I kindly asked my teller if she had some mutes...

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robbiegal

ha ha it is true!!  
Baby boomers are people born during the demographic Post–World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964 (thank-you Wikkie)

this year my coin dealer is being swamped with the offspring of the baby boomers bringing in the decimal junk that mum or dad has had tucked away in cardboard boxes under the bed
they have either - kicked the bucket or the adoring offspring are tossing them into nursing homes
I have been at the local coin show when the adoring offspring are there with the bags of stuff and grizzling about their parents 'junk 'that they have to sort through to get them outta the house and into the nursing home

hey - I just found out that there is also a 'generation jones'
which are the late baby boomers!! never heard  of it before

FYI!!

Generation Jones is a term coined by the author Jonathan Pontell to describe the cohort of people born from approximately 1954 to 1965.[1][2][3] Pontell defined Generation Jones as referring to the last years of the post–World War II baby boom.[4] The term also includes first-wave Generation X.

The name "Generation Jones" has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a "keeping up with the Joneses" competitiveness and the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", meaning a yearning or craving.[5][6][7][8] It is said[by whom?] that Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the 1960s, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age during a long period of mass unemployment and when de-industrialization arrived full force in the 1970s and 1980s, leaving them with a certain unrequited "jonesing" quality for the more prosperous days in the past. The generation is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of the population had come immediately preceding them; thus, many Generation Jones members complain that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to Baby Boomers born earlier. Therefore, there is a certain level of bitterness about and a "jonesing" for the level of freedom and affluence granted to older boomers but denied to their generation.[9]

nealeffendi

People born in '46 are only 68,those from '64 are turning 50. Hardly the prime age for nursing homes and 6' under.
More likely the boomers are downsizing as the kids leave the nest and they have to offload all the stuff left over from cleaning out their own parents houses over the past decade.
I'm a boomer and the youngest of 5, none of us has retired and our parents are not in nursing homes.

trout

I am a baby boomer and an orphan But I am nowhere near retirement home fodder nor will I ever likely to be :yahoo:
Aim well to enjoy life. You only get One shot at it.
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Coins from Vending

Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='46081' dateline='1396852539'
Quote from: 'Coins from Vending' pid='46078' dateline='1396846242'Armagaurd twice a week.

TWICE a week??? Where on earth is this????

A major bank towards the southern end of The Gold Coast

Fulvio

Quote from: 'Coins from Vending' pid='46096' dateline='1396863480'A major bank towards the southern end of The Gold Coast

That's it.. I'm coming for a drive. Soon as I can break out of this nursing home and find the keys to my mobility scooter that is. ;)
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nealeffendi

Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='46098' dateline='1396866982'
Quote from: 'Coins from Vending' pid='46096' dateline='1396863480'A major bank towards the southern end of The Gold Coast

That's it.. I'm coming for a drive. Soon as I can break out of this nursing home and find the keys to my mobility scooter that is. ;)

Watch out for the speed cameras as you head North. Don't want another fine do we.:taunt:

robbiegal

Quote from: 'nealeffendi' pid='46091' dateline='1396859035'People born in '46 are only 68,those from '64 are turning 50. Hardly the prime age for nursing homes and 6' under.
More likely the boomers are downsizing as the kids leave the nest and they have to offload all the stuff left over from cleaning out their own parents houses over the past decade.
I'm a boomer and the youngest of 5, none of us has retired and our parents are not in nursing homes.

humm, would beg to differ based on my everyday evidence
you obviously don't work where I do
in health
not every over sixty year old is a picture of good health
but pleased to know that you and yours are!
less customers for the likes of myself

yeah yeah guys
off topic
but not really

runway

We all have different contacts and means to get coins n notes
Buy what gives you enjoyment

Fulvio

Quote from: 'nealeffendi' pid='46099' dateline='1396870378'Watch out for the speed cameras as you head North. Don't want another fine do we.:taunt:

:P It was in Box Hill.
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