My Gen X parents said this all the time when I was being tormented by a boy in middle school. I cringe looking back on how many times they told me he probably liked me, or joked that I wasn't allowed to date him. I was a socially inept tween and he was a minor bully who found an easy target. I didn't need dating advice, I needed the jerk to not be sitting directly next to me in multiple classes.

I would watch this in a second

Yeah, this would be indicative of a problem with that person today

No kidding, and that 500$ you accrued and managed to save up is gone before febuary as u had to use it for GAS to get to ND from work the month of January and because of your job being closed a handful of days for holiday you couldn't afford gas with the shorted pay

I understand what this is saying, but can everyone just agree that living is hard and no one generation ever truly “had it easy”? We could just start working together now to try and fix it

Also every third or so post on BP, "135 new photos of horrible bad ugly tattoos what were they thinking".

I'm 60, ex-marine-engineer and I still sometimes buy Lego. It's therapy.

Ah yes, advice from the wealthy to suckers.

That's not her fault though, because that used to be true.

This was a problem for me many years ago for a short time when I was on unemployment. UE office has you fill out a form for each job application you place. You have to list who you spoke to and stuff like that. In other words - they assumed you are applying in person. But my field of work was in IT and IT type companies were early adaptors with the "apply online" stuff. I would like to think in 2023 they have caught up with the idea of online applications since it is so common now.

Did you just say a half million dollar trailer?!

1000%%%

if i said this to either of my grandmas they’d smack the living s**t out of me

Yes the boomers don’t get it, they had a life where land was cheap, jobs were secure, and the government wasn’t owned by Billionaires. I’m sure they mean well because that’s what worked for them, but basically, STFU.

In cemetary for sure

My father (76) insists that his method of getting a mortgage would work for us kids. He got his mortgage in 1970, for a $10,000 loan which was about 4 times his annual income by borrowing the deposit from his dad. That home is now worth about 20 times MY annual income and no bank in the land would loan on that. But sure, dad.

The amount of times my mother told me to work through my problems with my alcoholic now ex makes me want to vomit.

no they won’t. theyd replace you in 4 seconds, maybe less. but to me y’all are worth everything 🩷🩷

I work 2 jobs (maybe 60-65hrs a week) and my 78 YO grandpa told me I’m doing something wrong if I still can’t afford a new car and house with “two sources of income.” Love him to death but also told him to shut the truck up. This is how I afford to rent an apartment, drive a beater car, afford to house and spoil 2 cats and enjoy my life in small ways like Sunday morning waffles and camping trips and occasional treats like new towels or a nice new winter coat every 3-4 years.

That article that suggested lentils were a great alternative to meat to save money… (edit: I am definitely not knocking lentils, they are delicious. I am knocking the article, which was called, “ Inflation Stings Most If You Earn Less Than $300K. Here's How to Deal.” That is an enormous portion of the population, and their advice is just to switch to lentils and things like that lol)

“That’s how men are.” No, that’s how you allow them to be.

When I was joung, there was a thing. The Bohemian,(or Polish, or Chech, etc) purchase plan. %100 down, and no payments ! And definitely no Door Dash !

A small selection of rich white men redirecting tax money and future taxes into the pockets of their wealthy friends. What could possibly be wrong with that?

Is she encouraging silently putting up with domestic abuse...? If so, that's messed up. Or is she referring to a toxic work environment? Even so, that's still messed up. O_O

The 1970s was when Americans learned about things like serial killers. Stalking a coed just doesn't work as well in a world with Ted Bundy in the public consciousness.

I honestly question (privately) why my mother's parents got married. My grandmother has always complained about my grandfather - he was selfish, he expected her to do everything, he never helped with anything around the house even when she was sick... Looking back on it, she was from a desperately poor and dysfunctional family with a bunch of kids, an alcoholic father and a mother who supported all the children and his drinking habit as a waitress. My grandfather's family wasn't rich or anything, but they had a farm big enough to feed themselves from the garden and raise a few steer for meat, which they handed over to my grandparents when they retired to a smaller house. He worked at the local steel mill most of his life, in what was then a very good union job. It's hard not to wonder if she married him more for stability than love.

Yes, just in time to be drafted to Vietnam.

Grease ruined it for you ;)

I couldn't treat my parents that way.

When my grandparents bought their current car, they had to put my grandmother on the title for the first time ever, because she has a credit history and he's never used a credit card in his life. Don't know what they would've done if she hadn't embraced online shopping and needed the card. My grandfather's sole use for computers is playing Solitaire.

Good God, that sounds like my mum

My aunts was - “ if you want to be rich and successful like me, finish school” . I told my mum when I got home and she laughed her a*s off cos that Aunty married an ‘old money’ guy she met in Fiji 😂

Hmm worst house in Beverly Hills…let’s just see what that comes in at… Oooo quite a lot actually

She's not wrong. Unfortunately life IS hard. 😪

You know, I don’t have kids, but when I was younger, I guess I just assumed that all women just absolutely did not drink or smoke during pregnancy. I was very naïve, but the boomer generation probably knew significantly less than we do now about the impacts of this, so I am sure it was more prevalent (edit: reworded for clarity)

Not all Boomers are ignorant and unsympathetic. I feel very bad that so many younger people struggle so hard to find and pay for homes (it was no picnic in my day, either, but it's a lot tougher now). You know who's really to blame? The real estate industry: a bunch or race-track touts/urgers, who've been constantly pressing prices upwards for decades so as to maximise their commissions on sales.

“Obvious solution that solves nothing” = “Just throw a garage sale potluck rent-a-horse macramé party and you’ll be able to afford a new house in no time.”

Lmfao once I was too broke to use the laundromat so I did my laundry in my bathtub (and got really good at it, I have some tips lol). It got me nowhere far 😂

Are Boomers evil or just clueless? Vote below.

Absolutely no! Nope, not correct... "You are not the only one..." isn't just a thing boomers say. It's universal. It's a thing said by many but has to be said properly - and heard properly too. Just saying, "You are not the only one..." isn't enough. It's only the introduction, it's the headline. "You are not the only one..." should be followed by relevant advice or guidance to a helpful source. Such as, "You are not the only one..." this has happened so much that they brought in a law change... this has happened so much that people have formed help groups and posted info on line; and so on.. But to hear this properly you can't just hear, "You are not the only one..." and then assume you've heard it all, you know what's coming next, and don't need to listen anymore. Instead either listen for the rest of what's being said, or ask them: "Ok so I'm not the only one. How did the others deal with this and what was their outcome?"

8 shots in 5 minutes?! That's to hardcore a drinking game for me.

He kind of was, LOL. Especially if compared with John Diefenbaker or Joe Clark.

Eeehhh, I'm gonna agree a little with the "boomers" on this one. It's generally daily exercise that's recommended and it's not a cure-all but it definitely is helpful. It's not like it does nothing...

Not really. I have a pretty useless English degree from majoring in what I loved... Should have just got to massage therapy school from the get go. On one hand I had a lot of experiences I wouldn't have otherwise had, on the other I'm still paying loans my younger more naive self took out thinking of get a great job editing books right out the gate. Instead I ended up going back to become a massage therapist, which it turns out I'm pretty good at too. So yeah, not bad advice to be realistic about your major if you're going to school anyway.

That live now pay later mentality will put you in financial ruin.