Going on dates with Mr. B. 
Driving home from Costco and then making a spontaneous stop at a winery or two. Staying active. Doing a lot of DIY home improvement projects.
Thank you @abasket for starting this thread! While retirement planning etc. is important, there is more to life!
Nothing makes me feel younger than being with older people, like those who still refer to my friends and me as ‘you girls’. ha.
Getting my hair colored and wearing trendy clothes (see Dressing Young thread.) Anything matronly looking is a no go.
Long hair, no makeup, jeans. Do lots of outdoor work (yard, paint, roof, shovel, etc.) Another thing: started taking Black Cumin Seed Oil a couple of months ago, makes my skin feel really soft and hydrated again, which I love living in a dry climate.
If we can mention exercise…I like to take a class with young people …and then crush them.
^^^^Agree. I’m usually the youngest in my yoga class by 20 years. It isn’t cool to be competitive in yoga but I have noticed that I keep up the young 30-40 something moms in my classes.
In addition to exercise–I think if you keep learning and challenging your mind, it helps you from getting to be an old fuddy duddy. I’m in a writing workshop with three young women in their late 20s (MFA students), which is great because I learn a great deal from them and love their perspective on all sorts of issues apart from the writing critiques.
Laughing out loud, especially with other people around. I feel younger watching silly comedies (Austin Powers movies, binge watching Arrested Development and The Office while the kids are home); listening to my H and his siblings bust on one another (lovingly) at family gatherings; playing board/dice/word games with a big group where everyone ends up shrieking with laughter; a live comedy show or even a good HBO special.
Wearing shorts is associated with exercise or physically active activities. Such activities both preserve a youthful look and feel and are themselves associated with younger people.
^^ Well, they could be associated with exercise or physically active activities. But in my case at least, not “only”. The minute I get home from work and all weekend - regardless of what I’m doing, the shorts go on. Shorts come in many varieties and styles - they are not all gym shorts! And I’m not wearing my Eddie Bauer khaki shorts out to run!
Exercise and activity associated with younger people? Sometimes. Maybe. But that’s a broad generalization - there are PLENTY of younger people who don’t exercise and PLENTY of older people who do.
I may have to go back to coloring my hair which I stopped doing 15 months ago. It’s not totally gray, but there’a alot of it. The advantage, as I discovered this past week, is that people offer me seats on the Metro. The downside is that I don’t think I’m that old to be offered a seat (I’m 63).
There are a lot of shorts out there that aren’t for athletics. I actually wear shorts for casual wear yet I don’t wear shorts for running or working out. I prefer cropped athletic tights.
Random list of things-
Wearing dresses and skirts that hit above the knee
Coloring my hair
Getting monthly facials and using oils and serum on my face. I’ve been told by multiple people how great my skin is looking and how it makes me look younger.
Going to the gym and being willing to try different classes
Traveling via less conventional methods. Example I spent two weeks on a sailboat in French Polynesia with my H. Just the two of us on the boat. Swimming and snorkeling. Being willing to wear a two piece swimsuit.
Walking versus taking a taxi when traveling
Keeping up on healthy food trends and willing to learn new methods of cooking and foods to eat.
Dressing in youthful but not teen clothing. I like contemporary brands, not willing to go to the older women’s styles of jeans. I love AG jeans as does my D.
Working out in nice athletic clothing. Fitted pants and sleeveless tops. The women who work out in baggy pants and loose tops look older.
I wanted to bring up a separate issue. I have several friends who try to stay youthful and active but are married to men who are the same age but who have decided to be “old”. It has been stressful for them as they want to go and do things and they feel limited. They have the option of doing nothing or going and leaving the spouse at home.
I don’t have that issue as my H is as fit or if not fitter than many younger men. He definitely still feels young.
@mom60, I am in that situation. It’s not mentally easy. I don’t think he begrudges my choices of wanting to live “young” but he isn’t jumping in to join me. And he’s retired, almost 4 years older than me in age. I sometimes feel like we are a couple decades apart in how we “feel” age wise. 
In shorts, a lot of women just look old.
Completely agree with coloring hair! My grey would not be pretty!
I think shorts have to be just the right length for women who are a little older. I ordered a couple of pairs from Banana and when they came they looked horrible- and I am normally really good at ordering things that work. One pair was a size I would normally get and pretty much dropped off of me. The other pair just hit in a bad place. I returned the ones that were too big and the next size down worked.
Thank goodness DH is in great shape. He’s almost 9 years older than I am, so I’m lucky. People usually don’t realize he’s as old as he is (64). He runs at least 30 minutes every day and also lifts weights in our basement (it’s a set we bought our son, but he couldn’t take it overseas). My running partner’s husband seems to have given up at 68. He sits on the sofa all day and doesn’t want to travel. He has managed to lose some weight lately, though, so maybe there’s hope.
I’m glad H takes pretty good care of himself as well. People assume he’s much younger than he is and guess he’s about a decade or more younger than he is. He mows the back and front yard and is frequently doing home improvement and deferred maintenance that keep him calculating and learning what he needs to learn about the many projects.
So I’m guilty of going off thread many times…but this was such a happy thread about self care and feeling younger and now it’s turning into whose H is in better shape! As mentioned earlier, this is SO much more than about exercise!
But feel free to share what is your spouses method of “feeling younger”.
Yoga has really helped me with stretching as well as meditation.
Being involved in the community keeps DH and me out and about. We volunteer for different organizations.
Letting my hair grow long and keeping it colored - not so much to hide the grey but the color seems to brighten my face - to me, anyway. Wearing mostly classic style clothing with a few trendy pieces. I dress more casually now even at work.
Socializing regularly with our friends. Now that we’re mostly empty nesters, we have more time to meet up.
Making plans for the future. Always having something to look forward to.