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Let me help you cross the street.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ok-boomer

Someone in the chans and reddit used it as a retort, then it went on to twitter and boomers got all butthurt, this spread what is now boomer memes.

my goal is to spend my last dime just before I die.  My wife doesn't quite get the concept.

I want to enjoy the fruits of my labor. Money I earn but don't spend is a wasted effort.

I’m with the Swedish school teacher.

Gen Xer here and when we were kids our parents and grandparents wore shirts like this...



Millennials think everything is happening to them for the first time because they don’t understand history in context.  We’ve solved “racism” and “sexism” like three freaking times over the last 50 years but now it’s different...

Sugarbear, leave me your commemorative ball peen hammer plz. I'm your favorite arf nephew

The problem with inheritances is that the kids that most need the money are usually the ones that have demonstrated they are most likely to squander it. The kids that are doing well financially on their own have shown that they are capable of making it on their own in the world. I''m currently helping one of the former because she's trying to better her life by starting a business instead of being a welfare mom. She's put herself in a hole financially by popping out babies right and left.

I agree with OP. I'm 32 and warned my parents that whatever they leave me, I'm going to donate to their least favorite charity. They worked hard for their $ they should enjoy it. I'll make mine on my own.

Are you on SSDI for a TBI?

A lot of boomers have nothing to pass on. They failed at life so hard that during a great economic boom they managed to leave themselves poor today.

Maybe Walmart will send their kids a nice card for the service when they finally keel over lol

No I am not on either, yet. And yes I have stuff to pass on. A millennial claiming boomers leave nothing to pass on is almost priceless! That is the pot calling the kettle black.

It’s a fine line to walk. Lots of opinions on how to do that. I’ll try to use my parents methods as a foundation.

us dirty snowflake millennials forced the boomer generation to hand us those participation trophies!

then boomers told their children's generation to jUsT GeT a DeGrEe...but those degrees were from faculties infested by boomer commie profs

leave it to your genx kids tho

Depends on how much you get and still paints with that big brush you don’t like. I have a number of wealthy relatives, unfortunately not born on their side. One branch of the family the parents were real estate investors and had multiple commercial units that they used to support the their kids. I believe both sons became tradesmen just to do something in their spare time. They worked sporadically at their leisure. Other branch owned multiple nursing homes. One of the kids my age works running them now. Despite being born into decent wealth none of them are fuck ups. Building generational wealth has given them a life life of luxury. Don’t see anything wrong with it...

Lol, no. I'm just laughing that -some- boomers were so shit at life they have to rely on a check from the government every month and will vehemently defend "their right" to that money... like it's a 401k they paid into

They paid into it just like a 401K?

I'm sorry if you don't feel it's not worth fighting for? Or are you talking about people that never paid in and get the check...that I'd agree with you about.

No, they paid a tax and planned on using a government welfare program later

I'll at least leave them the hundred or so guns I bought solely with my free gun and ammo fort per month SS check

So let me get this straight. They pay into SS as taxes but when it comes time to collect it turns into free loading welfare?

My kids will inherit the family 50 acres, one son and his wife lives with my FIL and will get his home.

After the others retire one will get my home and the others will have a place to retire.

My oldest will get control with the conditions the land is never sold. Only 1.5 acres of the land has ever had a mortgage on it.

Its divided into four parts equaling over 50 acres.

Money wise they are on their own as I am spending it all

Hopefully my last too will have a Mil retirement, but the oldest two have a decent VA disability check.

Yep. I'll never collect it or unemployment out of principle

I don't "expect" anything from my parents.  If they choose to provide something on their passing, I shall be grateful.

I'd much rather they be around

For what it's worth, I like shitposting in boomer threads, but I've seen your posts in a bunch of them and you sound like a good, down to earth guy. Not all boomers are ok boomers. I was lucky, and my parents resisted most of the malicious programming that the boomers were subjected to. And even if they lost every penny they have, I'll do my best to make sure they live out their lives in dignity.

For those that are...
Life has stages, and you have to accept moving between those stages to get anything positive from them. It's like the married man with kids who is always wishing he could go chase girls at the bar again. Happiness is right in front of his face but he refuses it for a fetishized version of a time in his past. Elders used to have a place in the cycle of a family, one that was important and honored. They were the keepers of tradition, who passed it along to their grandchildren, while the adult children maintained the labor and work of the family. It was a point of pride for a man if he could build so much during his life that his children would have a solid base to build on. As grandkids got older, they had a role in helping to take care of the grandparents - if grandma fell down, little Suzie would go for help. And, the childcare from trusted family members allowed the parents to work and produce what was needed for the family. It may not be a "glamorous retirement", but it had meaning and purpose and most importantly, people.

The boomers as a generation have thrown that away. Not all of them (and those who haven't, I think, have their reward for it). But many boomers will die alone, surrounded by nothing but their toys. And because they have nothing else to cling to, they imagine that their children - the ones who should be with them in their sunset - only want to get their toys. So they lash out at the people they've pushed away.

Just stop. Call your kids, tell them you love them, ask them if you can be a part of their lives. Pull your grandkids out of daycare and sell your RV and see if your old creaking bones don't feel a little bit lighter after watching a toddler discover the world for the first time.

This guy knows how to boomer the right way. I hope someday I'm in a position to do the same for my children.

My boomer parents inherited a pretty nice chunk of money.

HA! Leave wealth?!?

Most retired boomers I know are dependent on their millennial kids.

Just stop asking for money and take care of yourself and we'll call it even

Is that gene5?

I'm the same about running my pie hole a little bit in these boomer threads. But I'm trying to be better Ringo, I'm trying real hard.

But yeah good post overall. Especially the part about fading boomers imagining that their kids just want the toys. I hadn't really thought of it that way but the comment seems insightful on its face.

Thank God my parents are atypical boomers too. They've helped their kids have better opportunities than they had themselves, and my siblings and I are trying to do the same for our kids. Funnily enough my boomer dad despises the boomer generation in general.

Did COVID get Boomer Gene?

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My millennial daughter gets everything I own.
House, vehicles, guns, money.
Everything.
She's not only smart but she doesn't hate me unlike so many other millennial ghouls on this site does with their own parents and grandparents.

If she was like some on this site I would make sure the money went to hell first.

it's almost like good parenting is important

If you do, get the EE thread pinned to the top of GD so we all have a shot.

Fitting.

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Real easy answer. You actually have a good loving respectful relationship with your daughter. Compared to my mother and grandmother who forged my name on loan documents for their house, got me kicked out of apartments when I told them no, forced me to get a useless degree and generally enjoyed a 30 year rampage.

Your daughter loves you because you haven’t burned her down. Your actions say that you have her best interest at heart.

That’s really the problem with these boomer vs millennial threads. A ton of boomers are bluntly POS self centered jack wagons that need to die from a light beer virus.

me too and told my parents as much.

I don’t think anyone will care if they don’t get your old sportster and the remaining balance on your EBT card when you kick off.

haha