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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What I find more disgusting than house prices is the cost of services in this area. I can do much more for 1/2 the price elsewhere, and get a better job done. $2,500 to have people come, [b]cut the tops off of weeds and mulch,[/b] leaving me with the same darn issue in a month's time? Just no.

I am now hand-weeding every bed and hand-mulching with cedar. Got done with one side, only to have the mowers cut the grass and throw grass-clippings all over the newly mulched beds. GRRR.[/quote]

Boomer here.  We never had people doing our lawn work growing up and we don't now.  We also paint and do maintenance ourselves (like our "greatest generation" parents did).  Heck, I'm 58 and my husband is 60 and we just did our own mulching and weeding.  We don't pay for fancy gyms . . . we get our workout in the yard.  Our parents (the Depression/WW2 kids) showed us how to do all of that.  We also didn't grow up with fancy windows (we had to change the screens and storms in the fall and spring---it was a big job).  So maybe you can understand why we think the millennials are a bit "whiny".  You all need to learn to do things for yourselves. [b] Believe it or not we cleaned our own houses too.  [/b]Among many other things.  [/quote]

You mean the woman cleaned your house.  I doubt many boomer men were actively involved in cleaning their house on a regular basis.  Unlike boomer women I refuse to have two jobs - maintaining the household and a full time demanding job.  So we outsource.  Until my husband is able to contribute 50 percent and actually mops and cleans toilets we will be outsourcing the cleaning.  [/quote]

This.  Boomer men were able to provide a lot while still being relatively useless, due to circumstances of the workforce and the economics of the time.  Boomers didn't have dual working parent households quite in the same way we know them today, where each parent is often expected to be on-call nearly 100% of the time via iPhone for clients and bosses.  They weren't completing in a global economy.  The line between home life and work was far clearer for Boomers.  Homes here in McLean that are being purchased by dual lawyer families were accessible to a GS-13 with a stay at home wife 25 years ago.

Some of the things the younger generations are unwilling to compromise on (commute, convenience foods, occasional cleaning help) is because life is far more stressful and complex.  So, no, I'm not impressed - and I don't think it is relevant - if said GS-13, who was able to pay for his life by working a mere 40 hours and head home to his SAH spouse who handled everything did all of his own mulching.

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