Boomer parents

[Freesamples]

Anyone else got a boomer for a parent that a) has no idea how the world currently works and b) loves to put the boot in and c) is absolutely delusional about how much things cost.

me, I love to sniff out a bargain, crowning glory the summer hols I’ve booked for me, dh and dcs. 4 star+ AI, 2 adults 2 kids, package £2k and in summer holidays. Absolute belter. All to be met with a chorus of how expensive that is and how much we’re over paying and how they’d spend no more than £1k on holidays for us (in the mid early 00s). Plus, don’t want to go there, they hate brits, it’s too hot. (All places we went as kids btw)

it can’t be just me

I started on a teacher’s salary in the 1980s and wasn’t able to afford a property. My boyfriend could and bought a tiny cottage in the midlands. Then interest rates rocketed and after bills he had £2/week disposable income.

Ageist bile.

Sounds like it's just their personalities tbh.

Being boomers is irrelevant.

So much hate directed at us Boomers.

Honestly Op, this is a 'your parents' thing, rather than a 'boomer' thing. Both my parents were 'boomers'. Both experienced poverty at different times in their lives (childhood and adulthood). When they married they lived in a mobile home. When they divorced it took an inheritance for my mother to own her own home. Both died in their 60s (when people say their parents are alive into their 70s and beyond that seems alien to me!) This is by no means age related, it's a "your parents personalities" thing. Yours, a millenial in her 30s who would have her boomer parents back in a moment even if they complained at her forever, and did nothing else till the end of time. (Yes it sucks that they don't get it, and I'm sorry your parents don't understand. But it's not an age or generational thing.)

Indeed @MNHQ consistently refuse to do anything about it.

Your parents are annoying, OP. It must run in the family.

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i'm glad to hear @Freesamples that you spend so much time on the internet and it validates your view of people between the ages of 60 and 78 (unless you are wrong and discussing an older generation).
most 60 year old's will still be working, many may still have mortgages and some may have never gotten on the real estate ladder.
60-69 year olds generally enjoy good health and are active in the workplace and community. they would be fully aware of the cost of living and be rightfully concerned about costs.

what you do portray is someone woefully ignorant of the extent many born in those years scrimped and did without in order to buy xyz or afford a comfortable lifestyle for their children.
often from 70-78 health conditions crop up resulting in a bit of self isolation and again saving hard due to a lack of income, or income that does not match inflation.

how about you do on the thread where the teacher and her husband along with 3 kids can't afford a holiday and share with them your awesome skills and knowledge?

Fuck this ageist crap. I'm so done with these ridiculous stereotypes about boomers or millennials or whatever.

I wouldn't take it personally maybe it just sounds a but expensive to them. Enjoy the holiday.

Are you the same as all your mates OP? Same logic.

@Freesamples how about HELPING a person on this thread
Stupid questions about affording a holiday | Mumsnet

But she was right.

My DPs would have been shocked at the idea of spending that much, not because they didn’t understand how much things cost but just because they wouldn’t have been comfortable spending that much money on a holiday so wouldn’t have gone. My DM was about 10 when she first saw the sea and DF wouldn’t ever have gone anywhere other than visit the odd relative in his youth so just a different frame of reference of what to spend money on rather than not understanding that things cost more than tuppence-halfpenny nowadays.

my grandparents on my dads side are exactly like that. i think they're born in 1950 and 1953? my boyfriend's parents are like that as well, but theyre not boomers, they're late gen x.

yep, they're boomers, boomers are 1946-1964

if it doesn't apply to you, there's no reason to be offended by it. i've seen my fair share of people complaining about gen z, but most of it doesn't apply to me so i don't get offended.

Another boomer bashing thread. If it makes you feel any better OP I'm in my 40s and think your holiday is expensive. I also don't like the heat.

I love being a woman
I love being a boomer
I still love full-time work

@Freesamples , why do you think that mortgages were a smaller percentage of household income for the people you charmingly call boomers?
We bought our first house together when my husband stopped being a junior doctor working 72 hours a week and became a consultant. We borrowed the maximum we could, that was 3.5 times his salary of £40,000 which was our total household income at that time as we had two tiny babies. You won't want to hear it but the interest rate was 10% and we fixed it at that because we literally could not afford for it to go higher.
Our net income per month was £2000, and the mortgage was £1200 (interest only) i.e. 60% of our total income. The four of us paid all bills and lived on the remaining £800. We were very, very happy and felt lucky to have what we did.

I don't have to be offended by it to think it's all shades of wrong @izzydrizzy04.

My boomer parents are nothing like this, at all!

where on the post did she claim that all boomers are like this?
she's simply pointing out an issue that is more prevalent when interacting with a certain demographic. obviously not every boomer acts like this, the same way not every gen z is "easily offended" or "lazy." there are negative aspects of every generation, and not everyone in a certain generation has the same views.

My ‘boomer’ parents are nothing like that.

I do know other people - of all ages - who are though.

So as a pp said, it’s a ‘your parent’s personality’ thing, rather than an age thing.

The word boomer is horrible. I know it’s never nice to get a string of replies on an MN thread like this, but it’s really only about your use of the word boomer, especially in the title.