baby boomers

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celticeagle @celticeagle (190005) • Boise, Idaho 31 Dec 23

Well, besides me...haha. When we baby boomers go there are a lot of things that will be gone too. Do You Use Checks Anymore? I have a checking account but I can't remember the last time I used a check. I got a check a few weeks...

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Baby boomers?

Ritz100 @Ritz100 (1169) • Yecla, Spain 7 Nov 21

Who on here is a baby boomer, ie born in the late 50's early 60's? Did you ever think you would witness what we are seeing in the world today? It all seems a bit beyond belief!

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Some People Just Cannot Retire!

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40851) • Laguna Woods, California 10 May 18

When I retired four years ago, I had already been living in an Over-55 community for over 10 years. As a result, my transition to retirement was very easy. For some of my friends who do not live in a retirement community,...

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Jail as a Retirement Plan?

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40851) • Laguna Woods, California 19 Mar 18

I read today on the FiveThirtyEight Newsletter that one in five women in Japanese prisons are senior citizens. They are intentionally committing minor crimes so they will go to jail and find "community and stability." In doing...

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Never realized how resourceful YouTube was...

Teresa Trotter @teresatrotter (4073) • Jacksonville, Florida 4 Feb 18

I have heard of YouTube for years, and watched many things over the years. But it has only been recently...that I have realized how resourceful it is. Especially...since I am utilizing this app from my ROKU 2 player, more. I...

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What is your generation called?

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 8 Jan 18

Maybe it is only in the US that someone many years ago started naming the generations. The names, here, at least, seem to be based upon what that generation did as adults. The "Greatest Generation," born between 1910 and 1924...

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Learning More About Retirement

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40851) • Laguna Woods, California 20 May 16

As the author of the Baby-Boomer-Retirement blog, I try to stay up-to-date on all the latest retirement information. Today, MyLot member @ElizabethWallace and I attended the Orange County Senior Summit. It was fun spending the...

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nursing homes and care

hoseasmate @hoseasmate (720) • United States 2 Nov 12

I'm new to mylot and I'm really surprised to see so little posted in this forum on nursing homees. What is posted seems to from long ago. As babyboomers age, I think that there will be a greater focus on care for the elderly. I...

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Baby Boomers are any of you ready to retire?

sunshine007 @sunshine007 (100) • United States 9 Aug 12

I had just read a blog out there on the world wide web about how baby boomers lets just say old folks are working by choice up to the age of 67. The old norm was 60 now they're working up until they are 67. Some for economic...

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Majority of American nowadays live past 90, is this a good news or bad news?

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 20 Nov 11

The recent I am asking about this question is, it is mostly related to retirement with the comfort of financial security. With improved health conditions, and the advanced medical breakthrough in many fields, nowadays, from the...

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Social Security - Who Believes It Still Exist?

mysticmaggie @mysticmaggie (2498) • United States 1 Feb 11

The baby boomers are all retiring. Far too many thought Social Security would be their retirement fund. That is not and never was what it was for. It was a small supplement to retirement. And when it began, there were something...

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Your thoughts on SUICIDE! (oops! no don't give it a thought!)

canaussie @canaussie (221) • Australia 30 Sep 10

Do you have suicidal tendency or know anyone who attempted suicide? If you belong to the baby boomer generation, most likely you have given suicide a thought. According to statistics, there's an unprecedented number of suicides...

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2007 more babies were born then the baby boomers

JHawkin214 @JHawkin214 (279) • United States 20 Mar 09

I was reading an artical this morning on Delaware Online. The artical said that there were 4,317,119 births in 2007, in the United States. That number tops the record set in 1957 at one of the highest of the baby boomer...

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How many of us MyLotter's are Baby Boomers???

sanjo0679 @sanjo0679 (225) • United States 18 Sep 08

It appears, to me that is, that the majority of mylotters are of the current generation. I know that during the day a lot of people are at work but are there many baby boomers here? For those youngsters that have no idea what I'm...

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Baby Boomers!

estherlou @estherlou (5015) • United States 17 Jun 08

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time! Check it out! http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-walt-babyboomers-blurb,0,1036393.blurb

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What are All You Baby Boomers Doing?

freecashtrek @freecashtrek (20) • United States 11 Apr 08

WOW! Life creeps up really fast! Last time I looked, my kids were in diapers. Now, empty-nesters, my kids are all grown with kids of their own. Life was so good when the kids were growing up, we would never get old - ( I still...

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Baby Boomers – Coming of Age or What I'm Going To Do When I Retire

terilee79720 @terilee79720 (3621) • United States 13 Mar 08

I’ve been reading a lot about baby boomers lately. I find myself being a part of the largest group of people in history. Baby Boomers are the generation of people who were born between 1946 and 1964. The oldest baby boomers are...

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What baby boomers like and dislike?

polachicago @polachicago (18716) • United States 11 Feb 08

Baby boomers are 43-61. We were born in the happiest time. We are growing older. We like working from home and anti-aging supplements. We dislike wrinkles and social security insecurity. We like music from 60’s and...

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Can You Afford to Retire?

whittby @whittby (3072) • United States 23 Jan 08

Well, my husband are at that happy realization that we can't afford to retire. Savings, what little there is, and social security are not going to cut it. How disappointing? The baby boomers were spenders. Anyone out there is this...

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Baby Boomers

carolbee @carolbee (16230) • United States 29 Oct 07

I'm guilty. Am one of those baby boomers and love it. Please let me hear from all the "boomers," what they have accomplished in their lives and what they are doing now. Many of us are retired but I still work. Keeps me young and...

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