Boomers are the most wasteful generation. Their parents would use and reuse anything as long as possible (i.e. wear clothes until they got torn, and then use the fabric as cleaning rags) but boomers just consume for no reason. Maybe it's because they lived through constant economic growth they now have a social pressure to buy shit they don't need. Or experiencing the onset of cheap, single-use Chinese plastic products brainwashed them to toss away and buy new until they die. All the boomers I know, including my own parents, express pride and joy buying new instead of fixing their old stuff. Men and women both do it but in different manners. When I was 12 our lawnmower stopped working so my dad went and bought a new one. Even as a kid I thought it was ridiculous so I biked to a hardware store, got a new spark plug and fixed the old mower, all for 5 bucks. Dad was like "huh, well good job, too bad I already bought a new mower." and he put the old mower in the garage. Took couple years until he agreed to give it away to a relative.