Thank you. Couldn’t have said it better.
This. My parents tell me “You should just do XYZ yourself, it’s cheaper!” Except, it’s not cheaper in my time spent. They have owned their house for years...because they paid 30k for back in the 70s. That same house would cost about $250k today. Between rising costs and additional expenses they didn’t have when they…
I wish I could retire early (like all the boomers I know). Sadly, at 50, I know I’ll probably never get to experience retirement. But, hey, I hear the 60s were awesome.
I’m from 1978 ... I bridge the Xer -> Millenial gap. And I know it! I lost a lot on my home that’s just come back in the last couple of years. I’ve worked non-stop (in IT). My daughter (1999) works at a bank (and takes side jobs as does her boyfriend who also has two jobs). The stuff lobbed at the newer generations is…
Boomers shouldn’t have voted for Regan, Bush, or those Thousand Points of Light. Those pensions were safe untill they removed all regulations on the banks and tanked the economy.
As a gen x er , we were told we were lazy not too bright. We need to work harder if your not well off your worthless, you must be stupid. Well as many of us are reaching our fifties we are tired just tired. No pensions, if you don’t have 1 million in the bank by such and such your doomed to poverty. I don’t know…
everyone should decide their own minimum safety requirements. i draw the line at headrests. i’m not driving around in anything that will drop my head into the backseat if i get rear-ended. so i wouldn’t buy any of their stupid happy days greased lightning bullshit. those old people can have a great big dumb circlejerk…
I was born in 73. my pops passed, my mom is retired. nobody in my family would presume to tell me how to vote or how to handle my finances. it’s looking like the 2008 meltdown will push my retirement 2-3 years farther down the road than i’d planned, but there’s still time for the planet to explode or whatever. who…