Lol my boomer grandma "cooks" by buying instant meals and putting them in the oven and can't sew or fix small stuff around the house at all. My gen X parents and me (a zoomer) are I think more interested in DIY stuff than boomers who have a "buy and discard" mentality. But of course not all of them, I feel like this is less of a generation thing and more about where you grew up, your socioeconomic status as well as your general knowledge and willingness to learn. I see people of all generations throwing away fixable stuff, or wasting money by eating at overpriced restaurants because they can't cook, or buying unethical fast fashion because they don't want to get stuff at thrift stores and then make the necessary fixes/changes, etc. I think it's all about your willingness to learn new things. It's not even hard to operate a sewing machine, or to cook from scratch, or Google how to fix something. But many people regardless of generation assume it to be too difficult and never learn.
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