Happy End of Summer (for those that celebrate) !!
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Pretty hard to fuck up being a boomer ! Most cushy generation in US history.
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Well, other than that whole Nam thing.
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Nam was an early boomer thing. But still, pretty good economics for achieving the American Dream as a boomer.
My dad bought a house 3 blocks from the ocean in Huntington Beach, CA on a $25,000 salary in 1979. That’s $103,000 in 2025 USD. My mom didn’t work. Axe @UW_Doog_Bot if that’s doable today. -
Yep. Dad was an engineer and mom was at home. We had money, but my old man was born in 1917, and grew up thru the depression, so he never wanted to spend it. The only vacations we ever took was driving to Texas every summer to see family. I’ve got some of that stinginess, and it has served me well to this point. I never took a proper vacation until I was 40, and have been on the go ever since.
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That kinda sounds like hell to me. We keep some of our discretionary fun for the leisure of mom and dad and omit the kids going on our big vacations. They're probably also much younger than your kids, though.
The two things I've learned from watching other families in the same ballpark as us are:
- Travel sports will never happen in the Anus household. Don't care how good any of my boys end up being at a sport.
- Kids can take out loans for school if they want to go. Make them think twice about how they go into debt. Worked fine for me. Don't get a shitty degree.
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Also, huh?
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I use Sonos as metaphor for household fiscal sanity.
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1- I generally agree that youth travel sports ball is out of control and families get carried away here. That said, if you mated with some elite sports ball DNA as I did and you're kid is going to be somewhere between 6'8" and 6'10" and can dribble you gotta let it play out. I don't know if little piss 1.0 has what it takes to play college hoops like mom, but it's worth, at least, providing the opportunity. Hell @Baseman was TBS stalking my kid 2 years ago in the zone before the Oregon game.
2- Our philosophy on college is you go to an affordable public school and not incur a ton of debt. If you want to go private or out of state there needs to be an athletic of academic scholarship. I don't make @creepycoug bucks so there will be no liberal arts schools back east.
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Yeah, no kids in my house are coming close to 6'10" and there's the old saying that you can't teach height. My oldest seems to be pretty athletic and has picked up baseball pretty well. Hell, he might even reach 6' tall at the rate he's going. If he hits .500 and strikes out 15 a game on a high school team maybe I'll think about adding a summer team to the budget.
Sounds like Ol' Yella is gonna have a family of Ducks in the future. SAD!
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I'm glad to this day that my dad hated little league and whatever youth sports there were
On the other hand we had school football and basketball teams from 7th grade on
