People Over 35 Are Sharing The Things They Miss That Younger Generations May Never Experience

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“Things built to last.”

–GoldenLadyBits

“More than that… Things were built to be fixed.

We joke so much about how Gen Z doesn’t know how to fix anything, but they’ve literally never owned anything they could fix themselves. Literally every single thing is ‘use and throw’. How are they supposed to learn?

I remember in the ’90s taking my boombox apart, finding out that a few cogs had chipped teeth, riding my bike to the neighbourhood store, finding the right cog in a giant box of cogs and then fixing the boombox. It was a fun summer afternoon. I’m pretty good at fixing stuff, but I can’t do anything if my phone breaks now. Or even my car… You need specialised tools for a fucking oil change.”

–iomegabasha