Gen X then and now: urban legends
We all grew up without the Internet, with media that tended to be more hyper local and in different parts of the country, but somehow Gen X all knew some …
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Gen X then and now: Celebrating fall
Gen X then and now is a weekly series on Taffeta.com on Mondays. Read Gen X then and now: parental involvement in the schools. Remember how we used to celebrate …
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The seven most memorable Brady Bunch episodes
The Brady Bunch first aired on September 26, 1969, but if you grew up in the 1970s you probably remember watching the episodes daily in reruns for a large portion …
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Gen X then and now: parental involvement in the schools
Gen X then and now is a weekly series each Monday on Taffeta.com. Read more here. Then: Got notification in the mail where my bus stop would be. I busted …
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Why we all freaked out over Blues Clues
There I was, fist full of broccoli florets, with pasta on the boil, my two tween daughters safely in their rooms pretending to do homework. I wasn’t planning on crying …
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A Gen-Xer walks a modern teenager down memory lane
My sixteen year old daughter came downstairs the other day, snuggled beside me, and said she wanted to watch Tik Tok with me. This is something we do on the …
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Gen X then and now: driving
Gen X then and now: driving This is a weekly column every Monday. Read last week’s Gen X then and now here. Some things have improved, certainly in terms of …
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Gen X then and now: wellness
Then: You walk past a guy wearing a t-shirt that says “no fatties”, he’s the fifth guy you’ve seen wearing that in the last two days. You think what a …
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Gen X then and now: back to school
Then It’s the night before school and you need to make your jeans look cool. You tie them in knots and bleach them until there are holes in spots making …
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Columbia House taught me everything I know about music
A couple months ago, my husband and I decided to go on a weekend road trip. When we got in the car, I was surprised to find a large Ziploc …
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Gen X then and now: Television
Do you remember how we all used to watch the same thing on the same nights because there were only three or four nationwide channels? Then Your mom is reading …
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Bygone foods of the 70s we are happy not to eat
Perhaps it was because women were coming out of the kitchen and going to work in the 1970s that there was a variety of products sold at the grocery store …
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Gen X hair: then vs. now
It was fun at the time, but let’s face it, some things should never come back… Then You see a guy with long luscious locks and you think “Wow, he …
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Gen X summer: then vs. now
Ahhh… it’s the last long lazy days of summer, but boy have times changed. Then You wake up and want to call your bestie to come over and hang out …
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No Sex Without Samantha in the City
Are you kidding me??? Who doesn’t love a good reboot? I know I do. It’s super fun (sometimes) to see old characters back on the screen at a new point …
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