Been in the news a great deal lately
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Topic: Been in the news a great deal lately
Posted By: DMiller
Subject: Been in the news a great deal lately
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2024 at 4:50am
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Millennials, GenXrs and a few other more recent generations than boomers blaming boomers as they cannot achieve the same level of living as those boomers. Tried to explain this to one of the whiners and failed as would not listen. We grew up Six in a two bedroom 1930s 1400sf bungalow my Grandfather built with Grandparents in a second floor apartment included in that sf. Four boys, Mom and Dad, upstairs the Grands. Dad’s parents, our other grands sold their 1100sf bungalow to afford to retire third tier lake of the Ozarks in a 750sf basement of the house Grandfather intended to construct himself. He as I have got too old to continue so sold that and purchased a Mobile Home with NO AC just as the other homes listed had none. Those living conditions remained so into the late 1960s to early 70s. Mom and Dad bought their own home after saving for years for the downpayment, $24,500 for a 2000sf four bedroom two story in a Cookie Cutter subdivision on 80x100 lots. Our Mom got her first specific for her car the year before as bus service had discontinued where we previously lived for her to get to work. My first job after Ft Knox, US Army, was Ft Scott Ks at a truckline, bought a used Mobile Home that had started out as renting as My First Owned Home. $6500, on a payment plan. Moved back to St Louis a little over a year later, rented from old house flats to actual apartments there, San Leandro CA, Effingham IL, Tulsa OK, Salt Lake City UT. Until married where rented a Nice new apartment in St Peters MO with the wife, then we bought the first fixer upper house in Weldon Springs 960 sf three bedroom ranch built in early 60s bought it during the 13% interest rates of the late 80s. Replaced that with a house closer to both our work places in 2000. Sold it as built here on the farm, performing much of the sweat equity I could as excavating, electrical, backfilling and final grade work. None of the little schitts speaking to actually believed we worked that hard to get what we had. |
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Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2024 at 5:47am
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It doesn't get any better with the teenage generation now. Had a few hired on to help with the farm. One of them lasted about a year and a half and would do what was necessary but nothing else. The others lasted a month or 2 maybe. Got a 14 year old nephew that'll work when he needs/wants something but just to put a little money away, forget it. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2024 at 6:12am
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Most of them now spend more on a wedding than my wife and I paid for our first house and expect a new 2500+ sq. ft. house from the start. Can rarely find any teenagers that are willing to work. Got to brag a little on my granddaughter though, she paid her way through college, graduated debt free and is saving money to buy a house. However she doesn’t mind spending a bit of grandpa’s money every now and then. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2024 at 7:57am
What else are grandpas for Hubert?  ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2024 at 8:38am
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YEP... too many expect to get out of school, have a $100,000 job waiting for them .. 6 weeks vacation every year and "you owe me" at 3000 sq ft house.. and dont forget the $50,000 CAR !! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2024 at 9:24am
| Just read in an advice column, this lady bought her college age daughter an $80,000 BMW but the daughter wanted a $100,000 one so the daughter kicks the car and damages it. The parents took the car to the shop to get it fixed. The daughter says she will quite school if she doesn't get what she wants. The mother was asking what to do. My advice would have been to sell the car and call the kids bluff if she wants to quit school she's on her own. Time for some tough love with these kids instead of giving them stuff. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2024 at 4:47pm
To be grumpy and know things  . But you have to spoil the grandkids at least a little bit. You and your bride are doing a great job of raising your two. Bet they will grow up with their priorities correct. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
thendrix wrote:Posted By: jvin248
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2024 at 6:23pm
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. I remember when the parents of the Boomers complained about their lazy hippy long haired kids. Then the Boomers cut their beards and got into the 80s go go yuppy years. Parents of Gen x called their kids slackers. It is the normal demographic shift. Parents always walked uphill both ways to school in the driving sleet. Then eventually every kid grows up and works hard for their kids to do better than they had it. "Now, get off my lawn!" Lol. .
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2024 at 4:07am
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Problem with the Yuppies is their own Hippie roots keep returning, they still want the Communal Life that they not once EVER managed to Make Work as too hard to do so. Will always be those few that want spoon fed, do nothing to gain anything and still have everything, is what destroyed the Hippie Communes. One saw the others NOT doing anything and still eating, Still getting pleasures against that persons labor or around it so That person also shut down. The bane of Communal Living and Life is the Freeloaders that we will ALWAYS have in society. Those are the ones calling for Economic Equity or Equality or IOW Free Stuff for No Effort. Same problems labored Communism/Socialism into the toilet. Cannot give a Fixed Income to Everyone and expect more than 50-60% to produce the effort to keep things running.
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Posted By: ekjdm14
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2024 at 4:40am
Reminds me of a video I saw once, some little brat got a brand new black ferrari for their 18th. Their response? "I told you I wanted a RED one, you've ruined my whole life!" (with genuine tears of disappointment, the poor poor thing...) Our kids definitely have it better than us here, but we make sure to remind them as much |