Boomers Are Passing Down Way, Way Too Much Stuff(bloomberg.com)
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Boomers Are Passing Down Way, Way Too Much Stuff
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-14/millennials-gen-x-set-to-inherit-boomers-antique-collectible-fortunes
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That’s fine, just garbage it all.
What a waste of resources.
Instead of passing down generational wealth to their children, boomers are passing down useless junk that does not at all help their kids/grandkids become more financially stable in order to start families of their own.
I can understand the distaste that Milenials/GenX/GenZ have for boomers.
In my locale/state/country/timeline, we have something called an "estate sale".
It's like a garage sale, but there are professionals who specialize in doing all the work for a cut of the proceeds, which is nice if you're drained after your parents pass away.
Here is a Wikipedia article on the topic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_sale
It's like a garage sale, but there are professionals who specialize in doing all the work for a cut of the proceeds, which is nice if you're drained after your parents pass away.
Here is a Wikipedia article on the topic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_sale
At least you can recoup 1/10th the value that your parents/grandparents wasted their money. Instead of getting 100k in inheritance to put a down payment on a house you can get 10k and pay of part of a car.
They'll die when the kids are 55, don't need the inheritance anyway. And it ends up being collections of worthless figurines from the 70s.
Their kids might not, but their grandkids/great-grandkids are struggling like hell in the curren housing/job/inflation markets.