A sense of entitlement? For wanting to be able to afford to buy a house? For wanting the things their parents and grandparents took for granted?
Allow them the small pleasures of their iPhones. They're not getting much else.
My kids travel to far away places every year. They eat out a LOT, and always have the latest gadgets. They buy fancy clothes and drive fancy cars. They live in places where the cost of living is some of the highest in the country.
Yet, they blame me and my husband and our Boomer generation for their financial woes, like not being able to afford a house.
I don’t have fancy clothes, cars, trips around the world, or any of that stuff, but we do have a home on an acre and a half of land in a nice little Midwest town. I cook almost every meal. Rarely eat out, maybe once every month or two, and that’s maybe all we eat out.
They act sometimes like we’ve had it easy, and maybe we have, but we sure as hell don’t overspend the budget. We have savings. They make poor financial decisions every day with their lifestyle.
Tired of hearing the complaints.
Took for granted?? My parents both served during WWII. My dad was shot up on Guadalcanal. It was unknown if he would recover enough to be able to work again
My parents grew up during the depression and the Dust Bowl. They took nothing for granted
Losers sit around and complain. Winners go home with the prom queen.
My stepson has saved his 20% down on his own with no help from us and is house shopping right now. He’s 24.
He works his tail off, makes smart decisions, doesn’t waste money, doesn’t give a crap what other people think about that, and has his sights set on the future.
I guess that’s not as much fun as sitting around drinking an $8 latte and complaining about not being able to afford anything on a fruity $1500 laptop. Kinda looks like work to actually do something productive, I know. The prom queen says hi.