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Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 1:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I wouldn't normally consider asking this but since you are clarifying things, does being on the front end of the boomer wave mean that you are an older boomer or a younger boomer? I assume you mean younger, but wouldn't that put you at the back end of the boomer wave?

Baby
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01-08-2006

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 2:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Baby a private message Print Post    
Hi Jimmer,

What exactly is the age range for Baby Boomers? I have heard different answers. Thanks!

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 2:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I don't know that it is clearly defined. I'm not sure if this has been posted before but according to Wikipedia it is:

A baby boomer is someone who was born during the period of increased birth rates when economic prosperity arose in many countries following World War II. In the United States, the term is commonly used to refer to the generation which demographic popularizers have identified with birth years from the span 1946 to 1964.
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William Strauss and Neil Howe, in their book Generations, include those conceived by soldiers on leave during the war, putting the generation's birth years at 1943 to 1960. Howe and Strauss argue that persons born between 1961 and 1964 have political and cultural patterns very different from those born between 1955 and 1960 and fit into what those writers term the Thirteenth Generation or Generation X (also known as the Cold War generation) born between 1961 and 1981. As the influence of Strauss and Howe has grown, a smaller number of people still accept Baby Boomers as including those born after 1961, although there are some who put the dates at 1946 to 1963 because of the number of significant "Gen-X" figures born in 1964. There were over 79 million babies born during that generation.


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IMO, Wikipedia while useful as a reference, may not be as reliable as other sources as it is user updated.

Baby
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01-08-2006

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 2:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Baby a private message Print Post    
Thanks Jimmer!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Ohh so I'm Generation X.

Chewpito
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01-04-2004

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chewpito a private message Print Post    
Penguingirl, I never leave home with out my tweezers...Its one of the perks of our boomness.. joy-joy.. My daughter refers to this special time as the golden yrs...hmmmm, dont know about that.....remember when you couldnt wait to be 21, well now im looking forward to my senior discount...

Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 4:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
1966 -- I'm gen X too I guess. So what comes after gen x?

Wendo
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08-07-2000

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 5:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wendo a private message Print Post    
I'm a gen x-er too.

Brenda, check out this Wikipedia page, it has a list of the different generations. (Generation Y falls after Gneration X.)

Wiki Generations

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 5:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
i'm guessing my mom is gen geriatriXs at age 86?

Kearie
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07-21-2005

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 5:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kearie a private message Print Post    
Well dang it...My brother is a boomer and I'm an X'er. What are X'ers associated with? Or are we just the messed up kids of the boomers?

Cndeariso
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06-28-2004

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 5:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cndeariso a private message Print Post    
depending upon what you reference, baby boomers stop between 1960 & 1965. so, i guess it is up to you to decide which group you belong into. my brother was born in 1963 and he along with his friends feel they are boomers.

Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
Interesting web site Wendo! I just don't feel like a gen x-er. But also don't feel like a boomer. I saw a subgroup -- baby buster. Maybe that's what I am. :-)

Interesting that my daughter is not Gen y, but will part of gen z. Guess that means I'm an old mom.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 5:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
i thought i was an X! i'm born in 62. my husband is a boomer and my daughter is a Y! my mother was a boomer too. she was born in 43. that's why i knew i wasn't a boomer.

Cndeariso
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06-28-2004

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 6:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cndeariso a private message Print Post    
what's wrong with being a boomer? seems like so many are trying to make sure they are not boomers. i don't understand. being a boomer isn't like having a contagious disease or anything. LOL

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
i love being a boomer. what choice do i have?

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 7:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
Hey, I think I can say I am a younger boomer either way you look at it ( I was born in 1960)! I had always heard it the second way (from the Generations book.) But I don't mind...I will claim whatever they tell me and find reasons to see myself in their descriptions. Funny that my younger siblings would not be boomers, yet I have way more in common with them than with my older sister.

And let me also say that I am with Jeep. I like hearing opinions from everyone on everything. Whether you have been following every conversation or not. Or whether you agree with what even you yourself wrote yesterday (or is that just me who changes my mind the more I think about a subject? LOL... probably!)

And Chewpito, I want that senior citizen discount. I laugh at people who get don't want people to know they are seniors so they won't tell them and get it....I will tell everyone (and if they don't tell me I look to young to be a senior, I will prompt them to say it. Even if I am 90.) My mom used to be embarrassed by the very idea of it, but now she loves it. I think her favorite department store giving seniors an extra 15% off on Tuesdays did the trick. And some of the deals she got with hotels.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 7:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Nothins wrong with being a boomer if you are one. I'm not. Knew I wasn't. Never thought I was. I'm an X and I'm fabulous.

Chewpito
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01-04-2004

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 8:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chewpito a private message Print Post    
Yesitsme, my daughter works retail and the senior discount is awesome there, and they even get special discount shop days for even better deals..and I may even take in a night time movie instead of the cheaper afternoon flicks..movie theaters give discounts too... I have no problem with my age, its just a number, sure things dont work as well as they once did, and a lot more aches and pains, but..im smarter now, and dont fret over the wierd mental things I did when I was younger..Its like senority..you can do what ever and whos gonna really give a hoot..peer pressure...NO MORE!!.I can laugh at my self alot easyer than befor, instead of getting down on myself for silly stuff..and I never feel guilty for saying No, if I dont wanna, I just dont....

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 8:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Yesterday's B.C. comic had the following definition for "baby boomer":

quote:

A kid who just polished off six jars of strained beans.




Newman
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09-25-2004

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 8:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Newman a private message Print Post    
Abby, I hope I didn't offend you, way back when. I seem tohave a knack for that here, at tvch. Sorry if I did.

Chewpito, I don't feel smarter now. I don't think the older you get, the smarter you get. Someone who is 100 is the smartest person in America? I don't think so.

I've always been able to laugh at myself and I still feel peer group pressure. Maybe it is easier to say no. Not sure of that. I don't do as much now, so there's less to say no to!

Have we talked about sleep at all? I haven't slept well this week. Excited over my new computer. Stuff in the news, stuff on this site, also keeps me thinking too much late at night.

Sleep. I usually have to get up, once a night to pee. That's the problem. I simply don't fall back to sleep at 4am. Stupidly I turn on talk radio and start hooking into whatever they're talking about. But if I don't, well, then I'm having my own radio show in my head! Sometimes I'll get up and read, but usually it's too cold and I don't want to get out of the covers.

Any advice? I don't have trouble falling asleep at 11pm or so. It's after I wake up to pee, at 3am or 4am that's the problem.


Kearie
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07-21-2005

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 8:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kearie a private message Print Post    
I never have classified myself as a specific generation and I don't think of others in terms of generations either. We're all individuals...with similarities and differences.

Chewpito
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01-04-2004

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 9:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chewpito a private message Print Post    
I soppose I wrote that wrong, I dont feel smarter as far as schooling or whatever, I lack hugely in that dept. I think I just have learned from past mistakes, and I will not walk that path again..so for that I feel smarter, Its alot harder to pull the wool over my eyes,so to speak. Im also intrested in things I didnt care about when I was younger, like politics and healthcare and many more, so its easyer to feel active in conversations that concern us as a people and the generation that will hopefully take the reins someday...When I have a handfull of 20somthings in my home, I try to get them out there and vote and know how much they count, nobody did that with me when I was young..

Mamapors
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07-29-2004

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 9:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamapors a private message Print Post    
Sleep---now that is something that does not gotten better with age Newman. Whether you are male or female, having to get up to go to the bathroom at night can really mess up a good nights sleep. I too can fall asleep easily, but once I get up, the rest of the night is restless. If I make it to 3 or 4 am I consider it a good night. It is when I get to sleep at about 11 and then have to get up by 1 am. That is much harder. I bet generation X is not yet talking about going to the bathroom at night and having trouble sleeping. LOL

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 9:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
newman, no you didn't offend me. i think we are the same in some ways. i offend people many times and i don't mean to...i've been working on that. i'm doing better, slowly. also,i don't think you offend people at all. i think you make people think. that's different than how i used to be here at tvch. i used to express my opinion, while at the same time being rude to someone...and i was very sarcastic. i hated myself then.

so, that's why i thanked you for this thread. you are able to express your opinion w/o being rude and sarcastic....like i used to be.

again, thanks for starting this thread. i'm learning so much from it.

Wendo
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08-07-2000

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 10:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wendo a private message Print Post    
Ew! Strained beans! Yeeeuuuck!