Land of the Lost

Speed/Thrash Metal music between 1984 - 1991.

Those incredibly ugly Kenney's shoes - brown suede with a wedge-like heel, lace-up and G.A.S.S. imprinted on the sole. Only the cool kids wore them, and sadly when I finally got a pair, they looked ridiculous on me.

Bicentennial/patriotic everything in 1976. Postage stamps, dresses, even my lunch box was patriotic.

Faberge Organics, Silkience and Halsa shampoos

Kinney Shoes. Thom McAn.

Prairie shirts, skirts and those silver Western belts! My dream outfit in 1980. Bonus: cowboy boots and your hair pulled back in a barrette on one side only.

Wearing such skin tight Jordache or Sergio Valente or Calvin Kleins or Gloria Vanderbilts designer jeans that you'd have red imprint lines down your thighs that would show in your gym uniform.



Gunne Sax homecoming and prom gowns in the early 80s then giant hoop skirt Gone with the Wind style dresses mod 80s.

Collecting stickers and keeping them in photo albums (i liked the "puffies" better than the scratch and sniff)

Duran Duran, Michael Jackson's Thriller, Madonna

Benetton

Guess jeans

Roaming the neighborhood unsupervised from 3:30 to 6:00.

A team, Knight rider, little house on the prairie, three's company in syndication (why did my parents let me watch this?)

Commodore 64 computer

Doing your elementary school research with a Funk & Wagnall's encyclopedia set bought one volume at a time at the grocery store

Santa Barbara (the soap)

freezy freakies (not sure I got the name right - those gloves where a different pattern showed up on them in the cold)

Spencer gifts

No memory of my parents ever putting sunscreen on me or ever using it until I was in my 20s

Dittos jeans - right out of the dryer - every morning.in every color. Laying back on the bed to zip them up and hurting my index finger on the zipper because they were so tight.

And "Chemin de Fer" jeans - button up the front or lace ups.

watching Martin Mull and Fred Willard on "America 2 Night" until the test pattern...

and Creature Features on friday nights.

Watching John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd on Saturday Night Live. Steve Martin coming out to host the Awards show - with no pants on.

Anonymous wrote:I guess by definition I'm a Gen Xer--born in late 1978--but I don't really remember most of the stuff that's been mentioned. Or I remember, but it's fuzzy. And this is despite having an older sib. I think I'm a little stuck btwn Gen X and Millennials (although I don't feel like a Millennial either).

This. I thought I was a Gen X'er but after reading these posts, I don't think I am. I also don't feel like a Millennial.

1966 begins Gen X

Anonymous wrote:- smoking and non-smoking sections on planes (WTF)
- big wheels
- walking, running, and biking everywhere
- The man from Atlantis -- Patrick Duffy
- Hand-written letters to friends. This song is sooo good https://youtu.be/6QaAdT3zHLs

I meant this Arcade Fire song: https://youtu.be/4H8FXMaaijo

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Cut off for Baby boomer is '64. You are a boomer.

Those "cut offs" are meaningless. Do you really think someone born in 1963 has more in common with someone born in 1948 than with someone born in 1965?

+1. Even the people studying generational trends don't all agree on the cutoff years.

I am a 1966er. My husband was born in '62. He says I'm a Boomer - that I have more in common with the Boomers. But when he brings up information connected to Boomers - aside from music - I have no connection to those things/events.


I think 66 was a weird in between year, as many of my friends feel the same way. We grew up with Gen X mindsets but were on the older end.

I'm a '65er and I agree....weird in between time to be born.

- smoking and non-smoking sections on planes (WTF)
- big wheels
- walking, running, and biking everywhere
- The man from Atlantis -- Patrick Duffy
- Hand-written letters to friends. This song is sooo good https://youtu.be/6QaAdT3zHLs