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We’re spending your inheritance! Tee-hee!

submitted by carnold03 to Boomers 1 monthMar 19, 2024 20:18:23 ago (+7/-4)     (pic8.co)

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#The Wicked Generation: British Boomer Edition

A British millennial belatedly realizes that his parents’ spending on their travel addiction is rendering impossible his ability to buy a home and build a family:

As an impecunious 34-year-old millennial in an impossibly expensive property market, I am relying on, at some stage, a handout from them. But all I can see is my money receding into the distance on a long-haul trip to Bali.

With many of my friends in a similar position, and the cost of living crisis still at full throttle, the question troubling us over the generational divide is this. Who is being selfish? Us for wanting them to save their money so we can one day have it? Or them, for splurging it all so freely on themselves?

At the start of their travel spree, about five years ago, I loved the bravery and ambition of it. Growing up, we usually went to Devon or Cornwall once a year. But when there was just the two of them (my younger sister and I have long since flown the nest), they could afford to globe trot. For a bit.

Well, good for them, I thought. Let them, in their late 60s, have a couple of lovely holidays, before settling into a cosy retirement at home.

The problem was it didn’t stop at just one or two. It didn’t even stop at three or four…

How can I ever settle down and give them grandchildren if there isn’t any money in the pipeline to support them? Do they want to go on holiday more than they want me to be able to have and bring up children?

I’m not alone in agonising over where my parents’ hard-earned money is going. According to a survey by an online wealth management advice firm called Moneyfarm, two in five adult children feel their ‘blood boiling’ at the idea their parents are blowing their inheritance on luxury holidays.

Among adult children aged between 35 and 50, 40 per cent thought their parents should provide them with an inheritance (compared with 25 per cent aged over 65) — and 20 per cent had already argued with them about what was going to be left.

Another friend admits she puts phone notifications from her mum on silent when her parents go ‘gallivanting abroad’ — because all the pictures of dreamy destinations make her jealous. And resentful.

‘My inheritance is currently being drunk through a straw in a coconut in the Caribbean,’ she says. ‘It’s going to be slim pickings at this rate.’

These Millennials are not being selfish or ungrateful. And their expectations were not unreasonable. What these parents are doing is flat-out wrong. It is unquestionably evil.

There will be no short of foolish and philosophically-bent individuals who will defend these wicked Boomers as simply “living their best life” or “spending their own money”. But those are both obvious lies. Even setting aside the very different economic climates facing the generations concerned, the Boomers inherited more financial resources from their parents and grandparents than any generation in human history. And, on average, what they are leaving behind them is considerably less than they themselves received.

Nota Bene: 10 percent of the total UK tax receipts are spent funding Boomer state pensions.

And as far as the “it’s their money, not yours”, the Bible is very, very clear on what a good man is supposed to do with regards to providing for his children. The Contemporary English Version even spells it out slowly in simple language for the benefit of even the most retarded reader.

If you obey God, you will have something to leave your grandchildren. If you don’t obey God, those who live right will get what you leave.

UPDATE: We have definite confirmation that it’s almost entirely Boomers reading The Daily Mail these days. This is the second-worst rated comment, with a highly negative ratio of 38 upvotes and 620 downvotes.

If I was this young man’s parent I would make sure he and sister were on the property ladder and can rent rooms out before going off on Jollies. I sincerely hope the house is left to the two children.


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[ - ] observation1 3 points 1 monthMar 20, 2024 01:45:07 ago (+3/-0)

Imagine thinking your parents owed you inheritence.

its probably good these people cant afford to reproduce.

[ - ] ButtToucha9000 2 points 1 monthMar 20, 2024 03:04:19 ago (+2/-0)

No one owes you anything. People can do wtf they want to with their money. It's not your inheritance.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 2 points 1 monthMar 20, 2024 08:50:33 ago (+2/-0)

You could at least send me a pair of socks, Mom

[ - ] Gowithit 0 points 1 monthMar 20, 2024 10:13:22 ago (+0/-0)

I got you. Got a running tab at the dollar tree. Go in there grab a pair drop my name and walk out.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 0 points 1 monthMar 20, 2024 12:03:38 ago (+0/-0)

checks box for '12 month payment plan'

[ - ] ButtToucha9000 0 points 1 monthMar 21, 2024 21:33:39 ago (+0/-0)

FINE.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 2 points 1 monthMar 19, 2024 22:16:43 ago (+2/-0)

Fuck inheritances. My boomer parents didn’t leave me shit and I’ve got more than they ever had.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 1 point 1 monthMar 20, 2024 08:49:05 ago (+1/-0)

They earned it, they can spend it however they want. I say this as someone who really needs an inheritance. But if my parents give it all to an animal shelter, that is their decision. It's not MY money.

[ - ] Gowithit 1 point 1 monthMar 20, 2024 10:12:28 ago (+1/-0)

I don't even want money. Can you watch a kid or two for a few hours. "I'm living my life" didn't seem to be a factor when they dumped their kids on their parents for years. Fuck I'm just talking about a few hours not even a whole day.

I think my mom got vaxxed just to permanently seal the deal on never watching them without me around.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 1 point 1 monthMar 20, 2024 12:06:25 ago (+1/-0)

My libtard brother used my parents as a babysitting service and ATM for the past 18 years. In return, Dad co-signed on a home loan for him, and made most of the mortgage payments. I, the first-born son, rent. Why? I have my pride. I aint never axed for nuthin.

[ - ] ButtToucha9000 0 points 1 monthMar 21, 2024 21:35:50 ago (+0/-0)

U sound like a cuck. I bet you got a cuck chair in your "guest bedroom".

[ - ] Anus_Expander 0 points 1 monthMar 22, 2024 00:34:22 ago (+0/-0)

Yes and yes. Let ppl enjoy bein cucks, bigot.

[ - ] The_Reunto 0 points 1 monthMar 20, 2024 13:34:57 ago (+0/-0)

"For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." - 2 Thes 3:10

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 0 points 1 monthMar 20, 2024 02:35:53 ago (+0/-0)

This is what my Boomer parents did. Sold all of my comic books, baseball cards, basketball cards and AD&D shit to fund their shitty lifestyle, too. Never bought property. Always went on shitty, local vacations 3-5 times a year. Now my Dad has been dead for like 5 years and my Mom is 71 and paying $1875 a month in rent. I tried to buy us a condo in PA last year, but she balked at the last minute and I lost my good faith deposit and various fees that totaled over $3K. Now when she spends what she has down to zero in like 12-14 months, she’ll have to apply to a nursing home and hope they take her with no money in the bank.

[ - ] carnold03 [op] 0 points 1 monthMar 21, 2024 19:34:42 ago (+0/-0)

And no house they can place a lean against, either. So, what's the backup plan if they don't take her?

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 0 points 1 monthMar 21, 2024 19:45:02 ago (+0/-0)

I have a studio apartment. She can’t live with me. We have no other close relatives.

[ - ] carnold03 [op] 0 points 1 monthMar 21, 2024 19:49:33 ago (+0/-0)

That's definitely grim.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1 monthMar 20, 2024 00:50:06 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] GetFuckedCunt 0 points 1 monthMar 19, 2024 20:55:58 ago (+0/-0)

I talk to a chick who says similar things with her parents jokingly but she's the only person I know with money saved to buy her own place in her early twenties. It all depends on how you raise your children. She was raised right.