Options For A Low Cost Mid-Life Crisis

JohnPerry

Brave the "hairdresser" jibes and get an MX5. Dirt cheap, reliable. Feel the wind on your scalp

Jalapeno

HAL9000 said:

As an aside I did once consider using Midlife Crisis as a band name.

Been done -> http://www.midlifecrisisbluesband.com/

RocknRollDave

EricTheWeary said:

Tis true. ESBlonde said:

HAL9000 said:

Low-cost options...

Bandana
Long hair/pony tail/man bun
Ridiculous sunglasses (which for a true midlife crisis need to be worn indoors as well as out)
Facial hair

If you can't have a motorbike, how about an old sports car?

As an aside I did once consider using Midlife Crisis as a band name.

As far as I can tell there is a band called Mid Life Crisis in nearly every county. They must be popular.

Sit in the toilets at Frankie and Benny's and learn Italian, maybe....?

fretmeister

Body piercings.

At least you can take them out afterwards.

SimonC

Build yourself a clay pizza oven in the garden.

bluechargeboy

kossofffan said:

Mountain biking hit hard with my midlife crisis, Great fun too!

This in spades. Enjoyable, healthy (unless you break bits off yourself), and it is kit-based so there is lots of magazine and online research to be done.

Edit: PS my hometown in North Wales has/had  aband called Midlife Crisis.

Strat_a_tat_tat

SimonC said:

Build yourself a clay pizza oven in the garden.

Wouldn't clay pizzas be a little hard on the teeth?

xSkarloey

MrBump said:

Thinking of having one, wife won't let me have a motorbike, and I can't be arsed with an affair.

What other options are out there for me?

Some compromise is needed if a bike and a clandestine realtionship is out of the question.

I suggest you buy an open top car and starting having romantic weekends away with the missus.

stimpsonslostson

Moe_Zambeek said:

Surely cycling is the new midlife crisis du jour?

This was my first thought.
Become a MAMIL: Spend your Sunday mornings riding five abreast down country lanes comparing notes on the difference your titanium alloy headset has made to your bikes handling. 

http://www.escapetothepub.co.uk/images/photos/blog/bike-pub/fatManOnTheBike.jpg

To be fair, I did see one who had a sense of humour, he had a pair of lycra shorts with "WIDE LOAD" emblazoned across his arse.

Paul_C

Archery ?

There's a thing like paintball but with bows and arrows too.

bluechargeboy

Cycling/triathlon is a response to "Oh shit I'm going to die sooner than I want if I don't do something about my health", rather than "Oh shit I'm 40 already and my life isn't as good as those I seen on the telly so I'd better raise my lifestyle game". So I don't really count that as traditional midlife crisis per se.

I just bought a biker jacket so I have been thinking this one through.

CHRISB50

bluechargeboy said:

Cycling/triathlon is a response to "Oh shit I'm going to die sooner than I want if I don't do something about my health", rather than "Oh shit I'm 40 already and my life isn't as good as those I seen on the telly so I'd better raise my lifestyle game". So I don't really count that as traditional midlife crisis per se.

I just bought a biker jacket so I have been thinking this one through.

I hope it has tassles

earwighoney

MrBump said:

Thinking of having one, wife won't let me have a motorbike, and I can't be arsed with an affair.

What other options are out there for me?

Form a dangerous addiction to a tinned fish. 

John West Sild is an option, but other fishes are available.  

xSkarloey

SimonC said:

Build yourself a clay pizza oven in the garden.

Why build one, when you can blow a couple of grand on one sold by Jamie "I've eaten all the pies again" Oliver? I know someone who bought one of those.

earwighoney said:

Form a dangerous addiction to a tinned fish. 

John West Sild is an option, but other fishes are available.  

I think for the truly afflicted, consuming dangerous quantities of Glenryck Fisheries's Pilchards is the way to truly 'celebrate' a MLC.

thecolourbox

Cycling and massive cameras that take 10 minutes per photo "to get the aperture spot on" seem to be order of the day in my office for mid lifers. I'm 29 but people think I'm only about 20 so any even vague attempts to portray myself cooler than my age would suggest gets lost on most people, hence my ideas are limited.

Or how about pedal building? Fun to do, lots of background research, legitimises GAS as you can just build stuff instead of buying it outright, and present the pedal to the other half not as a costly liability but as an achievement of immense proportions. The smell of solder is also an aphrodisiac.

Snap

I think there is a difference, subtle, between having a true mid life crisis, and doing nobby things that middle aged blokes do.

For example, I'm not having a crisis, not at all, but I am feeling the draw to buying a two seater car. THen I will be "AN other middle aged nob in a 2 seater, thinking he's cool, but actually isn't". sort of thing.

but not caring.

RocknRollDave

Do you have short hair? Surely a pony tail and pierced ear are the cheapest MLC going.

Jalapeno

Gardening.

Or Golf.

bluechargeboy

Jalapeno said:

Gardening.

Or Golf.

Nah, those are just the behaviours of someone who has given up. For a MLC you need to harbour some hope of having a cooler life.

xSkarloey

Snap said:

I think there is a difference, subtle, between having a true mid life crisis, and doing nobby things that middle aged blokes do.

For example, I'm not having a crisis, not at all, but I am feeling the draw to buying a two seater car. THen I will be "AN other middle aged nob in a 2 seater, thinking he's cool, but actually isn't". sort of thing.

but not caring.

I feel like getting something like a Daimler Double Six.

Then again, a car like that might work all sorts of terrible damage on my fragile psyche. Who knows, I might have to buy the matching diamond pattern Pringle sweaters, take up golf and start swigging G and T's.


That'd be less a MLC than a full-blown catastrophic personality crisis.

Drop head coupe it is then.