I got a new phone and immediately discarded the box after 20 years of literally never needing one even once.

Chase passed away of complications of meningitis. Gone too soon

LONG LIVE DOLLY

Original video: https://youtu.be/3HjIljJd-o0

I've heard so much about this idea of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" and all that. But? I don't really know anybody so far that bought their house entirely by themselves. The parents pay for the college or the parents pay for the house or they got some big break or whatever.

What stroke of luck from the universe Made It so that you could be in that House right now?

ETA. holy moly I tried reading and then when I refreshed there were 200 more comments :) thank you everyone for your answers! I will try to keep on reading them. so far, it appears that anyone that afforded something in our generation either bought around the 08 crash, bought around the pandemic, or got a VA or first time home buyer loan. there are a few people that are telling me that they worked enough for a down payment but they are honestly few and far between on the first 76 comments that I read. let's see if it changed significantly as I keep on scrolling down.

does Reddit skew extremely military? I was very taken aback by the amount of VA loans I saw on the thread.

edit 2, we are out to 586 comments. I give up :-) thank you for blowing up Reddit with me today millennials, there is no group online like this one.

last edit: damn. my original idea with the bootstraps comment was that people would counter it, not go boomer on me. quite the boomerisms on a millennial thread. the more you know.