I don't know how to exactly respond. We lived like that when I was a young kid. It wasn't bad. When I got older, my parents went spend crazy on the credit, filed for bankruptcy, did the crazy spending on credit again, and divorced. The first round I figured out was spending on my brother's stupid travel sports because we didn't have anything more than before. The second round was them buying all kinds of things for themselves. Now I'm in my 40s, I do pretty well because I've always been cheap, I save my money, and I don't spend. Craft beer, pot, subscriptions? No thanks. Food delivery? Hell no.
So what happens? They come back with their hands out because they raided their future for some stupid things they had to have (totally not needs). Having spent most of my teenage years when they were bankrupt and not getting anything from them really. I bought my own lunches at school even. It just pisses me off.
I do agree with you though, the blaming of generations as much as I enjoy doing so isn't productive. I do enjoy it, there's tons of boomers that are greedy and squeezed their lives for every penny of fun they could get and hung their kids out to dry and will definitely leave them nothing even though they couldn't have. Still, the way forward is never going to be to scream about the past but learn from it and figure out how to go ahead.
What you're describing is the result of not a generation thing, but a universal human thing.
In Proverbs in the Bible it talks about the wise person's approach to money vs the foolish person's approach to money.
Your approach and it's results vs your parents approach is yielding the exact thing Proverbs said would happen thousands of years ago.
If the Bible was talking about this behavior all the way back then, then this is a common thing and is not limited to certain generations.
Every generation, you'll see examples people who are foolish with their money and those who are wise with it and the results usually follow the predictable patters laid out in Proverbs.
Yeah you’re right about that. Lately I keep seeing boomer fools, and I don’t know many wise. It’s skewing perception.
My parents/grandparents church should really have spent some time on money management. They’d totally talk about how they were always the right church but I don’t think I ever heard one lesson about anything other than loving money is bad. Seems more irresponsible to me to be blessed with it as a Christian and throw it all away on things.
I don't know how to exactly respond. We lived like that when I was a young kid. It wasn't bad. When I got older, my parents went spend crazy on the credit, filed for bankruptcy, did the crazy spending on credit again, and divorced. The first round I figured out was spending on my brother's stupid travel sports because we didn't have anything more than before. The second round was them buying all kinds of things for themselves. Now I'm in my 40s, I do pretty well because I've always been cheap, I save my money, and I don't spend. Craft beer, pot, subscriptions? No thanks. Food delivery? Hell no.
So what happens? They come back with their hands out because they raided their future for some stupid things they had to have (totally not needs). Having spent most of my teenage years when they were bankrupt and not getting anything from them really. I bought my own lunches at school even. It just pisses me off.
I do agree with you though, the blaming of generations as much as I enjoy doing so isn't productive. I do enjoy it, there's tons of boomers that are greedy and squeezed their lives for every penny of fun they could get and hung their kids out to dry and will definitely leave them nothing even though they couldn't have. Still, the way forward is never going to be to scream about the past but learn from it and figure out how to go ahead.
What you're describing is the result of not a generation thing, but a universal human thing.
In Proverbs in the Bible it talks about the wise person's approach to money vs the foolish person's approach to money.
Your approach and it's results vs your parents approach is yielding the exact thing Proverbs said would happen thousands of years ago.
If the Bible was talking about this behavior all the way back then, then this is a common thing and is not limited to certain generations.
Every generation, you'll see examples people who are foolish with their money and those who are wise with it and the results usually follow the predictable patters laid out in Proverbs.
Yeah you’re right about that. Lately I keep seeing boomer fools, and I don’t know many wise. It’s skewing perception.
My parents/grandparents church should really have spent some time on money management. They’d totally talk about how they were always the right church but I don’t think I ever heard one lesson about anything other than loving money is bad. Seems more irresponsible to me to be blessed with it as a Christian and throw it all away on things.