r/Millennials • • 9h ago

Discussion Are you tired yet?

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u/sipstea84 8h ago

Since I was 15.

Yet my parents think I'm a lazy piece of shit because I don't own a house as a 40 year old single mom. The "starter" homes in my area are like 500k.

I'm honestly exhausted.

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u/StaticSystemShock 8h ago

And get a loan to buy one on what? I couldn't even get a loan for a fucking car. My dad had to take loan for it and I was paying him back. How will I get a 30 year loan for a fucking house?

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u/Isnthatneat 7h ago

Bro, I don’t even know how people are getting into tens of thousands of credit card debt. My score isn’t the greatest (680) and I either get denied or approved for $1200 with 3000APR

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u/MeltyCrab 7h ago

Because there is a non-zero amount of people who still score 40-50k/yr jobs and then have absolutely no self control for the hedonism treadmill and start clarna'ing everything under the sun, add more credit cards

Take the "I want it, so I'll do it" mentality to trips through and to different countries. Taking out whole ass personal loans to go on a 10 day vacation in Italy and blow 20k with nothing to show for it.

Doomspending is out of control. If you can manage a 700+ score and manage the bills you can quickly rack up cards with decent limits. I could double or triple my current debt ceiling if I wanted.

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u/Isnthatneat 7h ago

So.. I make just under 100k a year. Am I doing something really stupidly wrong?

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u/MeltyCrab 7h ago

Yes.

If your score is low it's due to multiple factors.

Get your debts under control. No late payments, ever.

Have a few cards open for a long time.

Use 1 card regularly for everything and pay it off 100% every month (the myth about carrying a balance is just that, a myth)

That's all I do. I have a small car loan (under 10k left to pay off)

I have a travel card (I don't travel. Wanted to don't make enough)

I have my daily 1.5% cash back on everything card.

Everything gets paid on time, no exceptions.

My score is 786 right now between two major platforms. I'm normally closer to 800. I make just under 40k/yr My take home is UNDER 30k/yr after taxes

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u/Isnthatneat 7h ago

Thank you, stranger~

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u/FR0ZENS0L1D 6h ago

Adding to this having a large credit limit and paying it off in full regardless of how much you actually put on the card.

Having multiple types of credit also helps in the long run. This was easier when a car loan was sub 2%.

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u/saddereveryday 7h ago

My score is over 800 and they wouldn’t approve an increase in my credit limit earlier this year from $6,000 because I pay it off too quickly and they didn’t earn any money off my account lol. I just wanted more in case one big travel expense came up. So I also don’t get it lol.

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u/ShadedSnake 6h ago

My score was around a 680 before I got a card. Got up to about a 730 and then they approved me from $500 to $5,500 within a year. Now i'm at a 798 and I wonder if I should "let them make money off of me" to get a bigger limit or if I should just keep paying it off right away like you have been doing and then apply for a higher limit card once i reach an 800.

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u/saddereveryday 5h ago

Yeah to be clear I’ve never applied for a second credit card, but I’ve had this one for just about a decade. My income is over 40x the limit but that didn’t matter fwiw.

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u/leg00b 6h ago

Our move up to the Midwest came with a lot of trials and tribulations and I had to use my credit card to survive. It's really fucked me lately and unfortunately I can't really pay the monthly amount

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u/beyonsay_what 2h ago

If you use the card, they usually offer to increase your limit

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u/DreamOne5 7h ago

literally my boomer parents even floated the idea of buying a condo for my partner and I and we just "pay them rent" aka the mortgage, since they have actual money. It's the downpayment, the insane competition with cash offers and insane upgrades we'd need to do with most houses in our price range. We can't afford shit anywhere anymore, but our landlord charges us 750 a month, so we're just continuing to save as best we can. Interest rates just went up AGAIN, and they're even worse than before with how much houses cost.

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u/frodoishobbit 6h ago

13, friends dad had a restaurant. I had to save to buy a car.. I just took at 15k loan out to pay off my credit cards… wish it could have been for a 5 year old car :/

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u/GoldGuarantee3671 7h ago

Yeah and pay taxes til the day you die

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u/Significant-Trash632 6h ago

I'd be fine paying taxes as long as businesses like FUCKING AMAZON paid more than me!