11 Things Baby Boomers Can’t Get Enough Of 

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.

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 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).

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 have never, nor will I ever cruise on a commercial cruise line. Yes, I am a baby boomer.

Making coffee in a percolator.

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.

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. 🙂

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!

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'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).

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 !

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 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.

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.

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.

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!!!

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!

Myself being a Gen X baby, I remember every single one of these trends and practices growing up. 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 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.

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??

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. 😊

Yes I get catalogs every week from what is the same company with different names - Roamans, Woman Within, Catherine’s, etc.

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 never, ever bought ANYTHING from QVC or any other shopping channel.

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.

I was born in 64, so I don’t know what I am 🤷‍♀️. But I will NEVER enter a bathroom with shag carpet. Lol 😆

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.

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.

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.

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 60, so definitely a Boomer. I’ve never bought anything on a TV Chanel, but my wife has 😅

My Grandma had a collection of Hummels. About 50 or so. Every curio cabinet and window seal had them. I miss her always.

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.

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.😧

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.

We called M W "Monkey Wards."

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.

I’m a baby boomer and don’t do anything that’s in this video, except I have gone on cruise ships.

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 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.

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.

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 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. 😅

This commentator has got the smoothest voice I've ever heard.

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.

🛑🛑 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. 😂👍💯

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.

How about, making one on family picnics? Who remembers Mom sitting on the tailgate of the station wagon preparing plates of food while us kids would play at parks or beaches My mother had cooked the dinner, put it in separate serving dishes covered with tinfoil and us kids had carried out the food in picnic baskets to the station wagon and we all had headed off to the local parks or beaches around San Diego, CA. Those were family outings to remember!

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. ❤

I love catalogs. I’m 71 so the Sears Wish Book was something I looked forward to.

I'm a Boomer. My parents had all of these, when Iwas growing up.

You mentioned the Sears and MW catalogs. How could you forget the S&H Green Stamps catalog? LOL

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. 😜

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!!!

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.

We early boomers came by our conspiracy theories honestly. I can still remember my dad and other WWII vets arguing over whether Hitler was still alive. There were also debates about whether the South could have won if the War of Northern Aggression was fought in the early 1950s.

Born in 1983, so my parents are baby boomers. My childhood home had many of these features including a collection of decorative hanging spoons. 😅

Peeing all over the bathroom carpet, that’s one reason not to have carpet in the bathroom.

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.

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.

I am a baby boomer, but this doesn’t describe me or any of my friends, it is definitely my Mother’s generation, she was born in 1920.

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.

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.

I’m a boomer and I don’t have any of that.

I think a lot of this is more applicable to the silent generation and not so much baby boomers. Entertaining video nonetheless

I am 70. I do not have or do any of the things listed. This looks more like our parent's generation.

OMG. The guy at the salad bar with the boombox under his arm. 🤣

Some hits, some misses. But, we Boomers can all recite the Pledge of Allegiance & sing the National Anthem!

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. 😊

My dad was a boomer, but he hated knick-knacks. He used to call my granny's dust collectors.

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.

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.)

Those darn toilet seat rug covers would never stay in the up right position. Always had to hold it with one hand.

Never used or did many of these....and I'm definitely a baby boomer! Ps , I hate cruise ships.....

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 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.

There was no hideous wallpaper in our house while I was growing up.

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.

Until HSN/QVC, I had never heard of Capodimonte porcelain figurines.

Nah, wrong generation; I’m a boomer and there’s nothing here I’m jonesing for. Remember it - yes, “but the title, can’t get enough of”….not so much. These were my parents ideas and styles.

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.

As a boomer , most of the things here are things my parents did.

❤️ So many great memories. I love your voice and the speed at which everything is presented. Thank you so much!

I'm a boomer. The China shown at 1.12 is MY "good" China! I still love it!

Having China was more so of the older generation. Older boomers and Silent Generations. I most remember my Grandma on my dad's side having these things.

I'm a boomer. I grew up with most of these things, but they arent part of my life today. In fact none of the things mentioned has anything to do with how I live my life today. No cruises, no TV purchases, no china, no catalogs, no frozen orange juice, and no flower print wallpaper. That was my parents who would be 104 and 103 years old if they were still alive. I miss the 70s too, but I live a fairly modern and up to date lifestyle now.

I would argue that the newer generation's lack of knickknacks isn't because they're scared of being hoarders, they're just too lazy to dust things. I respect people who may live in very small homes and reasonably conclude a piece of bric-a-brac won't FIT, but that seems to be the exception not the rule. Most minimalists lack sentimentality and then wonder why there is a void in their dull lives. 🤔

You did a very good job with this video. Thank you.

I recently went back to frozen orange juice concentrate because I didn’t want to keep buying all the plastic containers.

Thank you for another great trip down memory lane 😊

I'm a baby boomers & I haven't ironed anything in decades!!! Also, any carpet in the bathroom is disgusting!!! 😮

That concentrated frozen o.j. is STILL the best thing for de-skunking a dog!!!

Any time you see something for sell on tv their main goal is to make you feel like you can't live without their product even if the product is worthless.

Proud, unapologetic Baby Boomer here! Contrary to the title, I had plenty of this when I was growing up. No more of any of this please!

I’m a baby boomer. Most of the things posted were in my mothers house. A lot of the boomer’s were into rock concerts, coffee houses and ….. 😮🤣😂

I think a lot of these were actually the greatest generation or the silent generation. Baby Boomer generation began in 1946, so the oldest grew up in the 50-60’s and the youngest 60-70’s. Ours was the generation of free love, rock and roll, cordless phones, personal computers, civil rights, and going to the moon. We were not the stodgy, stay-at-home mothers. We’re the ones, where both parents worked because we’re the generation of women’s liberation. Remember the majority of baby boomers lived on the east and west coast, in the cities and suburbs. Grandma and Grandpa lived in the farm houses of the mid-west. We’re the generation of education, of going to college, and pursuing higher degrees. The educated don’t fall for conspiracy theories.

I'm a baby boomer. Most of the things mentioned here are geared toward my parents.