I’m a young boomer & got onboard as a tree hugging environmentalist very early & quickly. I remember watching, as a child, Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom & Jacques-Yves Cousteau !
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You’re attitude is quintessential Boomer. You are what this post is all about. Congrats!!!!
aug 31, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t get what you’re saying. My attitude ? I’m teaching my grands about essential survival skills because I refuse to have them grow up without paying attention to the natural environment. I have no idea what you’re generation is but Im pretty sure it’s an annoying one
aug 31, 2025, 10:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Your generation consumed like locusts. Your parents had a garden and canned vegetables. Squirreled away money to help their kids (you) education. Boomers rejected that all, hoarded resources, refused to retire because they didn’t save, and then bad mouthed millenials. I’m Gen X. Saw all of it.
aug 31, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
I am my mother’s daughter ! Watch your pennies & the dollars will look after themselves type.I know the segment of the boomer generation you’re referring.I’m not in that age group - they’ve got 10 to 20 years on me. You know what that means ?When I was a kid they were already teens & young adults.
aug 31, 2025, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I watched them complain about the previous generation to them wouldn’t retire to open up management positions. I watched them litter and spread like a virus into farm lands in things called subdivisions - lousy money making enterprises. I kid you not, I remember being 4yrs old & seeing forests
aug 31, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
and being a teenager only to see that forest bulldozed to put up a massive mall 😢.
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Boomers suck & if that means me, then so but it.
aug 31, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I take it back, you’re ok. But Boomers in general consumed like locusts and didn’t give back to the system.
aug 31, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I see this daily with my boomer parents. My husband and I are gen-x and very non-materialistic and give back and volunteer with mutual aid groups. My parents spend all their money on more than one home and traveling and buying whatever they want. Not a thought about ‘do I really need this’?
sep 1, 2025, 12:10 am • 1 0 • view
It’s so weird to me. We are very deliberate about what we buy when it comes to ‘things’ bc so much stuff is not necessary. We’re doing ok but they think we’re poor bc we didn’t overbuy our home and don’t throw money around on ‘stuff’. I don’t bother explaining our mentality it’s pointless
sep 1, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
On another thread on this story, someone mentioned how much of their money comes from bidding up prices of homes and extracting it to spend.
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