So how much did it cost...

ruggedtoast

teeni wrote: »

I left school in 1976 at 16, bought my first house with my husband the following january a three bed terrace for £3750., I was too young to be put on the deeds as you have to be 18, My eldest son was born in 1979.
My husband took home £43 a week. The monthly mortgage payment was £33 and we paid £7.50 monthly to rent the tv.
When i wanted a washing machine on credit instead of renting one (£1.50 per week) my father had to stand guarentor and we paid £5.00 Per month at curry's..

I had 6 children and never asked anyone to baby sit, and as much as i love my grand children and will look after them if i am free, My children know they can never assume i will be free. I work full time and enjoy my spare time. I never pretend i am too busy to babysit, i honestly say NO, i have plans. It seems i will not get a pension until i am 68 another 16 years so have no choice but to enjoy myself now.

So having worked since I was 16 paid my way and brought up my family, why the hell shouldn't i retire in style, I deserve it.

In Asia the old are humble and polite. They don't gloat their hands together at collecting what they can from who they can. They look at their life time of work as a lifetime of service gladly given.

That is why Asians have Confucian societies based on order and law and respect for the old.

You boomers are pretty selfish so you probably dont get it.

Sapphire

ruggedtoast wrote: »

In Asia the old are humble and polite. They don't gloat their hands together at collecting what they can from who they can. They look at their life time of work as a lifetime of service gladly given.

That is why Asians have Confucian societies based on order and law and respect for the old.

You boomers are pretty selfish so you probably dont get it.

You must really hate your parents, and appear to have a warped view of all older people. The ones I know are very kind, decent people who have worked hard all their lives and do an enormous amount to help their children. (They are not wealthy bankers, politicians and property speculators, who actually were responsible for the mess we are in today, not the baby boomers). Unfortunately, some people have spoiled their children, which hasn't done them any good at all. Some seem to have grown up as selfish human beings with a huge sense of entitlement.

I'm really sorry that my taxes have been used to support people like you while you've been growing up – in your education, which seems to have been wasted on you, and in other benefits.

ruggedtoast

Sapphire wrote: »

You must really hate your parents.

Why don't you investigate joining a sect compatible with your extreme views? I'm sure they'll be pleased to welcome you and your views.

I'm really sorry that my taxes have been used to support people like you while you've been growing up.

Look I'm not trying to be horrible, I'm telling it like it is, and showing you a better way, like a boomer prophet.

You should be thanking me.

ash28

ruggedtoast wrote: »

It's not the only reason, but I think we can all agree that this simple service would go a long way to restoring the nation's faith in boomers.

That and stopping asking endless questions about health foods in Holland and Barrett so there is a huge queue.

We're bringing up a grandchild - have total financial responsibility (and everything else) for him and he's 10.

I used to work with a guy who was bringing up 2 grandchildren, so it must be more common than I thought.

If anyone had told me 15 years ago that I would still be bringing up a child in my mid 50s I'd have thought you were mad. But such is life - it sometimes throws you a curved ball. And a very delightful curved ball he is too. Babysitting on the other hand is a bit difficult - we live 160 miles from the other grandchildren.

But we go on Wednesday to pick them up and have them for a week and then we'll have them again for a week towards the end of the holidays. If their mother would let them we'd have them for much longer at a stretch. I guess she thinks we won't look after them properly.

I don't hold up the queue in Holland and Barrett - one of my favourites is - if I have a young numpty throwing the shopping as fast as they can down the conveyor at the supermarket - I pack the shopping as slowly as I possibly can, it is quite difficult but if you really try you can pack REALLY slowly.... You can feel the frustration emanating off them in waves.....then I can't find my bank card.....

GeorgeHowell

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Yes, alongside the state pensions, the winter fuel allowances, the free bus passes and everything else you lot get that has to be funded by current workers who won't get them when they retire.

Have fewer children, I wish the generation before yours had.

Those benefits should all be adjusted in tax codes, since direct means testing of them is too expensive in itself. As indiscriminate benefits they were part of Labour's irresponsible, profligate spending spree aimed at assuaging their misguided socialist instincts and attempting to buy votes with taxpayers' money.

If the previous generation has had less children there would of course be less of your generation too. But actually that silly little snipe does betray a degree of immaturity that does not surprise me. If you're going to make a hobby out of wind ups on the internet you'll have to do better than that.

GeorgeHowell

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

The 'Youth' of today don't smoke :eek:

Oh no ? Why than has the government introduced hiding of tobacco products at the point of sale in the attempt to stop young people starting smoking ?

JoeyG

Because they don't want them to start?

vivatifosi

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Boomers intend to retire, and to retire in style. The sales of motor caravans rise exponentially each year and they are not planning to put the homeless in these, or give them to their priced out kids at peppercorn rents.

Sources:

http://www.babyboomerscaravanhire.com.au/

Right, so now you're angry that the boomers aren't retired, but they intend to retire in style. To back this up you're providing evidence from Australia. Ok.....

ash28

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Boomers intend to retire, and to retire in style. The sales of motor caravans rise exponentially each year and they are not planning to put the homeless in these, or give them to their priced out kids at peppercorn rents.

Sources:

http://www.babyboomerscaravanhire.com.au/


Boomers celebrating the purchase of their third caravan earlier today, just after pretending to their daughter they are too busy to babysit that weekend, again.

Except your website is for touring caravans not motor caravans or motor homes - and they're for hire not for sale. So they won't exactly living the high life towing a rented caravan around Australia.....however the idea has some appeal...

Or was it the sight of the words baby boomers that set your teeth gnashing?

JanCee

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Look I'm not trying to be horrible, I'm telling it like it is, and showing you a better way, like a boomer prophet.

You should be thanking me.

Tell it to your parents. Let them thank you.