Thread: Generational trends?

I've begun to notice something and would like to work it out publicly. With Dovo reporting an increase of straight razor sales seven time larger than a decade ago, we're left with the 'why'. I happen to think that the driving force here is generational. In particular, in the last twenty-five years or so, I can highlight several trends that can directly (or more likely indirectly) can be affiliated with the Generation-X folks here between about 27-40 (if your parents were baby boomers, then you're a Gen-X'er).

1982 Video Games: market share of arcades and arcade games are almost entirely funded by those in between ten and twenty years of age.

1994 Cigars: As an increasing number of Gen-X'ers begin to enter their twenties, they take interest in something different than what their parent may or may not have smoked (shame on you guys I'm talking about cigarettes). The cigar boom lasted about what, five years?

2004 Homes: As the Gen-X'ers enter their thirties and begin their own families, they have an influx of spendable income and many buy their first or second homes...prices increase and lending practices change in order to accommodate as many buyers as possible leading to an economic downturn.

2007? Razors: A larger percentage of Gen-X as they near fourty are beginning to contemplate their role in society and turn to razors as a means to reconcile their own age and to connect with their grandparents.

On a slightly related note, I've also noticed trends of excess following larger conflicts:

My great-grandparents
1914-1918 WWI
1920's: excess

My grandparents
1940's: WWII
1950's: excess

My parents
1960's: Vietnam
1970's: excess

The Gen-X'ers really didn't have a 'great conflict'. I was a senior in high school during the first gulf war and too old for the second, but the time during our 20's, I didn't see any excess until the home buying trend just a few years ago...which would be nearly a decade late from the 1990's where it should have been (that being when most Gen-X'ers were in their twenties)

I don't know...maybe I'm just feeling philosophical today. I'd be interested in finding out what everyone thinks of my rambling...