Raised on hose-water and neglect

This is dumb, i think im gen X. The greatest generation is yours, which everone that happens to be.
-peace

Same things Boomers experienced

Last generation to survive without WiFi and cellphones.

Try being at the end of the Boomer generation. My parents rarely knew where i was. We were busy surviving. Dreams? Mine was to get out of the house anyway possible.

I'm a millennial and i grew up this way. Some of us are in our forties 🤦 Gen X wasn't the last to do any of these things.

This sounds like my childhood. I am a Baby Boomer so I guess we raised our kids close to our own experiences. It could have been worse.

Born in 70.....forgive me, but I really thought the "street lights" curfew was just a black thing... 😳

Or Dad whistled for you. The special family whistle that froze you in your tracks and turned you towards your house immediately!!!

Absofuckinglutely!!!! Gen-Xer here, and we lived the good life... Unlike the kids nowadays!

I loved hose water, running barefoot through the neighborhood with friends, chasing fireflies, getting dirty, making mud pies, spending hours on my landline phone, wrapped up in the long ass cord. I miss camping in the backyard with my brother, swimming in our green pool, cuz mom never treated the water... 😂

I miss the days of collecting stickers in my sticker book, waiting for Friday, to watch TGIF. I miss MTV for what it used to be! Mostly, I miss real conversations, and people not always glued to devices that make the overall population more dumb. I miss sanity ...

Yeah, normalized abuse and neglect was rampant, and still is.

I started working my first job at night, went to school, and owned my first car when I was 14. 1972 Plymouth Duster, it was green

Gen X here. Worked since i was 15, played outside until the sun went down, and learned to handle my own business from a young age. my parents were freaking awesome and supportive but they taught me how to survive from a young age.

Millennial here: did all of these things. 😂

My first job was at 11. I sold scratch cards door to door. I had to work out how much I'd made and deduct my percentage. It worked out at 2 pence per card. I could look back at it romantically but there is no way I would have my little girl knocking on the doors of stranger for a couple of quid. Not worth the risk.

Boomers did that before genxer

This is very true. I think most of the Gen X people I know they all became alcoholics or drug addicts. Lol

Absolutely 💯

When someone wanted to fight, they met up at the edge of town in a grassy place. Everybody else stood in a circle around them. They'd punch each other, and ask each other if they had enough. Whoever said "enough" was the loser, they shook hands, and then we all went home.

Half of Sienfeld episodes would not have worked if they had cell phones.

The last generation to be diplomatic and civilized and not self-centered and self-entitled

What are you talking about? GEN X ? You mean GEN Jones.

Wow you must be so proud of yourselves. Look at you now, posting shorts and til toks like the new generations lol.

This is so dumb. I was born in ‘91 and all these things were still happening. Am I special too? Seriously, who cares? And how does experiencing any of these things make you difunctional? As if using a landline or playing until the sun goes down is equivalent to crossing the Himalayas to make it to school. You want to feel important? Do something now, regardless of what year or decade you were born in.

I would argue it was like this for us until the late '90's when Columbine, the Internet in full force, and cell phones really tore our youth away from us...

Sounds like boomers! Sorry!

PRE PARTICIPATION TROPHIES. GET OFF YOUR ASSES PUSSIES YOUR MOTHER IR THE LAWN SERVICE SHOULDN'T BE CUTTING THE GRASS. LAZY POS!!!

I was born in 93 and also raised outside. More than yall actually. As a matter of fact. Millennials the most versatile generation, not only were we raised outside but we also assimilated to the rise of tech. We had both. So yes we can survive if we go back or even if we go forward.

All facts. Especially the fighting - now these knuckleheads gotta have a weapon, and innocent people pay the price.

Dumb, super dumb. I’m 60, this is too dumb to even bother trying to fix. Ugh, the internet is a voice for many ignorants

Gen x is now all in therapy for every nightmare trauma imaginable

Brother im 28 and this is all true for me. What are you talking about.

Born in 1968 - paper route, pet sitting, yard work, baby sitting and lifeguarding were my income sources. We built a skateboard ramp at the end of the street and ran around in the corn field. At 16, I went to Zimbabwe as a Rotary exchange student. My life was an adventure and I thank my parents all the time for allowing me to live and take chances. I also played soccer and baseball on the boys' teams! I owe my lack of compliance to BS to the spirit of growing up in the 70's.

I think these things added character to us. We had to be problem, solvers, and figure out things on our own.

Will history recognize Gen X as the generation that 'took the hit so that others had a shot'? I doubt it.
But recognition is not why we took the hit.

I started babysitting at 11 years old..told to “get the f**k out” if I or my siblings wanted to go in the house. Hose water, koolaid and peanut butter and jam on white..

I am irish descent gen x. We have irish alzheimers...we forget everything BUT a grudge!

As a GenX parent....my kids went OUTSIDE!

Damn, you Gen-Xers got lamp lights telling you when to go home?

Young Boomer, I taught my GenX and Millennials the ropes, their Genz and Alphas aren't really out doirsy at all. I figured I'd help them out for the summer 😉😁

Millenials did all this too

I don't know what ended with Gen X, but none of these things were it. I'm an '84 millennial. I had to be in when the streetlights came on. In the summer, earlier than that since the sun was still up at 9pm. I was a latch key kid at age 7. I made my own dinner, took my bath, cleaned up, left my homework on the kitchen table to be checked, and hung the outfit I picked for school the next day on the door so my mom could make sure I wasn't going to look raggedy. We played in the street and would scatter when we hit someone's car with a ball and the alarm went off. We played in the woods and learned from experience the difference between poison ivy, poison sumac and poison oak. We waded barefoot in the creek and caught tadpoles. We hunted for caterpillars to see who could find the biggest one. There were masses of butterflies and fireflies instead of one or two. I had my first babysitting job at 11. He was 2 years old and I made one hundred dollars a week. As soon as I turned 13 and 9 months, I went and got a work permit. We looked for "Help Wanted" signs and the applications were still paper. We fought with our fists and everybody lived. We ran home for TRL and watched Pop-up Video on VH1 marathons on rainy days. Getting you butt whipped wasn't a euphemism and when we got punished, it was real. Weeks of no outside, t.v or video games. We still used blank cassettes to record the Top 10 and were sad when we didn't have money to buy AA batteries for our walkman. We had a WordUp and Seventeen magazine posters. We walked, ran or biked if we wanted to get somewhere. We ripped holes and had grass stains on our clothes from falling or climbing fences. We even smelled like "outside". Millennials were there too. Y'all weren't alone.

Is Gen X okay??

I'm a little bit older than you, and I know you speak the truth. I like the "latchkey and landlines" part. It made me smile. In my family I was punished for not being home on time, had a job from age 9 and up, which paid for household bills, and suffered plenty at school. My younger siblings went through life easier, but not easy. I appreciate your reflection on the era. Nicely done.

‘75 here. I love these Gen X videos— and the Pixies.

All true

If you stretch out a long black hose back and forth in a pattern on the lawn in the sun, you’ll have a warm shower for a minute in a pinch. Can’t learn that on an ipad

I was born in last year of baby boomers. We survived family road trips lying under the back car window and getting those heavy metal spiked lawn darts as birthday gifts. Lol

Wait, are ppl thinking this was a totally amazing way to grow up? Yes, we def had some carefree times and thank god no social media, but they’re oblivious to the lack of parental interest here … out of the house all day, being hollered at to come inside, having to get jobs at a young age, having to literally fight it out. Ppl sure like to romanticize the past … interesting how us Gen Xers raised our own kids tho 🤔

Omg! That’s exactly it! My mother was famous in my neighborhood for screaming to go home and im one of the last generation of gen x

Born 79. Started working in 6th grade. My dad was the parent that let me stay out till dark. My mother never let me have friends or go outside. She still had me raise myself, I was just inside all the time.