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?
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.
“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.
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.
catchup about 13 hours ago
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?
Dean about 10 hours ago
Time to crack open a book.
kaycstamper about 6 hours ago
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.
baskate_2000 about 5 hours ago
Not nice, but true.
L L about 5 hours ago
“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.
Bob Blumenfeld about 5 hours ago
I just realized that “birth control” should really be called “pregnancy control.” True birth control would be very dangerous to both mother and child.
Diat60 about 4 hours ago
Meltdown Mother.
Gordette 44 minutes ago
Get out the books and board games, girls!
mistercatworks 22 minutes ago
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.