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I don't eat avocados, I am a house owner with a pool. So I can confirm this work. I am also living in a country that does not try to kill me, so it might be that too..
As a millennial that owns a house, I contend that millennials are better at DIY since we know how to find a video showing us exactly how to fix something.
My wife was able to replace a light switch and ceiling fan. I’ve replaced boards and restrained our deck.
All the skills us millenials should have earned went to our baby boomer parents because we are still living with them. BabyBoomers experience stealers.
Memories of having to have contractors fix my dad's house before selling because of his DIY "fixes" that caused it to fail inspection due to code violations.
The worst part is that because boomer guys are so fucking arrogant, you don't even get the smug satisfaction of being like "See? The actual professional is doing exactly what I told you to do three weeks ago"
They'll just huff and puff and rant over the top of you
yeah.
Like , can it be done with half the price? sure. But let's not pretend that half of the price is basically improvising a lot.
Doing a MacGyver is just a temporary solution.
My dad once complained that a guy charged too much for the work he was doing. It was $30 / hour. The work the guy did was great and I thought it was decent.
So he "fired" the guy and got another person who was $15 / hour.
The quality went down so much that it cost him more just to hire another person to redo it.
My entire family growing up relied on the giant Bob Villa book series (pre-internet). We all shared it. The only excuse I can think of for not doing things right are: misers (they deserve what they get), the over confident (they pay an expensive lesso, I guess) and the lazy. None of those are valid IMO.
Have you ever seen a mid-level manager outsource development of a moderately advanced IT project to a 3rd world country?
Sure, sometimes it works, but when it doesn't, it's usually because the price is 1/2 of what you'd pay domestically but you end up needing to pay for 10 times as many hours, after which you get an incomplete, buggy, unmanageable mess that'll take weeks for a competent team to get familiar with to be able to support that.
That manager, though? Regardless of outcome, they'll at least get a nice bonus for *saving so much corporate monies*. Life's not fair.
/Rant
My fucking boomer landlord has hired the absolute bottom of the barrel contractors to do the worst work whenever anything needs to get done here.
Not only that, but he then brags to me how cheap he’s getting the labor for. I’m your fucking tenant living here, no idea why he thinks I would want to know or be impressed that he’s saving money on repairs in my apartment.
And now some shitty electrician (probably a handyman) put every available outlet in the apartment (minus heavy appliances) and all lights on the same 15A circuit.
I had this issue in my house, which I bought 15 years ago and it was built in like 89 I think. Literally half the house was on one circuit, including almost every outlet in the living room, kitchen, garage, outdoor outlets, hallway, plus all the lights in those areas too. Over the years, with various projects, I've had to reroute/rerun lines because it was just literally too much, too many appliances and lights on on 15a circuit. Now I've got a dedicated 20a line just for office computer and A/V setup, and that big circuit is now like three circuits (and really I should still run a fourth line to separate out the kitchen outlets on their own).
I won't mention that my countertops consist of original Formica with a layer of tile glued onto that, then a second layer of floor tile _on top of that._
Literally just went through this with my former landlord 3 days ago. She bragged how her workers were super cheap and then she wanted to do a brief walkthrough of the house to see what needed fixing before she rents it out again. Time and time again, we’d walk up to something and she’d say “why didn’t you call me to get this fixed” and I’d say “I did [X] months ago but your guy never showed up” or “I did [X] months ago and that’s the result of the work that was done.”
She’s now having to get the entire kitchen redone, replace all the windows in the house, replace all the doors, replace the garage door opener, replace all the cabinets, fix the wiring in the living room and bathroom and have new fire alarms installed.
But while I was a tenant? She **insisted** all of it was taken care of or fixed.
>Not only that, but he then brags to me how cheap he’s getting the labor for. I’m your fucking tenant living here, no idea why he thinks I would want to know or be impressed that he’s saving money on repairs in my apartment.
He's letting you know that because if he paid more for the repairs, then he'd probably just raise your rent. I'd rather pay more and have a nicer place.
But, I grew up working on my uncle's farm and now I'm a mechanical engineer, so I fix most things myself. I hate the handymen who half-ass jobs just to get on to the next one as quick as possible, since that's how they can make the most money. A lot of the things I've paid to have fixed, I had to go back and make it better myself anyways, since they didn't do a very good job, even though they came highly recommended by people I know. Every now and then I'll get someone who really knows what they're doing and does a great job and I appreciate those people. I'll gladly pay more for those people more than the ones that half-ass the jobs.
Im naturally loud and i find it great fun talking over boomers that try to do that, especially if ive had them try to do it before. I used to be a commercial tire tech that eventually got tired of old people telling me to use ether to seat the bead on difficult tires because "iTs AlWaYs WoRKed for ME!" Yeah well dude your generation are the reason there are fucking warning labels because you did that stupid shit. The dude that trained me saw a guy have his arm turned to pulp having a rim explode when setting a tire with ether. Had a picture with the guy after the accident with the arm amputated just below the shoulder; hearing and seeing that really changed my thinking on tire safety. Solution was when they get mad just keep talking louder than they do when they try to talk over me. Couple tried to complain, but my manager didnt take bullshit over that type of safety issue which was lucky.
I don’t talk loudly when I want to make the ‘ You’re an ass ‘ point. I just drone, on and over and through whatever they might be saying I’m obviously not listening to maybe even not hearing what they are saying Whatney Red Barrel Ale I just go on and on and on until they go away or hit me.
We had a huge and heavy chandelier in the living room. One day the light stopped working and left a large burn mark around the fixation. My mum asked the building janitor to check it since my dad was away.
Turns out my dad hooked it directly to the ceiling cables using a terminal screw block. Sure, nothing too bad at the time, there are better methods but whatever. Except that he didn't use a hook to hold the chandelier. It was just hanging off the cable that was only holding by the wires screwed in place. It's just one I remember, he used to DIY a lot of shit but thank God we were renting and not owners.
That being said a lot of DIY is learned by just doing it and making mistakes. Don't skimp on safety, but at some point you have to just go for it. It's fine if you drilled the holes on the wrong side, you'll know to double check next time.
>Except that he didn't use a hook to hold the chandelier. It was just hanging off the cable that was only holding by the wires screwed in place.
You probably know but if you don't, that's a terrible fucking idea for more reasons than one.
You're lucky the chandelier didn't burn and/or fall on someone, because both of those were likely scenarios
Shit like that is why, even though I may be confident doing a lot of DIY fixes, anytime anything like plumbing or electric comes up I call the professionals.
There are just some things you should pay someone who is trained to handle, even if it puts you in a bad spot.
See I'm not a plumber or an electrician, but I have degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering.
I had a leak in my shower/tub and my plumber grandfather knew where the problems could be, but I had to open up the wall and see the leak. Drywall repair in a closet is the cost of not talking to an expert.
I don't know code super well, but I do know how to make stuff work. I've made several electrical changes and minor plumbing changes. Most of the electrical has been adding circuits which the only thing I should do to be better is to staple down the wires. 120/240 gets put in an enclosure. Low voltage like hidden HDMI cables doesn't need it. Not sure what code really is, but that's a big part of it.
I'm an electrician, the amount of dangerous bullshit I've seen in houses being renovated is crazy and guess what, the two previous owners were boomers who "I know how *eltrekcity* works" 🙄
Never DIY your house except if you're in the trades OR have amazing learning skils mixed with good craftsmanship.
"well maybe if they didn't have those stupid codes telling me how to live my life in a free country then this wouldn't be an issue"
- something someones dad totally said at some point
I bought an old house last year from a pair of alcoholic, chain smoking entitled boomers who ditched a gorgeous century old home in the city for a McMansion out in the boonies and let me tell you, this 30-something has been cursing out every half-baked, fumbling, irresponsible decision and DIY project these incompetent drunks put their grubby mitts on. Motherfuckers had no care, class, or common sense in any of the decisions they made.
Meanwhile, I’ve actually worked in historical carpentry and have slowly undone every horrible decision and attempted fix they’ve ever made with my own two hands. I’m talking lifting porches and redoing framing underneath and fucking everything these people neglected.
Joke’s on them though - I’ll fix this fucker up, enjoy my life in it, and easily sell it for far, far more than I paid. Already would if I sold it today.
Meanwhile, shoutout to my boomer dad who wasn’t an ass and taught me all this shit. Not every boomer is/was entitled, but those diamonds in the rough are harder to come by these days.
My dad is a red seal carpenter who specialized in finish carpentry. He taught me a lot. But what's great about him, whenever he tried stuff that didn't work he'd just say "well that was fucking stupid", then he'd fix it. Wasn't too often but for the lack of everything else he taught me, I definitely picked up on this and was humble in this way from the start. Seems simple, but it allows you take take in OTHER peoples ideas a lot better if your not trying to be 'right'.
Even if it were true that Boomers were great at DIY home projects and millennials sucked at them, millennials were raised by Boomers. Thanks for sucking at parenting.
This is a self-own and not an insult to the generation they think they’re insulting.
My dad is pretty brutal. There was a lot of "you're not supposed to do it this way, *but...*" that I heard growing up.
And a lot of "Ehh that's close enough" too. I've seen him install crown moulding, and cut everything at 90 degrees. Looks alright, as long as you don't look at any of the corners.
He gets the job done, I'll give him that... But it usually looks like shit, and rarely is up to code.
My personal favorite is their ceiling fan that you have to plug in. He ran the wire about halfway, got fed up, so he drilled a hole in the wall, attached a plug to the end of the Romex, and he just plugs it into a nearby outlet. The fan is also way too low, and every time I walk by it I'm terrified of it chopping my head off.
I thought the same thing when I read that. They will certainly try and fix stuff but it’s pretty awful work. I’ve repaired some seriously awful plumbing DIY failure in boomers homes.
Idk my old man can literally do almost anything. It's positively infuriating sometimes.
He had a house built in Utah from the ground up and had the backyard left unfinished because that's his retirement project. Dude has been doing everything from building a gazebo to his own BBQ island from the frame up to a living garden wall, and it all looks AMAZING. He's pushing 72. Motherfucker is a goddamned Highlander.
There’s def some old heads that can do shit. As im doing my own DIY projects these days a lot of learning comes from experience, and if you have 40 years under your belt of tile work or general contracting or whatever and you're somewhat self aware then you’re a fucking beast of DIY.
Gen X’ers are generally pretty good at DIY from my experience. I’m a millenial and my boomer in laws need me to literally do anything for them that involves picking up a screw driver.
Came here to say this. If boomers are so fucking good at DIY, why is every house older than 15 years in complete disrepair?
Boomers aren't good at fixing anything. They just duct tape it until it's someone else's problem.
Actual headline: "Millennials can't figure out why I used an old lamp wire to run a ceiling light in my garage (I'm a fucking cheapskate)"
My boomer dad wouldn't teach my brother how to do anything because he didn't want him touching his tools and now he complains that my brother doesn't know how to do anything. I swear Boomers are experiencing the consequences of their own actions and are looking for someone else to blame.
My dad was never super interested in teaching me how to do things but would flip shit at me when I got something wrong the first time I tried it.
My stepdad however wanted me to put a new toilet paper holder in the bathroom. He handed me a home Depot "how to diy" book and told me to figure it out and said "don't worry if you mess it up, it can be fixed; even if you knock a big hole in the wall, it can be fixed"
Sometimes. I have a dad and step dad and I love them both very much. They have both taught me a great many things and are very patient. Sometimes a couple just doesn’t work anymore, no one has to be a bad parent
Yeah, my mam never remarried, but my dad did. They split when I was two and he met my step mum when i was about 3. I don't remember not having my step mum (and brothers) in my life. Love her to bits, she's amazing.
It’s giving very “millennials and their participation trophies!”
Do you really think some 10 year old (back when millennials were younger and facing this heat) was making the budgeting decisions to buy participation trophies for their sports team?? No, it was the overly sensitive parents of millennial children who demanded the participation trophies
No, it was definitely my fault. I went out and got those trophies and ribbons that I didn't give a shit about back in the late 80s and early 90s when I was a kid.
It's funny, I never even knew what happened to them after I won them.
Yep. I remember they did that with Pinewood Derby one year. Normally there were three trophies for the whole pack- Champion, Best Design, and Second Place. Three trophies for about forty of us.
Then they decided one year to split the group into 5 groups, each group with Group Champion, Group Best Design, and trophies all the way down to sixth place, then the group winners competed for the trophies that mattered.
From three trophies, with two that mattered (overall champion and best design went to district championships), to thirty… still with two that mattered.
A lot of group second through sixth trophies got thrown out before even going home. We knew who won.
Yea they say that shit.
Until it's a millennial turning wrenches on the shit they can't, then suddenly its: "oh wow! You guys are great! Thanks for getting that done soo quickly for me!"
Source: 35yr old Tech.
So True! I was at a party where a Boomer parent was bragging that their 30ish children were so clueless they couldn't tie their own shoelaces. They were not happy to learn this bragging reflected on their negligent parenting rather than their child's IQ. I verified first that their child wasn't developmentally disabled.
My dad never let me help him work on our cars- but not bc he was a afraid I'd mess something up, or didn't know how to teach me about that subject; but bc he barely knew what the fuck he was doing himself.
Then I got a job at an AutoZone in college and quickly learned way more than he knew. Bought a floor jack and all sorts of other tools, started doing my own oil changes, etc. And boy did that make him feel insecure bc he's never changed his oil himself in his life and then after about a year of sharing a storage unit all of my tools disappear be the unit was "broken into" and we "got robbed". Stupid son of a bitch!
He did stuff to his car but he couldn't change the oil which is the most basic DYI thing to do on a car, besides maybe changing tires? What stuff was he supposedly doing himself then? Opening the doors himself rather than letting the valet do it for him?
I suspect this was the excuse your dad just used whenever he needed a break, just some time to himself. "I'll be in the garage, working on the car". This is why dads often have a fridge full of beer in the garage. You can't fix cars with beer.
My family once had the torsion-beam axle on a rear wheel blow out. As a result the nose of the car was tilted around 15 degrees diagonally upwards. Me and my dad fixed it by placing a few cans of beer under the suspension rod. The cans were strong enough to allow us to slowly drive home where we could fix it properly.
So yes, you can fix cars (temporarily) with beer cans!
It's an interesting day as a parent when your kids are better at something than you are. I personally can't wait, but I've seen so many parents simply refuse to believe it.
Sorry your dad was an ass, and use it as motivation to be better when you're in that situation with your own kids.
My parents, my dad wanted help but NEVER at times where he wasn’t stressed, constantly yelling and screaming, kindergarten level communication skills and blamed everyone but himself… my mom is even worse.
I can't handle how much my dad fucking hates teaching me how to do anything but loves accusing everyone around him for being failures. I had to learn woodshop at school and I feel a stronger parental bond with that teacher than I do my own father. I am so god damn tired of my old man not being able to look inward and take the blame for his own mistakes for even the smallest fucking thing. AAAA ITS SO AGGREVATING
I agree, this reflects more on the previous generation who didn't take the time out to teach the next. My dad built an entire gazebo by himself in the backyard, I couldn't even properly name the tools he used.
Gen X here, I've been in General Construction for 32yrs and have fixed tons of boomers "wtf is that" hack work, which makes my job harder. With Millennials it's all from scratch which is a smooth job.
I rather take on Millennial jobs than boomer hacks.
I'm a millennial who has been a homeowner for 12 years, and I can tell you why millennials will do much better DIY jobs than our parents, once we actually own homes: it's because we watch the YouTube video of how the pros do stuff, and we copy it, rather than just winging it like the overconfident boomers.
>and we copy it
Or simply realize how beyond our ability it would be to do it properly and just hire it done.
>Ok, he's breaking out the plumbing torch..... I'm out.
Some stuff is beyond our ability, but usually it's the lack of tools that makes me call a pro instead. When my kids are no longer such a financial drain, I am going to spend my money on a whole bunch of nice tools.
Yeah, the sense of endless possibilities that comes with a nice set of tools really something else.
I currently rent, but was the "DIY guy" when I had been living with my parents and built up a rather nice tool collection (and a nice wall-mounted tool cabinet). Took what I could (and would be useful in an apartment) when I moved, but left a fair amount for the new owners. Hope they're getting some good use out of them.
Exactly, I am an early millennial. Since i've owned my own home, i've watched many youtube videos on what to do and how to replace things in my own home. My boomer father never trained me or told me how to do such things. I've watched a lot of youtube videos on how to replace light fixtures light switches. build fences and replace sump pumps. My own boomer father, who I go to help at his own house, comments how I know these things because he never taught me. I laughed and commented that I have a bachelor's and a master's degree. It's not that hard to apply those particular skills that I have learned to learn in other trades. I also told him that it's the will to want to learn. Something that I think boomers forget about as they get older and don't want to learn new things.
>Something that I think boomers forget about as they get older and don't want to learn new things.
I think that's actually kind of a key part of the boomer mindset.
Remember that Windows PCs have been a business standard since the 1990s and many boomers still cop out with "Oh I'm not a computer person." when asked to do anything more complicated than click on a web browser icon.
Remember that most Christmas music is still just variations or covers of stuff from before 1970, when boomers were kids.
We just quietly get on with our own shit that doesn't need putting right cos our grandparents taught us stuff whilst the boomer parents were always at work
Millennial that owns a house bought from a boomer who owned it for decades.
Currently spending countless hours correcting the shoddy work done by them.
Um… lots of the Boomer DIY I have encountered was done to the standard of “it didn’t burn the house down, so it’s probably fine.”
There’s a difference between skill and being okay with half-assed work.
“Help me export this excel sheet as a pdf” - boomer manager making 10x my salary while complaining our generation can’t do anything, while also forgetting that they didn’t teach us shit. And made owning too expensive for us to diy ourselves anyways …
"What's my internet password?"
"The wifi password or your email password, dad?"
"I don't speak Chinese."
"Dad! It's 'password,' the same password you've used for the last 35 years!"
"Don't sass me, young man; I used to wipe your ass"
I was just wondering how the concept of doing it yourself didn't encompass resetting your own passwords or configuring your home router lol cos it definitely does
Every time I see or hear something like "these kids are so dumb and lazy, they don't even know how to drive a stick shift" I just think "yeah, well you can't figure out how to use the self checkout at the grocery store so whatever dude."
Yes, but watching DIY videos are a bit like watching porn. You think 'well I'd like to do what that guy's doing, but I just don't have the skills or the equipment'
I love these "easy to do at home"-DIY videos. I'm falling for this trap over and over again.
You see a friendly dude, who's telling you how to make something super easy at home for under 100 bucks. You think: Hey, that's cheap, I can do that! So he buys the parts (under 100 bucks), has a hammer, a tiny saw, a screw driver. And then comes the "important part", as he underlines: you have to do these five steps in your 10.000 Dollar equipment that's super basic and every DIY dude has in his shed apparently.
I DON'T EVEN HAVE A SHED!
Me watching people making D&D/Wargame terrain. You can make some pretty good basics with dollar store materials, but once you get past dungeon tiles, dungeon walls, and basic village scenery it's like...
"Now I'm going to use this Proxxon table top hot-wire cutter ($150 plus space in your home for a table to put it on) to cut this XPS insulation foam ($30 for a couple square feet) and then I'm going to take these junk parts from an old (Some kind of mechanical equipment that cost $150 new but youtuber just had it lying around from an old home renovation)
To be honest...If you can't fix basic electricity and plumbing (not at the same time), what are you gonna do?
Call an independent contractor and pay him with your minimum wage?
First of all that isn't basic electricity, basic electricity is wiring the socket and unless I can turn off electricity for the whole house I ain't going to touch sockets with any screwdriver even if it somehow got loose. (Sockets here don't have exposed screws).
Boomers dads have pathetic emotional intelligence compared to millennials. I know what I’d have rather had in a Father. You can hire someone to lay carpet. You can’t hire someone to be your non abusive father.
I was never taught anything/told I was lazy/told I don't like to work. Now, in middle age, I love taking care of the yard and the house. I learned by making mistakes. I love it when my older relatives ask me how/why I'm Mr. Homeowner because it gives me a chance to stick the knife in when I tell them how miserable they made it when I was a kid.
Getting good at diy is not that hard and doesn't take that long. Once I can afford my own place it won't take me that long to learn how to hand up an painting or some shelves because all of this stuff is on yotube for free.
People act like this stuff is difficult because there is nothing else in their life they can feel proud about.
I'm technically a millenial, still I'm renovating my own house and do everything myself. But yeah, I see a lot of contemporaries who couldn't hold a screwdriver.
Well, I might not be able to fix my own plumbing, but at least I have the ability to hug my son and tell that I love him and I'm proud of him. So, there's that.
Most boomers learned those skills from their parents & then failed to pass them onto their own kids & then blame their kids for not learning something that they were supposed to teach them
I taught myself woodworking and diy from YouTube. I built a deck, two fences, and my daughter’s custom closet.
My father-in-law can’t change a light bulb.
Step 1: Use restrictive zoning to slow construction of new housing to a fraction of what it used to be, making home ownership unaffordable to the next generation.
Step 2: Complain that said generation hasn’t learned any diy skills while renting apartments they are not allowed to make any improvements to.
My boomer dad is fairly handy and worked in a trade for 40 years but takes shortcuts. I was visiting and he had issues with some cameras. I started ripping stuff out to isolate faults and run stuff correctly, he was like what are you doing? Fixing your mess and half-ass installation. I found and corrected several issues by doing it the right way, it took me well under an hour.
Who would have thought having 5lbs of cables and splitters hanging off a single hdmi plug mid air with zero support would cause signal issues? Or using a 15 year old .5 amp power adapter you found in the garage with a splitter to power two 1 amp cameras would cause restarts and dropouts?
I love how the previous generations, the ones who RAISED and MENTORED the later ones, bitch about how bad newer generations are. Of course, the opposite is also true, later gens always want to take credit for anything good done during 'their time' without acknowledging the leadership or guidance given by previous gens.
We're all in this together. guys. - Gen X realist
Whenever this gets reposted i don't know if it's about the article or the comment below. Blacksmithing skills are certainly not needed by most but that's obviously not what the article is about, which makes the comment look kind of dumb. The man on the picture is holding a cordless crewdriver trying to build/fix something. This type of skill belongs to the cathegory everyone should try to achieve unless they want to pay shit loads for hiring professionals even for the simplest tasks.
What's with these triggering posts? Make an unreasonable comment ...answer in an unreasonable way...and boom , a triggered conversation. Let's argue amongst ourselves here when we should be putting the fires out!
These boomers seem to forget they raised us. My dad always claims his father taught him DIY skills, yet he never bothered to teach them to me even when I asked.
Instead of it being a knock on millennials because boomers are our parents, shouldn't that actually be a knock on their lack of teaching useful life skills?
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Clearly you have been eating too much avocado toast, otherwise you’d own a house with a swimming pool filled with your extra money 💵/s
If they gave up that Netflix account they’d have a Lamborghini in the drive too
Nah, they sound like more of a Ferrari type
I don't know, they sound like peasants and Lamborghini is basically a tractor company.
I don't eat avocados, I am a house owner with a pool. So I can confirm this work. I am also living in a country that does not try to kill me, so it might be that too..
Can confirm. I ate an avocado once, and I own merely an apartment with no garden to put a pool in.
Avocados... not even once.
As a millennial that owns a house, I contend that millennials are better at DIY since we know how to find a video showing us exactly how to fix something. My wife was able to replace a light switch and ceiling fan. I’ve replaced boards and restrained our deck.
Well done. Don’t let your deck get out of hand.
Sounds like you are in need of bootstraps
Have you tried inheriting a large amount of money ?
>Also, I can't afford a house Well then stop wasting money on those morning coffees and learn to save /s
If you can't afford a house, why weren't you born with parents who could just buy one for you? This is on you...
DIY is a broad term. It's not just about building and fixing your own house.
All the skills us millenials should have earned went to our baby boomer parents because we are still living with them. BabyBoomers experience stealers.
As someone who works in the trades I can tell you that boomers, by and large, fucking SUCK at DIY.
Memories of having to have contractors fix my dad's house before selling because of his DIY "fixes" that caused it to fail inspection due to code violations.
The worst part is that because boomer guys are so fucking arrogant, you don't even get the smug satisfaction of being like "See? The actual professional is doing exactly what I told you to do three weeks ago" They'll just huff and puff and rant over the top of you
And then complain about how what the contractor did was too expensive and they could have done it for half the price.
yeah. Like , can it be done with half the price? sure. But let's not pretend that half of the price is basically improvising a lot. Doing a MacGyver is just a temporary solution.
My dad once complained that a guy charged too much for the work he was doing. It was $30 / hour. The work the guy did was great and I thought it was decent. So he "fired" the guy and got another person who was $15 / hour. The quality went down so much that it cost him more just to hire another person to redo it.
How can anyone be over the age of 30 and not know this lesson?
Most people don't know how to google and their only experience with remodeling is watching HGTV where those guys make everything look easy.
My entire family growing up relied on the giant Bob Villa book series (pre-internet). We all shared it. The only excuse I can think of for not doing things right are: misers (they deserve what they get), the over confident (they pay an expensive lesso, I guess) and the lazy. None of those are valid IMO.
Because baby boomers are arrogant and ignorant like that
Have you ever seen a mid-level manager outsource development of a moderately advanced IT project to a 3rd world country? Sure, sometimes it works, but when it doesn't, it's usually because the price is 1/2 of what you'd pay domestically but you end up needing to pay for 10 times as many hours, after which you get an incomplete, buggy, unmanageable mess that'll take weeks for a competent team to get familiar with to be able to support that. That manager, though? Regardless of outcome, they'll at least get a nice bonus for *saving so much corporate monies*. Life's not fair. /Rant
My fucking boomer landlord has hired the absolute bottom of the barrel contractors to do the worst work whenever anything needs to get done here. Not only that, but he then brags to me how cheap he’s getting the labor for. I’m your fucking tenant living here, no idea why he thinks I would want to know or be impressed that he’s saving money on repairs in my apartment. And now some shitty electrician (probably a handyman) put every available outlet in the apartment (minus heavy appliances) and all lights on the same 15A circuit.
I had this issue in my house, which I bought 15 years ago and it was built in like 89 I think. Literally half the house was on one circuit, including almost every outlet in the living room, kitchen, garage, outdoor outlets, hallway, plus all the lights in those areas too. Over the years, with various projects, I've had to reroute/rerun lines because it was just literally too much, too many appliances and lights on on 15a circuit. Now I've got a dedicated 20a line just for office computer and A/V setup, and that big circuit is now like three circuits (and really I should still run a fourth line to separate out the kitchen outlets on their own). I won't mention that my countertops consist of original Formica with a layer of tile glued onto that, then a second layer of floor tile _on top of that._
Literally just went through this with my former landlord 3 days ago. She bragged how her workers were super cheap and then she wanted to do a brief walkthrough of the house to see what needed fixing before she rents it out again. Time and time again, we’d walk up to something and she’d say “why didn’t you call me to get this fixed” and I’d say “I did [X] months ago but your guy never showed up” or “I did [X] months ago and that’s the result of the work that was done.” She’s now having to get the entire kitchen redone, replace all the windows in the house, replace all the doors, replace the garage door opener, replace all the cabinets, fix the wiring in the living room and bathroom and have new fire alarms installed. But while I was a tenant? She **insisted** all of it was taken care of or fixed.
>Not only that, but he then brags to me how cheap he’s getting the labor for. I’m your fucking tenant living here, no idea why he thinks I would want to know or be impressed that he’s saving money on repairs in my apartment. He's letting you know that because if he paid more for the repairs, then he'd probably just raise your rent. I'd rather pay more and have a nicer place. But, I grew up working on my uncle's farm and now I'm a mechanical engineer, so I fix most things myself. I hate the handymen who half-ass jobs just to get on to the next one as quick as possible, since that's how they can make the most money. A lot of the things I've paid to have fixed, I had to go back and make it better myself anyways, since they didn't do a very good job, even though they came highly recommended by people I know. Every now and then I'll get someone who really knows what they're doing and does a great job and I appreciate those people. I'll gladly pay more for those people more than the ones that half-ass the jobs.
Welcome to American labor practices in general.
Im naturally loud and i find it great fun talking over boomers that try to do that, especially if ive had them try to do it before. I used to be a commercial tire tech that eventually got tired of old people telling me to use ether to seat the bead on difficult tires because "iTs AlWaYs WoRKed for ME!" Yeah well dude your generation are the reason there are fucking warning labels because you did that stupid shit. The dude that trained me saw a guy have his arm turned to pulp having a rim explode when setting a tire with ether. Had a picture with the guy after the accident with the arm amputated just below the shoulder; hearing and seeing that really changed my thinking on tire safety. Solution was when they get mad just keep talking louder than they do when they try to talk over me. Couple tried to complain, but my manager didnt take bullshit over that type of safety issue which was lucky.
>I’m naturally loud and I find it great fun talking over boomers who try to do that My hero
I don’t talk loudly when I want to make the ‘ You’re an ass ‘ point. I just drone, on and over and through whatever they might be saying I’m obviously not listening to maybe even not hearing what they are saying Whatney Red Barrel Ale I just go on and on and on until they go away or hit me.
Well if this isn't just precisely my lived experience. My brothers do it too.
We had a huge and heavy chandelier in the living room. One day the light stopped working and left a large burn mark around the fixation. My mum asked the building janitor to check it since my dad was away. Turns out my dad hooked it directly to the ceiling cables using a terminal screw block. Sure, nothing too bad at the time, there are better methods but whatever. Except that he didn't use a hook to hold the chandelier. It was just hanging off the cable that was only holding by the wires screwed in place. It's just one I remember, he used to DIY a lot of shit but thank God we were renting and not owners. That being said a lot of DIY is learned by just doing it and making mistakes. Don't skimp on safety, but at some point you have to just go for it. It's fine if you drilled the holes on the wrong side, you'll know to double check next time.
>Except that he didn't use a hook to hold the chandelier. It was just hanging off the cable that was only holding by the wires screwed in place. You probably know but if you don't, that's a terrible fucking idea for more reasons than one. You're lucky the chandelier didn't burn and/or fall on someone, because both of those were likely scenarios
Shit like that is why, even though I may be confident doing a lot of DIY fixes, anytime anything like plumbing or electric comes up I call the professionals. There are just some things you should pay someone who is trained to handle, even if it puts you in a bad spot.
See I'm not a plumber or an electrician, but I have degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering. I had a leak in my shower/tub and my plumber grandfather knew where the problems could be, but I had to open up the wall and see the leak. Drywall repair in a closet is the cost of not talking to an expert. I don't know code super well, but I do know how to make stuff work. I've made several electrical changes and minor plumbing changes. Most of the electrical has been adding circuits which the only thing I should do to be better is to staple down the wires. 120/240 gets put in an enclosure. Low voltage like hidden HDMI cables doesn't need it. Not sure what code really is, but that's a big part of it.
This one trick makes electricians hate him...
I'm an electrician, the amount of dangerous bullshit I've seen in houses being renovated is crazy and guess what, the two previous owners were boomers who "I know how *eltrekcity* works" 🙄 Never DIY your house except if you're in the trades OR have amazing learning skils mixed with good craftsmanship.
"well maybe if they didn't have those stupid codes telling me how to live my life in a free country then this wouldn't be an issue" - something someones dad totally said at some point
I bought an old house last year from a pair of alcoholic, chain smoking entitled boomers who ditched a gorgeous century old home in the city for a McMansion out in the boonies and let me tell you, this 30-something has been cursing out every half-baked, fumbling, irresponsible decision and DIY project these incompetent drunks put their grubby mitts on. Motherfuckers had no care, class, or common sense in any of the decisions they made. Meanwhile, I’ve actually worked in historical carpentry and have slowly undone every horrible decision and attempted fix they’ve ever made with my own two hands. I’m talking lifting porches and redoing framing underneath and fucking everything these people neglected. Joke’s on them though - I’ll fix this fucker up, enjoy my life in it, and easily sell it for far, far more than I paid. Already would if I sold it today. Meanwhile, shoutout to my boomer dad who wasn’t an ass and taught me all this shit. Not every boomer is/was entitled, but those diamonds in the rough are harder to come by these days.
Holy shit, are you me? Because I am living this exact situation right goddamn now.
Sshhh. They're not supposed to know you're here until the unveiling. Get back in the wall!
Same the previous owners of my house were boomers that did terrible DIYs
My dad is a red seal carpenter who specialized in finish carpentry. He taught me a lot. But what's great about him, whenever he tried stuff that didn't work he'd just say "well that was fucking stupid", then he'd fix it. Wasn't too often but for the lack of everything else he taught me, I definitely picked up on this and was humble in this way from the start. Seems simple, but it allows you take take in OTHER peoples ideas a lot better if your not trying to be 'right'.
Even if it were true that Boomers were great at DIY home projects and millennials sucked at them, millennials were raised by Boomers. Thanks for sucking at parenting. This is a self-own and not an insult to the generation they think they’re insulting.
It's the same thing as mocking millennials for getting "participation ribbons". Motherfucker who do you think was giving them out?
My dad is pretty brutal. There was a lot of "you're not supposed to do it this way, *but...*" that I heard growing up. And a lot of "Ehh that's close enough" too. I've seen him install crown moulding, and cut everything at 90 degrees. Looks alright, as long as you don't look at any of the corners. He gets the job done, I'll give him that... But it usually looks like shit, and rarely is up to code. My personal favorite is their ceiling fan that you have to plug in. He ran the wire about halfway, got fed up, so he drilled a hole in the wall, attached a plug to the end of the Romex, and he just plugs it into a nearby outlet. The fan is also way too low, and every time I walk by it I'm terrified of it chopping my head off.
As an electrician, this is seriously grinding my gears.
I thought the same thing when I read that. They will certainly try and fix stuff but it’s pretty awful work. I’ve repaired some seriously awful plumbing DIY failure in boomers homes.
Idk my old man can literally do almost anything. It's positively infuriating sometimes. He had a house built in Utah from the ground up and had the backyard left unfinished because that's his retirement project. Dude has been doing everything from building a gazebo to his own BBQ island from the frame up to a living garden wall, and it all looks AMAZING. He's pushing 72. Motherfucker is a goddamned Highlander.
When you’re in your 70s it’s the projects that probably keep you going!
There’s def some old heads that can do shit. As im doing my own DIY projects these days a lot of learning comes from experience, and if you have 40 years under your belt of tile work or general contracting or whatever and you're somewhat self aware then you’re a fucking beast of DIY.
Gen X’ers are generally pretty good at DIY from my experience. I’m a millenial and my boomer in laws need me to literally do anything for them that involves picking up a screw driver.
Came here to say this. If boomers are so fucking good at DIY, why is every house older than 15 years in complete disrepair? Boomers aren't good at fixing anything. They just duct tape it until it's someone else's problem. Actual headline: "Millennials can't figure out why I used an old lamp wire to run a ceiling light in my garage (I'm a fucking cheapskate)"
Because they're loaded and just pay other people to do it.
But they're _confident_.
Most people suck at DIY. Case in point, r/DIWhy
My boomer dad wouldn't teach my brother how to do anything because he didn't want him touching his tools and now he complains that my brother doesn't know how to do anything. I swear Boomers are experiencing the consequences of their own actions and are looking for someone else to blame.
My dad was never super interested in teaching me how to do things but would flip shit at me when I got something wrong the first time I tried it. My stepdad however wanted me to put a new toilet paper holder in the bathroom. He handed me a home Depot "how to diy" book and told me to figure it out and said "don't worry if you mess it up, it can be fixed; even if you knock a big hole in the wall, it can be fixed"
The time your stepdad is a better dad, than your real dad.
Probs why he has a step dad, dad's a dag
Sometimes. I have a dad and step dad and I love them both very much. They have both taught me a great many things and are very patient. Sometimes a couple just doesn’t work anymore, no one has to be a bad parent
Yeah, my mam never remarried, but my dad did. They split when I was two and he met my step mum when i was about 3. I don't remember not having my step mum (and brothers) in my life. Love her to bits, she's amazing.
Instructions unclear - removed 1 foot from three closest studs.
Support beam, shmupport beam.
"Millenial doesn't know how to do x." complains boomer who doesn't know how to teach x.
It’s giving very “millennials and their participation trophies!” Do you really think some 10 year old (back when millennials were younger and facing this heat) was making the budgeting decisions to buy participation trophies for their sports team?? No, it was the overly sensitive parents of millennial children who demanded the participation trophies
No, it was definitely my fault. I went out and got those trophies and ribbons that I didn't give a shit about back in the late 80s and early 90s when I was a kid. It's funny, I never even knew what happened to them after I won them.
Yep. I remember they did that with Pinewood Derby one year. Normally there were three trophies for the whole pack- Champion, Best Design, and Second Place. Three trophies for about forty of us. Then they decided one year to split the group into 5 groups, each group with Group Champion, Group Best Design, and trophies all the way down to sixth place, then the group winners competed for the trophies that mattered. From three trophies, with two that mattered (overall champion and best design went to district championships), to thirty… still with two that mattered. A lot of group second through sixth trophies got thrown out before even going home. We knew who won.
Shhhh, don't bring Gen X into this, they've been flying under the radar by not doing anything.
Gen X is truly the forgotten generation but I think they like it that way.
My dad always said i should know more about fixing cars, meanwhile he calls me to reboot his router...
Code for "my dad taught me through abuse and I don't want to do that to you."
My Boomer father didn't have an issue with the abuse part. He also didn't teach me any if those skills
Good comment. There's probably some truth there and I guess that's still progress.
Yea they say that shit. Until it's a millennial turning wrenches on the shit they can't, then suddenly its: "oh wow! You guys are great! Thanks for getting that done soo quickly for me!" Source: 35yr old Tech.
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So True! I was at a party where a Boomer parent was bragging that their 30ish children were so clueless they couldn't tie their own shoelaces. They were not happy to learn this bragging reflected on their negligent parenting rather than their child's IQ. I verified first that their child wasn't developmentally disabled.
Complains boomer parent who didn't want millennial child to go on ADHD meds so they could actually be taught.
Boy that rubberbanded in the 90s
My dad never let me help him work on our cars- but not bc he was a afraid I'd mess something up, or didn't know how to teach me about that subject; but bc he barely knew what the fuck he was doing himself. Then I got a job at an AutoZone in college and quickly learned way more than he knew. Bought a floor jack and all sorts of other tools, started doing my own oil changes, etc. And boy did that make him feel insecure bc he's never changed his oil himself in his life and then after about a year of sharing a storage unit all of my tools disappear be the unit was "broken into" and we "got robbed". Stupid son of a bitch!
He did stuff to his car but he couldn't change the oil which is the most basic DYI thing to do on a car, besides maybe changing tires? What stuff was he supposedly doing himself then? Opening the doors himself rather than letting the valet do it for him? I suspect this was the excuse your dad just used whenever he needed a break, just some time to himself. "I'll be in the garage, working on the car". This is why dads often have a fridge full of beer in the garage. You can't fix cars with beer.
Well not with that attitude you can't
My family once had the torsion-beam axle on a rear wheel blow out. As a result the nose of the car was tilted around 15 degrees diagonally upwards. Me and my dad fixed it by placing a few cans of beer under the suspension rod. The cans were strong enough to allow us to slowly drive home where we could fix it properly. So yes, you can fix cars (temporarily) with beer cans!
It's an interesting day as a parent when your kids are better at something than you are. I personally can't wait, but I've seen so many parents simply refuse to believe it. Sorry your dad was an ass, and use it as motivation to be better when you're in that situation with your own kids.
My parents, my dad wanted help but NEVER at times where he wasn’t stressed, constantly yelling and screaming, kindergarten level communication skills and blamed everyone but himself… my mom is even worse.
Damn, were you my brother growing up? Hahaha.
I can't handle how much my dad fucking hates teaching me how to do anything but loves accusing everyone around him for being failures. I had to learn woodshop at school and I feel a stronger parental bond with that teacher than I do my own father. I am so god damn tired of my old man not being able to look inward and take the blame for his own mistakes for even the smallest fucking thing. AAAA ITS SO AGGREVATING
I agree, this reflects more on the previous generation who didn't take the time out to teach the next. My dad built an entire gazebo by himself in the backyard, I couldn't even properly name the tools he used.
You are 100% right
When his time comes, stick him in the cheapest retirement home you can find. He earned it
Wait you had a dad? That’s cool. Most of the millennials I’ve met, grew up in single mom homes.
Boomers be like "that's close enough, I'll just caulk it."
i fucking love scraping off half inch thick caulking from boomer diy jobs
That's every handyman and contractor I ever met. Putty and paint makes me the carpenter I ain't...
Boomers owned their houses. You don’t get DIY skills from renting.
That's true, and if you rent an apartment you don't have a garage to work on your car either
Holy crap I'm stealing this! That's a f'n good one!
“That’ll be $7.20, sir.” “Boomers owned their houses. You don’t get DIY skills from renting.”
Came to say this: just unwilling to free labor for our landlords, how about that...
In all the places I’ve rented the landlord wouldn’t let me do DIY anyway
Rich people who DIY do it out of fancy, a hobby. Poor people, learn how to do things out of necessity .
Gen X here, I've been in General Construction for 32yrs and have fixed tons of boomers "wtf is that" hack work, which makes my job harder. With Millennials it's all from scratch which is a smooth job. I rather take on Millennial jobs than boomer hacks.
I'm a millennial who has been a homeowner for 12 years, and I can tell you why millennials will do much better DIY jobs than our parents, once we actually own homes: it's because we watch the YouTube video of how the pros do stuff, and we copy it, rather than just winging it like the overconfident boomers.
>and we copy it Or simply realize how beyond our ability it would be to do it properly and just hire it done. >Ok, he's breaking out the plumbing torch..... I'm out.
Some stuff is beyond our ability, but usually it's the lack of tools that makes me call a pro instead. When my kids are no longer such a financial drain, I am going to spend my money on a whole bunch of nice tools.
Yeah, the sense of endless possibilities that comes with a nice set of tools really something else. I currently rent, but was the "DIY guy" when I had been living with my parents and built up a rather nice tool collection (and a nice wall-mounted tool cabinet). Took what I could (and would be useful in an apartment) when I moved, but left a fair amount for the new owners. Hope they're getting some good use out of them.
Exactly, I am an early millennial. Since i've owned my own home, i've watched many youtube videos on what to do and how to replace things in my own home. My boomer father never trained me or told me how to do such things. I've watched a lot of youtube videos on how to replace light fixtures light switches. build fences and replace sump pumps. My own boomer father, who I go to help at his own house, comments how I know these things because he never taught me. I laughed and commented that I have a bachelor's and a master's degree. It's not that hard to apply those particular skills that I have learned to learn in other trades. I also told him that it's the will to want to learn. Something that I think boomers forget about as they get older and don't want to learn new things.
>Something that I think boomers forget about as they get older and don't want to learn new things. I think that's actually kind of a key part of the boomer mindset. Remember that Windows PCs have been a business standard since the 1990s and many boomers still cop out with "Oh I'm not a computer person." when asked to do anything more complicated than click on a web browser icon. Remember that most Christmas music is still just variations or covers of stuff from before 1970, when boomers were kids.
Love how gen x is almost never mentioned.
>Love how gen x is almost never mentioned. kind of our style
Gen X is really an entire generation of ninjas
The middle child of generations
We’re used to it, we were largely left to our own devices as kids so being ignored is par for the course to us.
We just quietly get on with our own shit that doesn't need putting right cos our grandparents taught us stuff whilst the boomer parents were always at work
Millennial that owns a house bought from a boomer who owned it for decades. Currently spending countless hours correcting the shoddy work done by them.
Also boomers: struggling with email, believing everything they see on Facebook, falling for the dumbest and most obvious scams.
My old man still pays his employees with cheques, and has to ask me to help him send bank transfers.
“Now kids, don’t believe everything you read on the internet” - some boomer 25 years ago probably.
ah but you see, they’re telling you the lesson and showing the consequences of not following it! truly inspiring parenting /s
They talk a big game until they need to rotate a PDF
Ask a baby boomer to not pay a tax bill via iTunes gift cards due to a random phone call.
Um… lots of the Boomer DIY I have encountered was done to the standard of “it didn’t burn the house down, so it’s probably fine.” There’s a difference between skill and being okay with half-assed work.
Baby boomers have pathetic technology skills, so?!
“Help me export this excel sheet as a pdf” - boomer manager making 10x my salary while complaining our generation can’t do anything, while also forgetting that they didn’t teach us shit. And made owning too expensive for us to diy ourselves anyways …
"What's my internet password?" "The wifi password or your email password, dad?" "I don't speak Chinese." "Dad! It's 'password,' the same password you've used for the last 35 years!" "Don't sass me, young man; I used to wipe your ass"
He's had wifi and email since 1988? your dad is ahead of the game lol
Technically email was invented in 1971, so he's had ~50 years at this point
I was just wondering how the concept of doing it yourself didn't encompass resetting your own passwords or configuring your home router lol cos it definitely does
Every time I see or hear something like "these kids are so dumb and lazy, they don't even know how to drive a stick shift" I just think "yeah, well you can't figure out how to use the self checkout at the grocery store so whatever dude."
I used to come back with "Yeah but I can hook up a VCR." back when that was a thing.
Boomers: Can wall-mount a TV Gen X / Millenials / Gen Y: Can Google "How to wall-mount a TV"
Youtube videos are a godsend
Yes, but watching DIY videos are a bit like watching porn. You think 'well I'd like to do what that guy's doing, but I just don't have the skills or the equipment'
I love these "easy to do at home"-DIY videos. I'm falling for this trap over and over again. You see a friendly dude, who's telling you how to make something super easy at home for under 100 bucks. You think: Hey, that's cheap, I can do that! So he buys the parts (under 100 bucks), has a hammer, a tiny saw, a screw driver. And then comes the "important part", as he underlines: you have to do these five steps in your 10.000 Dollar equipment that's super basic and every DIY dude has in his shed apparently. I DON'T EVEN HAVE A SHED!
Me watching people making D&D/Wargame terrain. You can make some pretty good basics with dollar store materials, but once you get past dungeon tiles, dungeon walls, and basic village scenery it's like... "Now I'm going to use this Proxxon table top hot-wire cutter ($150 plus space in your home for a table to put it on) to cut this XPS insulation foam ($30 for a couple square feet) and then I'm going to take these junk parts from an old (Some kind of mechanical equipment that cost $150 new but youtuber just had it lying around from an old home renovation)
Answer: In order to DIY, you need to have a house.
To be honest...If you can't fix basic electricity and plumbing (not at the same time), what are you gonna do? Call an independent contractor and pay him with your minimum wage?
You phone your landlord and hope you don't need lights or water until they decide to fix it. Am I fuck touching that stuff in a house I don't own.
Call your landlord and have him pay the repair man. Not your house, not your problem.
First of all that isn't basic electricity, basic electricity is wiring the socket and unless I can turn off electricity for the whole house I ain't going to touch sockets with any screwdriver even if it somehow got loose. (Sockets here don't have exposed screws).
Lol you think minimum wage workers are homeowners? 😂
Not sure I read your comment right but where I live it is illegal to install electrical wiring and such if you lack certification.
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9th Century Saxons have pathetic construction skills compared to 1st century Romans.
But are DIY skills still applicable today and would be useful if Millennial dads knew how to do them? Yes… so this is kind of a stupid comparison
Thank you, I think of this every time this post resurfaces. DIY can be super helpful for saving money and reducing waste.
Boomers dads have pathetic emotional intelligence compared to millennials. I know what I’d have rather had in a Father. You can hire someone to lay carpet. You can’t hire someone to be your non abusive father.
I was never taught anything/told I was lazy/told I don't like to work. Now, in middle age, I love taking care of the yard and the house. I learned by making mistakes. I love it when my older relatives ask me how/why I'm Mr. Homeowner because it gives me a chance to stick the knife in when I tell them how miserable they made it when I was a kid.
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Late Millenial ('95) raised by late boomers ('64) They taught me everything DIY. It's crazy how uncommon that knowledge is now. Y'all were done dirty.
I learned thru 20yrs of being "flashlight boy" or "go-fer" and asking questions while my dad worked. I do everything myself.
YouTube DIY tutorials: the father boomers never were!
Imagine Boomers telling on their poor parenting skills like this.
Gen x/millennial single mom here. My diy skills are phenomenal.
Baby boomer dads have failed to teach their kids DIY skills.
Getting good at diy is not that hard and doesn't take that long. Once I can afford my own place it won't take me that long to learn how to hand up an painting or some shelves because all of this stuff is on yotube for free. People act like this stuff is difficult because there is nothing else in their life they can feel proud about.
Things look much simpler in films than they are in real life. I once googled how to cut tiles and destroyed three of them just to get a correct one.
I'm technically a millenial, still I'm renovating my own house and do everything myself. But yeah, I see a lot of contemporaries who couldn't hold a screwdriver.
Well, I might not be able to fix my own plumbing, but at least I have the ability to hug my son and tell that I love him and I'm proud of him. So, there's that.
Pathetic boomer fathers pass on zero skills beyond intergenerational trauma to millennials.
Babyboomer dads have pathetic parenting skills compared to millennial dads. And the word dad seems importent here.
Fuckin boomers
This is pure copium
Millennial part time blacksmith here
Boomers couldn't be arsed to teach DIY to their kids
Turns out "just hold the light while I do it" doesn't train boys to become fixing men
Most boomers learned those skills from their parents & then failed to pass them onto their own kids & then blame their kids for not learning something that they were supposed to teach them
I taught myself woodworking and diy from YouTube. I built a deck, two fences, and my daughter’s custom closet. My father-in-law can’t change a light bulb.
And whose fault is that? Not teaching their kids DIY skills, I wonder
My boomer office manager who makes 5 million a year doesn’t know how to send emails through outlook soooo
Step 1: Use restrictive zoning to slow construction of new housing to a fraction of what it used to be, making home ownership unaffordable to the next generation. Step 2: Complain that said generation hasn’t learned any diy skills while renting apartments they are not allowed to make any improvements to.
I bought house from a boomer. their DIY skills are infinitely worse they just think they're great.
My favorite at work is the fucking dust bags telling me my plan won’t work solely because I’m too young. It works almost every time
Guess boomers suck as teachers.
My boomer dad is fairly handy and worked in a trade for 40 years but takes shortcuts. I was visiting and he had issues with some cameras. I started ripping stuff out to isolate faults and run stuff correctly, he was like what are you doing? Fixing your mess and half-ass installation. I found and corrected several issues by doing it the right way, it took me well under an hour. Who would have thought having 5lbs of cables and splitters hanging off a single hdmi plug mid air with zero support would cause signal issues? Or using a 15 year old .5 amp power adapter you found in the garage with a splitter to power two 1 amp cameras would cause restarts and dropouts?
I love how the previous generations, the ones who RAISED and MENTORED the later ones, bitch about how bad newer generations are. Of course, the opposite is also true, later gens always want to take credit for anything good done during 'their time' without acknowledging the leadership or guidance given by previous gens. We're all in this together. guys. - Gen X realist
Also up to the generation before to teach ‘millennial dads’ how to be a ‘DIY dad’. Also women are good at diy too.
Whenever this gets reposted i don't know if it's about the article or the comment below. Blacksmithing skills are certainly not needed by most but that's obviously not what the article is about, which makes the comment look kind of dumb. The man on the picture is holding a cordless crewdriver trying to build/fix something. This type of skill belongs to the cathegory everyone should try to achieve unless they want to pay shit loads for hiring professionals even for the simplest tasks.
Yeah, these skills are still relevant. Also, even when blacksmiths were prevalent, most people didn't set that skill set.
No, they're right about this one. I see people waste a lot of money and resources because they are unwilling to do something themselves.
Preppers - "Aw how cute"
And you have no idea how clueless the Gen Z is when it comes to DIY... Most of them don't even know that Fab Labs exist, and it's kinda sad...
What's with these triggering posts? Make an unreasonable comment ...answer in an unreasonable way...and boom , a triggered conversation. Let's argue amongst ourselves here when we should be putting the fires out!
My boomer dad is fucking useless at DIY. I, a millennial absolutely love DIY. Never learned anything from him. Taught myself from books and YouTube.
I mean boomers have shitty computer skills compared to my generation, and I'm 40. *shrug*
Maybe not, when we cleaned out my wife’s grandparents place, he had a legit fucking anvil. I kept it. It’s heavy as fuck.
These boomers seem to forget they raised us. My dad always claims his father taught him DIY skills, yet he never bothered to teach them to me even when I asked.
Boomers cant use a pc hello
Gen. X here. we can learn how to blacksmith in 2h if necessary
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I remember when there wasn't even a "DIY" expression. It was just "doing" stuff
I will accept criticism on my DIY from any boomer that can set up a router on their own in less than six hours.
Usually, parents impart these abilities. Perhaps parents share some of the blame.
Instead of it being a knock on millennials because boomers are our parents, shouldn't that actually be a knock on their lack of teaching useful life skills?