Boomers are squandering their children's inheritance!

I never had such worries, never expecting a dime. As it was, by her 60s I was assisting my mother anyway.

I'm sometimes puzzled that social media sites are so dominated by those who grew up in luxury, relative or absolute. I'd imagine them hopping on and off jets, in and out of limos and hotel beds, dining on hummingbird liver pate, sipping champagne, snorting coke, and dancing their idle lives away.

I guess I'd pictured cheap and free online services to be an outlet for those without a pot or window, and few other options. Or maybe it is, and a lot of people put up a good front. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog - Wikipedia
 

Boomers I know who inherited from our parents, myself included, expected nothing and had zero resentment about anything our parents spent. On the contrary, because those parents were raised during the Depression and tended to be thrifty, their kids strongly encouraged them to go, do, enjoy and spend on themselves.

Inheritances to family members and my friends were nearly all proceeds from the sales of our parents' homes.

Not everyone who receives an inheritance greedily grasped for it. That's an ugly, untrue generalization.
 
It's time to set the record straight. While Baby Boomers are often spoken of as one large cohort, there are indeed two different types of Boomers.
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Early Boomers Generation Jones: Meet the Two Boomer Subgroups
Whenever we're out giving presentations, it's inevitable that some Boomers approach us with the complaint, "I'm not like those earlier Boomers" or "I think the later Boomers had a different outlook than we did." They follow up with comments like, “I remember not having enough books in my classroom, but I was not old enough to be a hippie.” And they bring up a really good point. Though the Baby Boomer generation is often heralded as the group that collectively changed the US political and cultural landscape, not all Baby Boomers are the same.
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Jones folks didn't have parents who profiteered off the Great Depression and following years.
Life at home was more different for Gen Jones than the more traditional setting that Early Boomers experienced. More homes were being forced into having two working parents due to changes in the economy and job availability. When Gen Jones went to school, there were not enough desks or books in the classroom because the school system wasn’t ready for this large cohort.
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It’s pretty disgusting that a third of the homeless population are boomers. It’s one reason I immediately bought a small condo after my divorce so I could secure a stable cost for housing. Rents here are unaffordable for many people.
 
As our will stands our sons get to divide the money .
What they do with this house is up to them.

If I end up being a widow,,I will probably change my will.

I haven't seen our grand daughters in four years.
The oldest is a nurse .I think she trying to advance her education.

DIL said the youngest is a social butterfly. HUH????
 
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