Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for January 18, 2025

Jeez Holly, how about saying, ‘i’m sorry, we were messing about and it was an accident’ instead of whining that your mother is useless because she hasn’t got insurance to replace the TV?

Time to crack open a book.

I never had a clothing allowance, had to pay for all my own clothes, school supplies, pictures, and student body card, toothpaste and shampoo from age 10 up. Bean picking, babysitting, etc.

Not nice, but true.

“Paying off Christmas” is a chunk of the problem, too. If you can’t pay the credit card off COMPLETELY the next time a payment is due, you spent what you could not afford. Christmas is NOT an emergency, and that’s the ONLY excuse one should have for carrying a balance. If you insist on a stupid expensive gift-purchasing bender, instead of putting yourself into debt, put money into a separate bank account with each paycheck. If you get paid weekly, $25 saved and not touched each week will get you over $1200. $50 saved will get you over $2500.

I just realized that “birth control” should really be called “pregnancy control.” True birth control would be very dangerous to both mother and child.

Meltdown Mother.

Get out the books and board games, girls!

OK. This is one of the things you must never say to children. I was fifty when my Mom said my younger brother was an “accident”. It hit him pretty hard.

OUCH!

I can see thinking it, but to actually say it…….. horrible Mom, who are you? Joan Crawford?