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« Reply #31668 on: May 15, 2024, 01:58:06 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on May 15, 2024, 12:49:45 PM
It's part of the "I want it now!" crowd, and also due to paychecks not covering what they did 4 years ago.
Alas, an ever present group in our society. 

I am amazed at how it happens, but I’m just wired to not want to give up money.
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« Reply #31669 on: May 15, 2024, 02:00:09 PM »
You have common sense that so many in your age bracket do not have.
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« Reply #31670 on: May 15, 2024, 02:19:05 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on May 15, 2024, 12:19:25 PM
My Mom was a good cook, my Dad however would only eat a rather small group of food items, certainly no pizza, no spaghetti, nothing remotely "ethnic".  If we dined out, it would be at some catfish place, S&S cafeteria.  or maybe a Sizzlin'.  I can dimly recall going out after church in Augusta to some "American" style place, it was all we had.

My mom wanted to cook more varied meals, but basically couldn't.  My dad was quite unpleasant when he didn't get his way.
Yeah, I just don't understand that mindset. Sorry that you didn't get to experience things until you were older. 

The biggest issue is that for so many people, it perpetuates. My wife's SIL grew up not eating vegetables. So guess what? She doesn't cook vegetables for her kids or regularly put them into the menu. 

Heck, my wife until she met me wasn't really a fan of any Asian food, despite living in SoCal where it's incredibly common and plentiful. I think her parents just weren't really into it, either eating out or cooking it at home. They were probably used to relatively basic American Chinese food, didn't really get into Thai or Vietnamese, etc. Through me she got exposed to a lot of new Asian cuisines, and various Asian dishes are now in the regular rotation in our menu cooking at home. 
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« Reply #31671 on: May 15, 2024, 02:20:55 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on May 15, 2024, 02:00:09 PM
You have common sense that so many in your age bracket do not have.
Oh, based on everything I was told coming up, it’s pretty much every age bracket. An ever present problem people don’t learn from. 
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« Reply #31672 on: May 15, 2024, 02:28:34 PM »
If you're gonna get deep dish (actually pan), it has to come from one of these two places.

About Us - Pequod's (pequodspizza.com)
About Us - Pequod's (pequodspizza.com)

BURT'S PLACE – Chicagoland's Finest Pan Pizza (burts-place.com)
BURT'S PLACE – Chicagoland's Finest Pan Pizza (burts-place.com)

RIP Burt.

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« Reply #31673 on: May 15, 2024, 02:30:58 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on May 15, 2024, 02:20:55 PM
Oh, based on everything I was told coming up, it’s pretty much every age bracket. An ever present problem people don’t learn from.
I didn't really know anyone who was maxed out or in that "I want it now!" crowd. It just wasn't a thing when I was coming up.

We were taught to save.

Even had a HS class on it.
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« Reply #31674 on: May 15, 2024, 02:32:13 PM »
My Dad was born in north Georgia is a house with no electricity.  His early years were ones of poverty that he didn't escape until he left home and started working, and maybe not until he enlisted in the Army.  He had obviously a very limited view of what comprised food.

Fortunately, perhaps, I am very adventurous when it comes to food.  I like about all types, German being probably my least favorite type, but I've had some good food in Germany, just not great.

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« Reply #31675 on: May 15, 2024, 02:45:54 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on May 15, 2024, 02:30:58 PM
I didn't really know anyone who was maxed out or in that "I want it now!" crowd. It just wasn't a thing when I was coming up.

We were taught to save.

Even had a HS class on it.
there's always been a certain percentage of folks that want it now.
Even back in my day
the farm crisis occurred in the late 70s
mostly from high interest rates, but certainly caused by greed and I want it now.

I just think the percentages of folks that want it now are higher
they also have more and easier options to get it now than before - credit cards and payday loans
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« Reply #31676 on: May 15, 2024, 02:52:23 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on May 15, 2024, 02:45:54 PM
I just think the percentages of folks that want it now are higher
they also have more and easier options to get it now than before - credit cards and payday loans
I think there's just more stuff to want.  Mostly that's a good thing
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« Reply #31677 on: May 15, 2024, 03:31:53 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on May 15, 2024, 02:30:58 PM
I didn't really know anyone who was maxed out or in that "I want it now!" crowd. It just wasn't a thing when I was coming up.

We were taught to save.

Even had a HS class on it.
Interesting. 

When I was coming up, we were always told older people were effing that up left and right. Just treating cards like free money. I remember being in college and just getting earfuls about it (it helped I was in a money and banking Econ class as the 2008 crisis was kicking into gear)
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« Reply #31678 on: May 15, 2024, 03:37:07 PM »
Quote from: ELA on May 15, 2024, 02:52:23 PM
I think there's just more stuff to want.  Mostly that's a good thing
There's always been stuff to want. I wanted the Bally game system. They don't have that now, so kids want an X-Box, or whatever is in season these days.

Need isn't the same as want.

My example is I needed a car. I wanted a Porsche. It was in budget, so I got it, even though I didn't need it. Kinda like FF and his new C8. Nobody needs a Porsche or a C8, but if you can afford one, have at it. I can still afford a Porsche. Don't need one, so it's not happening.

Anyway...

Newly minted graduates don't need to buy a BMW. They just want to, even if it's not in budget. And that's where the "fun" starts.
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« Reply #31679 on: May 15, 2024, 03:39:31 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on May 15, 2024, 03:31:53 PM
Interesting.

When I was coming up, we were always told older people were effing that up left and right. Just treating cards like free money. I remember being in college and just getting earfuls about it (it helped I was in a money and banking Econ class as the 2008 crisis was kicking into gear)
Did you do your coming up in the bay area?

I'd suspect coming up there versus coming up in Chicago are a bit different. Glam versus grit, so to speak.
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« Reply #31680 on: May 15, 2024, 03:56:33 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on May 15, 2024, 03:37:07 PM
There's always been stuff to want. I wanted the Bally game system. They don't have that now, so kids want an X-Box, or whatever is in season these days.

Need isn't the same as want.

My example is I needed a car. I wanted a Porsche. It was in budget, so I got it, even though I didn't need it. Kinda like FF and his new C8. Nobody needs a Porsche or a C8, but if you can afford one, have at it. I can still afford a Porsche. Don't need one, so it's not happening.

Anyway...

Newly minted graduates don't need to buy a BMW. They just want to, even if it's not in budget. And that's where the "fun" starts.
Eh, I'm not talking about wanting "nicer" things.  I see all the things that are out there for kids to have vs. what was even possible for me to have vs. what was possible for my parents to have, and it's not close.  Hell, even for adults.  If your family had a television, you had access to all of the tv programming out there.  Then, you had to have cable.  Now you have to have 15 different streaming services.  I'm not saying you have to have all those things, but those things are out there, and without them you don't have access to 100% of what available.  
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« Reply #31681 on: May 15, 2024, 04:01:24 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on May 15, 2024, 03:31:53 PM
When I was coming up, we were always told older people were effing that up left and right. Just treating cards like free money. I remember being in college and just getting earfuls about it (it helped I was in a money and banking Econ class as the 2008 crisis was kicking into gear)
Same.  I remember at my HS graduation my dad jokingly apologizing for enjoying his parents' generation having no debt, and then racking up debt to pass onto us.  We only had to pay for one car, because he had a corporate car his entire career.  Don't get me wrong, he worked extremely hard, and did save.  To keep it semi-on topic, I remember begging every year for ESPN Gameplan, which was like $80 for the season in the 90s, and he always said no.  Half of the Tigers games were on PASS, which was on the expanded cable package.  Also a no.  But I also remember most of our household appliances being given to us as sales bonuses, and my mom never even needing to consider working.  So that meant no daycare expenses.  They both went to college, and came out with no debt, even though my dad paid his own way through.  No 18 year old could pay their own way through college now.  Not even close.  He went to Eastern Michigan simply so he could come out with no debt.  Now, maybe there is a decision that a kid wouldn't make now.
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