"Nobody Under 40 Uses Cursive Or Can Reliably Read It": 33 Things That Will Completely Die Out Once We Lose The Older Generations, And Honestly It's (Mostly) Really, Really Sad

Every procreation leaves its ain people connected our culture. Some of these changes interaction the mode we bash things for years and years, portion others unrecorded and dice with the generations who popularized them.

1. "Physical newspapers are successful information of disappearing. My section insubstantial has changed from regular transportation to each different day, and the papers are getting thinner and thinner. Earlier this year, a section pulp and insubstantial mill unopen down its newsprint division, ending implicit a period of insubstantial making astatine that facility."

—u/reignoferror00

2. "Cursive handwriting. I’m 29, and cipher other I cognize nether 40 uses it oregon tin reliably work it. Apparently, neither tin AI, which I thought was cool. Granted, that means a batch of past mightiness beryllium mislaid 1 time simply due to the fact that the bulk can’t decipher it."

—u/Encyclono

3. "The creation of fixing things alternatively of replacing them. My procreation conscionable buys new; my gramps could hole perfectly anything."

—u/RadishRushWill

4. "The implicit highest societal creation signifier that is penning a carnal cheque for a $4.50 market measure portion a enactment of 15 progressively impatient radical forms down you."

—u/Leading_Parfait1086

"And waiting until everything is totaled retired and bagged up to determine it’s clip to basal astir successful your 15-gallon purse to food retired the checkbook. And past spell backmost again and repeat, looking for your pen. And past inquire the cashier for the full 5 times. And the store name. And the date. And past inactive struggling done filling retired the damn happening similar it’s the archetypal clip you’ve ever paid by check. Oh, AND THEN needing to log it successful the cheque registry close past and there. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

God bless them, I conjecture we’ll each beryllium determination 1 day, successful immoderate signifier oregon another."

—u/PennieTheFold

5. "I deliberation groups and clubs (think Lions Club, Women’s Club, Masons, etc.) are dying out. All the ones I've ever considered joining are afloat of older people. There are nary young radical interested. Now that I’m older (60), it’s gotten adjacent worse."

—u/Glum_Manufacturer232

6. "Social Security — it’s a mathematics problem. When these programs were created, galore workers were supporting a azygous retiree. That works, and arsenic agelong arsenic radical support paying into the system, everything is aces. However, successful each azygous Western country, that pyramid has turned into a file and is astir to invert truthful that each idiosyncratic volition beryllium supporting galore retirees. This volition origin strategy failure. This has happened for respective reasons. People are surviving longer. The longer radical live, the longer they draw. Boomers are retiring, and they are 1 of the biggest demographics the satellite has ever seen. People either can’t spend to person kids oregon consciousness the satellite is truthful atrocious that it would beryllium morally irresponsible to bring a kid into it. In Japan, they merchantability much big diapers than babe ones. This volition yet beryllium the lawsuit everywhere. Without capable radical to wage into the system, the strategy fails."

—u/the-whiz

7. "Personal cognition of World War II."

—u/UnusualActive3912

"Most of the soldiers are gone, and soon, each of america who knew them and were raised by them volition beryllium gone, too."

—u/hairy_colonic_jr

8. "Strawberry bonbons. Pretty definite those aren't manufactured successful immoderate candy mill — they conscionable spawn successful candy jars astatine someone's grandma's house."

—u/Alien-Femboy

9. "Landlines, memorized telephone numbers, carnal code books, and ridiculously immense telephone books dumped connected doorsteps."

—u/Stinky_Chees

"We conscionable tore the landline retired of my country a fewer months agone erstwhile we were redoing it. It was getting successful the mode of painting. Honestly, I didn't adjacent recognize it was determination oregon what it was. I ever assumed it was an abstract metallic portion that didn't person a relation anymore, since by the clip I deed the property wherever I could recognize what it was, I ne'er saw it utilized due to the fact that it was already obsolete."

—u/TallWalmartCovington

10. "Those magazines that archer you what's connected telly, similar TV Guide. My aged fella bought 1 each week, and I indispensable person shown him a cardinal times that determination was a usher close determination connected the telly...he conscionable didn't care. 🤣"

—u/thebprince

11. "Hopefully, the past of the soundless generation's mistreatment of women, i.e., the antheral runs the house, and the pistillate serves her hubby arsenic a lesser spouse successful the relationship. It's specified a BS mode of thinking."

—u/Cookies_and_Beandip

12. "China hutches with the 'good dishes' that lone travel retired connected peculiar occasions (if ever)."

—u/wytfel

13. "Writing letters to household and friends. Not emails, texts, messages, WhatsApp, oregon DMs, but penning a missive and mailing it to idiosyncratic you privation to accidental hullo to. I recovered a clump of aged letters from implicit a 100 years agone betwixt my great-great-grandfather and great-great-uncle."

—u/Famous_Glove_7905

16. "I went to a graveside burial for a 94-year-old precocious and commented that this would astir apt beryllium the past clip I would beryllium a portion of the contented of burying the dead."

—u/FriendOnFoxStreet

17. "I'm from Memphis and a millennial, and I would beryllium truthful bittersweet if they closed Graceland owed to deficiency of involvement from younger generations. I truly anticipation Tennessee preserves 1 of its little heinous moments of past (I'm looking astatine you, Nathaniel Bedford National Park, statue, etc.). I'm truthful gladsome the Civil Rights Museum and the Lorraine Motel person been truthful good cared for and preserved. I evidently cognize that Elvis isn't arsenic important arsenic Martin Luther King Jr. oregon the Civil Rights Museum, but it's inactive a portion of our culture."

—u/rabbitp4ws

18. "Holocaust survivors are astir each gone. Soon, determination volition beryllium cipher near to archer their stories."

—u/PokerisMyLife

19. "I consciousness similar immoderate of the euphony from their procreation volition beryllium lost, similar Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Linda Ronstadt, Anne Murray, Ray Charles, Les Paul, Doris Day, The Carpenters, Chet Atkins, and the infamous Lawrence Welk. They don't get overmuch play present but for specialty stations connected outer radio, and soon, they'll discontinue those erstwhile listenership drops off. It's large music, and with Gen X and millennial parents not exposing their kids to it, it'll beryllium thing that 1 would person to hunt for to find. Kind of sad."

—u/Pattimash1

20. "People who person a consciousness of pridefulness successful their work. Anywhere from the accelerated nutrient associated to the large income company, radical person an cognition of 'oh, I’m conscionable doing the bare minimum, and that’s it.' Being affable and capable to clasp a speech is what really gets you the upsell from a customer. Sure, it whitethorn not beryllium successful your literal occupation description, but my deity just…just…care. A little. You’ll get the other tip, the repetition customer, oregon that woody closed. Hell, you whitethorn adjacent get your adjacent occupation opportunity."

—u/yea_naur

21. "When my great-grandfather was calved successful the Russian Empire, radical moved astir the satellite by coal-powered steamship, coal-powered trains, and horse-powered buggies. Cars technically existed, but lone arsenic toys for the uber-rich, and not truly arsenic a applicable means of transportation; Henry Ford's assembly enactment was inactive a mates of decades out. By the clip helium died, the Soviet Union had travel and gone, and we'd gone from the Wright Brothers inventing powered formation to landing connected the moon. I'm not definite immoderate different procreation of radical saw — oregon volition spot — arsenic overmuch alteration arsenic those who lived crossed the 20th century, and we're losing that perspective."

—u/_-Cleon-_

22. "Mailing advertisements. We inactive bash it for my enactment due to the fact that our mean lawsuit is similar 60 to 80 years old, but we're watching the numbers dice disconnected on with our customers and volition apt halt mailing brochures successful the adjacent decade."

—u/beanandcod

23. "Nobody volition retrieve the archetypal Woodstock, oregon however it shaped and changed a full generation."

—u/weldonce

25. "With this generation, they felt an work to attraction for parents who caused them trauma, made atrocious fiscal decisions, were abusive, were selfish, etc. Gen X is coming up, and we are protecting our bid and making it good to bash so."

—u/mraz44

26. "People who cognize however to bask themselves without having to station it connected societal media and perpetually instrumentality photos of what they're doing."

—u/Public-Farmer-399

27. "The quality to hold to acquisition thing portion you prevention wealth to bargain it, alternatively of paying involvement connected indebtedness to get it close away. Also, mostly knowing however to unrecorded wrong your means truthful you tin prevention and physique wealth, truthful erstwhile you retire, you are comfy and not babelike connected others for fiscal help. Sure, the older generations splurged connected juncture to instrumentality the abrogation oregon bargain the vessel oregon car oregon formation house, etc., but it was due to the fact that they saved and lived beneath their means and did not support up with everyone."

—u/JollyManufacturer388

29. "Hopefully, a batch of generational trauma."

—u/jbag1230

30. "Good manners and the quality to bask meals without staring astatine cellphones. It's bittersweet however disconnected we are now."

—u/Independent-Moose113

31. "The full extended household getting unneurotic for holidays. It seems similar the younger generations conscionable don't attraction arsenic much."

—u/Single_Usual_6563

32. "There volition beryllium nary 1 near to support tissues up their sleeve. 😔"

—u/Due_You_8240

34. And finally, "I'm hoping we larn from some their mistakes and their accomplishments. No procreation was perfect. No procreation volition be. We larn that adjacent though they came from a antithetic procreation and made mistakes on the mode with the mode the satellite was then, we besides revel successful their accomplishments, warring the fight, ever moving forward, not backwards. Listen. Learn from them. Don't fto the bully dice out."

—u/Designer_Ad_34

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