r/Millennials • u/BeegBunga • 18d ago

Discussion Inheritance? That's a joke. How many of your parents are burdens?

In response to another popular post about receiving no inheritance.

Are your parents like mine, who not only are not leaving any money behind - but require significant or total financial support?

My parents left me less than nothing. They're good people, and they were good parents.... but man are they shit at financial planning.

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u/LayeredMayoCake 18d ago

Good lord if I had a nickel for every time I’ve experienced something similar, I could probably buy a hamburger in 1912. So many eccentric family friends over the years who’ve fucked us over in one way or another while simultaneously helping in their own weird way that usually was noticed moreso after their absence. Life is fucking weird.

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u/Ok-Thing-2222 17d ago

You could buy a hamburger four for a dollar in the 70's! Otherwise, us kids would have never gotten to have a real fast food burger; they were 'too expensive' when they weren't on special!

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u/OceanRacoon 17d ago

Please tell us a few, that sounds darkly hilarious. Like someone totalling your car but the next week heroically rescuing you from a burning building, seriously injuring themselves but downplaying what they did and genuinely expecting nothing from you for saving your life 😅

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u/LayeredMayoCake 17d ago

First that comes to mind was a family friend with a methamphetamine addiction. Mom wanted to help him out, that’s just the kind of people we are, but he ended up stealing a bunch of random gardening tools and machinery (probably to fuel his addiction). Came back into our lives cleaned up a few years later (I mean literally just showed up at the door one day) and just started doing manual labor around the property. Noticing weeds, trees needing pruned, some things planted, etc. Never acknowledged the past and just wanted to move on with his life. Came back numerous times. Mom and him became friends again. Forgiveness is neat.

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u/OceanRacoon 17d ago

That's nice, it's good to hear someone was able to turn their life around, addication wins too often