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Honestly, I wouldn't doubt most "broke" boomers are that way because Mark/Gerald/David/Susan/Karen/Debra decided to blow their life savings on their 60th birthday trip to Vegas.
Boomer Hate Thread
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Bear in mind how much about the housing market was being propped up by infinite immigration. We were looking at well over a million foreigners a year during Biden years. Moreso than deportations, Trump's second term has been marked by a collapse in illegal immigration and crackdowns on H1B's. Without interest rates falling to 2-3%, I don't see any appetite to buy the typical 400k+ outdated home in need of renovation. New homes will keep selling though. In Japan, old homes take a hit as a depreciating asset intended to be replaced. I wouldn't be surprised if the US starts to trend that way with the 1950 style ranch houses on large lots if market conditions hold. Lots of old neighborhoods in pretty much any city occupied by old, shitty houses with no curb appeal. The actual value is the lot and its utility hookups, not a 1500 sq. ft. 4b1b house.
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The primary driver of me saving and investing starting in my early 20s was boomer tales of woe about how they started saving for retirement in their 50s and how that wasn’t enough to retire at 62. It sounds like a retarded strategy but they really did think they could save for only a few years and have that cover retirement. Muh 401ks have expanded catchup provisions for such people.
This has crossover with the niggercattle finance thread but these fucking boomer morons have also bitched to me about how they have all these useless liabilities like ATVs, RVs, boats, etc. that nobody wants to buy, even at steep discounts. Xers, millennials, and zoomers don’t seem to think a $250k boat that they only take out to a lake a couple times a year is worth it.
Boomers can have some valuable advice when it’s learning from their mistakes.
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Dimethyl mercury poisoning takes like 5 months to become symptomatic and by then its too late.
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Don't forget the vacation homes that they almost never use, because using a hotel is not an option for some reason, Boomers spend their money as stupidly as the Millenials that collect plastic crap, a soy filled Millenial will have a room filled with posters, funko pops, anime statues, and gaming collectibles that add up to thousands of dollars, Boomers will buy an antique car and a log cabin, they are both stupid in their own way, specially when both of them can't really afford it.
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Today I had to explain to a boomer how a modern gas pump works.
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I work at a bookstore and based off of buying patterns, I'm pretty sure boom booms were ground zero for consoooming. They are super cheap and almost exclusively shop clearance (that way they can buy more!) and if they find out the clearance price was a $5 instead of $3, they will look at it with visceral disgust and say they'll pass. I once watched an elderly woman in a wheelchair with her family buy about $100 worth of coffee table books and then heckled her (also old) daughter about "what, you not getting anything?". Money is tight right now and I've noticed a lot of the younger (50 and below) customers have started being more picky with what entertainment they'll spend money on. Boom boom corpses will buy hundreds of dollars worth of books they can barely even carry, just to have someone else help them.
I'm also pretty sure they are the ones that started "shopping" as a like, hobby instead of a necessity.
They seriously are the only generation right now in this economy that spend like nobody's business, while also being the stingiest and choosiest. Just money out the ass for bullshit they will never read. No joke, one ordered a book to be sent to her and the book was returned to sender because she had died before it got there.
I can only imagine how bad they are in other markets since this is only my perspective from selling books!
I wish olds loved their families and country more than they love James Patterson
Old King Koaleamos
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Boomers are the ones keeping Stephen King and Danielle Steel in print. It irks me.
I go to thrift stores and used bookstores and it's wild how the scarce/expensive shit is always gotten by either boomers or foreigners. I also see a lot of resellers/flippers at my used bookstores and they're so jeet-like.
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Don't even need to go as far as the vacation home or boat. Your average boomer views their house as the centerpiece of their life. It's their nest egg and their sole principle investment. It's common for boomers to drop 10k+ expanding their homes, doing kitchen renovations, adding pools, redoing the porch, etc. in the name of increasing the home's resale vale. We're not talking rich boomers either. We're talking standard middle class boomers with <$100k annual household income. They seem to have no actual concept that you have to live somewhere, and your home is a terrible investment medium because of this. These retards are the primary reason Trump wants to crash interest rates to drive up home values. They actually believed that the sale of their homes would fund their retirement.
Department stores have completely cracked the boomer spending program. Take an item. Set its regular price to something completely outrageous, let's say a pan made in India for $150. Then, you mark it 70% off. The boomer sees this great deal, never mind a similar pan is available at walmart for $20, and snatch it up while congratulating themselves on their thrift. I've tried going clothing shopping at department stores and it's just assumed you'll never buy anything that isn't at least 50% off. The merchandise is still inferior to walmart or target clothing by sheer nonsensical fit alone. Target and walmart have normal human sizes they work around. You know, men with larger pecs than guts. Women with fewer chins than a Chinese family. This isn't the case at department stores. I walk in and the "classic fit" for men is made for enormous waistlines with tiny upper bodies (I wonder if boomers can even do a pushup?).
It's so weird going to walmart to find superior made in Mexico jeans that cost a fraction of the made in Bangladesh jeans at Belk. Alas, it's just how our insane upside-down world works now. Welcome to walmart, I love you.
What else were they going to do once they retired? Snatching up anything worth having at thrift stores is a hobby for boomers addicted to shopping. Idk if they even make money trying to flip things or if they just accumulate stacks of items.
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Boomers are unable to grasp that they lived through a historical aberration, and when you tell them you don't trust that their advice will hold up over the long haul they start frothing at the mouth about listening to your elders. Those that benefited from rampant runaway inflation have lived long enough to see their "wisdom" start to peeter out.
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Sneedifarms
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I don’t know what department stores you’re shopping at (Bergdorf Goodman or Kmart?), but since department store labels aren’t really a thing anymore, most department stores are really just large collections of popular brands with price ranges relative to how upscale the chain in question is. The Polo Ralph Lauren collection you see in a Saks is not going to be any different from the Polo Ralph Lauren collection you see at a regular Polo store.
As for cuts, most men’s clothing is still stuck in 2016 slim fit patterns, even if they claim to be “classic fits”. They are still cutting for the millennial and older men who wear skinny stretch chinos and slim fit dress shirts/golf polos to work. These sorts of cuts frankly don’t work for anyone, but they especially don’t work on anyone who is outside of the standardized body patterns of which ready-to-wear clothing is built off of. This includes very fat men and very muscular men. If you are particularly muscular and have a very large chest with a comparatively small waist (eg. a 42” chest and a 32” waist) no off-the-rack item is going to fit you well. RTW clothing just isn’t designed to accommodate people with abnormal body types; you will have to pursue custom clothiers like a bespoke tailor in such a scenario. This is incidentally why most athletes look like complete clowns when they have to wear tailoring.
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They simultaneously believed that they could sell at the absolute peak of the housing market and they could buy a house for cheap at Palm Beach or Tucson. They decided this was their strategy back in 1990 and are absolutely flabbergasted that housing is so expensive now at those cities. They have no plan B, this was their grand strategy. The reverse mortgage doesn’t pay out anywhere near enough. It’s a situation entirely of their own making and this is why we have to entertain retarded ideas like the 50-year mortgage.
They genuinely believed that selling their homes would fund their retirement.
Because they enjoyed bragging to people that they had a vacation home
A lot of boomers actually had timeshares which some stupidly thought they could just flip to someone as well.
Their entire financial calculus was buying shitty liabilities with a the hope it’s actually an asset so someone younger than them would buy it at an inflated price. Their biggest nest egg was their home but they think everything they own is an asset because why wouldn’t someone want to buy their stupid 100-year old coke bottles?
A lot of these boomer “collectibles” 20 years from now will end up in a landfill. Younger generations cannot actually afford that shit even if they wanted to. Those wildly overinflated assets only work if those generations can actually afford it. But while AI is annihilating earning potential of white collar workers, people are not going to buy that shit. Something has to give somewhere, which is why housing sales are in the toilet. Buying overpriced coke bottles or baseball cards is just not going to happen.
Old King Koaleamos
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Boomer resellers are often the worst because they're the ones who try to list things for the highest they can and don't understand that noone's paying out $150 for a standard Foundation Trilogy book club hardcover without anything special. If it's signed by the author? Sure. If it's a leather-bound thing like an easton press edition? Sure.
Weirdly, the best boomers in the used book sphere are the ones who do realize noone wants their collection, so they list them on social media groups and give people thrift shop prices.
Yeah, I've had interesting chats about this. I like a lot of old media and paraphernalia, but not enough to blow wads on it. If anything, I may just get myself a large screen e-reader later this year.
My main hobby is reading, usually older stuff. A lot of this stuff isn't in ebook format (lots of pulps never get collected and wind up being either in their original mags or they wind up maybe getting collected in a volume by some small outfit like Steeger Press).
In my case, I usually just wait to find a book go for cheap over a year because there are often people just jettisoning stuff to get rid of it. I'm tired of boomers buying up stuff by the shitloads. I'm tired of faggot resellers who trash the bookstores.
Collecting old books/mass market paperbacks hasn't become as insane as comic book collecting, and I'm certain that's going to fizzle out again. Fuck the types of collectors that ruin it for everyone else by thinking of everything as an asset.
One funny thing is finding out that there's a strange subset of boomers who don't understand why people don't read or go to the movies, and I try to usually explain cultural shifts. They just claim it's hogwash. One thing I do find funny is that some of them do agree that it's often shit parenting becoming an issue. But, the real problem I have with boomers is that they're often just very NPC-ish.
It's funny how often I can come in to indie used bookstores run by boomers and they'll usually give me great trade-in credit and even help me find something cool and OOP and not made into an ebook yet, but then I meet the bad boomers and they just tell me to go do what they did and work all summer for a house or college.
I miss the silent gen and greatest gen from when they were the old people. . . 20 years ago. They weren't faggots.
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The closest thing that Xer, millennial, and zoomers participate in is retro game collecting and now that mass layoffs are happening at tech companies, that scene is cooling off. The funko pop shit came and went. Dumb chicks used to collect Stanleys but that has faded away. Even with that, very few seriously thought that a bright pink Stanley or some retarded Labubu is something they can retire on, unlike boomers with baseball cards, coke bottles, and tchotchkes.
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I feel like every boomer home has some ugly extension that was done under-the-table and which now threatens the structural stability of the home.
They're fucking obsessed with adding sunrooms or side bedrooms or other useless bullshit to houses even though they almost never fucking use them.
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Short list of things boomers think are investments, but are actually liabilities:
- China sets and fine dinnerware:
Ugly as shit and nobody wants it. - Summer houses:
Require maintenance, taxes and utilities, it's empty most of the year. - "Rare" comic books, stamps, coins and other collectibles
It's mas produced crap so it's not rare, bad resell value, not stored in perfect conditions which destroys the value. - Antique furniture:
No one cares about your old ass ugly furniture, unless it's something very rare and beautiful no one cares. - Vinyls:
I don't need vinyls when I have the internet. - Classic cars:
They degrade, parts are hard to find, only boomers care, why would I care about some old shit car, only museum grade quality antique cars hold value. - RVs:
Same as summer houses, requires lots of maintenance, and it depreciates in value quickly, why would I want an old ass RV. - Boats:
The king of out of touch boomer investments, self explanatory. - Anything that's "Limited edition" that comes with a certificate or is signed:
It's mass produced garbage no one wants, there is no real collector market or demand for it, it will resell for 10% of it's value.
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>boomers and shopping at department stores
Ok, you guys triggered this little rant nugget off my head.
Ok, you guys triggered this little rant nugget off my head.
One boomer I know lives and breathes department stores.
Buys everyone's gifts at them. Books, toys, tools, clothes.... You name it, it still has the [department store] price tag on it.
Except....Greeting Cards.
Which they get from dollar stores.
I understand that most of us are autists that are probably like "well fuck greeting cards anyway" and I truly empathize.
However 90% of the time dollar store greeting cards look like this
Shitty art and walls of terrible text
The person you're giving this extremely unfunny art/joke would rather you LITERALLY KILL them instead
You know you can just print a more personalized photo for the person you love right?
Here's the real hack: Department stores. At least where we live, they might be 2x or 3x more expensive, but you're comparing with 5x to 8x the price from more specialty stores. And they are noticeably better than dollar store.
This person basically lives in the department store, and NEVER does this one simple trick to not have to go to another shitty store to save like 3$? It boggles my mind man!
Buys everyone's gifts at them. Books, toys, tools, clothes.... You name it, it still has the [department store] price tag on it.
Except....Greeting Cards.
Which they get from dollar stores.
I understand that most of us are autists that are probably like "well fuck greeting cards anyway" and I truly empathize.
However 90% of the time dollar store greeting cards look like this
Shitty art and walls of terrible text The person you're giving this extremely unfunny art/joke would rather you LITERALLY KILL them insteadYou know you can just print a more personalized photo for the person you love right? Here's the real hack: Department stores. At least where we live, they might be 2x or 3x more expensive, but you're comparing with 5x to 8x the price from more specialty stores. And they are noticeably better than dollar store.
This person basically lives in the department store, and NEVER does this one simple trick to not have to go to another shitty store to save like 3$? It boggles my mind man!
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The boomer worship of college will never stop infuriating me. My father recently made a snide comment about how he thought my cousin would have "gotten her act together and went back to school by now". I asked what she was supposed to get a degree in, and what the fuck kind of job she was supposed to get with it. "She could go be a nurse!" I point out my mom was in the hospital for 2 months in 2024 and we saw a grand total of 3 nurses under 30 who were white the entire time. I bring up the tuition page of the local nursing school, and then bring up job listings and physically show the man that what he proposes is that she spend 8 years at least and $$$$$$ of dollars for a $$$$$ career that she won't even be hired in because she's white. WELL SHE SHOULD STILL GO DO IT IT'S BETTER THAN NOT HAVING A DEGREE. He literally thinks she should give up her low-pay but stable job that has allowed her to move out and have her own place to go into debt for a piece of paper. He really thinks she should waste years of her life in diffrent classes finding that magic combination that will finally get her a job that starts out at $35,000 a year and tops out at $90,000 if she's lucky. They refuse to stop living in 1990 and it's absolutely insane.
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The absolute worst boomer mod I've seen to a house is an insulated crawlspace. You may be surprised to learn that the wooden components of a crawlspace are meant to breath so that they don't accumulate moisture. Well, back when I did construction, I got to see a 700k house that an exceptionally retarded pair of boomers decided to "renovate" with an insulated crawlspace. Yes, I'm referring to the sandy underbelly of the house with the sump pump to remove water accumulation. Anyhow, they had the whole thing lined with insulated aluminum foil. A few years later, I heard that the whole place had become termite infested. The first thing the exterminators did was remove the insulation.
The second dumbest was the attic aluminum foil heat "reflectors", which are now starting to show up on new build homes for the retarded reason that if one builder in a development does something the rest will follow. Why boomers would believe that lining the inside of the attic with aluminum foil would reflect the heat back to space I will never know. It did sort of work, but only because the foil created an extra pocket of air that would heat up before the rest of the attic. You could achieve the same effect with a tacked on tarp. I'm not sure why they were so concerned in the first place. The attic wasn't even designed as a living space. All they could do with it was store some thing there. I doubt it even affected the a/c bill because the bottom of the attic was thoroughly lined with insulation.
Unrelated song that certainly doesn't sum up my experiences trying to come to grips with boomer construction demands:
It gets far funnier when you realize how many boomer SAHM have college degrees they never used. It's just 2nd high school where you're supposed to meet Mr. Right and settle down. The job market never left the 80's in their minds.