Younger people don't want fine china anymore. It's delicate & needs to be hand washed. I found a large complete set of pristine china at the Goodwill a few weeks ago. It has a simple grey atomic starburst design with silver trim on the edges. I couldn't leave it there being sad. When I checked out, I said to the cashier, "Someone didn't want grandma's china." I feel like I adopted it & I'm giving it a loving home.
I once regretted not taking my mother's fine China. To display it, I would've had to take the China cabinet. After deliberation, I decided it was too much out dated stuff.
I'm from the very tail end of Generation X, and I inherited my great-grandmother's china from the 1910s/20s. I have no idea how she kept it through the war. My grandmother used it for family weekend dinners, so it's well-loved. I'll cherish it for the rest of my life.
@@freedomrings1420 No kidding. Great-grandmother was born in 1903 and was separated from her parents during WWI. By the time I was a kid at weekend dinners in the 1980s, those dishes had seen A LOT.
My nana came to Canada in 1916 during WWI and had to wear her life jacket the whole trip because the ship was being followed by a German Uboat. I still have the dishes she bought at a house sale in the 1920’s. The dishes date from 1903
@@laurabailey1054 The things they went through! My great-grandmother lived through WWI in Belgium and then WWII in France. She and my grandmother and great-uncle were all resistance fighters, and then they just went on to live quiet, modest lives like nothing happened. Don't know how they did it.
I was born in 1946. The first round of Baby Boomers. I can relate to a lot of this. When I got married in 1964 Danish Modern was the in thing. We had to have it. Within a year I was ready for Italian Modern. Husband said no way. Finally got new furniture in 1980. Styles change. Looks like retro is back in.🤦♀️ I got China from my next door neighbors. Never used it but I will keep it because it reminds me of this special couple. No need to bad mouth what we liked. What we still like. Wait until you get older. You change as the years go by. Glad I grew up when I did. Good memories. 🥰
I am not a baby boomer but I love fine China. My grandmother had a room full of antiques and a beautiful China cabinet. We were never allowed in that room, but it was so beautiful. I love and respect older people thanks to my mom and grandparents.
i know that feeling. My folks had a beautiful living/dining area with carpeting.four fully draped picture windows and a breakfront full of china and glassware that is huge. We only used the room during the holidays and never walked through it to get from the bedrooms to the kitchen. There is a separate hallway for that. When I inherited the house and moved in with my family, the first thing I did was lined up my kids, told them to hold hands, and WE WALKED THROUGH THE LIVING ROOM WITH OUR SHOES ON. Houses should be lived in, not looked at.
Ironing the "flatwork" was my job as a kid in the 60's. Mostly the pillow cases (before perma press was introduced) and handkerchiefs (Dad's and the little flowery ones we girls used before facial tissue became the norm). The iron did not have a steam function, so all the pieces had to be dampened with a "sprinkler" bottle. My mom dampened all the pieces and put them in a plastic bag which was placed in the fridge til ironing day. Had to learn how to fold my Dad's hankies so that any little decorative embroidered detail (small monogram or fleur de lis) was facing out. I enjoyed the task actually. 🙂
Wow! I forgot about those sprinkler bottles. My Dad was a doctor in the '50's and starched white cuff shirts were a must for his wardrobe. How my mom got through wash day I'll never know. First she had to wash the shirts then put them in something called "blueing " to get them pearly white, then rinse the blueing out and starch and iron the shirt. Same applied to pillow cases, sheets, white tablecloths ect. My father bought her a huge mangle for those. I remember that my mom had a sprinkler bottle made from a large bottle of B-1 soda with a sprikler top made of a cork and a tin sprinkler lid atop it.
I am a baby boomer. My Mom passed away a few months ago, and we are cleaning out her house. The bit about multiple sets of plates hit home. We found two sets of everyday plates and 4 sets of fancy plates. I'm 62 and some of the fancy plates I never saw used. We had her mother's set. My Dad's Mom's set, Aunt's set. And the set my parents got when they got married. There were six kids so unfortunately some pieces are missing (broken). But also we found pieces that I had never seen like gravy boats, serving platters, water pitchers, and assorted silverware (grapefruit spoons, shrimp forks, butter knives).
@@alexcarter8807 For whatever reason, sets of steak knives were a very popular premium or giveaway item in the 60s and 70s. You know, open a savings account and get a free gift - that sort of thing. You see them at estate sales all the time.
@@arise2945 I loved the give aways my dad would get when gassing up his work truck and the family cars. There were the smoke gray glasses - tumblers, old fashions, beer globlets, flared tall glasses perfect for a root beer float; the there were the black plastic salad bowls embossed to look like wood; then there were the plastic handled steak knives, some with black handles, others with ivory colored plastic handles; then there were the carving knife sets, each week a different knife; then there were the special purpose knives and spatulas. Daddy also got "premiums" from the electronics store he got supplies for his business ..... small portable TV's, portable radios (those little transistor radios were perfect for the beach), one year I got a beautiful long strand of natural MikiMoto pearls for Christmas; he would bring home record albums (some single record, some multiple record albums); I still have some of the steak knives, some of which have never been used, still in the carboard slip sleeves, and I still have that string of pearls. Child of the 50's and 60's here.
I remember getting stamps from the grocery store, depending on how much you purchased, and then sticking them in books. You could order things from a catalog with them. So fun!
S&H had retail stores also. I was a small child when I was with my mom when she redeemed stamps for a Smith-Corona typewriter. I later used it to type my reports in college, Before word processing became common, many college students who where good typists would earn pretty good money typing up other students reports for them. They were getting up to $10 per page. I couldn't afford that, so I had to slug it out. I had plenty of Liquid Paper on hand, which incidentally, was invented by Michael Nesmith's mother. (He gained fame for being a member of The Monkees).
I remember Green Stamps too, and the Green Stamp store where you cashed them in for household goods. My friend and I got some items for our first apartment there back in the seventies. Good times.
@@edie4321 There was a Catholic man ‘can you say NO CONTRACEPTIVES’ he came in the shop. I swear he was 160 at the time. He worked for the USPS before going home for supper. To stock and clean Rink’s Department Store they had 12 children. Now! That’s insanity!
I was born in Detroit Michigan on June 16,1957.I am also one of the Baby Boomers. I remember ordering from the J.C.PENNEY,MONTGOMERY WARD,and the SEARS,ROEBUCK CATALOGS. AND I STILL REMEMBER THE A&P FOOD STORES.
I remember all that! And Farmer Jack's grocery store. The clerks would punch in the prices for each item on the cash register - it was amazing how fast they could go. I was born in Detroit in 1963. Sitting here near Dallas, TX for the past 30 years and wish I could go back in time - and never have left Oakland County.
I do miss looking through the Sears catalog and marking off ideas that I wanted for birthday’s or Christmas. Just recently I realized that all the orange juice I buy is refrigerated and not frozen concentrate. It’s been a while since I mixed frozen, just never thought about it.
Mom and I always looked forward to getting Sears catalog in the mail. We called it the Wish Book. Could hour looking and planning what to but. I miss those books and I miss Sears.
I would frustrate my mom repeatedly because I'd eat the frozen juice concentrate straight from the container, usually all of it, I love it, it was like a super sugary slushie!
My mom poured the juice into popsicle molds. That was our treat. Rarely had ice cream. No cokes either. Just HI-C or Hawaiian Punch. McDonalds once every month or two, before kiddie meals, ball pits, and drive-thru came around.
@@freedomrings1420 But what happened in a few years... I found I wanted to go home and couldn't, and even missed the cornflakes, and even the rolled oats.
I love this .... they ironed before the wrinkled and sloppy look was in ...... They also missed two things that boomers miss ... it's called law and order. Where judges actually incarcerated criminals. And a job for anyone who wants to work for their own food.
The US now has the lowest unemployment rate in the last 20 years, so apparently there are jobs for "anyone who wants to work". I didn't check the national statistics but I know that in New York City crime is up slightly from 2022, but 2022 was the lowest crime rate in over 20 years. Crime in NYC is almost half what it was during Giuliani's term in the late 1990's-2001. So things are going well for the "boomers".
@@hewitc DUHHHHH do yu think that when they let criminals back out on the street the charge is dropped so there isn't any record of the crime? Give me a break. We are being replaced with stupid people.
@@van6278 If you are arrested there is a record of the alleged crime. If you are convicted and release there is a record. What is your point? Crime rates are down now. they correlate to poverty. The poorest areas have the most crime. Not sure where you live. Maybe you're in one of the higher crime areas.
Those things are hideous. They also aren't good for bathrooms that usually have moisture in the air. Then, those rugs around the toilet seat are really bad if there are boys and men in the house.
I iron clothes every week , nothing feels as good as a freshly ironed button down shirt except fresh linen on the bed ! It's a creature comfort I am happy to do and can do a shirt in 3 or 4 minutes . All those collectables are the tattoos of today , the exception is you can easily remove those little nick nacks !
As a person that has never had nice clear clean skin, it almost saddens me when I see a good looking female with beautiful flawless skin that's covered in tattoos.
@@freedomrings1420 It's some attempt at standing out, except, so many are doing the same thing now. It's almost like a tat arms race..... and not just the arms either.
Those empty cans of frozen concentrated fruit juice were often repurposed as the hair curlers in the 1960s. They helped giving the hair lot of volume for beehive hairstyles. One thing that I hated the most is carpeted bathrooms. Our four bathrooms were already carpeted when we moved in. Several months later, they started to stink of urine and such (we suspected that the realtor sprinkled the odour-killing powder on them as to mask the odour during the viewing). So, we removed it and were stunned to see the heavy infestation of mould and tiny critters who loved the moist condition in the insulation foam layer. We installed the ceramic tiles: that improved the look so much.
A work colleague kept having what seemed like allergies and feeling like she had a cold on and off. Just didn't feel well, low energy etc. She noticed when she went home to visit her parents on weekends or for Christmas vacation it all went away. Then the symptoms would come back when she got back into town. Turns out it was the carpeting in her apartments bathroom, trapping all the mold spores and and whatever else was living under the carpet. She got it ripped out and I think the landlord replaced it with tile. Who for the life of me would think putting carpet in a bathroom is a good idea, especially near the toilet and bathtub?..
I went into a flat in Aberdeen with a carpet in the bathroom and it got so bad I applied to have a contractor in to rip it up and install a cork tile floor instead. So much warmer than ceramic tiles.@@marcusdamberger
As a Gen Xer, born in the 70s, I so feel like I am a boomer with some of the love I have for these kind of traditions, cultures and customs of the Boomers. Antique shops are where I love to visit with the throwback feelings of times I was alive and times before my time for sure!
Gen X, the last normal generation to remember the good ole "Old America" before the internet, social media, wokeism, a massively corrupt mainstream media, back when everything wasn't racist, etc. 1963 is technically a boomer but it seems like Im in between what defines a boomer and Gen Xer. Some of these things on the list seems like they apply go people 10-15 years older than me. Antiques, 1950s rock/rockabilly/doo wop/ 1950s cars/ muscle cars, now that's good stuff.
It's *real* history, *real* time travel. It seems I've been there, too, and I come away feeling I went to a strange kind of elsewhere, a little like the place one goes in dreams.
Not a boomer, but the thing about the China really struck home with me. We still have my great, great great grandmother's wedding China, as well as my grandmother's, and my great grandmother's silver, and silver tea service. I can't tell you how many times I had to polish all that silver growing up.
I hope you will pass them all on to your children or other family members. Sadly not many want them anymore. Some traditions should be kept. It can give you a sense of family and where you come from. You have been blessed to have been able to inherit so much.
I'm a boomer, but I think of plush around porcelain as a germ collecting health hazard! Most of my work life was in banks and so I remember having to iron my own dress shirts. Fun video(s).
@GenXamerica 25ct a week .. and only if I did my allotted chores ... if I did other things to help the family ski resort in Colorado.. that didn't count AND it didn't matter to me .. I was just curious .. yes I am the son of WWII pilot born in the 60s .. always loving to be able to figure out any problem on my own because of them .. until I met the ageist / presumptuous millenials and thier offspring .. zoomers
I remember my parents spending large sums of money ($4,000.00 ++) on Porcelain and China plus Silverware and Brithinaca Encoybedia with 1976 Symbol of Liberty figuuerine and invest in Large Bank stock (that no longer exists)as family property to pass along to family member. I hate these items since I do not use Encorbedia to search the truth and fact finding!
Shag carpeting - or any carpeting - in the bathroom is a thing best forgotten! Horrible! And yeah, I had my iron and can of Faultless spray starch for my Army uniforms back in the day.
What I wouldn't give to crack open one of the catalogs and smell that wonderful ink smell...love it! Can almost smell it now! When I was a kid it was my job to iron the pillowcases and handkerchiefs. I could never figure why dad needed a pressed handkerchiefs to blow his nose??
I thought the same thing when I ironed my Dad's handkerchiefs! Do you remember when we used little hankies with days of the week on them? My mother-in-law who was born in 1919 said when she was young she ironed underwear, so I am glad we didn't have to do that!
@@juliemarchese-temple7749 I certainly hope not! The main store is not as close to a river. I do worry about towns that my ancestors came from though because they were on the Winhall River. New Hampshire is getting hit hard as well. I have friends and relatives still there.
7:19 "How often do you pull out the ironing board these days?" Um, every other week when I wash the coloreds (clothing load, YT algorithm). But yes, I'm old.
I'm squarely Gen X (70s) but my parents were 40+ years older. The world has changed SO much. China sets meant for the big families none of us had. Gorgeous Danish furniture (I didn't grow up in the US) that I will have no place to put because my city is too expensive to buy a house. Souvenirs, antiques and art that I wouldn't be able to store in my tiny hall closet. But I definitely recognize some of these things, even though we weren't Boomers. I look at my own home and wonder how outdated it would seem to someone else... and I don't care! I can't keep up with the styles anyway, and there's no shame in just liking what you like.
@@timetraveler5246 I hope you don't mind me prattling about myself. In my home, I have no pictures on the walls. I keep a small Christmas tree up all year, turn on its lights in late November. So much of what's in my home is utilitarian, non-decorative. I wear t's and slacks all the time. If I go in and out of style, I'm the last to know, and I don't give a ****. I'm more fierce and certain about who I am and what I like and hate, so much more than in years past. Time is short. I know it. There's no time left to spend trying to figure out what's acceptable to others. I don't want to regret not being myself.
I'm just a tiny bit too young to be a baby boomer but a lot of these were very much part of my childhood .I do have wallpaper in my living room ,just put up new paper in fact ,there's also some in the kitchen .There's also a welsh dresser in the hall that would once have held the best dishes, but now houses books .I do own an iron but rarely use it anymore ,the dryer does that job .My house does look a little boomerish but that's what makes it feel like home to me ,a little bit of grandma vibe ...lol.
My late parents were born during the middle of WWII as none of my grandparents ever got drafted. My parents' and grandparents' houses were a lot like these examples, but more so my grandparents. One thing I'd add is that, in certain areas of the US, you had faux wood paneling, instead of flowery wallpaper, with the flowered border.
I guess you are the kind of Boomer they are referring to, then. I hated the video, I found it patronizing and insulting, not to mention inaccurate. I don't do or have ANY of the things they talked about and I was born in 1962.
I’m not sure anyone is comforted by shag carpet on porcelain in the bathroom. It was always kinda of gross, even back in the 70s. But not all of us like the current sterile “minimalist style”. Somewhere in between sterile and hoarder is good as long as everything is maintained and taken care of. Not everything collectible needs to go to the dumpster just to be “stylish” because the culture somehow shames people for liking their stuff. Nothing wrong with that.
I’m a boomer whose mother loved shag carpeting in her bathroom. Mom hated getting out of the shower to a cold floor. I thought it was gross, and I use a simple bath mat.
My mother had a shag rug that was big enough to look like wall-to-wall carpeting and trimmed to go around the toilet perfectly, but could be pulled up and stuck in the washing machine. It was the weirdest thing.
My mom still has her 1980’s pineapple border in her den and 2 types of wallpaper in her kitchen along with a border at the top. The best retro thing she has are original orange counter tops from the 60’s.
@chiarac3833 yes, but we're the mythical Mike and Carol Boomers? No. Their kids were. The kids did not design the house. Mike did, and retrofitted it to accommodate his new bride and daughters. Mike was Silent Generation.
What stories we remember from our childhood. Im 64.5 and the stories i remember about my grandparents are still fresh like they happened yesterday. I have them written down and its my legacy for my family after im dead and gone. 😊
You hit the nail on the head with this one! I'm 72 and you described me almost perfectly. (all but the ironing) But... my mother spent hours with that iron in hand, usually while listening to one of her soaps.
We had blue and white china growing up and used it every day. When my dad passed away I got it and i still use it every day. Heck, i still collect it. No way would I ever want anything else. ❤
🛑🛑 Back in the early 70’s all my friends all had mini bikes…like the Honda Z50, Honda CT70, and the Honda SL70, and SL125, the Rupp Mini Bikes, and all this Briggs and Stratton pull start bikes. 👍💯 They were all so cool, and today bring Thousands of Dollars. 💴 💰 Boy, gone are those days of acting like Evil Knievel, and “buzzing around everywhere. 😂👍💯
@@harleyreese2476 QVC was the first shopping network that sold a high quality item like Beta Max VCR that usually sold for $800.00 at the major electronic store for TV shopping net work at the shocking price of $250.00 including shipping. This was way back in 1984.
Actually shopping channels are great to fall asleep to. The lighting never changes dramaticly, sound is consistant enough to double as a sound machine. Only real downside would be waking up to the need for purchasing this that and the other. 😜
I’m a baby boomer born in 1963. I rarely look at catalogs anymore, and now that we have the internet I look for items I want on there. I still have clothes that need ironing so I have an iron and ironing board. I like nicknacks though I don’t like being overwhelmed with having a lot of them.
I remember when the delivery men from Zenith dropped off our brand new color TV console back in the 60s. It was a Saturday. I knew that because as soon as we turned on the TV, there was The Jetsons. The delivery guys were nice and polite. I still remember one of the guys said- " Now, you folks enjoy your new color tv." It was definitely a different era.
As a boomer, I had 4 sets of fine china and 5 sets of silver. It came from my parents who grew up in the Great Depression and could not afford many things. Once they became successful in the 50s, they finally got the china and silver my Mom always wanted. I got them when they passed on and added my own.
I'm a boomer and would never get on one of those massive cruise ships! I would rather get on a freighter that takes passengers, up 12. Accommodations are just as nice, much much cheaper, most have the really good chefs (3 meals a day), even pools, exercise rooms, beautiful views from anywhere in the ship, ect. The best thing, no throngs of drunk, loud people. There are many YT videos on this. Went on a SeaEscape day cruise once with a graduation group...Never again, can't imagine being on one of those for a whole week.😧
When I was a kid, my mom had the toilet seat cover. We had a big old tuxedo cat who loved to curl up on it and fall asleep, you always had to wake the cat anytime you had to use the bathroom, haha.
With regard to wallpaper, how about wood paneling?! Everyone's den or family room was almost always paneled. Our living room, in the 70's, was paneled in rich wood tones. Completely complimented the Early American furniture. 😂
I found this one kind of insulting. I'm a boomer and none of these pertain to me anymore- except I still have nice dishes that I don't use but haven't gotten rid of yet. Most of us have moved on with the times, believe it or not.
I’ve encountered several older homes in Canada with carpeting in the bathroom. Why?? And what if the toilet overflows? 🤮 I like to mention this as an extra fun fact when talking about the rooms in a house during my English classes. In Japan, the toilet and bathtub are in separate rooms. The toilet also has a built in sink on the lid that runs water when you flush, so I can’t imagine putting a cover on it. 🤣 Due to these differences, the bathroom is always a fun discussion at school!
At 41, I'm the keeper of great grandma's china. My mom kept and displayed it in a cabinet because "that's what you're supposed to do". I'm the last in the line that remotely cares, and it's just stored in the basement. It's the one thing i kept out of a weird sense of generational obligation.
REMEMBER……K-TELL RECORDS buying 20 for a penny? I did that. they hounded me forever. My mother had to write them a note explaining to them that I was a minor, and could not be held to a contract…lol
I remember more than one friend's families having living rooms with dust covers on the furniture & no one ever went into. It was for "special company"... I wonder if the Queen or Pope ever stopped by.
My mother had plastic on white velvet couches in our living room. With 5 children in the house we were not allowed to go in the coveted museum living room unless company stopped by to visit. We rarely sat on those plastic covered couches and the living room had to stay clean at all times! My parents put a rope across the living room entrance to make sure we remembered not to go in that room! 😅😂 When they weren’t home we of course ventured in their because it was the “forbidden room”! 😅😂 But we made sure that everything stayed clean and intact before we left that coveted room! 😅😂
I’m a boomer born in 64 , and I don’t use half this stuff they say we use. Hell no to those plush rug accessories for the bathroom toilet. Ewww , and I never used QVC or HSN , only have 4 dessert 🍨 dishes that are real bone china. ( but never use) 😅. I do however still own two DVD /vhs players, a turntable and a cassette tape player 😅
My parents were both from the Silent Generation (dad born '30, mom '42) and was born in Jan of '65 so technically I missed being a Boomer by less than a month, but I identify more with Boomers than I do Gen X. That said, I recall everything covered in this video and enjoyed it very much. Thank you! PS: We never had wallpaper. For us it was wood paneling everywhere except the bathrooms.
I have about a 1/2 dozen items that have to be ironed but that’s it. Every thing else is pretty much wrinkle free. Personally I’m down with the idea that good dishes should be used any time I want. Why do I have to wait for company to come when they never do. I think I’m good enough for fine china. I’m also good enough for the living room furniture thst no one sits on but when we “have company.” What a waste. The way I see it is I’m thebone making the payments on the house I should be good enough to sit on the “good furniture” and eat off the “good plates!!”
@timetravel9356dad 1920 mom 1922. Lost dad 1995 from suicide after a stroke robbed his dexterity. Lost mom 2012 but took her on hot air balloon ride the year before
I was born in 1963 and we never had wallpaper or wood paneling, but I remember relatives and friends houses that had a lot of wood paneling. Back in the 70s I wished our apartment had at least one that had that.
This is more about the Silent Gen vs Boomers. I'm a Boomer ('60) and most of the things you point out are my parent's generation's obsessions, not ours. Although, since our parents' demise, my sister has gone out of her way to keep and care for our mother's hutch and dishes/silverware, along w/ the table and chairs that were part of the set my folks were given on their wedding day. Of course, there are items from my grandparents as well, that sister keeps squirreled away. I think her daughter is finally taking an interest in that stuff, but used to poo-poo it, asking why she had to help move that heavy furniture, when in transit. I became a minimalist back in the 80s and traveled as much as I could afford. My nick-nacks are my memories of places I've visited and the people I've met.
Agreed. This is stuff from our parents, but yes, many of us grew up with it. Boomers had the Mod era, love beads, Woodstock, Rock and Roll, Elvis, birth control pills, women's lib. Archie Bunker, Vietnam war, Watergate. The list could go on forever. The best part was that we were free to go outside and play all day long without a lot of worry.
I'm part of the later baby boomers group (1960) with parents from around the silent generation (1928 & 1937 respectfully) - I remember all of this and still appreciate those things - especially china. I could of had my grandmother's but instead got my mom's set. I did use them but as my hubby & I retired and downsized our lives, the set was pasted on to a daughter in law. I found recently a small cup & saucer that was my old pattern so I have a memory set on a shelf. Also I still prefer using handkerchiefs for blowing my nose than Kleenex - much softer on my nose! 🤧
My situation might be a little unique here. I was born in 1977,so I am Gen X. My parents were born in the 1930s, so they were of the silent generation. My sisters were born in the early 60s, and they are the Baby Boomers in our family. 😊
I understand. I was born in 79. But my mom was born in the upper 30's, and my dad in 23. My dad was a WW11 vet. So I don't feel like I fit in very well, in most places these days, because of the good values that I was taught. The 80's was a great time to be raised!
@@D.E.. Yeah, I never cared for any of this date based generation labeling. I was born late 70's, so I am firmly Gen X. My wife that is only four years younger than me, is supposedly a Millennial. How does that make any sense? We were in high school together. Not the same high school as we grew up in different cities, but she was a freshman my senior year. She certainly doesn't demonstrate any of the typical "Millennial" behaviors. I've always felt that while time frame that someone was born in plays some role in generation, a lot of it comes down to mindset.
My aunt is a huge fan of those "Precious Moments" figurines as she has a sizeable collection. Also, who in their right mind would install shag carpet in a bathroom? That's the height of tackiness. 😅
Not to mention the heighth of whoopsieness when someone in a rush to use thee bathroom doesn't quite make it. Shag carpeting doesn't go with a lot of things especially upset stomachs and loose bowels.
Saving box tops and getting great gifts, not junk. Or the local grocer and gas attendant loyalty give aways. Paneling. The oak pedestal table. The furniture store that gave every 16 yr old girl a cedar chest. The living room with fancy new chairs and carpet and pleated drapes that we dared not set foot in. Things we baby boomers remember about our parents and our homes. I remember when we sold the workhorse and granpa got his first tractor . Then when he got an umbrella for it, then the plow, the disk, the combine. I remember when gramma bought first box of kleenex. Afghans quilts and everything embroidered. The doll whos dress held a roll of tp on the tank. Doilies on every surface to hide the dust. Mons apron. The station wagon with wood in the side. Learning to drive with no power stearing or breaks and no automatic transmission. The invention of the air conditioner and how it changed migration to states like Arizona and Texas.gardens and roses and meticulous lush lawns. The invention of correl and corning ware, the plate you could throw down on to the tile floor and it would not break. The microwave oven. The big roaster so the bird could be cooking but the oven was free for the sides. Jello, putting fruit in jello. Marshmallows in jello. Nuts in jello. Cream cheese in jello. Cotrage cheese in jello. Jello poured over a cake. Its hard to separate ,it was actually gramnas stuff, mamas stuff, but it was home to me so it was mine. But we are the generation that saw everything from the transitter radio and black and white 3 stations and horses pulling plows and nothing auto till the new automobile and no workd wide web. You still got the news by radio or newspaper or a letter from someone. Most people had party lines and could not afford long distance calls. The looong telephone cord. The dedicated telephone stand. New automatic washing machines and diswashers.
Yes! Great memories, especially the ones of jello. Cracked me up. My mom used to mix jello with vanilla ice cream and a can of fruit cocktail. Sounds disgusting, but it was pretty tasty.
I got the family china, crystal, and silver set that we used growing up. I cherished it and used it and planned on lovingly passing it along to my kids. Except that I didn't have kids and none of the younger group want those things anymore. It's such a shame because there are so many memories in them. I understand they want to make their own traditions but it's a shame to see the lack of interest in their family history.
Those things are your memories, not theirs. I'm 63 and I'm glad to grow up when kids actually had fun doing things. The only memories that the younger generations will have when they get old is .... playing video games and staring at their cellphones.
Funny you should mention that. I just bought a couple of dresses and thought they would look good with a brooch. I am a Gen X person but as I get older, my taste is maturing.
So spot on with everything in this video, when you brought up the shag carpeting covering the porcelain l thought of a crochet covering my Mom had in the bathroom that covered the extra roll of toilet paper. In fact, crocheted items were a thing in all boomer houses
I’ve made knitted toilet paper holder for my beach house-one with a knitted octopus on top and the other has a fish. Our guests appreciate not having to ask where the extra rolls are.
I’m a boomer - 66 years old - I’ll list the things you think I can’t get enough of: China: No; Cruise: No; Catalog: No; Wallpaper: OH H___ to the No; Conspiracy Theory: No; Out to Eat: I HATE to cook so this would be a YES!; frozen juice: No, acid reflux solves that problem; Trinkets: NO!; Iron/Board: NO!; Special Toilet Seat and covers: NO! I believe you missed on this one. Some of us changed with the times. Just because we used it back then doesn’t mean it’s still in our homes.
What fits us more is the old cable TV public access channel which would have the most random shit, and those first MTV videos like "Shock The Monkey" and that Tom Petty one where they ride motorcycles.
I never bought anything from TV but did use EBay in the 1990's when it was really popular. It was so exciting to win an item you were bidding on, but sometimes I bid too much I think.
@@trish5556 Ebay certainly is still popular particularly if your looking for more esoteric items. Now sites like DealDash are being pushed for bidding, showing crazy discounts on items you will never ever win. The problem with sites like DealDash are they own the merchandise and own the bidding site as well. So it's really just a company owning it and the process end to end, and pretending those items are somehow auction items. It's all mostly cheap junk form China or pallets of items that are no longer made being put up for sale that will go for what DealDash has pre-determined.
OMG! The very first set of china shown is actually identical to what's sitting in my china cabinet right now! It's called "Andorra" by Noritaki. (Yes, I'm a boomer.)
We grew up with a jukebox. The stero looked like a cupboard. Everything was inside 1 big box. Round table to play 45's and 72's, a steroband radio, an 8-track player, and a record holder. The speakers were also part of this heavy machine. An old tv, that had VHF and UHF channels. Kid's were the remote control back then. Rabbit ear antenna.
I was thinking the same thing especially when it came to the fine China. My mom had a beautiful set of China and she was of the silent generation, although I am a Gen Xer. My mom had me when she was forty years old.😊
Yeah this straddles Silents and early Boomers. As a very late Boomer I'm gonna be more nostalgic about "Rise" by Van Halen, the first model Ford Taurus, the TRS-80, Members Only jackets whatever the hell those were all about (Yes I had to have one) and the US discovering sushi.
I was born in 1950, but we only had one set of china, the everyday one, and no silver. My mother did have set of crystal bowls and goblets, long gone now. My parents, though both college educated, kept to themselves and didn't entertain. I'm the same way. we lived in San Francisco when I was young, and my mother liked Asian decor, widely available and reasonably priced back then. So our house had none of the kitschy americana stuff. I still have a Japanese tea table and chest of hers.
Trinkets. I tried to stay away from. I once collected matches from all of the clubs, discotheques, coffee shops, bars etc. that I patronized all over the world. I had hundreds and kept them in several wicker baskets for display. I was very proud of my travels to the Far East and Africa.
Speaking as a boomer myself, this reminds me more of my parents than myself. My mother had a china cabinet and curio cabinets stuffed with trinkets and antique dishes, etc. I remember that dreaded padded toilet seat we had decades ago... thankfully it's long gone. I do appreciate thick plush carpeting to this day, but no wallpaper. My mother is still with us, but with Alzheimer's - I don't look forward to moving that fine Noritake china to a safe place - likely to sell as nobody uses it today. However I definitely remember the Sears Christmas catalog!!!
As for eating out in a restaurant, there used to be a place where I would frequently visit for breakfast and since Covid I don’t visit anymore. Ham and cheese omelette with hash browns and toast is 17 dollars and coffee is 3 dollars and with a 5 dollar tip. So for one person to have breakfast the cost is 25 dollars. So with being retired and on social security, I can’t afford to go out anymore because everything is so expensive. I can’t afford almost everything. I am 75 years old ( baby boomers) and I live in my van because that’s about all I can afford. Affordable housing in my area is 7 hundred to 9 hundred a month.
Younger people don't want fine china anymore. It's delicate & needs to be hand washed. I found a large complete set of pristine china at the Goodwill a few weeks ago. It has a simple grey atomic starburst design with silver trim on the edges. I couldn't leave it there being sad. When I checked out, I said to the cashier, "Someone didn't want grandma's china." I feel like I adopted it & I'm giving it a loving home.
True.
I think I may a have few pieces of that pattern. It's very retro..... like 60's?
Atomic starburst patterns can bring good money in eBay
Good woman..
I once regretted not taking my mother's fine China. To display it, I would've had to take the China cabinet. After deliberation, I decided it was too much out dated stuff.
I'm from the very tail end of Generation X, and I inherited my great-grandmother's china from the 1910s/20s. I have no idea how she kept it through the war. My grandmother used it for family weekend dinners, so it's well-loved. I'll cherish it for the rest of my life.
If your china could talk. Lol
To be a fly on the wall during those weekend dinners in the 1910s, 1920s.
@@freedomrings1420 No kidding. Great-grandmother was born in 1903 and was separated from her parents during WWI. By the time I was a kid at weekend dinners in the 1980s, those dishes had seen A LOT.
My nana came to Canada in 1916 during WWI and had to wear her life jacket the whole trip because the ship was being followed by a German Uboat. I still have the dishes she bought at a house sale in the 1920’s. The dishes date from 1903
@@laurabailey1054 The things they went through! My great-grandmother lived through WWI in Belgium and then WWII in France. She and my grandmother and great-uncle were all resistance fighters, and then they just went on to live quiet, modest lives like nothing happened. Don't know how they did it.
I was born in 1946. The first round of Baby Boomers. I can relate to a lot of this. When I got married in 1964 Danish Modern was the in thing. We had to have it. Within a year I was ready for Italian Modern. Husband said no way. Finally got new furniture in 1980. Styles change. Looks like retro is back in.🤦♀️ I got China from my next door neighbors. Never used it but I will keep it because it reminds me of this special couple. No need to bad mouth what we liked. What we still like. Wait until you get older. You change as the years go by. Glad I grew up when I did. Good memories. 🥰
I love Danish Modern.
And the Church said “Amen”!
I remember Danish Modern being a thing.
I am not a baby boomer but I love fine China. My grandmother had a room full of antiques and a beautiful China cabinet. We were never allowed in that room, but it was so beautiful. I love and respect older people thanks to my mom and grandparents.
i know that feeling. My folks had a beautiful living/dining area with carpeting.four fully draped picture windows and a breakfront full of china and
glassware that is huge. We only used the room during the holidays and never walked through it to get from the bedrooms to the kitchen. There is a separate hallway for that. When I inherited the house and moved in with my family, the first thing I did was lined up my kids, told them to hold hands, and WE WALKED THROUGH THE LIVING ROOM WITH OUR SHOES ON. Houses should be lived in, not looked at.
Ironing the "flatwork" was my job as a kid in the 60's. Mostly the pillow cases (before perma press was introduced) and handkerchiefs (Dad's and the little flowery ones we girls used before facial tissue became the norm). The iron did not have a steam function, so all the pieces had to be dampened with a "sprinkler" bottle. My mom dampened all the pieces and put them in a plastic bag which was placed in the fridge til ironing day. Had to learn how to fold my Dad's hankies so that any little decorative embroidered detail (small monogram or fleur de lis) was facing out. I enjoyed the task actually. 🙂
Wow! I forgot about those sprinkler bottles. My Dad was a doctor in the '50's and starched white cuff shirts were a must for his wardrobe. How my mom got through wash day I'll never know. First she had to wash the shirts then put them in something called "blueing " to get them pearly white, then rinse the blueing out and starch and iron the shirt. Same applied to pillow cases, sheets, white tablecloths ect. My father bought her a huge mangle for those. I remember that my mom had a sprinkler bottle made from a large bottle of B-1 soda with a sprikler top made of a cork and a tin sprinkler lid atop it.
My mom had a "damping"bottle and also "pant stretchers" for my dad's pants.
I am a baby boomer. My Mom passed away a few months ago, and we are cleaning out her house. The bit about multiple sets of plates hit home. We found two sets of everyday plates and 4 sets of fancy plates. I'm 62 and some of the fancy plates I never saw used. We had her mother's set. My Dad's Mom's set, Aunt's set. And the set my parents got when they got married. There were six kids so unfortunately some pieces are missing (broken). But also we found pieces that I had never seen like gravy boats, serving platters, water pitchers, and assorted silverware (grapefruit spoons, shrimp forks, butter knives).
Did you find about a million sets of steak knives also? That was a weird thing, those sets of steak knives.
@@alexcarter8807 For whatever reason, sets of steak knives were a very popular premium or giveaway item in the 60s and 70s. You know, open a savings account and get a free gift - that sort of thing. You see them at estate sales all the time.
@@arise2945 I loved the give aways my dad would get when gassing up his work truck and the family cars. There were the smoke gray glasses - tumblers, old fashions, beer globlets, flared tall glasses perfect for a root beer float; the there were the black plastic salad bowls embossed to look like wood; then there were the plastic handled steak knives, some with black handles, others with ivory colored plastic handles; then there were the carving knife sets, each week a different knife; then there were the special purpose knives and spatulas. Daddy also got "premiums" from the electronics store he got supplies for his business ..... small portable TV's, portable radios (those little transistor radios were perfect for the beach), one year I got a beautiful long strand of natural MikiMoto pearls for Christmas; he would bring home record albums (some single record, some multiple record albums); I still have some of the steak knives, some of which have never been used, still in the carboard slip sleeves, and I still have that string of pearls. Child of the 50's and 60's here.
@@arise2945 even at gasoline stations...and they pumped the gas, too...windows washed tires checked checkd oil oh my wholy moley
My mother was hoarder too. Was a kid during the depression and had cans of outdated food everywhere.
I remember getting stamps from the grocery store, depending on how much you purchased, and then sticking them in books. You could order things from a catalog with them. So fun!
Yep, S&H Green Stamps.
S&H had retail stores also. I was a small child when I was with my mom when she redeemed stamps for a Smith-Corona typewriter. I later used it to type my reports in college,
Before word processing became common, many college students who where good typists would earn pretty good money typing up other students reports for them. They were getting up to $10 per page. I couldn't afford that, so I had to slug it out. I had plenty of Liquid Paper on hand, which incidentally, was invented by Michael Nesmith's mother. (He gained fame for being a member of The Monkees).
I remember Green Stamps too, and the Green Stamp store where you cashed them in for household goods. My friend and I got some items for our first apartment there back in the seventies. Good times.
I hated it when they stopped
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There was a Catholic man ‘can you say NO CONTRACEPTIVES’ he came in the shop.
I swear he was 160 at the time.
He worked for the USPS before going home for supper.
To stock and clean Rink’s Department Store they had 12 children.
Now!
That’s insanity!
Making coffee in a percolator.
I'm Gen X and do that!
I was born in Detroit Michigan on June 16,1957.I am also one of the Baby Boomers. I remember ordering from the J.C.PENNEY,MONTGOMERY WARD,and the SEARS,ROEBUCK CATALOGS. AND I STILL REMEMBER THE A&P FOOD STORES.
June 16, 1057? DAMN, you're old!!
Remember Federals Department Store?
1057?????????????? Damn!
@@MeMyselfAndUs903 I still remember Federal's Department Stores from back in the day.
I remember all that! And Farmer Jack's grocery store. The clerks would punch in the prices for each item on the cash register - it was amazing how fast they could go. I was born in Detroit in 1963. Sitting here near Dallas, TX for the past 30 years and wish I could go back in time - and never have left Oakland County.
I do miss looking through the Sears catalog and marking off ideas that I wanted for birthday’s or Christmas.
Just recently I realized that all the orange juice I buy is refrigerated and not frozen concentrate. It’s been a while since I mixed frozen, just never thought about it.
Mom and I always looked forward to getting Sears catalog in the mail. We called it the Wish Book. Could hour looking and planning what to but. I miss those books and I miss Sears.
I would frustrate my mom repeatedly because I'd eat the frozen juice concentrate straight from the container, usually all of it, I love it, it was like a super sugary slushie!
I had to wait until I was on my own before I could do that!
LOL, it was great to be on your own, never to see a box of Corn flakes in the kitchen cabinet ever again.
My mom poured the juice into popsicle molds. That was our treat. Rarely had ice cream.
No cokes either. Just HI-C or Hawaiian Punch.
McDonalds once every month or two, before kiddie meals, ball pits, and drive-thru came around.
I never drank the juice from the container (we got the big cans and it would have made me sick to eat/drink all of that) so I kept the lid for myself.
@@freedomrings1420 But what happened in a few years... I found I wanted to go home and couldn't, and even missed the cornflakes, and even the rolled oats.
I love this .... they ironed before the wrinkled and sloppy look was in ...... They also missed two things that boomers miss ... it's called law and order. Where judges actually incarcerated criminals. And a job for anyone who wants to work for their own food.
The US now has the lowest unemployment rate in the last 20 years, so apparently there are jobs for "anyone who wants to work". I didn't check the national statistics but I know that in New York City crime is up slightly from 2022, but 2022 was the lowest crime rate in over 20 years. Crime in NYC is almost half what it was during Giuliani's term in the late 1990's-2001. So things are going well for the "boomers".
@@hewitc DUHHHHH do yu think that when they let criminals back out on the street the charge is dropped so there isn't any record of the crime? Give me a break. We are being replaced with stupid people.
@@van6278 If you are arrested there is a record of the alleged crime. If you are convicted and release there is a record. What is your point? Crime rates are down now. they correlate to poverty. The poorest areas have the most crime. Not sure where you live. Maybe you're in one of the higher crime areas.
@@hewitc if you want to believe the crooked media that's your choice.
@@hewitc I guess you haven't heard of the record being expunged which means it's hidden. Leftist judges do that. But whatever
The bathroom rugs and toilet seat covers, I hated them as a kid and I still do. I’m a Boomer and never had them and never will.
Those things are hideous. They also aren't good for bathrooms that usually have moisture in the air. Then, those rugs around the toilet seat are really bad if there are boys and men in the house.
I iron clothes every week , nothing feels as good as a freshly ironed button down shirt except fresh linen on the bed ! It's a creature comfort I am happy to do and can do a shirt in 3 or 4 minutes . All those collectables are the tattoos of today , the exception is you can easily remove those little nick nacks !
Yea but when I die my tats go with me when u die ur crap goes in the garbage.
@@holddamayo7474and the worms will eat them...
As a person that has never had nice clear clean skin, it almost saddens me when I see a good looking female with beautiful flawless skin that's covered in tattoos.
@@freedomrings1420 It's some attempt at standing out, except, so many are doing the same thing now. It's almost like a tat arms race..... and not just the arms either.
@@keithbrown7685 LOL 😂, spot on .
Those empty cans of frozen concentrated fruit juice were often repurposed as the hair curlers in the 1960s. They helped giving the hair lot of volume for beehive hairstyles. One thing that I hated the most is carpeted bathrooms. Our four bathrooms were already carpeted when we moved in. Several months later, they started to stink of urine and such (we suspected that the realtor sprinkled the odour-killing powder on them as to mask the odour during the viewing). So, we removed it and were stunned to see the heavy infestation of mould and tiny critters who loved the moist condition in the insulation foam layer. We installed the ceramic tiles: that improved the look so much.
ICK!
A work colleague kept having what seemed like allergies and feeling like she had a cold on and off. Just didn't feel well, low energy etc. She noticed when she went home to visit her parents on weekends or for Christmas vacation it all went away. Then the symptoms would come back when she got back into town. Turns out it was the carpeting in her apartments bathroom, trapping all the mold spores and and whatever else was living under the carpet. She got it ripped out and I think the landlord replaced it with tile. Who for the life of me would think putting carpet in a bathroom is a good idea, especially near the toilet and bathtub?..
I went into a flat in Aberdeen with a carpet in the bathroom and it got so bad I applied to have a contractor in to rip it up and install a cork tile floor instead. So much warmer than ceramic tiles.@@marcusdamberger
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Remember saying TMI ?
As a Gen Xer, born in the 70s, I so feel like I am a boomer with some of the love I have for these kind of traditions, cultures and customs of the Boomers. Antique shops are where I love to visit with the throwback feelings of times I was alive and times before my time for sure!
Gen X, the last normal generation to remember the good ole "Old America" before the internet, social media, wokeism, a massively corrupt mainstream media, back when everything wasn't racist, etc. 1963 is technically a boomer but it seems like Im in between what defines a boomer and Gen Xer. Some of these things on the list seems like they apply go people 10-15 years older than me. Antiques, 1950s rock/rockabilly/doo wop/ 1950s cars/ muscle cars, now that's good stuff.
It's *real* history, *real* time travel. It seems I've been there, too, and I come away feeling I went to a strange kind of elsewhere, a little like the place one goes in dreams.
I have never, nor will I ever cruise on a commercial cruise line. Yes, I am a baby boomer.
There will always be exceptions and everyone's taste is different.😊
Right!
I don't think paying an arm and leg for a giant party boat on the ocean looks inviting.
I agree 100%!! History has shown, any serious crisis that arise you are left to fend for yourselves.... many times with fatal results!!
@@tedquaker954 I'd rather go on a road trip!!
Not a boomer, but the thing about the China really struck home with me. We still have my great, great great grandmother's wedding China, as well as my grandmother's, and my great grandmother's silver, and silver tea service. I can't tell you how many times I had to polish all that silver growing up.
Invest in 3M strips
I hope you will pass them all on to your children or other family members. Sadly not many want them anymore. Some traditions should be kept. It can give you a sense of family and where you come from. You have been blessed to have been able to inherit so much.
I'm a boomer, but I think of plush around porcelain as a germ collecting health hazard! Most of my work life was in banks and so I remember having to iron my own dress shirts. Fun video(s).
Yeah I'm kind of amazed it all the stupid incorrect assumptions going on here as well
Dad used to pay me 25 cents per ironed shirt as an allowance 👍🏻 it’s too bad men don’t look nearly as put together today as they used to.
@GenXamerica 25ct a week .. and only if I did my allotted chores ... if I did other things to help the family ski resort in Colorado.. that didn't count AND it didn't matter to me .. I was just curious .. yes I am the son of WWII pilot born in the 60s .. always loving to be able to figure out any problem on my own because of them .. until I met the ageist / presumptuous millenials and thier offspring .. zoomers
I remember my parents spending large sums of money ($4,000.00 ++) on Porcelain and China plus Silverware and Brithinaca Encoybedia with 1976 Symbol of Liberty figuuerine and invest in Large Bank stock (that no longer exists)as family property to pass along to family member. I hate these items since I do not use Encorbedia to search the truth and fact finding!
Shag carpeting - or any carpeting - in the bathroom is a thing best forgotten! Horrible! And yeah, I had my iron and can of Faultless spray starch for my Army uniforms back in the day.
What I wouldn't give to crack open one of the catalogs and smell that wonderful ink smell...love it! Can almost smell it now! When I was a kid it was my job to iron the pillowcases and handkerchiefs. I could never figure why dad needed a pressed handkerchiefs to blow his nose??
I thought the same thing when I ironed my Dad's handkerchiefs! Do you remember when we used little hankies with days of the week on them? My mother-in-law who was born in 1919 said when she was young she ironed underwear, so I am glad we didn't have to do that!
The only catalog I still get is from the Vermont Country Store. It is an awesome place, I have been there twice. They have a lot of retro items.
@@trish5556 MAYBE GONE NOW BECAUSE OF THE VERMONT FLOODING???!!!
@@juliemarchese-temple7749 I certainly hope not! The main store is not as close to a river. I do worry about towns that my ancestors came from though because they were on the Winhall River. New Hampshire is getting hit hard as well. I have friends and relatives still there.
LOL 😂, I'm 63 and can't understand the ironing of pillow cases. I believe that's the difference between men and women.
7:19 "How often do you pull out the ironing board these days?"
Um, every other week when I wash the coloreds (clothing load, YT algorithm).
But yes, I'm old.
@RecollectionRoad Prove to me that Amazon sends you printed mail catalog. lol
I know right🤨
Yes I get catalogs every week from what is the same company with different names - Roamans, Woman Within, Catherine’s, etc.
Don't forget Johnson Smith and Fingerhut.
I do too! And I feel then arrive so frequently too! Lol 😊
@@alexcarter8807 ISN'T FINGERHUT OUT OF BUSINESS???
Vermont Country Store, Harry and David, Hammacher Schlemmer, Harbor Freight....it never ends.
@@juliemarchese-temple7749 I just saw a commercial on TV for Fingerhut recently. I thought they'd gone belly up as well.
I'm squarely Gen X (70s) but my parents were 40+ years older. The world has changed SO much. China sets meant for the big families none of us had. Gorgeous Danish furniture (I didn't grow up in the US) that I will have no place to put because my city is too expensive to buy a house. Souvenirs, antiques and art that I wouldn't be able to store in my tiny hall closet. But I definitely recognize some of these things, even though we weren't Boomers. I look at my own home and wonder how outdated it would seem to someone else... and I don't care! I can't keep up with the styles anyway, and there's no shame in just liking what you like.
I agree! My home is a reflection of me and what is meaningful in my life and of the past. I’m not interested in keeping up with trends either.
@@timetraveler5246 I hope you don't mind me prattling about myself.
In my home, I have no pictures on the walls. I keep a small Christmas tree up all year, turn on its lights in late November. So much of what's in my home is utilitarian, non-decorative.
I wear t's and slacks all the time. If I go in and out of style, I'm the last to know, and I don't give a ****.
I'm more fierce and certain about who I am and what I like and hate, so much more than in years past.
Time is short. I know it. There's no time left to spend trying to figure out what's acceptable to others. I don't want to regret not being myself.
I'm just a tiny bit too young to be a baby boomer but a lot of these were very much part of my childhood .I do have wallpaper in my living room ,just put up new paper in fact ,there's also some in the kitchen .There's also a welsh dresser in the hall that would once have held the best dishes, but now houses books .I do own an iron but rarely use it anymore ,the dryer does that job .My house does look a little boomerish but that's what makes it feel like home to me ,a little bit of grandma vibe ...lol.
My late parents were born during the middle of WWII as none of my grandparents ever got drafted. My parents' and grandparents' houses were a lot like these examples, but more so my grandparents. One thing I'd add is that, in certain areas of the US, you had faux wood paneling, instead of flowery wallpaper, with the flowered border.
You did it again, I almost always cry while looking at your videos. Thank you. Nowadays it's just not as good as it was.
We have RUclips, now. I am a Baby Boomer and I think that some things (not many) should be appreciated.
You mentioned the Sears and MW catalogs. How could you forget the S&H Green Stamps catalog? LOL
Myself being a Gen X baby, I remember every single one of these trends and practices growing up. Lol 😆
❤️ So many great memories. I love your voice and the speed at which everything is presented. Thank you so much!
I guess you are the kind of Boomer they are referring to, then. I hated the video, I found it patronizing and insulting, not to mention inaccurate. I don't do or have ANY of the things they talked about and I was born in 1962.
@@lisalu910 That’s disappointing. I’m younger, but I did enjoy it.
My Grandma had a collection of Hummels.
About 50 or so. Every curio cabinet and window seal had them.
I miss her always.
My Mom had a collection of Hummels and she gave them to my cousin, who gave them to my 2nd cousin who still has them.
Hummels are worth something in good shape.
I’m not sure anyone is comforted by shag carpet on porcelain in the bathroom. It was always kinda of gross, even back in the 70s. But not all of us like the current sterile “minimalist style”. Somewhere in between sterile and hoarder is good as long as everything is maintained and taken care of. Not everything collectible needs to go to the dumpster just to be “stylish” because the culture somehow shames people for liking their stuff. Nothing wrong with that.
Any carpet in a bathroom is gross and yes I am a boomer.
I’m a boomer whose mother loved shag carpeting in her bathroom. Mom hated getting out of the shower to a cold floor. I thought it was gross, and I use a simple bath mat.
Exactly.
Not shag carpeting. But, we did have a carpeted bathroom in the 80s. I liked it in cold weather especially.
My mother had a shag rug that was big enough to look like wall-to-wall carpeting and trimmed to go around the toilet perfectly, but could be pulled up and stuck in the washing machine. It was the weirdest thing.
My mom still has her 1980’s pineapple border in her den and 2 types of wallpaper in her kitchen along with a border at the top. The best retro thing she has are original orange counter tops from the 60’s.
Mine are pink Formica. My mom and dad had lime green in the house they built 😊
But that's not Boomers. That's Silent Generation
I was born in 1954, so I’m definitely a boomer. This was when I was in my teens. 🤓
Brady Bunch had orange counters, right?
@chiarac3833 yes, but we're the mythical Mike and Carol Boomers? No. Their kids were. The kids did not design the house. Mike did, and retrofitted it to accommodate his new bride and daughters. Mike was Silent Generation.
Being born in 1946 many of these are my memories. Now I see why my parents were drawn to big band music 🎶 and other things.
The picture with the guy with his boombox under his arm and head phones at the salad bar was hilarious!! Never seen anything like this anywhere!!!
That same guy probably has shoulder and back problems, now. Some of those boomboxes weren't exactly light. : )
@@keithbrown7685 'Specially the ones with 12 D cell batteries!
I love catalogs. I’m 71 so the Sears Wish Book was something I looked forward to.
What stories we remember from our childhood. Im 64.5 and the stories i remember about my grandparents are still fresh like they happened yesterday. I have them written down and its my legacy for my family after im dead and gone. 😊
You hit the nail on the head with this one! I'm 72 and you described me almost perfectly. (all but the ironing) But... my mother spent hours with that iron in hand, usually while listening to one of her soaps.
Those darn toilet seat rug covers would never stay in the up right position. Always had to hold it with one hand.
We had blue and white china growing up and used it every day. When my dad passed away I got it and i still use it every day. Heck, i still collect it. No way would I ever want anything else. ❤
🛑🛑 Back in the early 70’s all my friends all had mini bikes…like the Honda Z50, Honda CT70, and the Honda SL70, and SL125, the Rupp Mini Bikes, and all this Briggs and Stratton pull start bikes.
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They were all so cool, and today bring Thousands of Dollars. 💴 💰
Boy, gone are those days of acting like Evil Knievel, and “buzzing around everywhere.
😂👍💯
You've not been to my neighborhood.
I never, ever bought ANYTHING from QVC or any other shopping channel.
I bought 1 jewelry, returned, looked like dirt!
Me either.
I had brought two items from QVC my first Beta Max Sunyo VCR for $250.00 in 1984 and my Gunsmiths Screw Driver in 1984 for $20.00.
I love QVC!
@@harleyreese2476 QVC was the first shopping network that sold a high quality item like Beta Max VCR that usually sold for $800.00 at the major electronic store for TV shopping net work at the shocking price of $250.00 including shipping. This was way back in 1984.
Actually shopping channels are great to fall asleep to.
The lighting never changes dramaticly, sound is consistant enough to double as a sound machine.
Only real downside would be waking up to the need for purchasing this that and the other. 😜
You did a very good job with this video. Thank you.
You had me right up to the conspiracy theories part. Now you're just being insulting.
I’m a baby boomer born in 1963. I rarely look at catalogs anymore, and now that we have the internet I look for items I want on there. I still have clothes that need ironing so I have an iron and ironing board. I like nicknacks though I don’t like being overwhelmed with having a lot of them.
I remember when the delivery men from Zenith dropped off our brand new color TV console back in the 60s. It was a Saturday. I knew that because as soon as we turned on the TV, there was The Jetsons. The delivery guys were nice and polite. I still remember one of the guys said- " Now, you folks enjoy your new color tv." It was definitely a different era.
As a boomer, I had 4 sets of fine china and 5 sets of silver. It came from my parents who grew up in the Great Depression and could not afford many things. Once they became successful in the 50s, they finally got the china and silver my Mom always wanted. I got them when they passed on and added my own.
I'm a boomer and would never get on one of those massive cruise ships! I would rather get on a freighter that takes passengers, up 12. Accommodations are just as nice, much much cheaper, most have the really good chefs (3 meals a day), even pools, exercise rooms, beautiful views from anywhere in the ship, ect. The best thing, no throngs of drunk, loud people. There are many YT videos on this. Went on a SeaEscape day cruise once with a graduation group...Never again, can't imagine being on one of those for a whole week.😧
Whaaaaaa??? Thank you for this information! Be back later, going down a RUclips rabbit hole about freighter cruises now!!
I never heard of that option! Thank you, @zsigzsag!
always thought that would be so great to travel on a freighter ever since watching an old movie from the 40's when I was a kid
We called M W "Monkey Wards."
When I was a kid, my mom had the toilet seat cover. We had a big old tuxedo cat who loved to curl up on it and fall asleep, you always had to wake the cat anytime you had to use the bathroom, haha.
I’m a baby boomer and don’t do anything that’s in this video, except I have gone on cruise ships.
With regard to wallpaper, how about wood paneling?! Everyone's den or family room was almost always paneled. Our living room, in the 70's, was paneled in rich wood tones. Completely complimented the Early American furniture. 😂
I found this one kind of insulting. I'm a boomer and none of these pertain to me anymore- except I still have nice dishes that I don't use but haven't gotten rid of yet. Most of us have moved on with the times, believe it or not.
I was born in 64, so I don’t know what I am 🤷♀️. But I will NEVER enter a bathroom with shag carpet. Lol 😆
Good call-it’s absolutely disgusting.
I’ve encountered several older homes in Canada with carpeting in the bathroom. Why?? And what if the toilet overflows? 🤮
I like to mention this as an extra fun fact when talking about the rooms in a house during my English classes. In Japan, the toilet and bathtub are in separate rooms. The toilet also has a built in sink on the lid that runs water when you flush, so I can’t imagine putting a cover on it. 🤣
Due to these differences, the bathroom is always a fun discussion at school!
You are a person, don't need a label
64 is the last year of the boomer generation
This commentator has got the smoothest voice I've ever heard.
Born in 1983, so my parents are baby boomers. My childhood home had many of these features including a collection of decorative hanging spoons. 😅
At 41, I'm the keeper of great grandma's china. My mom kept and displayed it in a cabinet because "that's what you're supposed to do". I'm the last in the line that remotely cares, and it's just stored in the basement. It's the one thing i kept out of a weird sense of generational obligation.
Wish you’d display some of it somewhere. It is special, don’t you see?
REMEMBER……K-TELL RECORDS buying 20 for a penny? I did that. they hounded me forever. My mother had to write them a note explaining to them that I was a minor, and could not be held to a contract…lol
I remember more than one friend's families having living rooms with dust covers on the furniture & no one ever went into. It was for "special company"... I wonder if the Queen or Pope ever stopped by.
😂😂😂
I remember when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's, that was a big thing in the newer houses......a "good" living room, and a "family" room.
If the plastic got a cut in them, so did your leg. I could not stand that trend.
My mother had plastic on white velvet couches in our living room. With 5 children in the house we were not allowed to go in the coveted museum living room unless company stopped by to visit. We rarely sat on those plastic covered couches and the living room had to stay clean at all times! My parents put a rope across the living room entrance to make sure we remembered not to go in that room! 😅😂
When they weren’t home we of course ventured in their because it was the “forbidden room”! 😅😂
But we made sure that everything stayed clean and intact before we left that coveted room! 😅😂
I'm 63 and remember going to some people's home and their couches and chairs would be covered in that heavy plastic.
I’m a boomer born in 64 , and I don’t use half this stuff they say we use. Hell no to those plush rug accessories for the bathroom toilet. Ewww , and I never used QVC or HSN , only have 4 dessert 🍨 dishes that are real bone china. ( but never use) 😅. I do however still own two DVD /vhs players, a turntable and a cassette tape player 😅
Some hits, some misses. But, we Boomers can all recite the Pledge of Allegiance & sing the National Anthem!
I'm 74 and can definitely live without this shit
My parents were both from the Silent Generation (dad born '30, mom '42) and was born in Jan of '65 so technically I missed being a Boomer by less than a month, but I identify more with Boomers than I do Gen X. That said, I recall everything covered in this video and enjoyed it very much. Thank you! PS: We never had wallpaper. For us it was wood paneling everywhere except the bathrooms.
I have about a 1/2 dozen items that have to be ironed but that’s it. Every thing else is pretty much wrinkle free. Personally I’m down with the idea that good dishes should be used any time I want. Why do I have to wait for company to come when they never do. I think I’m good enough for fine china. I’m also good enough for the living room furniture thst no one sits on but when we “have company.” What a waste. The way I see it is I’m thebone making the payments on the house I should be good enough to sit on the “good furniture” and eat off the “good plates!!”
@timetravel9356dad 1920 mom 1922. Lost dad 1995 from suicide after a stroke robbed his dexterity. Lost mom 2012 but took her on hot air balloon ride the year before
I was born in 1963 and we never had wallpaper or wood paneling, but I remember relatives and friends houses that had a lot of wood paneling. Back in the 70s I wished our apartment had at least one that had that.
Peeing all over the bathroom carpet, that’s one reason not to have carpet in the bathroom.
This is more about the Silent Gen vs Boomers. I'm a Boomer ('60) and most of the things you point out are my parent's generation's obsessions, not ours. Although, since our parents' demise, my sister has gone out of her way to keep and care for our mother's hutch and dishes/silverware, along w/ the table and chairs that were part of the set my folks were given on their wedding day. Of course, there are items from my grandparents as well, that sister keeps squirreled away. I think her daughter is finally taking an interest in that stuff, but used to poo-poo it, asking why she had to help move that heavy furniture, when in transit. I became a minimalist back in the 80s and traveled as much as I could afford. My nick-nacks are my memories of places I've visited and the people I've met.
Ditto. Born in '62 and this video describes my parents who were born in the 1930s-40s, not me.
Agreed. This is stuff from our parents, but yes, many of us grew up with it. Boomers had the Mod era, love beads, Woodstock, Rock and Roll, Elvis, birth control pills, women's lib. Archie Bunker, Vietnam war, Watergate. The list could go on forever. The best part was that we were free to go outside and play all day long without a lot of worry.
I recently went back to frozen orange juice concentrate because I didn’t want to keep buying all the plastic containers.
I'm part of the later baby boomers group (1960) with parents from around the silent generation (1928 & 1937 respectfully) - I remember all of this and still appreciate those things - especially china. I could of had my grandmother's but instead got my mom's set. I did use them but as my hubby & I retired and downsized our lives, the set was pasted on to a daughter in law. I found recently a small cup & saucer that was my old pattern so I have a memory set on a shelf.
Also I still prefer using handkerchiefs for blowing my nose than Kleenex - much softer on my nose! 🤧
My situation might be a little unique here. I was born in 1977,so I am Gen X. My parents were born in the 1930s, so they were of the silent generation. My sisters were born in the early 60s, and they are the Baby Boomers in our family. 😊
I was born in 1966, so I'm a genx. All my sisters were boomers, too. I feel like I'm in between the 2.
I understand. I was born in 79. But my mom was born in the upper 30's, and my dad in 23. My dad was a WW11 vet. So I don't feel like I fit in very well, in most places these days, because of the good values that I was taught. The 80's was a great time to be raised!
@@D.E.. Yes, the 80s were great!!
@@D.E.. Yeah, I never cared for any of this date based generation labeling. I was born late 70's, so I am firmly Gen X. My wife that is only four years younger than me, is supposedly a Millennial. How does that make any sense? We were in high school together. Not the same high school as we grew up in different cities, but she was a freshman my senior year. She certainly doesn't demonstrate any of the typical "Millennial" behaviors. I've always felt that while time frame that someone was born in plays some role in generation, a lot of it comes down to mindset.
I'm in the silent majority, but have been a part of everything in this video - except carpet in the bathroom.
Im a boomer and still cant imagine going out in an un-ironed shirt or pants. Call me crazy or old-fashioned but there it is.
You're crazy and you're old fashioned.
Conspiracy is a crime, not a theory.
Bizarre man with headphones and a little “boombox” at the salad bar. 😂
My aunt is a huge fan of those "Precious Moments" figurines as she has a sizeable collection.
Also, who in their right mind would install shag carpet in a bathroom? That's the height of tackiness. 😅
OMG my father had carpeting in a bathroom in his home
CARPETING: YES, SHAG CARPETING: NO WAY!!!!!!
Oh yeah, you want to hear about tacky?
After my divorce in 2005 .
I went apartment hunting and saw an apartment with carpeting in the kitchen!🤮😂
Not to mention the heighth of whoopsieness when someone in a rush to use thee bathroom doesn't quite make it. Shag carpeting doesn't go with a lot of things especially upset stomachs and loose bowels.
@@billgrandone3552 Pets included. Probably more often than humans...lol!
Wallpaper ceiling boarders were used before the 1980’s. My nanas house had them in the 50’s and 60’s.
Saving box tops and getting great gifts, not junk. Or the local grocer and gas attendant loyalty give aways. Paneling. The oak pedestal table. The furniture store that gave every 16 yr old girl a cedar chest. The living room with fancy new chairs and carpet and pleated drapes that we dared not set foot in. Things we baby boomers remember about our parents and our homes. I remember when we sold the workhorse and granpa got his first tractor . Then when he got an umbrella for it, then the plow, the disk, the combine. I remember when gramma bought first box of kleenex. Afghans quilts and everything embroidered. The doll whos dress held a roll of tp on the tank. Doilies on every surface to hide the dust. Mons apron. The station wagon with wood in the side. Learning to drive with no power stearing or breaks and no automatic transmission. The invention of the air conditioner and how it changed migration to states like Arizona and Texas.gardens and roses and meticulous lush lawns. The invention of correl and corning ware, the plate you could throw down on to the tile floor and it would not break. The microwave oven. The big roaster so the bird could be cooking but the oven was free for the sides. Jello, putting fruit in jello. Marshmallows in jello. Nuts in jello. Cream cheese in jello. Cotrage cheese in jello. Jello poured over a cake. Its hard to separate ,it was actually gramnas stuff, mamas stuff, but it was home to me so it was mine. But we are the generation that saw everything from the transitter radio and black and white 3 stations and horses pulling plows and nothing auto till the new automobile and no workd wide web. You still got the news by radio or newspaper or a letter from someone. Most people had party lines and could not afford long distance calls. The looong telephone cord. The dedicated telephone stand. New automatic washing machines and diswashers.
Yes! Great memories, especially the ones of jello. Cracked me up. My mom used to mix jello with vanilla ice cream and a can of fruit cocktail. Sounds disgusting, but it was pretty tasty.
I got the family china, crystal, and silver set that we used growing up. I cherished it and used it and planned on lovingly passing it along to my kids. Except that I didn't have kids and none of the younger group want those things anymore. It's such a shame because there are so many memories in them. I understand they want to make their own traditions but it's a shame to see the lack of interest in their family history.
Those things are your memories, not theirs. I'm 63 and I'm glad to grow up when kids actually had fun doing things. The only memories that the younger generations will have when they get old is .... playing video games and staring at their cellphones.
I'm a Boomer. My parents had all of these, when Iwas growing up.
One thing I found they don't wear much are brooches. I went looking for decorative pins in stores in the ladies jewelry, and couldn't find any.
Funny you should mention that. I just bought a couple of dresses and thought they would look good with a brooch. I am a Gen X person but as I get older, my taste is maturing.
Higher end stores like Saks carry them and some are quite lovely.
So spot on with everything in this video, when you brought up the shag carpeting covering the porcelain l thought of a crochet covering my Mom had in the bathroom that covered the extra roll of toilet paper. In fact, crocheted items were a thing in all boomer houses
All of that stuff was what an older generation liked, not what Boomers liked.
I’ve made knitted toilet paper holder for my beach house-one with a knitted octopus on top and the other has a fish. Our guests appreciate not having to ask where the extra rolls are.
@@MothGirl007 Yes, I remember that stuff from my favorite great-aunt's home. (She was born in 1895.)
I never knew anyone in the 80's who had the flowering ceiling borders. I have never lived in a house or apartment that had carpeting.
Thank you for another great trip down memory lane 😊
I’m a boomer - 66 years old - I’ll list the things you think I can’t get enough of: China: No; Cruise: No; Catalog: No; Wallpaper: OH H___ to the No; Conspiracy Theory: No; Out to Eat: I HATE to cook so this would be a YES!; frozen juice: No, acid reflux solves that problem; Trinkets: NO!; Iron/Board: NO!; Special Toilet Seat and covers: NO! I believe you missed on this one. Some of us changed with the times. Just because we used it back then doesn’t mean it’s still in our homes.
I’m 60, so definitely a Boomer. I’ve never bought anything on a TV Chanel, but my wife has 😅
What fits us more is the old cable TV public access channel which would have the most random shit, and those first MTV videos like "Shock The Monkey" and that Tom Petty one where they ride motorcycles.
Maybe an old guy, but technically speaking, you are not a baby boomer. Those who are born between 1945 en 1955 are boomers.
I am 58 now and never purchased anything from any shopping channel.
I never bought anything from TV but did use EBay in the 1990's when it was really popular. It was so exciting to win an item you were bidding on, but sometimes I bid too much I think.
@@trish5556 Ebay certainly is still popular particularly if your looking for more esoteric items. Now sites like DealDash are being pushed for bidding, showing crazy discounts on items you will never ever win. The problem with sites like DealDash are they own the merchandise and own the bidding site as well. So it's really just a company owning it and the process end to end, and pretending those items are somehow auction items. It's all mostly cheap junk form China or pallets of items that are no longer made being put up for sale that will go for what DealDash has pre-determined.
I cherish my china and have my own. My mothers and grandmothers. When I am gone No one will want them but I use them and love displaying them!
Never used or did many of these....and I'm definitely a baby boomer! Ps , I hate cruise ships.....
I can't believe you mentioned Ponderosa! That was my 1st job!! Waaaay long ago! Now there's barely any left and none where I live.
I miss them. It was Bonanza where I lived but same company.
@@chiaralistica Yup. There's a few, and I mean a few, of both of them. You gotta search though.
OMG! The very first set of china shown is actually identical to what's sitting in my china cabinet right now! It's called "Andorra" by Noritaki. (Yes, I'm a boomer.)
My mother had that exact pattern, and fortunately after she recently passed away one of my nieces was ecstatic to adopt it all.
We grew up with a jukebox.
The stero looked like a cupboard. Everything was inside 1 big box. Round table to play 45's and 72's, a steroband radio, an 8-track player, and a record holder. The speakers were also part of this heavy machine.
An old tv, that had VHF and UHF channels. Kid's were the remote control back then. Rabbit ear antenna.
I think a lot of this is more applicable to the silent generation and not so much baby boomers. Entertaining video nonetheless
I was thinking the same thing especially when it came to the fine China. My mom had a beautiful set of China and she was of the silent generation, although I am a Gen Xer. My mom had me when she was forty years old.😊
I'm of the silent generation and I agree.
@@janblake9468 Thanks for joining us
Yeah this straddles Silents and early Boomers. As a very late Boomer I'm gonna be more nostalgic about "Rise" by Van Halen, the first model Ford Taurus, the TRS-80, Members Only jackets whatever the hell those were all about (Yes I had to have one) and the US discovering sushi.
My mom was an early boomer (48) and this is literally all her. Lol
I was born in 1950, but we only had one set of china, the everyday one, and no silver. My mother did have set of crystal bowls and goblets, long gone now. My parents, though both college educated, kept to themselves and didn't entertain. I'm the same way. we lived in San Francisco when I was young, and my mother liked Asian decor, widely available and reasonably priced back then. So our house had none of the kitschy americana stuff. I still have a Japanese tea table and chest of hers.
My dad was a boomer, but he hated knick-knacks. He used to call my granny's dust collectors.
I'm 63 and it took years to realize a empty house is a clean house. LOL 😂
Trinkets. I tried to stay away from. I once collected matches from all of the clubs, discotheques, coffee shops, bars etc. that I patronized all over the world. I had hundreds and kept them in several wicker baskets for display. I was very proud of my travels to the Far East and Africa.
It's amazing the money people will spend on things that are really never used or necessary. At least the matches you didn't pay big dollar for.
@@freedomrings1420 thanks and those were my thoughts too.
Speaking as a boomer myself, this reminds me more of my parents than myself. My mother had a china cabinet and curio cabinets stuffed with trinkets and antique dishes, etc. I remember that dreaded padded toilet seat we had decades ago... thankfully it's long gone. I do appreciate thick plush carpeting to this day, but no wallpaper. My mother is still with us, but with Alzheimer's - I don't look forward to moving that fine Noritake china to a safe place - likely to sell as nobody uses it today. However I definitely remember the Sears Christmas catalog!!!
Thing is, who's going to buy? I have a set of china from the 1870s or so. Who's going to buy that???
Yeah, this channel got the generation for these things totally wrong.
OMG. The guy at the salad bar with the boombox under his arm. 🤣
I’m a boomer and I don’t have any of that.
That’s really sad
@@gregbutcher7081why? I’ve been on several cruises. My parents had all over that. I grew up in the 60s and 70s.
As for eating out in a restaurant, there used to be a place where I would frequently visit for breakfast and since Covid I don’t visit anymore. Ham and cheese omelette with hash browns and toast is 17 dollars and coffee is 3 dollars and with a 5 dollar tip. So for one person to have breakfast the cost is 25 dollars. So with being retired and on social security, I can’t afford to go out anymore because everything is so expensive. I can’t afford almost everything. I am 75 years old ( baby boomers) and I live in my van because that’s about all I can afford. Affordable housing in my area is 7 hundred to 9 hundred a month.
I'm 73 and 0 for 11. Evolution is real.
Until HSN/QVC, I had never heard of Capodimonte porcelain figurines.
Nice list ... lots of nostalgia ... but the carpeted bathrooms, not so much.
Brings back happy memories to me!, thank you!🤔💖👍👍!