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Last week I gave my Daughter 200.00 cash to go to College with. She has a car her food is paid her books and she has a gas card. This weekend she came home and said she needed more money.
I fucking just laughed and read her the riot act. I'm NOT giving her 200 a week. I said maybe 40 but that's it! WOW
The Professor laughed. She knows me.
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My kids too. I sometimes give them money behind my husband's back. If he knew he'd have a shit fit. What, they're my babies.
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what a lovely way to say how much you love me
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(09-05-2021, 10:24 PM)BigMark Wrote: what a lovely way to say how much you love me
Money doesn't buy love, unless you're in Vegas.
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Money buys happiness unless you're dying. I'd rather be depressed and wealthy than depressed and broke. At least if you have money you can afford to go to vegas.
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That's all good and fancy and everything but this will give her a chance to do a budget that in the future will help her more than harm. If it's not enough and she can give me good reason why it's not I might bend but an Oak tree doesn't bend easily.
If you give your children an easy life you are not really preparing them for the future. I will not burden them with an "easy" life.
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It's good for her to learn how to lobby her parents, that's how I started. If there was something I wanted I had to be able to present my case and it damn well hadn't better be bullshit. The very first thing I can remember lobbying for was to go to public school. Not kidding at all. I presented my case and I won. Good bye, nuns.
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(09-06-2021, 02:41 PM)Maggot Wrote: That's all good and fancy and everything but this will give her a chance to do a budget that in the future will help her more than harm. If it's not enough and she can give me good reason why it's not I might bend but an Oak tree doesn't bend easily.
If you give your children an easy life you are not really preparing them for the future. I will not burden them with an "easy" life.
Dont get me wrong, my kids have to work for a living. My husband wouldn't even let my son get out of work while he had covid. I'm the more generous one with the money though, I just give in. I'm a sucker.