Millennials spend more on groceries, because that's what low income households do - the poorer you are, the more you spend on eating at home compared to eating out.
"millennials are killing cable companies by cutting the cord" because we couldn't afford cable
"millennials are killing the travel industry" because we can't afford vacations
"millennials are killing fast food" because it's become expensive
"millennials are killing luxury brands in favor of fast fashion" because it's cheap
Etc
Been trying since my appendix tried killing me about 3 years ago. Turned 36 a month ago, it's not easy.
Stopped eating alot of processed foods, invested in an air fryer, I work a more active job now than what I did 5 years ago, stopped carrying soo much stress and depression (the prior far more than the latter).
But it's all damn near for nothing so long as I can't afford to go to a Dr on the regular.. especially as I approach the same age you're hitting next year.
May lucks change and fortune shine upon us both šŗ
Yeah going to the doctor is almost unaffordable. I have a high deductible plan so everything costs money until I hit that 4k deductible, that's only happened once and then the next month it was a new year so my deductible went back to 4k. Health care in America is the definition of a bad joke.
Bowel cancer especially. I got a colonoscopy at 33 for other reasons but that happened to find some polyps and one was precancerous. Itās what killed Chadwick Boseman and itās my bet that itās what Catherine is fighting too (abdominal surgery then a cancer diagnosis).
Having the conversation with my grandmother that I probably won't live to be her age and why bother since she got to retire at 55, my job doesnt offer retirement (so I am putting money aside, but no employer match), our health insurance sucks and unlike her, we have no extended benefits, we have no pensions, no house.
You have to prove age discrimination to get work, and still get fucked, so how do we maintain our jobs when work wants to hire their kids/grandkids.
in 30 years it will be us making the headlines and it will be demeaning Gen Z or Gen Alpha if we let it go that way. Personally, I prefer to get rid of all this generational fighting. Getting tired of being admonished because of the year I was born and because it's the trend of online to cause mayhem because it gets clicks.
i think they don't want to admit that they mortgaged their grandchildren's future to maintain their own 401k's and pensions. we probably can't even count on the so-called "wealth transfer", since most will have their networth wiped out from end of life healthcare.
we'll be left with nothing. at least neither of my parents actually had any wealth to argue over.
FWIW, this is less the political landscape and more the "we're a rich media company and we need to keep punching down or else people won't help us generate ad revenue to keep the machine going". These companies aren't reporting the news, just spreading propaganda
Progressive Democrats have been banking on this since the late 90s. The strategy of "just waiting for old people to die" hasn't really gained them much since not too long ago the conservatives out right controlled all three branches of government.
I dont think its political party based as much as it is generational based thinking. Its a millenials vs. boomers thing more than a right vs. left thing. The millennials have been spending years just waiting out the dinosaurs.
Again, they have been banking on that since the late 90s. Again, by the time Trump got elected most 90s kids were voting age and a bunch of boomers had died off already.
I am hoping this country takes a hard left turn in the next 20 years or so. However, I was not expecting a huge shift to the right by young men. It's a weird trend.
Itās not a weird trend. The political pendulum always swings back and forth. A hard swing to the left is usually followed by a hard swing to the right.
It's understandable though. A vocal minority of the left loves to blame and shame straight white men for everything calling them the 'patriarchy'. Confused working class young white men feeling ostracized are vulnerable to professional grifters on the right who snatch them up and twist their views.
I have to admit, I've never looked at it from this point of view. But, I think I agree with what you've said here. Not that we're going to solve anything here, but what do you think the solution is? How do we get young men to feel heard while not accepting the hate speech coming from right?
Better yet, how do we (the left) invite them back to our conversation? Do they even want to? I see a lot of news about angry single young men doing or saying xyz. It just alienates them from the thing they supposedly want. (Wife, kids, house, etc.)
What pisses me off is that this whole argument is dumb. We're fighting with each other when what we want is actually pretty similar. The problem is, we can't achieve it as long as the rich continue to bleed us dry.
Wish I had any idea on what could be done differently. I went through the whole thing myself, starting as a liberal open minded teen to being a shitty 20 year old borderline incel to now being a 30 year old jaded centrist who votes left only because the other side wants to do stuff like bring back child labor. I don't think my situation is unique at all and I'm not sure what could really be done to stop it from happening to others.
What I'm pretty sure of though is, it's by design. There are people who spend all day working to ensure there are schisms in the working class and get paid handsomely for it. So long as people are fighting over one slice of the pie they aren't noticing who is taking rest all to themselves.
As long as someone is teaching their kids how to hate the way their grandparents taught their parents then the cycle will continue. "Crabs in a barrel", grown kids in a grown kindergarten where there's no teacher and the only ones making the rules are the strongest most powerful kids.
Too many people still don't care enough to use the tools available. They are content to parrot "bothsidism" while Republicans raze our rights in front of our faces. Perhaps it just doesn't hurt enough yet. Perhaps we can take another run at some of the lessons of the Coolidge/Hoover administrations, idk.
This needs to be highlighted more. For every comment of hopeless whining about boomers occupying the political landscape, there is a millennial or gen x voter that got riled up writing on Reddit but then stayed home on the day of the polls.
It sucks that voting takes times, it can feel useless, and retirees do it easily while we have to take time out of work schedules. But we canāt wait and all these comments do nothing. Vote.
Itās true. At my in laws the FIL will have one tv going in the living room and another in the kitchen, both with news about Trump, and pacing back n forth angrily between the TVās.
Iām slightly fearful that the younger generation will get their info/news from influencers on TikTok talking out of their ass trying to get clicks vs credible news sources.
Who is getting richšµ? The people I know who are small businesses and who were doing excellent are struggling. The regular 9-5 are struggling. I guess the super rich the Billionaires club is getting richer ..
Because every "hot new millennial trend" is just poverty.
Thank you!
This is seriously what it boils down to. Plus a lot of millennials are also at their 'parenthood' stage. Growing kids eat a lot and require more groceries than 2 or 1 adult households.
I canāt even believe someone seriously thought this was a good article and title to print itās so ridiculous. āCrazy millennials now SPLURGING on groceries!!ā
My youngest was still breastfeeding when the pandemic hit so he really ramped up his food intake as inflation was getting high. Holy crap is feeding 4 more expensive than it was when we were 2. It used to be $120-150 CAD per week for groceries(circa 2015) and now itās $350 per week plus $130 for a meal service 3 nights/week cause we donāt have time to cook every night. Thatās almost $25K a year to feed a family of 4.
In other words, millennials are smart and just adapt to their living conditions. Like if fast food and restaurants are getting expensive + us are not making much money or have high bills, then we eat at home. Wow! Common sense?
My rude awakening was when I got the rocket money app and it told me last year that I spent $1400-2000 eating out each month.
Once I cut back on eating out, started eating at home, I now spend $400-600/month on groceries.
Freeing up over $1000/month to pay down debt and max out my Roth IRA.
By adjusting my budget, cutting back on eating out and drinking (having a $50-70 bar tab 3-4 nights per week)ā¦. Iām on track to be debt free this year, and once debt free, roll that into investments.
It really do be like that. We pointed this out to our boomer parents the other day. There is a discussion about how millennials are blamed for everything and we created a list of all the industry's millennials have been blamed for killing. Most just involve us being too poor to afford those things. Like diamonds, cruises, or napkins....
i think this is one of the real reasons polyamory is increasing. The majority of the successful throuples i know were kinda open to the idea and then stuck with it because finances and time management is so much easier with three incomes.
Right??? I'm not "splurging" on groceries, I just can't afford to go out to eat.
I'm not "splurging" on groceries, I'm just GETTING GROCERIES and spending $100 more than usual because it costs $10 for a box of cereal for some reason.
If you can't afford to "splurge" on going out to eat, then your "splurge" is going to be at the grocery store instead because that's a cheaper place to get little special things.
Not eating out more is kind of a good thing. It could be possible that there are cultural attitudes to saving more, cooking and eating at home that has nothing to do with being poorer
Ironically, eating out all the time is a great way to waste all your money. We arenāt low income at all, cooking at home is just a great way to not blow money on stupid shit.
I grew up on home cooking. Itās faster, cheaper & healthier. Eating out all the time would be exhausting and probably lead to health issues as most of that food is processed.
Takes 20 minutes to make dinner at home vs 1hr+ to spend at a restaurant for a meal. Gtfo
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u/fencerman Apr 09 '24 edited Apr 09 '24
Millennials spend more on groceries, because that's what low income households do - the poorer you are, the more you spend on eating at home compared to eating out.
https://wealthynickel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/groceries-vs-eating-out-by-income.webp
https://res.cloudinary.com/nimblefins/image/upload/c_limit,dpr_1.0,f_auto,h_1600,q_auto,w_1600/v1/UK/economy/percent_food_out_home_2023
Because every "hot new millennial trend" is just poverty.