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[chlema]

Years ago I was 5'6".  Yep, years ago.  Last year I measured 5'3 1/2.  Go for my annual next month & I bet there's another inch lost.  Thank goodness my tall granddaughter lives with me and when I need something I can call - "hey, tall person----"

[kze]

When they are measuring you, make sure you stand with your heels against the wall.  My doctor's assistant pointed that out to me.

[Mmsfoxxie]

@Biftu, If I can't find someone that worked at the store to reach that top shelf, I look for the kindest looking face around and ask for help.  One time I had to ask a gentleman in a different aisle for help and apologized for asking him to walk to where I needed him.  He said that actually, I was helping him feel good because he loved helping people.  So we both were happy.  I've always been four ft eleven in my adulthood.  Now I'm an inch shorter.

[Desertdi]

I've always been short.    People have given me "names" that I didn't appreciate...

[Skyegirl21]

It may also be posture that worsens...

[cindyNC]

Ohhh, my BF got one of those "grabber gadgets" when he was in physical therapy a few years ago.  He never has to use it but I've found that I LOVE it. 

If not using it for reaching for items, I can chase the pooch with it and get my exercise. LOL

[katie1859]

NO..this formal dress need a foot, 12 inches. It's drapery but when I put it on I had a drape around my ankles...so the seamstress measured and is cutting and redrawing.
Thank you for the tutorial though lolol

[Biftu]

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@PA Mom-mom wrote:

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@Biftu wrote:

Grocery shopping is becoming difficult at my height.  I have the worse time reaching items on the top shelves.  I've dangerously stepped on the bottom shelf just to get what I need.  If I get luckily someone is around to reach it for me.  Any shorter and I will need to carry one of those long handled reachers with me!

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@Biftu  I try to find a long item hanging along the aisle - maybe tongs or a wooden spoon or handeled scrubber. I reach as high as I can and try to knock down the item I want. It usually works, but if that doesn't work, I rely on the kindness of strangers. 

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@PA Mom-mom  I do that too!

[Biftu]

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@Mmsfoxxie wrote:

@Biftu, If I can't find someone that worked at the store to reach that top shelf, I look for the kindest looking face around and ask for help.  One time I had to ask a gentleman in a different aisle for help and apologized for asking him to walk to where I needed him.  He said that actually, I was helping him feel good because he loved helping people.  So we both were happy.  I've always been four ft eleven in my adulthood.  Now I'm an inch shorter.

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@Mmsfoxxie  I hear you.  I was 5'1" now I'm 5'.  How low can we go?!!  It can be tough to be a munchkin.

[eadu4]

@katie1859 started out life at 5ft 1.5" now holding at 5ft.  The shelving I have scaled over the years probably puts me near the top of Mt. Everest and a few others.  I think I was a Sherpa in another life.   Being short to start with I've clung with a death grip on my spine to every 1/4 of an inch.  There are very few people I have not looked up to I use a step stool to reach the bottom of my washer.  I have come close to actually falling in trying to reach a sock.   And forget the top two shelves of my cabinets.  Anything up there will only come down after I die.  Lol. 
     All those years trying to avoid shrinking my clothes, and now I know how that cotton T-shirt felt after it accidentally was put in the dryer!