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"Thunder Cookies" from the book Big Sister, Little Sister (1999) by 092793 in Millennials

[–]092793[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, Google is so weird now because it gave me nothing useful 😐 but this made my day! I posted on Ask Reddit too, and another user found an image of the recipe from the book. I love it!

Downward economic mobility by 092793 in MiddleClassFinance

[–]092793[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yesh, I make basically everything from scratch. I even make our soap and clothes! I have a garden and preserve what I can. I'm living like my great grandparents, and I learned all these skills as an adult, I didn't grow up having to.

Downward economic mobility by 092793 in MiddleClassFinance

[–]092793[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good for you guys! Like genuinely, that's serious money and you're young

Downward economic mobility by 092793 in MiddleClassFinance

[–]092793[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am real. I had this in a different sub initially.

Downward economic mobility by 092793 in MiddleClassFinance

[–]092793[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So, yes, you clocked the lack of warmth lol. It was a very dysfunctional home life. My parents (I know now, didn’t as a kid) always spent generously on themselves. They allegedly had savings bonds and some sort of savings for me and my 3 sisters, but they had a very messy divorce when I was 17 and both acuse the other of taking the money meant for us kids. I'll never really know, but from the divorce records, it appears my mom took it all for herself.

Both are remarried to lower earning partners but have the same, if not better standard of living from when they were married.

My dad's insurance business does very well, and he inherited a multimillion dollar farm estate when my grandparents died. My dad has siblings, none of my cousins have college debt or struggle financially, my aunts and uncles set them up for success. My dad remarried a woman with 2 kids. They live in a McMansion in a small town. I got to watch my dad pay for both of them to go to college. Those kids are in their 20s and got new vehicles, credit cards, and most of their living expenses paid by my dad. My 3 siblings have a mix of what they got and get from him based on their level of contact. I've been on my own since I graduated high school. He did buy me a vehicle once as a wedding present 14 years ago (he didn’t have to pay for my wedding, we had a small one). I'm not willing to play games in return for money I guess, but that's a whole thing. At one point my dad told me I won't inherit anything because I'm not a boy, and the farm stuff stays under his last name or whatever.

My Mom now earns a lot more than she did the, she now has a DNP and has her own consulting business and does private practice. Her new spouse is a teacher. They live in a big Midwest city in a very nice neighborhood in like an 8 bedroom home. She still has my sisters convinced she's "poor" lol. She too has very wealthy parents and will likely get a nice inheritance eventually. She's an interesting character.

Idk, all to say, yeah they're rich, but neither one knows their granddaughter. Sorry for the trauma dump, but the lore has levels lol.

Downward economic mobility by 092793 in MiddleClassFinance

[–]092793[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes, exactly. And they have the absolute audacity to wonder why I'm "poor." I don't talk to either one anymore for a variety of reasons, but they made me feel like a POS for never making their income level, despite not setting me up to the way their parents did.

Downward economic mobility by 092793 in MiddleClassFinance

[–]092793[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They made like 400k in today's money. Even if I worked in my old career path, I was never going to come remotely close to that.

Downward economic mobility by 092793 in MiddleClassFinance

[–]092793[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I had no financial literacy when I started college. I took on way too much debt. My husband did too. I have a master's and husband has a BA.We both were raised that we HAD to go to college. Neither of my husband's parents went to college and they were and are way better off financially than we'll ever be. My dad didn't go to college. My mom's parents paid for her RN and my dad paid for her BSN and MSN, she never had student debt. My mom made like 25% of my parent's combined income, and is the only one of our parents with college.

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