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[NoelSeven]

On 6/27/2014 azterry! said:

On 6/27/2014 NoelSeven said:

Not in the 70s they weren't. Think. Radios had gone from portable to take to the beach, to smaller ones that fit in our purse if we wanted. Tape recorders came in and we all bought those. Some of us took them to record college lectures. They went from huge to small, and we bought new ones.

Then a lot of us bought new equipment to tape TV shows. Not only the electronics, but the tapes. Then that changed to DVDs. Now we use cable and pay for a cable box.

We used to get newer and better cameras, now we get new cameras for digital use, or we use our iPad or iPhones.

I could give you examples for hours. You need to ponder all this, because most of us have been buying and updating these things for decades. You have to know that even if you stuck with the same original TV and nothing more and have had it repaired all those years.

WE were no different.

I totally get what you are saying Noel and I agree.

The later Baby Boomers are the beginning of the so-called disposable consumers. Our radios began with the transistor type. When it broke (after about a year) we threw it away. We started with 8 tracks in our cars and threw them away when cassettes came out. We threw away the Beta tape players when VCRs came out. Many of us never learned to sew. We bought our clothes at teen shops at the mall. They were thrown away when they came apart as they often did.

This is not a Gen X nor Millennial phenomenon. We started it.

Hi terry

Yes, I think we did start it. It's almost impossible not to, sometimes. I kept the tape system for recording TV shows even though I never use it anymore and I never see tapes sold in 6 packs, which we used to see every time we went into a grocery or drug store. I keep it because I have a lot of tapes from when DD was really young. I just don't have it in me to get them all transferred to DVDs or digital...

[RedHeadedWench]

I have a lot of gold jewelry..its the only thing I wear, I am not a real fan of silver. My 23yo daughter likes silver, she cannot stand gold jewelry. She doesn't like diamonds or "fancy" jewelry.

Guess I'm going to have to get rid of it one day. LOL