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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SDMF" data-source="post: 497043" data-attributes="member: 412">A solution to what?  The numbers have more decimal places but the lifestyles afforded by a given career haven’t really changed all that much.  The will and discipline to sacrifice entertainment and doing some things yourself vs. paying for them so as to save for big purchases has certainly changed.  Changing your own oil, engine/cabin air filter, rotating tires yourself, and holy crap, learn (or teach as the case applies) to swap a windshield wiper on your own.  How about a hose, couple drops of dawn in a bucket, a sponge, and some towels instead of $10 for the drive-through wash that only gets about 30% of the bugs off anyway?1992 was the 1st year I had a part time job in retail for the entire year.  Working 15-20hrs/week (30+ hrs in the summer) I made the same amount that year that my dad made his 1st full year in Pharmaceutical sales in 1976.2026, my daughter was hired in retail at an hourly rate that would’ve made the same amount I was making when hired to sell healthcare products in 2000.Friend’s children who’ve worked hard in trades apprenticeships/school and/or college Are all on their own, making a living without help from home, saving for the things 20-something’s save for.  A home, a wedding/engagement rings, paying off student loans, etc.I’m one of the older of 31 1st cousins between mom and dad’s sides and I can only come up w/1 still @ home in their 20’s.  Some life choices have somewhat put the cart before the horse which is often challenging financially.The doom and gloom I see and hear bantered about is loudest from those who’d like to be present and accounted for in every aspect of your life that’s completed while clothed and some completed sans clothing.You want to be of genuine value to your grandkids, sit them down and show them how to make a budget, then follow-up often to see if they’re following it.  If things are truly that tight, you buy fuel @ the convenience store, and that’s IT.  No $3-$7 coffee, Make coffee @ home, and I’m not talking K-Cups either.  Leave everything in the cooler, in the cooler, and don’t be nabbing stuff off the warmer either.  Pack a lunch, go home for supper, leftovers go in Tupperware to be eaten, not scraped out if the container into the garbage in 2wks.</blockquote>

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