Thirty-something

Twenty- and thirty-somethings will gladly do the work you used to do, and probably for less money.

What's different about Skate-N-Fun Zone this morning are the skaters, mostly thirty-something women on skates pushing strollers. Toddlers, not teenagers, circle the rink.

Tripp is only one of several local “failure-to-launch” sons, thirty-something men still living at home.

Thirty-something men with slicked-back hair and bowling shirts, on dates with young women with pearl necklaces, bobs and tattoos.

Although I can still lay claim to thirty-something, I saw a glimpse of such a grim future recently when my cat came down with the sniffles.

The nostalgia epicenter is the baby boomers, who grew up as cars came into their own as a mass-market, affordable entity. “Thirty-something is when people start collecting,” said Mr. Checchia, of the Franklin Mint.

Thirty-something, she proves, is not too early for a retrospective, which is, after all, just a way of taking stock of where you are.