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Laura Bogart

3 Money Habits Boomers Think Are Normal but Are Making Them Broke

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Baby boomers might be the generation that others love to hate — or at least resent — but people forget that they came of age during tumultuous times of their own. Going from flower children to embracing ’80s excess before finding themselves befuddled by grunge and all the genuinely bizarre slang of the next generations (“bae” or “skibidi” just don’t hit the way “groovy” did) wasn’t easy.

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