re: Weekly Millennials are worthless thread - 46% still get allowance from Mom and Dad

Baby boomers are suckas huh. Pay for cell phone and rent while millenials eat avocado toast for breakfast every morning.

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The real question is why can't the Boomer parents cut the apron strings ?

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Just maybe we want better for our kids.

But, mine were cut off after school.

Pretty proud I am a millennial making 6 figures and haven’t taken a dime from Mom and Dad since college (which I am very thankful for, scholarships didn’t cover everything)

....but of course that is only because I am a white male.

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My parents paid for my college
And I’ll pay for my kids too

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That's quite different than keeping them n a tether until they're in their 30s

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millennials are typically defined as people born between the years of 1981 and 1996

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This is way too wide a net to cast, especially for a stat like this. Big difference in a 23 year old getting some financial help, and a 38 year old.

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I know someone who went overseas with his parents on a trip. Everything paid for including first class air both ways. I go on a trip or 2 with the in laws each year and we pay our own way on everything.

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If your in-laws offered to pay for everything, would you turn it down?

Assuming they can afford it, of course. No sense in accepting cash and gifts from the parents if it means you'll be financially responsible for them later.

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This is way too wide a net to cast

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Yup. I was born in 86, and have little to nothing in common with people born after 90.

On my wife's side, one niece has a business and marketing degree from TCU she received in 2017. Still lives at home and doesn't have a real job, although she teaches skiing instructions in the winter at Deer Valley, UT. My BIL and SIL just purchased her a new Jeep Renegade.

Their son is two years older. He's on the ten-year degree track, having moved from college to college, working part time at a resort as a waiter, but still living at home. They purchased him a customized, decked out Ranger pickup last fall.

On my side, a nephew, 26 years old, just got his first, real job and is moving to Dallas from Shreveport. His mom and dad are paying for his apartment, his utilities, his insurance, and his car note, "until he figures out how to fend for himself".

Their daughter, now 24, still living at home, just finally starts nursing school this fall. So they will likely have her at home at least another 2-3 years.

I don't get it. Myself and everyone I knew were all anxious to get out on our own, find our own place, and make our own way. Jeez, I hope Gen Z as a whole is better than this. Millenials suck at life as do the first few years of the Gen Z crop.

You boomers in your 30s and 40s should be forced to pay us more after the way y’all ruined the economy