>>754503 (last thread)

The fact that college was cheap formboomers is the standard, vapid response of millennials who have no fricking clue what happened or what life was like when boomers were college age. Oh, college was so cheap you could work in the summer to pay for it! Poor me! Boomers’ fault despite the fact their mama and grandma are still paying for their smart phones. Use a little bit of critical thinking, get past the narrative and consider what the culture was like, then. Do you have a clue what college aged boomers were doing? Doesn’t sound like it. If they weren't in the military, most were married with little kids and a family to support/care for with few child care options. Few were wealthy. Hardly any could take a part time job to go to “cheap” college and parents and student loans weren’t an option for nearly all of them. Rich kids and he ones who went the military route were the ones filling the campuses. Ask yourself - if college was so cheap, why did they feel the need to subsidize student loans? Ask yourself - why are more going to college now, than then if it was so much “easier?”

>>754540

Absolutely love our wood burning stove. We’ve halved our annual propane use (or more, and most of our appliances are propane). It has a fan to throw out heat so when we have power outages (happens in this area), running that little fan is not even a drag on the generator. Free wood is all over the place and splitting it is actually pretty therapeutic. Stacks of firewood gives a real sense of well-being, IMO. Love the feel of heat from a wood stove. The only problem is that it is so comfy you don’t want to get up and do anything constructive.

>>754542

I hear you. More acerage is good for certain livestock but ten acres is really, really nice.

>>754623

Help me out. What is it you deserve that you didn't get but your parents did? Do you honestly believe you are the first generation that was expected to sink or swim? Really? Add it all up and tell me - who has benefited more from the relationship - you or your parents? Willing to bet you’ve done jack crap for them but are happy to accept the food, clothes, any help with school, the car, help with the phone, child care for your own kids. Because you ”deserve” it, I guess. Seems the duty to each other only goes one way with you guys. Seriously, if you think they owe you more, I hope you are making concrete plans to tenderly care for them in their old age to pay them back for what they did for you. And if you are just planning to dump them on the government, at least be honest about it. And if you are going to bitch about them, it’s a joke to complain that they bitch about you. Hope you tell your folks, everyday, thanks for everything. And if you are so ungrateful that all you can focus on is how your life sucks, they really have failed. They haven’t failed YOU. They’ve failed the rest of us.

>>754956

You’ve been nonstop bitching about boomer parents and how easy they had it vs how hard you have it. Don’t try to suggest anyone is making things up that you haven’t put out there. You want to hear how my folks never helped me and how easy they had it and how hard it was to raise my kids, get them educated when I barely had enough to pay the mortgage when my parents didn’t give me a dime? What, no vacation beyond weekend roadtripsmto grandma because we couldn’t afford it and our boss would fire us if we took off more than a week a year during the first five years? We’ll pull up a chair, kiddo, because nearly every boomer out there is shelling out money for kids that seem to never grow up and never stop complaining. Hell, our parents didn’t take us to the dentist. Did yours?We never got braces. Did you? Any idea how they worried how to pay for it behind closed doors? Likely not but I promise, they did. They worried about everything and if you think they were just cruising along without a care in the world, you just missed it. Blame them, I guess for trying to give you an easier time than they did and for thinking it was their job to make you happy instead of self sufficient. Next to no one had health insurance unless they were working for a big company even during the time they were having kids. And you act as though it is a crime against humanity that all that doesn’t come with your birth ticket. But bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch.