Name an item/items that Boomers bought or use that will be gone when they are gone. My pick are those God awful Thomas

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173. Thank you. Ramble on all you want. One of my degrees is in Art Ed K-12. When I looked at his paintings and thought to

myself that I would like to live in one of those homes and cottages. But then I looked at the environment surrounding it and to me that was a turn off. I don't know why but it made me not like or want his paintings. I live near a mail that had a Thomas Kincade Gallery Store. It had a fireplace in the front with fake burning logs. The store quickly came and went. I have from my dentist a refrigerator magnet with the dentist's name and number with, you guessed it, a Kincade cottage in the background. I still have have it. Years ago, I think it was the Hallmark Channel, did a movie on his early career and how he changed his style. He didn't want to be the Starving Artist.Hallmark, of course , did not show the ending of his career and how it the "art" was saturated with his art. 60 minutes as did a special on him, How if all he did was paint one thing on the canvas-a leaf. it was considered a Kincade painting. It ended with his arrest at Disney for lud behavior after peeing on Winnie the Pooh. His stores owned not by Kincade but by private ownership were claiming bankruptcy , QVC dropped him and he went into an alcoholic downward spiral.and died. At his peak, his work was everywhere. Also. I watched QVC and he would constantly drop religious ideas into his showtime. Being saved,etc, etc. But people bought it up. 60 Minutes showed homes with five of his paintings per room. When they were asked by Ed Bradley if they knew he actually didn't paint these, that there was one original in each of the sweat shop and about twenty young boys copying them. they said that wasn't true. Heck after each was painted, KI used to joke withincade would sign his name. It was then a Kincade. They never called it an original, because it wasn't. I used to joke with my husband that the frames were more valuable then the paintings. I think who ever were his marketers were geniuses and the American people ate it up.Sorry to ramble.