Quetzal
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I think it depends on what you are saving for? To save for the sake of saving is different than saving for say a college education or retirement.
Do Younger People Overspend On Homes Today?
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Quetzal
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My parents and grandparents made me work. At the time, I hated it. But it instilled a healthy sense of work ethic in me today.
glorydaz
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I guess I lucked out. My family was similar. My grandparents would always tell me after breakfast to be back by dinner and listen for the bell. (They have acres of river front property) So I would disappear for hours at time, come back for a drink and snack only to run back out again. My dad raised me and it was similar, also. IF I did want something (toy, electronic, whatever), he made me work for it. In that way I was lucky because it taught me from a young age that I shouldn't expect to be given stuff. Gifts are nice, but by and large, most of it comes from a deal. "If you want X, I need you to do Y and Z."
For comparison purposes, I am 28.
Twenty eight is nearer my kids' ages (34-39) and your story is closer to theirs, too. It helps when you have some room to explore, doesn't it? My grandkids only have that when they come out here to nana's house. And I only have this place because my kids lived here until they left home, and then my sisters and various relatives lived here, too. We all have worked together. But, my grandkids are given way too much stuff and the only time they agree to work is out here. They mind better here, too. The saying is, "Do I have to tell nana?" :chuckle:
Quetzal
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That is the big one. I would not give up my experience for the world, but that experience is getting tougher and tougher. As neighborhoods expand the natural landscape gets changed or destroyed. Thankfully, there are still many parks and untouched areas near me. But that isn't even addressing an arguable bigger issue: the inability to unplug! I am getting off topic but I think you and a few others might like this video I saw the other day on the topic of unplugging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_tEMeAVOKI
:mmph: Not sure how to get the youtube tag to work.
glorydaz
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My sisters and I lived with my grandparents for our early years, and we did a lot of pinecone gathering then bean picking, cherry picking, and strawberry picking. We didn't get to keep our money until we went to live with my mom and step dad when I was ten....then we still picked beans but bought our own school clothes. Yep, I learned how to work, and I learned how to love it. We'd have contests on who could pick the most beans.
Now, I love making work fun for the kids, but I do pay them pretty good, too. You know how nanas are.
glorydaz
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Yeah, it's been on my mind a lot lately....a lot of people's I guess.
I've been talking to my girls about it a lot. My older daughter would stop by for a quick visit on her way home and she would barely take her eyes off her cell phone. Now, she is careful not even to take it out, and said they are really making an effort.
That was a good video. Thanks for sharing. Here's one my daughter posted on facebook today. It really makes you think.
BTW...that wasn't my daughter's post but one she put up on her page.
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glorydaz
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Well you held out longer than nearly anyone else I know. To be honest, I did have one my son owned; it had some prepaid minutes, I never used it and the minutes ran out of time. I did not want to pay for anything on a monthly bases. I told my son, if he was so bent on my having one, to find one where the minutes were permanent. He said they do not have such plans, I said the plan concept was the problem, he said that was they way it was set up and he did not know of any plan where more money per minute, for permanent minutes.
I thought to myself how it seemed companies were so determined to place one of a monthly payment schedule, and I wanted no part of it, he most likely thought, although he would never say it, I may be a bit nuts when it comes to some facts of life.
I don't want to be around someone who has a phone
I have saved and when I say save, I mean active investments.
I do believe I am doing this for my family, yet my doings likely cause what I complain about in the OP. If I and my husband had not saved so well, and had I not invested so activity, then the obvious reality, staring in my face, would be my kids may have considered their own finical future more carefully.
What are you babbling about? How is being more extreme than me relevant here?
It does help to be taught to earn things.I guess I lucked out. My family was similar. My grandparents would always tell me after breakfast to be back by dinner and listen for the bell. (They have acres of river front property) So I would disappear for hours at time, come back for a drink and snack only to run back out again. My dad raised me and it was similar, also. IF I did want something (toy, electronic, whatever), he made me work for it. In that way I was lucky because it taught me from a young age that I shouldn't expect to be given stuff. Gifts are nice, but by and large, most of it comes from a deal. "If you want X, I need you to do Y and Z."
For comparison purposes, I am 28.
It also make you want to take better care of the things you earn.
I remember when my son got his first apartment with a buddy of his.
I go over to visit, get a Dr. Pepper from the fridge, and set it on the coffee table in front of the couch.
My son jumps up and quickly slides a coaster under it.
I just had to laugh, knowing how he used my coffee table in my home for years!
Water glass stains galore!!!!
When it's yours and you had to work for it, you tend to take better care of it.
Well that alone may not get you banned, but it comes close.
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Then why respond to her again?
Now you did it!
Well you done it, got yourself banned.
What a dope you are. You been here long enough to know if you keep on berating anyone you are likely to be banned. You do not realize it? Of course you do!So take note, I may call other members idiots, morons, wackos and such, but I do not do it over and over again and this is a big difference.
Granite, you set a bad example here, you are capable of doing netter than this. Best conclusion, you get a kick out of it?
ok doser
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Best conclusion, you get a kick out of it?
isn't it obvious kat?
it's his self-hatred directed outward
I agree, then few can get by without a loan.
I couldnt agree more with that.
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To post the video, you click youtube in advanced reply, name it in the first box that opens, then in the second between the YT tags, you post only the part after the =
Which in your case was b_tEMeAVOKI