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You bored? You wanna see an article by an EXTREMELY angry millennial?

I liked the wtf decor, but I think most of them predate boomers. Half of them were greatest generation stuff.
 
At least half of the things he is ranting about predate the baby boomers by one or more generations. Many of them were fixtures in my grandparent's home.
 
shortylickens said:
https://rewind.topix.com/slideshow/19474

Read every one. It just gets madder and madder as it goes on.
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I am currently in a small condo. I've done some work to it over the past couple of years (got flooded not too long ago, so was forced to). Among other things, it has/had:

1. Popcorn ceilings
2. Floor to ceiling mirrors on the entire long wall in the dining room (yes, because watching yourself eat is completely normal).
3. Linoleum. Always sticky, no matter what cleaning agent you used.
4. Brass everything...door-handles, locks, lighting fixtures, you name it. But not real brass...fake brass-colored stuff, which is rubbing off everywhere. Probably made from lead underneath, lol.
5. Laminate countertops. Yellow, to boot. It's like colored wax paper glued onto particleboard. Also, if you're cutting fruit & get some drops from a strawberry on it, it is now that color, forever.
6. Garbage (i.e. cheap junk) water pipes. I've had two leaks in the past year, one of which I was able to file an insurance claim for. Cheapest, thinnest crap you'll ever see. Fortunately PEX & Sharkbite are awesome!
7. Insane wiring. Split-entry has a 4-way switch. It was easier just to put in wireless smart switches (Lutron) as replacements than to try to figure it all out.

I don't feel too bad about it, though. My buddy bought a beautiful historical house, but because it's historical, he has to do special things to repair it, due to town laws or whatever about keeping the neighborhoods historical or some crap like that. Which is understandable, it just means that everything costs three times as much and takes four times as long to get fixed lol. So given that perspective, I can't complain too much!
 
lol, thought it was funny. And, it's all true!

I had an aunt who had wall to wall carpeting in her bathroom. Why? Oh god why!!!
 
Kaido said:
I am currently in a small condo. I've done some work to it over the past couple of years (got flooded not too long ago, so was forced to). Among other things, it has/had:

1. Popcorn ceilings
2. Floor to ceiling mirrors on the entire long wall in the dining room (yes, because watching yourself eat is completely normal).
3. Linoleum. Always sticky, no matter what cleaning agent you used.
4. Brass everything...door-handles, locks, lighting fixtures, you name it. But not real brass...fake brass-colored stuff, which is rubbing off everywhere. Probably made from lead underneath, lol.
5. Laminate countertops. Yellow, to boot. It's like colored wax paper glued onto particleboard. Also, if you're cutting fruit & get some drops from a strawberry on it, it is now that color, forever.
6. Garbage (i.e. cheap junk) water pipes. I've had two leaks in the past year, one of which I was able to file an insurance claim for. Cheapest, thinnest crap you'll ever see. Fortunately PEX & Sharkbite are awesome!
7. Insane wiring. Split-entry has a 4-way switch. It was easier just to put in wireless smart switches (Lutron) as replacements than to try to figure it all out.

I don't feel too bad about it, though. My buddy bought a beautiful historical house, but because it's historical, he has to do special things to repair it, due to town laws or whatever about keeping the neighborhoods historical or some crap like that. Which is understandable, it just means that everything costs three times as much and takes four times as long to get fixed lol. So given that perspective, I can't complain too much!
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The guy complaining about thin guessing copper pipes? Yeah I'm sure the next generation will love your sharkbites. Most likely your copper has another problem like electrolysis or excessive use of cleaners around it.

Yeah 4 ways are so insane lol.
 
After our last cats die off we are going to go on a nice, long vacation. When we return, our bank account will be smaller, the popcorn ceilings will be gone, and we will be happy. That is my plan.
 
Not much of that had to do with baby boomers. Much of the stuff shown was from the 1960s and 70s. Up at least through the 90s. Just an article about bad decorating trends. You can damn well guarantee that in ten or fifteen years, many of today's trends will look just as bad. Red dining room? Peacock blue living room? Seems we just go in cycles and always come back to basic off white.
 
skull said:
The guy complaining about thin guessing copper pipes? Yeah I'm sure the next generation will love your sharkbites. Most likely your copper has another problem like electrolysis or excessive use of cleaners around it.

Yeah 4 ways are so insane lol.
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It's really cheap thin-width & thin-walled tubing. I know PEX isn't perfect, but it's gotten a lot better from the old days when it would burst all the time...plus I keep water-leak detectors, spare tubing, and spare Sharkbite connectors handy, so that in case something DOES break, (1) I'll know about it, and (2) I can fix it right away. I'd like a network-connected water-leak detection system, especially one that monitors the whole house, but for now I'm just using these puppies in all of the major areas:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072XVW44W

I have a simple maintenance calendar that I follow for household chores, which includes swapping batteries out on those a couple times a year, doing a weekly spot-check around the house for leaks, etc. The second leak I had was the water-supply line in the wall to the half-bathroom, which was a pinhole leak, which flooded the entire sub-floor in the bathroom, which then started a slow drip into the basement. Took me days to pinpoint where the leak was & more than one hole in the wall to find it. Arg! I wish more houses had access panels, instead of building plumbing into the wall like idiots & then having to tear a wall out when you get a leak. Sooooo dumb!
 
Carson Dyle said:
Not much of that had to do with baby boomers. Much of the stuff shown was from the 1960s and 70s. Up at least through the 90s. Just an article about bad decorating trends. You can damn well guarantee that in ten or fifteen years, many of today's trends will look just as bad. Red dining room? Peacock blue living room? Seems we just go in cycles and always come back to basic off white.
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Cars do the same thing...round to square to round to square.

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Most people did popcorn celiings back in the 70’s because they were too cheap to put up another sheet of sheetrock, right? It’s not exactly a style choice.
 
ultimatebob said:
Most people did popcorn celiings back in the 70’s because they were too cheap to put up another sheet of sheetrock, right? It’s not exactly a style choice.
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I believe its cheaper to finish, you don't have to have labor sanding it smooth and re-coating it. I don't understand what the big deal is, I work on flips for a living we've always left them and not had complaints. Got some new investors from california and they're like why the fuck aren't those down yet. Umm because we weren't going to bother its a perfectly good ceiling.
 
Kaido said:
It's really cheap thin-width & thin-walled tubing. I know PEX isn't perfect, but it's gotten a lot better from the old days when it would burst all the time...plus I keep water-leak detectors, spare tubing, and spare Sharkbite connectors handy, so that in case something DOES break, (1) I'll know about it, and (2) I can fix it right away. I'd like a network-connected water-leak detection system, especially one that monitors the whole house, but for now I'm just using these puppies in all of the major areas:
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When was that? PEX has never had that be a major issue and there are 3 different types of PEX as well.
Maybe you are thinking of polybutylene pipe?
 
nakedfrog said:
The standard obligation of a generation to shit on the generation that comes after them, probably.
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Pretty much. The baby boomers shitted on Gen X, so now it's our turn to shit on the next generation.

Of course, the baby boomers can't really shit on anybody anymore, because now they need our help to set up their iPhones and Roku's. 🙂
 
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