How old are you?

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How old are you? (poll)


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myzamboni said:
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I think the poll accurately reflects the wood burning populace - I get the sense it is younger rather than older.
55 here - but was just thinking today that I don't feel any different than I did 10 years ago. Sore as heck from some lifting and snowshoeing, but that would have happened 10 years ago too.

Of course, it helps that I don't go to work (off-site) any longer. If I did I might feel older when I got home at night!

Craig, it only reflect the internet using, wood-burning populace that chooses to visit Hearth.com. I am convinced that the true demographic is a little older than the poll suggests. Just think of the people in your area who burn but do not frequent this site.

I agree, zambo. I strongly suspect there's an "Internet savvy/familiarity" bias here that tends to skew the data down in age, and that if a real-world sample could be taken the distribution would likely tend toward higher age brackets. My aunt & uncle heated with wood until last year, and they're both well into their 80's...but they've never owned a computer. This poll is just what it is...a small sampling of those of us who both burn wood and frequent this site. Nonetheless, I find it somewhat interesting. Rick
 
fossil said:
Just thought it might be interesting to get a rough age demographic on us. Rick


I'm getting confused again.
Is this poll for us or for those that don't have a computer?
 
kenny chaos said:
fossil said:
Just thought it might be interesting to get a rough age demographic on us. Rick


I'm getting confused again.
Is this poll for us or for those that don't have a computer?

I'm hoping to hear from everyone out there who doesn't have a computer. %-P Rick
 
I am 28 not young enough to know everything anymore.
 
I am 56 1/2 and happily burning wood almost 100 percent of the time. Have enough split firewood to last at least to 60. From what I can tell in my area the woodburners are older using older bucks and squire stoves with a few OWB's. Most of these guys don't know or care how to spell a computer. I have been burning since we bought this house in 1983. I enjoy all the aspects of burning and besides saving a little on the heating bill, by living in a woods all that wood would otherwise go to waste. Tony
 
turned f@#&ing;forty last October, Somehow me knees and back are around 70 already though.
 
Only 24! Am I the baby on the hearth forums? lol
 
54 and still toting hard wood. :blank:
 
66+8mo. and loving it.
Ed
 
Just about to cross the great divide into the 40-49 demographic next month, so that's where I voted.
 
Ahh- what I would'nt give to be 20again; to know then what I know now. Where have I hear that B4? Video rewind to the 80's.........................
 
Hey, that better not be the Melinda I'm married to! At least she doesn't look anything like the one in the picture...... ;-)

38 here and enjoying the maul swingin' workout!
 
"Old enough to know better, and still too young to care." Don't care too much for getting older, but the alternative don't do a thing for me currently. ;)
 
WoodMann said:
Ahh- what I would'nt give to be 20again; to know then what I know now. Where have I hear that B4? Video rewind to the 80's.........................

Well, youth is wasted on the young.
Doug, 51yo
 
52 ... I was sure I wouldn't see the north side of 30, so everything after that is a bonus.

"Aw, youth is wasted on the wrong people!"

grumpy old man on the porch in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
 
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