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xo poll: how are your boomer parents doing financially?
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Date: January 13th, 2026 7:32 PM Author: burgundy half-breed range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49587307) |
Date: January 13th, 2026 7:46 PM Author: Duck-like Cerise French Chef Forum they are comfortable as far as I can tell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49587342) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 12:12 AM Author: Ocher concupiscible station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588015) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 12:12 AM Author: Ocher concupiscible station tp. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588016) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 12:14 AM Author: Thriller Clear Spot Community Account My dad is dead. Mom is on welfare and obese. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588019) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 3:06 PM Author: artificial intelligence Makes sense (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49589233) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 12:18 AM Author: free-loading fantasy-prone stage no debt but kind of broke. both own their homes and cars. dad lives on a $35k pension, has about $120k in stocks paying 4-5k a year in dividends, somehow never has money. mom has $500k in the bank drawing interest but lives off of social security, she's ridiculously frugal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588026) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 12:19 AM Author: Fiercely-loyal cruise ship my dad is insanely rich, my mom is insanely poor. divorce really should be illegal imo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588028) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 12:20 AM Author: Doobsian ungodly preventive strike dingle berry how many screens he own? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588030) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 12:44 AM Author: Fiercely-loyal cruise ship he has a whole office he never uses with a screen and a Herman Miller Aeron but I don't think he's sat in it once before. It's just for the flex. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588052) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 3:28 PM Author: Juan Eighty cq (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49589297) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 12:46 AM Author: Godawful odious office generalized bond my dad was really depressed because he had to sell his cabin on a lake, this is one of three cabins, ignoring all of the other properties he has, completely vacant 99% of the year (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588054) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:49 AM Author: burgundy half-breed range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588319) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:52 AM Author: maroon house My father is generally doing fine, but still on a payment plan with the government to reimburse for all the military helicopters he crashed by sucking the pilots' dicks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588323) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 1:17 PM Author: burgundy half-breed range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588948) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 1:21 PM Author: boyish background story halford mom is still working, they are getting by but barely (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588959) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 1:22 PM Author: topaz indirect expression mom is dead and dad has no liquid money (retired/lives off SSI) but the house+land is probably worth 700k (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49588962) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 3:10 PM Author: LathamTouchedMe very comfortable. own a house with several rental properties. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49589247) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 3:11 PM Author: fully online and responsive My parents seem to have found an infinite money glitch the way they are spending. My mom ordered like 200 Christmas gifts for us this year on amazon and they're still coming every day, I just got a new north face coat for like $300 sent here and they spent like 100k putting in a huge propane generator and solar battery backup etc. at their cabin and bought a beach house in florida they have yet to visit and my dad bought an old vintage jeep he has driven twice (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821681&forum_id=2],#49589254) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 3:17 PM Author: zesty have you ever seen the skit White Like Me by Eddie Murphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LeJfn_qW0
boomers live in a world where that is 100% real but for boomers/non-boomers |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 3:14 PM Author: black abyss (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) Dementia Mom. Just bought a new Camry, international vacations 2x per annum, spends another 6-8 weeks on vacation domestically. Goes out to eat 4-5x per week. Plays golf. Goes swimming. Goes on walks. Constantly bitches about not having enough money. Has an IRA worth about $1m and a house full of crap. My dad has a net worth of about $1.2m. About half of it is in real estate. Has a $500,000 IRA, but takes more than his RMDs. Has a bunch of cash. Lives a frugal life and goes on vacation like 2x per year for 2-3 weeks at a time. Doesn’t leave the USA. |