online now <| sep |> My bday is on Thanksgiving this year . Getting Thanksgiving dinner with my wife and probably hanging out at Church afterwards . <| sep |> I figured it was more of a multipurpose thing , get your business done and clean up at the same time . <| sep |> I think uIndependent nailed a lot of it , but I ' ll add products , like washing machines , TVs , etc were more reliable . We inherited a blender from grandma that was probably purchased in the ' 50 s and she used it into her 70 s and then we used it for another 10 years , into the ' 90 s . We ' ve gone through 3 blenders in the last 20 years and none of them were as good as grandma ' s . When buying clothing , everyone knew to buy really good quality basics which could then be made more interesting by lower quality , less expensive accessories . Now it seems like all clothing is paper thin , with terrible quality and doesn ' t last more than a single year . I can no longer find the khaki pants or good quality polo shirts I used to wear , even on the internet . More people finished school being able to read at their grade level and do basic math and understand basic science . About half the kids at my high school went into the trades while the other half went to college . Now it seems like more kids go to college but end up working in an unskilled job in the service industry .