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The top should say 20's. They didn't have to wait til their 30's to purchase a house.
I agree. We got married in our early twenties and we ended up in student housing since my hubby was still in graduate school. After he finished and got his first job we bought our first home when we were in our mid twenties with a bit of help for the downpayment from both sets of parents. We borrowed 1k from each set of parents and paid them both off at the end of a year.
When we moved in we had maxed out our credit card to buy some furniture and a washing machine. We waited to buy a dryer since we couldn't afford to buy both. I hung out all our clothes to dry instead.
An elderly couple up the street noticed I was hanging out laundry and they bought a new washer and dryer set because their washing machine died. They offered us their old dryer. Their dryer was already old and we ended up keeping it for 11 more years. Nobody makes appliances like they used to, for sure.
Back in the late 90's, the second Chief Petty Officer I served under gave me his old washer and dryer set when my exwife and I moved into our first house. We couldn't afford a set when we moved in, so we "pinched pennies" to use the base laundromat. He saw me there one day, and the next morning at work, he said "Deuce, come with me." We walked out side to his truck and we went to the house to hook it all up.
One thing I can say is, they don't make "bosses" like that anymore. Nor do they make appliances like that anymore. We had that set for another decade, and they were already a decade old when we go them. They were a helluva lot easier to work on back then, too.
Observation from the outside by a retired SCPO that put on fouled anchors in 1984: They dont make CPOs like that anymore either.