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01/02/09(Fri)13:30:57 No.2632998it
can be bad parenting or spoiling, or both. just look at me. i had just
a tiny bit of both. i was never really spoiled. i had no allowance, the
only time i could get my parents to buy me something i want (as long as
it was cheap enough and not something electronic), my grandma got my
brother a super nintendo and gameboy, which had 5 games between them,
so i had to leech off him for games. i didn't have a computer until age
15, and that was when my dad's computer died, and i was thrifty enough
to save it from the garbage, find out what was wrong with it, and
replace the part for cheap. i didn't have a tv in my room until age 17,
and i STILL don't have a car at 21, because i can't afford it and they
won't help me get a car.
despite this, i have been somewhat
spoiled. whenever my dad wanted me to do a job, i would ask "what's in
it for me?", which would usually end in "you're going to do it because
i said so", but sometimes resulted in a bit of cash (if it was a
particularly hard or long task). when i got a job at 15, my parents
didn't try to control what i bought with my money, so i went hog wild
for a few years. now that i am in college, i have gone 4 semesters
without a job, because my parents buy me groceries and i stay with them
during the breaks and whatnot. |