You Might Just Be a Woman of a Certain Age – Again…
You Might Just Be a Women of a Certain Age – Again…
Editor: Our society loves giving descriptive monikers to the various generational age groups. The beginning of the 20th century gave us the Greatest Generation (1901-1924), and the Silent Generation (1925-1945). most representatives of these two age cohorts have now passed. Currently, the largest age group in the United States are the Baby Boomers; Boomers I (born between 1946-1954) and Boomers 2, sometimes known as ‘Generation Jones’ (born between 1955-1964). After the boomers came the Gen X’ers (born between 1965-1979), the Millennials (born between 1980-1994), Generation Z (born between 1995-2010), and finally Generation Alpha (born between 2010 and 2025). Every generation has its unique memories, see if any of Cate’s memories trigger a smile.
By Cate Rees-Hessel
- If you have ever had a Lilt home permanent…you might be a woman of a certain age.
- If you used Bonnie Bell Ten-O-Six lotion as a teenager…
- If you know what Ten-O-Six lotion actually is…
- If you have spun the bottle…
- If you know why the bottle spins…
- If you played post office at a party, long before DeJoy played with the post office…
- If you used a clothes iron on your hair and still have hair…
- If you ever Naired for short shorts…
- If you wore double belts, shoulder pads, or cloisonné earrings…
- If you still rock big hair and tweeze your eyebrows…
- If you have had a half moon or glass manicure…
- If you know what a half moon or glass manicure is…
- If you remember Perry Mason’s first case…
- If you played the game “Dream Date” and got the dud…
- If you think Patrick Stuart is sexy…
- If you think Eric Estrada is sexy…
- If you think Rick Springfield is sexy…
- 18. If you think President Biden is sexy…
- If your workout routine involved a shaker weight or a ThighMaster (RIP Suzanne Summers)…
- If you owned a Fonzie pillowcase…
- If you know who the Fonz is…
- If you know who the Bay City Rollers were…
- If you have put a tiger in your tank…
- If you know what TV show had a dog named Tiger…
- If you know who Sam the butcher was…
- If you watched the pilot for Murder She Wrote when it first aired…
- If your Velcro rollers got stuck in your Dippity-do hair style…
- If you own multiple sets of hot rollers…
- If you own pink sponge curlers…
- If you know what curlers are…
- If Lady Clairol is an old friend…
- If you ever used Freeze hairspray but now use Biofreeze…
- If you know the lyrics to the song that starts out “There She Is”…
- If you know who Bert Parks was…
- If you gave it a ten because you could dance to it…
- If you still have a tube of Great Lash mascara in your purse…
- If you knew Morris the cat when he was a kitten…
- If you refer to fat-free milk as skim milk…
- If you refer to Spanx as a girdle…
- If you refer to your bra as a brassière…
- If your sports car wore a bra…
- If your first car was T-bird…
- If you had “fun, fun, fun” until your daddy took it away…
- If you take a Jell-O mold to every potluck you attend…
- If you took home economics in high school…Home what you ask?
- If your high school high score earned you a Betty Crocker pin…
- If you ever received a Betty Crocker Home Legion pin for your distinguished service in homemaking…
- If you know Tickle deodorant came in citrus, herbal, floral and unscented…
- If you used Tickle unscented so it didn’t clash with your strawberry perfume…
- If you used Tickle unscented because it clashed with your sweet Honesty perfume…
- If you knew Connie Sellecca was the official spokesperson for Tickle deodorant…
- If you’re tickled pink at my mention of Tickle deodorant…
- If you refer to sex as a pickle tickle…
- If you don’t understand why it’s called pickle ball…
- If you refer to blush as rouge…
- If you own a teasing comb…
- If you ever ratted your hair…
- If you know where Gidget went…
- If you ever watched the Mike Douglas show and knew who his co-hosts were…
If 59 is your actual age, or you’re in the neighborhood, you are a woman of a certain age…
