By 73, my parents had kicked me (and both sisters) out of the house and we were on our own. I was already in the military by then and had a decent paying job. I paid for my apartment, cars, food and everything else.
I did go back to the farm every free weekend and work for free, fixing fences, plowing the fields, hauling hay, etc. My only pay was getting to fish in the stock tanks.
They let you live at home until you were 73?
Wow, I was out by 18.
;-D
Seriously, it’s the hard work that made us who we are. I would rather have gone through hard times and learned from it, than spend my life waiting for someone else to “make it better”.
Conservatism works, every time it’s tried. :-)