Generation X

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Sitting around and waiting for the phone to ring.


I just pulled the old phone electrical base out of the kitchen wall yesterday!!! Mudded it and smoothed the wall. Myself!! I thought I was showing my children how handy mommy can be. Nope. It turned into the tale of the corded phone, a mystical time before Netflix, and you couldn't even have your groceries delivered!! Wow.

Getting a phone in your room for your thirteenth birthday has been replaced by a smart phone at 8yo.

I miss punk zeens.

Anonymous
Wearing men's boxer shorts as shorts under the Limited or Benneton shaker knit sweaters -- and hair sprayed bangs.
Anonymous
although I hated it at the time, learning about hard work, discipline, and non-materialism from parents who were born during WWII
Anonymous
la pièce de résistance "feminism"
Anonymous
Atari ran ads on TV to show that you could pause a video game to go eat dinner. (Before that ... You couldn't stop playing or you lost your game)

Bells ran ads touting call waiting.

Both were mind blowing at the time.
Anonymous
Friendship pins.
Anonymous
Trapper Keepers
Those barrettes woven with ribbon
Peek a boo earrings
Legwarmers

Not having to worry about social media! Thank god all my embarrassing moments are on snapshots stuffed into shoe boxes in the back of a closet.
Anonymous
Sun In spray

Love's Baby Soft

Roller ball lip gloss with flavors like Passionfruit and Bubble Gum

Bonne Bell everything
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:learning about sex with this book HOT



I am still traumatized by having found that book in my parents' room when I was a kid.

Anonymous
Erol's Video
Wacky Packages
BEST and W.Bell stores
Record stores
Chicken mcNuggets being new
the Royal Wedding
Walkman
Anonymous
The original SEGA
Atari 2600

As someone else said on page 1, riding around by yourself on a bike for miles on end.
Anonymous
I was born in July of 1961. Do you think I should consider myself a late Boomer or an early Gen X'er? My siblings were born in '65 and '67 and all of us identify with a lot of these memories. I don't really think those of us born around then identify with Baby Boomers. For instance, I don't remember when (either) Kennedy was shot.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Most of these apply to the older millennials as well. People born before 90 or so.


Nice try, older millennials.


I'm not pp, but she is absolutely right.

I was born in 1984 , and by most definitions I have seen that makes me a millennia and all of what was mentioned was part of my childhood.
Anonymous
Mood lipstick.
Solid perfume.
Bonnie Bell lip gloss.
Anonymous
Peg leg jeans with multiple socks scrunched up.
High bangs
Scrunchie hair bands
"Going with" someone meant you were boyfriend/girlfriend
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