Baby Boomers making out like bandits as usual

Jimmy_31

reweird wrote: »

JimmyLad how old are you now, 31, and still living at home? There's certainly nothing to joke about in your situation, in particular for your long suffering parents. So you'd do well to get your own house in order, sorry I mean your mummys house, before you try to crack silly immature jokes boy, as you are fast putting Norman Bates to shame.

I live between my mummys and my digs depending on what work im doing.

Im currently working on getting my own house in order, i have been saving a deposit and now its looking like i will be able to buy myself a decent house outright in the near future due to my deposit increasing and house prices decreasing rapidly in the area i live in.

I am so glad that i chose to save up a large deposit and stay at my parents instead of borrowing a fortune to buy a overpriced house or paying ridiculous rental prices.

I will save a fortune and its all thanks to my mummy.

Cheers mum:)

Jimmy_31

reweird wrote: »

Is that all? I got over 3.5k two years ago. But if it makes the difference of you finally moving out a few months early then I am sure everyone on here welcomes it.

I didnt know we were having a competition but as this seems to be the case i got £6238 2 years ago for 6 years unclaimed travel expenses.

Didnt half help the house fund:)

Oldernotwiser

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

I didnt know we were having a competition but as this seems to be the case i got £6238 2 years ago for 6 years unclaimed travel expenses.

Didnt half help the house fund:)

So, if the house fund is now £10,000, you haven't really saved very much at all in those years.

Jimmy_31

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

So, if the house fund is now £10,000, you haven't really saved very much at all in those years.

Correct.

If the house fund i have in place totalled 10k then yes i would not have saved much at all in those years.

I do not have a 10k house fund.

FATBALLZ

molerat wrote: »

Mrs M and me have inherited the princely sum of around 9k between us, our kids are on track for at least £150k each. Now who is hard done by ?

Urgh, yet another boomer fallacy. I could point out the glaring stupidity of this statement for the 137th time, but I think it would do you more good if you sat down and worked out why it is a ridiculous statement yourself.

ruggedtoast

Going4TheDream wrote: »

University is a choice, not a requirement.

My youngest girl is 26, never went to University, and bought her house about 2 years ago for circa £140k, she probably earns similar to a graduate but without the debt.

Great, running down education, the single most worthwhile thing most people can spend time on. Classic myopic boomer.

ILW

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Great, running down education, the single most worthwhile thing most people can spend time on. Classic myopic boomer.

Depends of the education, a Mickey Mouse degree is a waste of everybodies time and money. The three years would have been better spent gaining some useful real life skills for many.

Going4TheDream

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Great, running down education, the single most worthwhile thing most people can spend time on. Classic myopic boomer.

Not running it down merely stating it is a choice and not necessary to have a degree to buy a house.

She spent the three years most kids spend at Uni, learning her job, working hard and getting promoted, her University was in the workplace, no debt and she earned an increasing wage.

Much better than £50k debt and a degree in some half measured subject perhaps.... but then it is as I say about choice.

Oldernotwiser

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Great, running down education, the single most worthwhile thing most people can spend time on. Classic myopic boomer.

Many people of my generation respect education for its own sake, not just as a commodity.

JonnyBravo

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

Correct.

If the house fund i have in place totalled 10k then yes i would not have saved much at all in those years.

I do not have a 10k house fund.

I do love this type of character.
The whole "its not fair, the world is going to hell in a skip and no-one can afford to live" type thing but of course underlying that the desperate need to show that it's just others they're talking about as clearly they are minted and will be buying 3 houses outright with their savings.