United Kingdom
8h
@Deepizzaguy ….they are very practical benefits ….are there any fun benefits ?
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@Deepizzaguy (123715)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
3h
@Traceyjayne Getting an allowance to buy food from the market.
@AmbiePam (123681)
• United States
8h
My eyes hurriedly ran over my phone, and I briefly thought you were taking sixty prescriptions. Right away, I realized my mistake, but for a brief moment I thought you had gone far and above beating my amount of prescriptions. 
Benefits to being the age I am now? I guess the benefit of being 45 is that I’m not 46!
Benefits to being the age I am now? I guess the benefit of being 45 is that I’m not 46!@Traceyjayne (12614)
• United Kingdom
8h
lol …..if I was taking 60 medications I don’t think I would be in any state to be posting on here … lol .
Yes, I think you are right , the main benefit of being 45 is that you are not 46 ….( that made me chuckle )
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@DaddyEvil (176431)
• United States
7h
I won't PROMISE I won't tell but I'm very, very rarely on Fakebook so I probably won't run into a Carl that you know and went to school with. I DID go on Fb long enough to wish my SIL happy birthday yesterday, though. 
I get 11 medications free now... Always before, my job insurance paid for them (I still paid $4 a month for each one of them when my work insurance paid for the meds, though.)
I can't think of anything else I get because I'm over 60.
I get 11 medications free now... Always before, my job insurance paid for them (I still paid $4 a month for each one of them when my work insurance paid for the meds, though.)
I can't think of anything else I get because I'm over 60.
@DaddyEvil (176431)
• United States
7h
@Traceyjayne You're welcome.
I only use Fakebook once in a blue moon. Normally, I just talk to Filipino friends there in Messenger because that's free for them to use.
@Traceyjayne (12614)
• United Kingdom
7h
@DaddyEvil ….thanks for not telling …
Didn’t know you were on Facebook.
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@xFiacre (15073)
• Ireland
45m
@traceyjayne I get free train and bus travel throughout the whole of Ireland, north and south. Pensioner’s haircut. A year’s swimming for £11.90. But most of all the pension.
@kaylachan (85634)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
5h
I'm just happy I made it 43. Many classmates of mine wish they had.
