Earlier this week an impecunious 34-year-old Millennial wrote a scathing attack in the Mail on her Baby Boomer parents for spending her inheritance on new cars and lavish foreign holidays.
According to a new survey she’s not alone in her resentment; two in five adult children feel their ‘blood boiling’ at the idea their parents are doing just this.Here, the Boomers fight back . . .I am now 64, and although I can officially retire next year and claim my state pension, I intend to work until I am at least 70 to have some decent savings behind me.
But your generation expect us to put our freedom aside to babysit your children and use us as a future cash cow while we slowly vegetate in our front rooms watching rubbish telly so as not to spend your inheritance.Grow up and take responsibility.Of course you wrote your article anonymously; you and your friend are well aware of how selfish and entitled you sound.
Some had managed to buy their council houses and so, rent-free, they tottered off on coach trips to the Costas and came back with sombreros and straw donkeys.So maybe you aren’t on the property ladder yet; my heart bleeds. Does ‘Anonymous’ really believe they are entitled to all of this hard-earned income? No, they are not. I will enjoy the fruits of my labour while I can.A. Firm, Rushden, Northants.How dare these entitled adult ‘children’ expect their parents’ money and time!
When the Last Will and Testament is read, maybe there will be a huge shock for the children if the financial institutions own a huge portion of the equity contained in ‘their’ expected windfall.What a selfish, sad person ‘Anonymous’ sounds. Perhaps she has no idea how her parents very likely struggled in their early married life, and possibly went without a fair bit in order to give their daughters a happy childhood.
READ MORE: My inheritance is being drunk through a straw in a coconut in the Caribbean! Am I selfish for resenting my boomer parents for burning through money that should be mine?
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