how the generations celebrate thanksgiving

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SILENT THANKSGIVING •Thankful for Medicare and Social Security •Thankful they can help their Gen X children with their grandchildren •Thankful for Silver Sneakers class at the Y •Thankful their Boomer nephew won’t be bringing a tofu turkey this year •Listening to What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong •Watching It’s A Wonderful Life after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade

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Here's how each of the major generations in the US will be celebrating Thanksgiving this year.

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Page 1: How the Generations Celebrate Thanksgiving

SILENT THANKSGIVING

• Thankful for Medicare and Social Security• Thankful they can help their Gen X children

with their grandchildren• Thankful for Silver Sneakers class at the Y• Thankful their Boomer nephew won’t be

bringing a tofu turkey this year• Listening to What a Wonderful World by Louis

Armstrong• Watching It’s A Wonderful Life after the Macy’s

Thanksgiving Day parade

Page 2: How the Generations Celebrate Thanksgiving

BOOMER THANKSGIVING

• Thankful for family, but particularly that their children have finally moved out• Thankful that their son or daughter is finally

coming home from Iraq or Afghanistan• Thankful that someone will be here that can

download the Windows 8.1 update• Thankful for the FDA for approving Juvederm

gel implants• Listening to Come Together by the Beatles• Watching The Big Chill after turkey dinner

Page 3: How the Generations Celebrate Thanksgiving

GEN X Thanksgiving

• Thankful for what they have today, not tomorrow• Thankful they finally have a family and home, even

though they don’t know how they’re going to care for parents and children at the same time

• Thankful the stores are open so they can leave after turkey dinner

• Thankful Dad went of town so they don’t have to do two separate turkey dinners

• Listening to The Thanksgiving Song by Adam Sandler

• Watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Page 4: How the Generations Celebrate Thanksgiving

MILLENNIAL THANKSGIVING

• Thankful for Apple, Netflix, Hulu and Snapchat• Thankful the parents left my room like it was in high

school, because I’m moving back in the spring after I graduate from college

• Thankful for mom and dad’s healthcare plan, because I’m on it

• Thankful Mom got the gluten-free bread for dressing• Want to eat at 4 because they’re serving turkey at a

homeless shelter that morning• Listening to Thankful by Kelly Clarkson• Binge watching Season 6 of Breaking Bad on Netflix