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In reply to the discussion: Boomers Dine Out While Millennials Cut Back [View all]Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)59. Yes shame on those arrogant high living Boomers.
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Let me tell you what life is like for this boomer. For the last 7 years I have been spending an average of $250 a month to help supplement a dying friend's income. For the last 3 years I have only been working 32 hours a week. Right now I'm about 10 years away from retirement at 71 with about $40,000 in debt. More often than not friends in my age bracket are struggling to get by. Yes some old people have money. They've worked their whole lives if they're lucky but not everybody classified as a boomer is living the high life.
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I live alone, and sometimes I'm just too tired or rushed to put together a meal for one
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2013
#120
This boomer hasn't been out in years to eat dinner. I can't afford to. But I happen
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#4
Me too. My husband loves leftovers. While allot of people will eat junk they buy at work
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#87
Makes sense to me. Millennials still have kids at home, and going out to dinner can be more trouble
MgtPA
Jan 2013
#5
HA. Now I'm always going to think of you as 1Strong*and funny looking*BlackMan, LOL.
bettyellen
Jan 2013
#177
My six were all in their teens at the same time(for 2 years). They are long gone now,
virgogal
Jan 2013
#137
The youngest ones had to shower before bed,the older ones,my husband,and myself in
virgogal
Jan 2013
#165
Boomers must feel more entitled to have things and view luxuries as something they have earned.
RB TexLa
Jan 2013
#9
these millenials would rather we hoard money and deprive them of work, LOL. Stupid.
bettyellen
Jan 2013
#41
I am a Millenial, and I am sick of boomers trashing me. It happened at the
SWTORFanatic
Jan 2013
#53
Well I have three generations below me. My children, grandchildren and my great-grandaughter.
unapatriciated
Jan 2013
#203
It's hard to see that with a pocket book mentality most working class folks have.
Selatius
Jan 2013
#205
oh well, as long as you're playing video games. Youth is wasted on the young, LOL.
bettyellen
Jan 2013
#178
i know some nice gamers, LOL. but not one would point to it with pride as if it makes them a better
bettyellen
Jan 2013
#209
i didn't trash a generation... just those that take the bait on this fake "issue".
bettyellen
Jan 2013
#176
i was replying to Sherm- about the segment of millennials who were whining about this
bettyellen
Jan 2013
#183
well, I appreciate you trying to reach the bitterest millenials, marions ghost....
bettyellen
Jan 2013
#189
No, sounds like they'd rather boomers hoard money and then die, so THEY'LL get it.
mainer
Jan 2013
#110
Next up -- intergenerational warfare. So much better than class war...at least for some.
magical thyme
Jan 2013
#25
Well said, "MT" This Intergenerational Warfare" is being pushed by some Big Interest
KoKo
Jan 2013
#113
No I certainly would not have. Making more money in no way entices me to spend more money
RB TexLa
Jan 2013
#67
austerity brings more of the same. i'm saving but I plan to spend every red cent I have as I exit
bettyellen
Jan 2013
#185
yep, and it's about how they screwed up their marketing- trying to only reach younger people
bettyellen
Jan 2013
#43
start with the part where you spin concentration of wealth as a generational rather than class
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#121
...and always has been. for obvious reasons. & will be when the millenials get old, too. but
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#162
yeah, 30% of people took a generation longer to save up 100K. It's sad only 60% were able to.
bettyellen
Jan 2013
#179
Here comes the new angle - intergenerational warfare so it feels good to vote to raise the Social
flamingdem
Jan 2013
#54
Yup, I've seen it right here on DU, their solution was the classic "we'll fix it later"
TheKentuckian
Jan 2013
#142
I personally don't know any Boomers who are doing well enough to eat out as often as they want....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#103
When I was the millenials' age, I didn't dine out because I didn't have the money.
mainer
Jan 2013
#117
Yes, I spent most of my twenties as a grad student and an unemployed Ph.D.
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2013
#124
TFBad for "Millennials." For Boomers, the 4-BR house was a GOAL; for M's, it's a "Starter."
WinkyDink
Jan 2013
#153
When you are cooking for one or two people, it is sometimes more expensive
Arkansas Granny
Jan 2013
#192
I'm a Gen Xer, I could eat out, but instead save my money to help teenagers in the community
Fight2Win
Jan 2013
#201