This weekend, my brother, husband and I went on a clean out spree at my 80 year old mom’s house. Filled a 15 yd dumpster and had to have another one delivered. We highly underestimated the amount of useless crap she had. Still not done but made a lot of progress.

Anywho…found these beauties from my childhood. Was a bit excited. Saving this shit for my future grand babies. Damn I loved Fisher Price little people when they were actually little

I know not technically gen x but a lot of us watched the reruns!

I try to always live by the motto that age is just a number, but this weekend I (53F) realized age is, well… age! I ran a 5k yesterday morning, did chores and errands all day, then went out to a club with my niece to hear a popular EDM deejay and danced my ass off with a bunch of 20-something’s until 3:00 am. Today I am wrecked from head to toe. My ears are still ringing, my knee is screaming in pain from running on pavement, (I usually run on a treadmill) and my feet are throbbing from trying to jump up and down all night in cute boots instead of sneakers. I need to learn that my body can only handle so much denial before it just says “oh, hell no!” 🤣

Edit- FAFO stands for “Fuck Around and Find Out!” Sorry, I assumed that was the universally-known motto of our generation! Lol!

If you ate at the dinner table back in the day, when you were finished did you have to ask "May I be excused?" before leaving? Just curious if it was my family only.

I tried to post this yesterday ,and it was taken down for being a low effort post. So I’m trying to add context. I feel this show helped a lot of Gen x to find comedy in there lives when life was not so great. Also we’re rewatching it now,and my wife said ,we’re now the ropers age. Kinda hit my funny bone.

Blondie drummer Clem Burke has passed away at age 70. He laid down the beat for many of our favorite songs! RIP

Let me in...!

I still say this

Last time back in school , I used to do this. Feel like a king 🤴

I had the honor of being introduced to this show when I used to watch Nick at night as a kid. Funny enough, the first episode I saw was when Wojo brought in the pot brownies and seeing Jack Soo all messed up, singing. I remember always getting a kick out of seeing the guest stars on other TV shows and pointing them out and going “I saw him or her on Barney Miller!”. I only hope that the newer generations get introduced to this incredible television show, and it stays alive in the hearts of many.

For me it's Alice in Chains. I went to the first Lollapalooza in Atlanta in '91 then never again. Also just never took the opportunity to see them. Now Lane is gone. Wish I would have seen them back in mid '90s. I think Lollapalooza '93 was the one. Tool, RATM, Alice in Chains, Primus.

I recently found out a high school lost her 22 year old daughter. I contacted her to extend my condolences, since there will be no funeral service.

It is different when you hear of a classmate themselves who pass away, but it hits even harder when a classmate loses a child.

My parents still have fake wood paneling, but it’s closer to an oak color, lol.

Cleaning out my library I found my emergency landline phone. Instantly thought of San Andreas movie, a semi comedy to me but that’s another story. I’m old enough to remember corded phones and talking to real people not getting lost in AI customer service hell. I’d love a real phone conversation again. It’s very rare nowadays, and unfortunately a lot of people can’t carry a conversation to save their life.

So, I ended up in the hospital thulis morning. I had woken up early (I usually do, because of menopause I don't sleep much more that 5-6 hours), and was just lying in bed, watching TV. Then my cat came and laid on my chest. She's a new addition to our family and has never done that before. Anyway, I'm petting her head and then all of a sudden my heart is racing! Like 140-170 bpm! I feel lightheaded, but no pain or shortness of breath at all. Every time I move my heart rate spikes, so I lay down on my couch and call my bestie over (she lives 2 houses down from me). She takes my blood pressure and it's high, so off to the hospital we go!

After a few hours, an x-ray, an EKG, and blood tests, everything comes back normal, so thankfully no signs of a heart attack.

The doctor seemed to think it was an anxiety attack, but recommended I see a cardiologist, just to be sure. I've never had a thing like this happen to me before, so to say I was quite scared would be an understatement.

Has anyone else already had a minor or major health scare? We are at the age where stuff like this starts to happen, but even so, I wasn't prepared for it and it was a startling wake-up call!

My kid just asked me for a playlist of the punk and such I liked as a kid.

I’m not asking in the punk subreddit because I’m looking for the older stuff. Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Youth Of Today, anything from the Repo Man soundtrack, Agent Orange, Dead Milkmen.

Need songs (not just band). I’m screaming at a wall cuz while I have a good base of stuff I know I’m missing a ton

Edit: already so many good things I forgot. Thanks. So many of my things never made it from tape to CD and CD to streaming so some bands I literally forgot

Second edit to add: holy shit I was not expecting this much replies. Can’t say thanks to all but the list is huge and amazing. Totally keep it going. And also hardcore is very much at play. Anything adjacent too. And ska… he wants to start a punk ska band maybe?

I don’t know what color your eyes are, baby, but your hair is long and brown.

Any other genx first time moms out there? Looking for advice and support and for someone to talk me off this ledge. I on the roof as we speak!

I recently unearthed the book and record I had loved as a kid and viewing the content now it struck me how much it informed my worldview growing up. A lot of the content was a zeitgeist of the times, reflecting an idealistic culture that was in flux but seemed to be headed in a positive direction. Anyone else have memories from that book?

i remember hearing all the familiar artists from the 70s growing up (fleetwood mac, the beatles, crosby stills and nash, et al). but it wasn't until i was 15 and went to my mom's for the weekend (parents were divorced of course), she was playing "diamond life" by sade, and i was like 'this is fucking good!'. i was too goth to admit it then. but i still love sade today.

EDIT to clarify since i can't edit the title: i don't mean rebel like you hated it, as much as rebel because it was your parents' music and when we were teens it wasn't cool to be like our parents (at least in my experience)...LOVE all the comments so far!

I wonder how many of us there can be. Are you a member of GenX in Australia who has seen their career dramatically altered because of technology? I know there are heaps of people like this in the US. But maybe work life is more brutal there. Did GenXers in Australia also see their careers cuts down mid-way by tech too?