Gen X - where are you ? Thread 2 !

[JRHartleysmum]

Here it is, as you were old farts x

@Lemieux3 I'm not saying I don't remember a lot of these things, I just find the grouping odd as people born in late 70s-early 80s had a very different childhood to those in the late 60s.
As it was I'm still very scarred from not getting a Mr Frosty & I bought my kids fuzzy felt, a Big Yellow Teapot & stickle bricks purely for the nostalgia factor. The teapot was still awesome; the other two less so.

I’m bang in the middle - 1973

Gen X is 1965-1980 right?

I'm on the end of the 60's .

Xennials are 1977-1983, bridging the gap between completely analog and completely digital childhoods.

My son loved stickle bricks however he was a headbanger he still has the scar thanks to my trip down memory lane

I was born in December 1964 so l am very much on the crossover between the Boomers and Generation X. My school year were born in 1964/5 and I feel l have more in common with Gen. X than the boomers. I think it is more sensible to go by the decades of our birth as l was born mid-decade and have far more in common with others born at various points in the sixties than either the fifties or seventies.

Who here remembers clattering about in their mums high heels(winkle pickers) an old handbag ,and an old lipstick plastered on their face 🤣🙈

Anyone remember this toy - I lost the doll Anna and other bits but I had Happytime and his saddle and bridle for many years. My Sindy doll learned to ride on him, but his eventual owner was Jenny the school girl doll (pictured) who fit into Anna’s jodhpurs reasonably well. God, I loved that lump of brown jointed plastic. 😁

I had this exact wallpaper - Holly Hobby

Ahh how cute ! I remember when my Mother bought my older sister her first deodorant (think it was mum) it was a roll on. I threw a wobbler 'cos I wanted one too . I spent the whole time putting it on my neck 🤣. I had on idea what it was really for 🤣.

I know! What have they done to fuzzy felts??

ker plunk
buckaroo
guess who
twister
mouse trap

The Haunted House book & (original) Ghost Castle Board Game - there is a modern version which is good but not quite the same.

I have two copies of Haunted House, and one of those was mended and signed by Jan Pienkowski!
He did an assembly at my school and I lent one of the prefects my JP books for signing.

@InMySpareTime I actually have my original copy from the 80s too - when DD was old enough for it I bought her her own as I was worried mine was a bit fragile. I've since bought several more for friends & family - it's an awesome book.

We played Frustration every Sunday evening. That and cards, draughts and monopoly.

If you want a special category all to yourself you're probably a millennial 🤪😜

Many of us will have known elderly people born in the 19th century. I had a GG aunt born in 1892, who lived to be 102, her fiancé died in the trenches and she never married.

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Health and safety innit. EU gone mad. Like non-cling cling film. (Drape film.)

@Otarge 🤣🤣

@Otarge well it is in the Oxford English Dictionary...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

Xennial, n. and adj.: “A person born between the late 1970s and early 1980s, after (or towards the end of) Generation X and before (or at the beginning of) the millennial”

I worked in a nursing home 1993-1997 all women, many never married a few with dates of birth beginning 18

But most born in 1900 or 1901 not sure if there was some kind of boom around the turn of the century.