Here's how each of the major generations in the US will be celebrating Thanksgiving this year.

1. SILENT THANKSGIVING
• Thankful for Medicare and Social Security
• Thankful they can help their Gen X children
with their grandchildren
• Thankful for Silver Sneakers class at the Y
• Thankful their Boomer nephew won’t be
bringing a tofu turkey this year
• Listening to What a Wonderful World by
Louis Armstrong
• Watching It’s A Wonderful Life after the
Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day parade

2. BOOMER THANKSGIVING
• Thankful for family, but particularly that
their children have finally moved out
• Thankful that their son or daughter is finally
coming home from Iraq or Afghanistan
• Thankful that someone will be here that
can download the Windows 8.1 update
• Thankful for the FDA for approving
Juvederm gel implants
• Listening to Come Together by the Beatles
• Watching The Big Chill after turkey dinner

3. GEN X Thanksgiving
• Thankful for what they have today, not tomorrow
• Thankful they finally have a family and home, even
though they don’t know how they’re going to care
for parents and children at the same time
• Thankful the stores are open so they can leave after
turkey dinner
• Thankful Dad went of town so they don’t have to do
two separate turkey dinners
• Listening to The Thanksgiving Song by Adam Sandler
• Watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles

4. MILLENNIAL THANKSGIVING
• Thankful for Apple, Netflix, Hulu and Snapchat
• Thankful the parents left my room like it was in high
school, because I’m moving back in the spring after I
graduate from college
• Thankful for mom and dad’s healthcare plan,
because I’m on it
• Thankful Mom got the gluten-free bread for dressing
• Want to eat at 4 because they’re serving turkey at a
homeless shelter that morning
• Listening to Thankful by Kelly Clarkson
• Binge watching Season 6 of Breaking Bad on Netflix