my dad took out a reverse mortage on the house

[Anonymous No.53609335]

ill never have a house

[Anonymous No.53609356]

>>53609335
My mom and dad sold the farm that's been in our family for generations, just so they could afford to go on a cruise.

[Anonymous No.53609379]

>>53609335
why?
>>53609356
typical boomers

[Anonymous No.53609468]

>>53609335
>>53609356

Boomers are taking the top spot for worst generation again.

[Anonymous No.53609559]

>>53609335

[Anonymous No.53609825]

My parents got divorced and sold the house to settle debts

[Anonymous No.53609866]

>>53609356
>just so they could afford to go on a cruise.
reminds me britfags and maybe other europoors will know what I'm talking about but there is a whole host of English tv shows centred around boomers selling their family heirlooms and war medals to go on holidays for a fucking weekend

[Anonymous No.53609983]

>>53609866
Lmao British empire really was the top

[Anonymous No.53609987]

>>53609356
>>53609866
Disgusting.

[Anonymous No.53610059]

There's plenty of stories of boomers paying for millenials student loans, utilities, or even mortgages. Let them enjoy their retirement. Fucking younger generations complain about how they can't afford to even buy food, all while having 20 streaming services, new iphone every year, they go to starbucks 5 times a week, they never cook and instead pick up chipotle every day after work and order lunch at the employee cafeteria every day. Cars are more expensive because they all have back up cameras and and electric windows, and built in GPS. Boomers didn't have any cell phones. They had maps. They didn't have 20 streaming services, they had 5 channels and checkers. You have way better of a quality of life than they had, but it comes at a cost, you are all too spoiled to save any money.

[Anonymous No.53610063]

>>53609866
people like that are the only reason some of us are able to have cool antique shit
they are frens

[Anonymous No.53610077]

>>53610059

If millenials lived like it was the 1950s they would have so much fucking money spare.

[Anonymous No.53610096]

>>53610059
>all this shit that i don't own or participate in
>it's my fault that boomers ruined the economy, and wages haven't risen with inflation
a house in LA cost 16k back in the 60s. that same house would be 400k today. i know because my grandparents bought one of those LA starter homes.

[Anonymous No.53610111]

>>53610059
Maybe american millennials are like that. I pirate stuff and don't go to restaurants much, my phone is from 2015.

[Anonymous No.53610137]

>>53610077
tobacco and theater companies would bankrupt us if we lived like it was the '50s

[Anonymous No.53610138]

>>53610077
>if millenials lived like their grandparents
nigger this is so not true. you realize your grandparents paid a handful of change for a full tank, had around 60mil total pop for US never having to compete for work, dirt cheap subsidized food, and the government went out of their way to incentivize home garden projects? there will never be an era like that again, or for a VERY long time, because it was pissed away for future generations.

[Anonymous No.53610149]

>>53610137
if we lived like it was the 50s everyone would be blitzed out of their fucking mind on alcohol.

[Anonymous No.53610161]

>>53610111
no none of us are like that. zoomies with rich parents maybe, or trust fund kids, but your average american youth lives like a slavshit nigger when it comes to procuring any form of entertainment.

[Anonymous No.53610228]

>>53610111
This. Probably closer to the curve of the norm than the strawman that boomers create because they've been seething for 50 years and contempt is probably all that keeps some of them going.

To even begin this talk you got to talk about the rise in asset prices compared to pay, adjusted for inflation. All concepts that escape most boomers completely because many of them simply don't live in the real world or ever figured out how the world actually works. This is why whenever I try to talk to boomers I ask them what year they got their first job, adjust my pay to that year, and use that. Its the only way to get through to them.

Earning 100,000 a year? that is $28,156.02 in 1980.
50,000? That is $22,330.05 in 1990.
150,000 a year? $19,886.90 in 1970

Jan 1, 1980
$3.10 for all covered, nonexempt workers - minimal wage.

or $11.01. Just divide whatever you make by 11, and tell boomers you make "x above minimal wage in Y year"

[Anonymous No.53610241]

>>53610063
they are a good opportunity for a collector, but I don't think someone who can't grasp the importance of such items from their own family and heritage is anybody's fren

[Anonymous No.53610309]

>>53609335
Tom needs it more than you

[Anonymous No.53610333]

>>53610077
if it were like the 50s a new detached home would cost 200k.

[Anonymous No.53610392]

>>53609866
antiques roadshow is my mom's favorite tv show
she likes to covet the items and then is in awe when someone gets a couple grand for some priceless heirloom

[Anonymous No.53610397]

>>53610059
boomers paid hundreds of dollars per month for cable packages when the us dollar had value

[Anonymous No.53610423]

>>53610392
Your mum says cute m8, is she single?

[Anonymous No.53610438]

>>53610397
boomers in Canada still pay 300+ a month for an internet+lan line+email+cell phones+home security package without batting an eye

[Anonymous No.53610450]

>>53610333
>new detached home would cost 200k.
oh sweet anon would you believe me if i told you a two story house would of cost you around 40-60k? same house would be worth 2-3mil today.

[Anonymous No.53610501]

>>53610397
>boomer parents constantly bitching about their $220/month cable bill
>try to convince them to switch to YTTV, which is only $65/month and has all the channels they watch plus other features they use like pause, rewind and DVR
>I sub to it and tell them it's reliable and simple to use, offer to show them how
>they have good, stable internet
>"no we don't trust that streaming stuff it's too hard to learn anyways, we're just going to stick with what we know"
>they continue bitching about their cable bill

[Anonymous No.53610523]

My friend's dad worked as a HANDYMAN for like all his life and bought three homes that way. His wife never worked and was a housewife.

[Anonymous No.53610715]

These threads do not make any sense at all lmao