"Boomers seem very resistant to understanding that the living standards"....

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90. Every generation thinks the older generation had it so much better. I remember being so jeolous of

my parent's success. Of course, we had one fairly good-sized TV in the living room and a small one in my Mom and Dad's bedroom. My Mom had the same carpeting for 20 years and let me tell you it looked brand new. We didn't have cell phones or any phones save the one in the Kitchen or my Mom and Dad's bedroom which was forbidden territory...we ate out once a year...no kidding. clothes shopping in the fall shoes bought big so they would last. When I grew up. I was a single mother for a while and worked three jobs...teaching, after-school care, and data entry at GE credit on weekends when my daughter was with her Dad. After I met my husband, we had more kids. He had a good job but he worked in autos so it was feast or famine. A standard of living is not something one generation can pass down to the next generation unless you are quite wealthy.