And their 5 figures come from an addiction to HGTV and home design magazines that tell you that your home is outdated and not good enough. 90% of their improvements are vanity, and there's never a weekend where they're not working on something.

I can't remember a weekend as a kid where we weren't working on some sort of home improvement project. I hated it then and I felt I missed out on a lot because of it. I'll happily pay extra to never deal with it again. I honestly don't care what the walls and flooring are in a bathroom, I just want to be able to shit and shower in there without problems.

HOmeownership is not for everyone and I wish the powers that be and society would stop treating renters as if they're less of a person or second class. I've lived in 6 states in the last 5 years and owning a home with that kind of work relocation is not practical at all.

And I'm nowhere near retirement (if that will exist for my generation because we probably won't have SS or Medicare--- my 'plan' is a wooden box and a shovel). I'm of the generation that is not buying homes at the equivalent stage of life that their parents did.