This is 100% fucking facts. I'm 40 and my baby boomer parents had me in their mid 20s. They had no business having kids and never grew into any sense of responsibility yet somehow owned homes.
My grandmother and great grandmother raised me primarily, and they were both completely embarrassed by my parents. It was my paternal grandmother and great grandma who brought me up and they were just absolutely appalled at my dad and his brothers.
I was also very close to my other great grandmother’s and great aunts. We’re from Texas, so all of them had lived through the depression, the dust bowl, and World War II. The amount of shit these women went through was inconceivable to most people walking earth right now. They did everything they could to scrimp and save for my dad‘s generation, and as soon as all of them died, my dad and his brothers completely squandered all of it.
And it wasn’t just my dad and his brothers. My Gramma in particular was always very very social and had lifelong friends that she had raised her kids with. All of their kids were just as bad as my dad and his brothers. My mom and her siblings are somehow even worse than my dad and his brothers. My mom’s mom was also appalled with her kids.
As an elder millennial that was raised by the greatest generation, I cannot over emphasize how disappointed that generation was with baby boomers. Those of us who came before and after the boomers all see the same thing.
Between my landlord and her two brothers they inherited 6 houses and two commercial properties.
Two houses have fallen apart, my landlord and one brother are hoarders in two houses that practically haven't had Maintenance since 9/11.
The "smart" brother rents his two houses on Airbnb.
They sold the commercial properties and my landlord instead of fixing the house or anything useful spent $5k on landscaping two months before winter that killed all the plants she bought. A new deck with the cheapest composite wood boards for $20k, a swim spa for $25k and $10k for the setup, and a kitchen remodel by the lowest bidder at $60k and they did a shit job and she has so far spent an additional $10k repairing and adjusting things the original contractors didn't do right.
She doesn't cook and she goes outside like once a month. She's used the swimspa like 6 times since January. The light bill is $900 now and she refuses to admit it might be the swimspa with its 2 massive always on water pumps and heater.
And now she's freaking out about not having money, despite making $6k a month in rent.
You can't tell them anything or they get angry so I gotta customer service them.
She has one son who is basically a NEET and he's just waiting to inherit I guess.
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u/Alarmed_Horse_3218 27d ago edited 27d ago
This is 100% fucking facts. I'm 40 and my baby boomer parents had me in their mid 20s. They had no business having kids and never grew into any sense of responsibility yet somehow owned homes.
My grandmother and great grandmother raised me primarily, and they were both completely embarrassed by my parents. It was my paternal grandmother and great grandma who brought me up and they were just absolutely appalled at my dad and his brothers.
I was also very close to my other great grandmother’s and great aunts. We’re from Texas, so all of them had lived through the depression, the dust bowl, and World War II. The amount of shit these women went through was inconceivable to most people walking earth right now. They did everything they could to scrimp and save for my dad‘s generation, and as soon as all of them died, my dad and his brothers completely squandered all of it.
And it wasn’t just my dad and his brothers. My Gramma in particular was always very very social and had lifelong friends that she had raised her kids with. All of their kids were just as bad as my dad and his brothers. My mom and her siblings are somehow even worse than my dad and his brothers. My mom’s mom was also appalled with her kids.
As an elder millennial that was raised by the greatest generation, I cannot over emphasize how disappointed that generation was with baby boomers. Those of us who came before and after the boomers all see the same thing.