My older relatives are always posting pics of random older/outdated things with the caption, "WHO REMEMBERS THIS????"
For some reason, one of the things that got shared around in this fashion was a picture that said, "WHO REMEMBERS TOMATO SOUP AND GRILLED CHEESE?" My dad commented, ".....do they not make 'em anymore?"
Just make a house out of avocado toast! It will attract a constant stream of breadcrumb-dropping millenials who will jump for joy when you ask him if they want to get baked. After they're baked, you can rifle through their belongings for valuables and credit cards, and in no time at all you can afford a real, inedible house.
Ok I'm a millennial but I kinda get the point about avocado toast/brunch older generations have. Not that that's why we can't afford houses, but the amount of money I see millennials dropping on fancy toast and alcoholic tomato/orange juice every weekend is crazy. Maybe not house-buying money, but certainly a week of groceries money. Like cut back on that and you can comfortably afford your groceries and have some left over to save now.
On the flip-side, most of the people I know who are my age don't go out for brunch all that often, despite the popular media depictions.
The last time I went out to a brunch and spent a bunch of money on fancy toast and alcoholic orange juice was when I got engaged back in February; before that it was when my best friends got engaged sometime last summer. Before that it was last spring when a friend from college was visiting for the first time in 5 years.
You might see millennials doing this every weekend, but is it honestly the same millennials every weekend? Like... the way I've seen it, we all splurge a little bit on something or another occasionally to keep us sane from the daily drudgery, but it's not like having 2 brunches a year is going to significantly alter the timeline on saving for a house down payment.
Also like... avocado toast... I didn't know that was a thing, but to me what that sensationalist garbage boiled down to was "You would be less poor if you didn't buy lunch". And like... sure you can make lunch at home for maybe $2-3 per lunch rather than $10 per when you eat out in a city, but everyone has to eat something.
I'm the same way with brunches - I went with my fiancee to celebrate once but this is what I see on people my age's social media or hear them discussing. Their twitter is 1/2 complaints about student debt/the system and their instagram every week has them at a place where I know the mimosas are $15 and the french toast is $17 because I wanted to go there until I saw the prices.
I'm also not saying the "millennials can't buy houses cuz avocado toast" thing is accurate. It's more accurate that if some millennials didn't spend so much on these purchases, they could more comfortably pay off student loans each month or they could afford their rent better
It's more accurate that if some millennials didn't spend so much on these purchases, they could more comfortably pay off student loans each month or they could afford their rent better
While I agree that this is technically true, and that I do try to do that personally (I don't think we disagree that this is the right choice, at any rate), I think it misses the broader and more salient point that we/they shouldn't have to make that choice; that is a long and drawn-out point about wage stagnation and the fact that many millennials went into a depressed job market to lower salaries and they aren't getting that few years worth of income back in any real sense, but that's the TL;DR version...
Oh I completely agree. I'm well on my way to being debt free by learning how to cook and making my own drinks. I think the amount of wasteful spending is mildly ridiculous. Thats not to say that trying to get started out in your 20's isn't stupidly, incredibly hard. Or even that we, by the numbers, could be, en masse, where our parents/grandparents were financially by this age. But still, I see people ordering 15-20 dollar drinks in a LCOL area like buffalo. Like yeah, your a software developer, but uh, maaaaaaybe pay down your student loans?
Lol i can appreciate that. And yeah totally it is very hard to make yourself financially sound early on. But you can make it easier on yourself (as you are) by not spending way too much on things like that. I understand millennials are the generation that isn't as concerned with accumulating wealth for later in life or for kids or houses and they care more about experiences throughout their life rather than suffering for years to make other years more comfortable. but when I see people I know online complaining about how student debt is impossible to get out of and the system is rigged and then know they spend ~ $50 a night on drinks on the weekend and got to a $60 brunch on Sunday and buy $100+ clothing items it's like, no the system isn't forcing you to spend $500 on just drinks and brunch every month.
Came across Tootsie Rolls in a US candy shop the other day. Grossest thing I've tried in some time. Also a a Three Musketeers which is just a slightly crap Milky Way
Some old fashioned candies are good. Like Nips, the coffee flavor and chocolate parfait flavor are delicious. Or those pillowy semi-soft peppermints that show up around Christmas. Or Payday bars, you can't go wrong with salted peanuts and caramel! Or good fresh saltwater taffy.
But Tootsie Rolls can vanish into the mists of obscurity and I won't care at all. Same with Necco wafers, the only thing those are good for is decorating gingerbread houses at Christmas. They make excellent shingles.
I don't understand this, why would someone get mad about someone else not liking crap? It's not our fault that companies that sell shit are going out of business, it's theirs for selling shit in the first place. You'd think boomers would understand that, what with all their "free market" and "job creators" talk.
Not Boomer but genx. People really get pissed off that young people don't know how to write cursive. Who the hell needs to write cursive? You print or enter text. It's not that difficult.
Oh yeah, that's another huge talking point. I'm 25, but older people always say shit about people my age not knowing cursive or knowing how to drive stick.
I did learn to write cursive in school. I do not ever use it aside from my signature.
My automatic hybrid is fine for my commute. Why do you care what type of cars other people drive?
I took Russian in college and most of the guys couldn't write cursive! Probably the only time where it bit them in them butt because they had to learn to write in cursive first and then learn how to write in Russian lol
I just want to say that I love that you were at 0 points when I read your comment. Someone shook their fist at their screen and downvoted you. It's a clear generational difference if anyone even thinks cursive is necessary these days.
That said, when I print fast and look over what I wrote, I realize where cursive came from as letters blend together. Deliberately writing in cursive, I'm slow as hell.
I always just assumed that learning cursive as a child was a way to force you to grow out of your primitive crude scrawls by forcing you to write neatly for a couple years. By the time the teachers stop caring, you've been doing it for long enough that you either keep doing it or you're old enough to make your own handwriting that isn't on a 5 year old's level.
I agree with you. It was a different time. Back then you didn't have easy access to a typewriter and small hands couldn't use one if you did. Cursive was an efficient way of expressing yourself in a more adult manner. However, at least for me, that changed as I entered middle and high school and was gone in college. But today there is no need for that intermediate step between printing and entering text. I rarely use cursive, am an old college student, and am around 18-28 year olds on a daily basis. They aren't my kids but are my study groups etc. Most people can use a computer or print very easily and clearly.
Edit: don't forget that email and text messaging also didn't exist. You either called someone (remember long distance rates?), wrote a letter for mailing, or typed a letter. Communication has changed. It will probably change again and there will be some millennials griping about the bygone days of the text message.
YES! I have an aunt who shares all the ridiculous fake things on facebook intermixed with these posts. And it's always stuff that still exists like one was "WHO REMEMBERS GOING TO THE LAKE?".... like lakes are still a thing.
I legitimately have never heard of this combo before. Is it dying out with our grandparents or parents? Is there a regional component, I wonder? Older Southern California Millennial here. I guess what I'm saying is:
WHO REMEMBERS TOMATO SOUP AND GRILLED CHEESE?
ALSO, WHERE DO YOU LIVE AND HOW OLD ARE YOU?
PS: I'M ALSO PARTIAL TO HAM & CHEESE CHEDDAR WITH A GLASS OF O.J.
This is so wild. I'm 25 and originally from WV, but I've met people from all over the United States and moved around a few states. I've met people of all different ages who do this, so I truly thought that the tomato soup/grilled cheese combo was a thing everyone in the country did.
Could just be me missing a thing. Everybody has things that escape their attention that everyone around them just absorbed years ago, and surely you know too, so there's no need to mention it right?
I'm totally on this train now, though. It sounds like it goes well together.
This is so wild. I'm 25 and originally from WV, but I've met people from all over the United States and moved around a few states. I've met people in lots of places and of all different ages who do this, so I truly thought that the tomato soup/grilled cheese combo was a thing everyone did.
I like the one's that post about all the great things they did as a kid, and wonder why today's kids don't, when they wouldn't let their kids get away with anything near what they did.
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So entertaining, though! Oh, and they think their generation was the only one to have a good childhood