Do Younger People Overspend On Homes Today?

[PureX]

Well, I certainly agree that the younger generation is too materialistic.

I guess all those hundreds of thousands of advertisements telling them how they just had to have all that material crap, to be whole, had an effect on them. But wait, WE were the ones creating all that materialist messaging, weren't we?

Seems many were handed everything on a silver platter, and even when they get out on their own they expect to keep the same standard of living. Even if it's only laptops and cellphones...they're into their stuff.

Can't be complete without it! That's what we let be drilled into their heads from the day they were born.

What gets me is that it's virtually impossible to find teenagers who are willing to work. You can offer them good bucks, but if it involves labor, they don't want it. :idunno:

Well, no one was ever working in those ads. Not for more than about 20 seconds, anyway.

 

[Granite]

Well, I certainly agree that the younger generation is too materialistic. Seems many were handed everything on a silver platter, and even when they get out on their own they expect to keep the same standard of living. Even if it's only laptops and cellphones...they're into their stuff.

What gets me is that it's virtually impossible to find teenagers who are willing to work. You can offer them good bucks, but if it involves labor, they don't want it. :idunno:

Nothing changes generation from generation except the toys.

 

[glorydaz]

Nothing changes generation from generation except the toys.

Yeah, the toys do change. But, it used to be easy to find plenty of teenagers willing to muck out stalls and now there are none. So, maybe the toys are keeping them lazier than the toys of old. :think:

 

[Granite]

Yeah, the toys do change. But, it used to be easy to find plenty of teenagers willing to muck out stalls and now there are none. So, maybe the toys are keeping them lazier than the toys of old. :think:

I'd say there are plenty of teens around. Just fewer stalls.

And frankly, maybe there's more options available these days.

Everyone--everyone--always complains about young people. How lazy they are. How obnoxious they are. About how in the old days, parents were tougher. Literally nothing changes.

 

[glorydaz]

I guess all those hundreds of thousands of advertisements telling them how they just had to have all that material crap, to be whole, had an effect on them. But wait, WE were the ones creating all that materialist messaging, weren't we?
Can't be complete without it! That's what we let be drilled into their heads from the day they were born.
Well, no one was ever working in those ads. Not for more than about 20 seconds, anyway.

Yeah, what chance do the kids have today? They are bombarded on every side and held accountable by none. The baby boomers have created a monster. It reminds me of that ad where there is a giant baby....can't remember what it's for.


I'm not sure where the breakdown came. My kids worked and grew up to be hard workers, but something happened after that. All I know is that I can't find anyone to muck out stalls, and I sure don't want to ask those bums who stand on the street corner saying they are willing to work. They look barely able to drag the pack they're sitting on.

 

[Granite]

Yeah, what chance do the kids have today? They are bombarded on every side and held accountable by none. The baby boomers have created a monster. It reminds me of that ad where there is a giant baby....can't remember what it's for.


I'm not sure where the breakdown came. My kids worked and grew up to be hard workers, but something happened after that. All I know is that I can't find anyone to muck out stalls, and I sure don't want to ask those bums who stand on the street corner saying they are willing to work. They look barely able to drag the pack they're sitting on.

Your arrogance, snobbery, and callousness is really something else.

Didn't the carpenter say something about helping the needy? The least of these? You vicious, cold, monstrous excuse for a Christian.

 

[glorydaz]

I'd say there are plenty of teens around. Just fewer stalls.

And frankly, maybe there's more options available these days.

Everyone--everyone--always complains about young people. How lazy they are. How obnoxious they are. About how in the old days, parents were tougher. Literally nothing changes.

Yeah, the other options are talking on their cell phones and playing games online. I can't help but see the common lament among parents is the inability to get their kids to do anything. The peer pressure now is one that has empowered kids...they can report their parents and know it. They have their "rights".

Actually, parents were tougher. They expected more and they got more. I'm sure there are "studies" to support that.

 

[Granite]

Yeah, the other options are talking on their cell phones and playing games online. I can't help but see the common lament among parents is the inability to get their kids to do anything. The peer pressure now is one that has empowered kids...they can report their parents and know it. They have their "rights".

Actually, parents were tougher. They expected more and they got more. I'm sure there are "studies" to support that.

You're entitled to whatever ignorant opinion you care to share. Following your latest I have zero interest in anything else you've got to say. You're not a very good person.

 

[glorydaz]

Your arrogance, snobbery, and callousness is really something else.

Didn't the carpenter say something about helping the needy? The least of these? You vicious, cold, monstrous excuse for a Christian.

Are you really as wacko as you pretend to be? You're such a hypocrite. You've got the government doling out food, and you still stop and rail on those who refuse to enable the bums who sell their food stamps for booze and drugs.

"The carpenter" didn't define the "needy" like you obviously do.

 

[Granite]

Are you really as wacko as you pretend to be? You're such a hypocrite. You've got the government doling out food, and you still stop and rail on those who refuse to enable the bums who sell their food stamps for booze and drugs.

"The carpenter" didn't define the "needy" like you obviously do.

He defined whitewashed self-righteous smug little crypts like you just fine.

You're a truly unfortunate human being and a disgrace to your faith. The fact that you don't even deign to help poor people by paying them to shovel the muck left by your horses seems to sum you up just about perfectly.

Why is it you guys seem to always root for Dives, and not for Lazarus?

 

[glorydaz]

You're entitled to whatever ignorant opinion you care to share. Following your latest I have zero interest in anything else you've got to say. You're not a very good person.

Then you should really try and resist the urge to respond....so far you're very weak willed in that regard. :chew:

 

[glorydaz]

:mmph:How true! It seems kids used to be out looking for any work, doing yard work, looking for part-time jobs at anyplace where they might find it; now it seems most kids do not want to work at all.

Imagine that. People still have yards I'm assuming. I was told it was just the stalls kids didn't want to clean. :chuckle:

 

[Granite]

Then you should really try and resist the urge to respond....so far you're very weak willed in that regard. :chew:

I'll keep this short and sweet: You're wretched, awful, and heartsick.

With that the rest of the Pharisees can join you in sneering at the poor.:e4e:

Enjoy the thread.

 

[glorydaz]

You're a truly unfortunate human being and a disgrace to your faith. The fact that you don't even deign to help poor people by paying them to shovel the muck left by your horses seems to sum you up just about perfectly.

Are you talking about that guy standing on the corner? I told you he was clearly not up for the job of mucking stalls. He was weak from drinking too much or drugging too much. Don't you have those guys standing on the street corners where you live? Do YOU invite them home?

I am more than willing to pay for the job, but I won't invite a drunk home so he can puke in my stall and claim he injured his back while doing it. No bleeding heart here.....for the simple reason that it is not really showing someone love to enable them.

 

[glorydaz]

I'll keep this short and sweet: You're wretched, awful, and heartsick.

With that the rest of the Pharisees can join you in sneering at the poor.:e4e:

Enjoy the thread.

Couldn't resist, could you?

If you really think I care what you think of me, you're mistaken. I know you really can't help yourself.

 

[musterion]

Granite is going off the rails again.

 

[glorydaz]

Granite is going off the rails again.

I see him there in the chat room. :nono: He thinks I'm too proud to pay someone to clean my stalls. I guess I should pick that guy up and haul him out to the farm and put a pitchfork in his hand and watch him try to lift it with the "muscles" he's built up lifting that beer glass or chopping up that line of crank.

The funny part is we live in Oregon where we give everyone everything they need.....more than they need. And the food stamp place was about two blocks from where he was standing.

Nope, this guy wanted some bleeding heart to take him in, give him a meal, talk them into letting him stay in their motorhome while he "looked for work". But, he had no car and didn't have money for the bus while he went to town to look for work (standing on the street corner to get enough handouts for a bottle of wine). Hand to mouth in the real world. Libs are so naïve. They wouldn't do themselves what they want us to do. :chuckle:

 

[ok doser]

:mock:Granite

 

[Sherman]

And this little bunny trail of his didn't really have much to do with the OP.

 

[Quetzal]

I don't know about house costs, but I have noticed a huge change in kids.

I was born in the early 50's.
We had none of todays tech toys, and very few store bought toys at all.
We played outside, with the dogs, with our bikes, made forts with hay bales in the barn, played ball, went fishing, etc.
And I do not EVER remember telling my parents, "I'm bored".

Now, about all I see kids doing is texting, computer games, x-box, etc.
And at one point of nearly every single day, you hear, "I'm bored".



As for adults, I have never seen as much time and money spent on "keeping up with the Jones". It is frightening how much peer pressure dictates their decisions.

I guess I lucked out. My family was similar. My grandparents would always tell me after breakfast to be back by dinner and listen for the bell. (They have acres of river front property) So I would disappear for hours at time, come back for a drink and snack only to run back out again. My dad raised me and it was similar, also. IF I did want something (toy, electronic, whatever), he made me work for it. In that way I was lucky because it taught me from a young age that I shouldn't expect to be given stuff. Gifts are nice, but by and large, most of it comes from a deal. "If you want X, I need you to do Y and Z."

For comparison purposes, I am 28.