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re: Millennial baws, how you hanging on?
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:06 pm to el Gaucho
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:06 pm to el Gaucho
That’s why you gotta buy them (and Jodi) a hot tub and a margarita machine. Otherwise, you’ll fall victim to the incel industrial complex.
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Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:13 pm to kingbob
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I’ve thought about doing so in addition to my other side hustles. The main reason I haven’t done so is I’m afraid to put more unnecessary mileage on my car which is already up there. Making an extra couple hundred bucks a week wouldn’t help much if my car breaks down sooner and has to be replaced.
When I was struggling I got a second job working events at the dome and smoothie king.
I was watching football and getting drunk all weekend so I figured I’d use my weekends doing that instead. Even after I stopped I still used my security card to park in the employee lot for saints games.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:17 pm to Sun God
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You are certainly confused
RBR with sausage is a cheap easy meal to make that can last a couple of days
I’m not poor but I might be cheap
IKR!
I'm so confused here listening to the millennials complaining about what they are eating. They truly do not understand what I was eating when I was around 25-30 and had a baby. We often had less than $20 in our checking account, not much of anything in savings (401ks didn't exist yet!) and we only ate out 2-4 times a month, less than once a week.
We often ate these things:
Tuna salad sandwiches. 1 can of tuna few us dinner for 2 nights.
Hot Dogs with canned chili. We used the cheap brands.
Beans and rice with a little hambone or sausage and cornbread. This fed us 3-4 nights or we froze it and ate it late.
Creamed tuna on toast (the tuna version of SOS)
Beanie Weenie or Baked beans with hot dogs cut up in it.
Boxed mac and cheese with hot dogs cut up in it.
Ramen noodles
Chicken and rice casserole with cream of mushroom soup
Chicken and dumplings
Grilled cheese sandwich and canned tomato soup.
Lunches were bologna and cheese sandwiches (the cheap kinds...not deli) and some chips in a sandwich bag, not prebagged because it's cheaper that way. Maybe an apple or an orange.
Our vegetables came out of a can or sometimes we even had boxed potatoes.
We rarely drank alcohol. Maybe a bottle of Riunite wine on a special occasion or have a 6 pack of beer or wine coolers that lasted us for 2-3 weeks. We never bought alcohol when we went out to eat. Too expensive.
Y'all out there buying your energy drinks and your Starbucks don't understand cheap eating. While yes, I have money to spend now, even now, my food budget for 1 could easily be $50-60 a week if I made an effort. But I don't have to do that now. I did it years ago. But even now, I could go out to eat at least once a week and spend total $400 per month on groceries.
Someone said they are single and spend $600-800 per month on food. I could feed a family of 4 on that easily.
Yes, there are problems with housing costs and availability. Yes, inflation is a problem.
But spending is a problem also. How new is your phone or ipad? What size and how new is your TV? Do you go out or do you play cards at home and have homemade queso and chips for a snack...no alcohol. Drink some iced tea.
I'm between being a Boomer and Gen X. They call us Gen Jones now. My generation ruined it for y'all by giving you too much. Y'all now think you should still have everything and we really didn't teach you delayed gratification!
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:18 pm to kingbob
Wait you’re an attorney?
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:19 pm to fareplay
Dont worry baw. Check out the home buying thread from yesterday. If you just cut out Netflix and Starbucks and go to McDonald’s to use the internet, you’ll be set for retirement. 
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:22 pm to bamaguy17
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It's their money, they earned it. It's none of our fricking business how they spend it. It's fricking math you retards. You don't make enough to support yourself, you either cut spending or make more money. You "shouldn't have to do that" is a failure's mantra. A guy I work with delivered GD pizzas to get out of credit card debt after his divorce.
Soft-brained dualistic thinking. Par for the course.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:23 pm to kingbob
Dude I don’t get it. How do you have a law degree, single and in this much financial peril? I think you need to check with another psychiatrist with getting back on antidepressants. They’ve helped a lot of people. You sound depressed. Hope you push thru it brother.
This post was edited on 12/21/23 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:26 pm to LaLadyinTx
Bruh 20 bucks in the 60s is like 1000 bucks now
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:27 pm to el Gaucho
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Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:28 pm to LaLadyinTx
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My generation ruined it for y'all by giving you too much
Yea that's it. Yall were too generous.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:30 pm to Redstickbaw
This is yalls fault
If yall boomers would’ve taken your daughters to church and the gym instead of the buffet and the divorce court and the rap music place I could be married but nooo yall always ruin it for millenials
If yall boomers would’ve taken your daughters to church and the gym instead of the buffet and the divorce court and the rap music place I could be married but nooo yall always ruin it for millenials
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:30 pm to fareplay
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Millennial baws, how you hanging on?
Some of yall's ancestors didn't take advantage of the American dream and it shows.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:33 pm to fareplay
im chillin
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:34 pm to fareplay
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I’m talking between ages 27-35
Own a house (just purchased with the gf/fiance), finally can contribute real money to retirement (maxed out IRAs and will get close with 401k this year), and the future is bright for once. I busted my arse to get here. My first job out of college was like 23k a year, which was on me for graduating with a 2.59 GPA. I have had a CPA for close to 6 years now and haven't looked back.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:34 pm to i am dan
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Even my friends that do not have degrees are making 60-80k a year.
What do they do, because I don't believe you.
And don't come back with cutting grass.
My son and daughter in law both make that range. He does pest control for a company here in Houston and she does payroll for a company that handles payroll, benefits, etc for oilfield companies. I truly believe that the $60-80k salary is pretty reasonable in Houston for a halfway decent job with 5 ish years service. Here, if you're hanging around at $40k very long, you need to find another job (pretty plentiful in Houston) or you need to hustle more because you're not really cutting it.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:36 pm to alexahet
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I'm 35, two kids and live in an $800k house. I'm fine thanks for asking.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:39 pm to kingbob
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I avoided heavy drinking, drugs, unprotected sex, and even caffeine.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:41 pm to LaLadyinTx
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How new is your phone or ipad?
I have an iphone 8 that I bought used with cash 5 years ago. Before that, I had a hand-me-down iphone 4 for 4 years, and an iphone one before that one for a couple years that was free with my phone plan.
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What size and how new is your TV?
The TV in my bedroom I bought at a garage sale for $100 4 years ago. The one in my living room, I bought off Craigslist for $250 12 years ago.
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How do you have a law degree, single and in this much financial peril?
Lawyers in BR who aren’t on billboards or working for “big law” don’t make dick. I make slightly more than a public school teacher.
I accumulated debt in late 2021 and early 2022 when I had some nasty medical problems which also messed up my career for a little while. Just never have been able to get rid of that debt since. Healthwise, I got off my deathbed and eventually made a full recovery. I’m probably healthier now than I can remember being for most of my adult life, but the road to getting there wasn’t cheap.
This post was edited on 12/21/23 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:42 pm to lsut2005
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e I don’t get it. How do you have a law degree, single and in this much financial peril? I think you need to check with another psychiatrist with getting back on antidepressants. They’ve helped a lot of people. You sound depressed. Hope you push thru it brother
I don’t understand either. Law degree, no student loans, bought a house young. How could you be drowning in debt?
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:43 pm to fareplay
I make enough to live alright as is, but idk when I will own a home
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