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What in the fork is it with skids and spending money on stupid shiz

halo1998's picture

Submitted by halo1998 on Tue, 05/23/2023 - 12:45pm

SMH.....always just shaking my head.

GWR..aka SS.....lives in Beaver's basement, works at a fast food joint, just missed his car payment for last month...on an 8 year old car with 100k of miles on it that he paid 23k for, pays $200 per MONTH in car insurance and eat out with door dash almost everynight and apparently whines he cannot move out.  What does he do...pays $500 for a tattoo.  Now I'm tatted up..but I pay my bills, own my house and car..I can afford them. I didn't get any till I had the discrentionable income to afford them.  SMH both on the tattoo and the 8 year old car he spent 23k on while giving his perfectly good car to his girl friend..WHO DOESN'T DRIVE.  Yep..there is some steller parenting there Beaver.

SD...prom was last weekend. Thankfully, we had already made plans to go out of town. DH and I had a great trip.  SD who is quitting her job in 2 weeks..spent $200 on nails...that's right..just nails.  I guarantee they will be off by the end of the week because SD cannot keep nails....she picks at them, etc.  Next up on her list of "Must" haves....$300 tennis shoes that look like freaking Addidas, except they have a star.   No mention of saving any money...  Don't get me started on the eye lash extensions she gets and the hair extensions she wants to get.

 

SMH....neither of these two have any concept of needs versus wants.  DH is not like that...so I can only attibute this to Beaver. 

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Lillywy00's picture

Submitted by Lillywy00 on Tue, 05/23/2023 - 3:10pm

Typical of most kids with no sense of the value of a dollar. 

But for some reason skids seem to be the worst because their parents are overcompensating for their 'struggles' by throwing money around on ridiculous stuff. 

Id rather open up my window while driving on 1-95 while holding my wallet out than to waste money on skids who most likely aren't going to appreciate it, enable them by giving them what they want vs. making them earn their wants.

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Submitted by Rags on Tue, 05/23/2023 - 6:41pm

However, he was there when we talked budgeting, investments, home purchases, car purchases, etc..

He launched at 18 joining the USAF. He had more money in the bank at 22 whan I had at 35.  

He spends next to nothing, saves a ton, and lives pretty well.

As a combined HS Graduation/Christmas/Enlistment gift we gave him a brand new car as our last input to his launching into his adult life Debt free.  We would have sent him to any University on the planet he wanted to go to/and could get accepted to on our dime. He sat us down, told us he understood that having a college education was important and that he would get his Bachelors. Though he was not then ready to put in the effort and it would be a waste of his time and our money.

So, we bought him a car.

He recently sold it and bought his first car purchased for himself.  Brand new. His first car was 12yrs old and well loved.

His three younger Spermidiot spawned half sibs are broke and barely surviving.  Their upbringing was all about getting what they wanted at any given moment.

My DW was raised in a low income household. It was about instant gratificaiton with no money available which is extremely expensive. Buying what they wanted at any given moment which meant buying worn out old crap.  

DW ... is frugal, a thorough analyst, and is an agressive saver/inestor.  As am I. Though less so than DW is.  She is the CPA numbers wizard.

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Submitted by Shieldmaiden on Wed, 05/24/2023 - 6:09pm

Wow! That's some crappy spending! My SD21 likes to spend thousands on concert tickets and live shows, when she recently had BM buy her a new engine for her car. SD drove the car 80MPH everywhere, and the engine blew out. I guess she needed to save her money for concerts, which are so much more essential than driving to work.