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| Sat, 03-08-2014 - 4:31pm |
1. Has your weekend been busy or relaxing?
2. How often do you dust?
3. Are you excited for March Madness?
| Sat, 03-08-2014 - 4:31pm |
1. Has your weekend been busy or relaxing?
2. How often do you dust?
3. Are you excited for March Madness?
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Obviously you missed my post where I said I COULD have moved out but decided that I was going to things the right way. I wanted a fully furnished, with new furniture and things home, a honeymoon that we didnt have to go around the corner because we could only afford so much. If I did move out, I could done it but not have had all the bells and whistles that living at hime allowed me. No one enabled me and at 19, I had a full time job with benefits that I got all on my own. </div></div></div>[/quote]
THe people that were paying for the roof over your head and the electcity water etc that your were using enabled you.
Nope, I could have easily left and been fine on my own. I was lucky that I had parents who cared how my life was going to turn out but didnt enable me by letting me be lazy and have them find me a job or let me live there because I was too lazy to find something to allow me to live out of the house.
Nope, I could have easily left and been fine on my own. I was lucky that I had parents who cared how my life was going to turn out but didnt enable me by letting me be lazy and have them find me a job or let me live there because I was too lazy to find something to allow me to live out of the house.</span></p>[/quote]
Could have move out but did not. That enabled you to use the funds that you were not using towards, rent, utiliies and food for other things.
Coulda woulda shoulda....the fact is, you had parents who subsidized your expenses until you were married and even after that, and you are calling 18 year old kids who have jobs but no place to live "lazy,". You have no clue about the work ethics of these kids just starting out and you seem to resent any help anyone wants to give them, even if it's something as small as allowing them to throw in a load of wash in a washing machine. Very stingy.
Could have move out but did not. That enabled you to use the funds that you were not using towards, rent, utiliies and food for other things.
It allowed me to start out my life on the right path. I wasnt lazy and didnt work or decided to work a low paying and not find another one or get myself pregnant so I couldnt move out.
Coulda woulda shoulda....the fact is, you had parents who subsidized your expenses until you were married and even after that, and you are calling 18 year old kids who have jobs but no place to live "lazy,". You have no clue about the work ethics of these kids just starting out and you seem to resent any help anyone wants to give them, even if it's something as small as allowing them to throw in a load of wash in a washing machine. Very stingy.
Wow how far off you are. My dh was basically kicked out of the house at 16. He was told either to leave or go in the army. He chose the army which was the best thing he could have done. Then from then on, he had to work and pay rent and bills. He never sat around looking for someone to help him.
No one has enabled me after being an adult. As soon as I was out of college (I worked part time during college) I worked full time and got myself a decent job with benefits. This allowed me to start my life out on the right path at 21.
I know young kids now and they are more interested in having devices and tattoos then doing what we did that young. It is a different world and the parents are enabling them to continue being lazy and acting like kids into their 20's.
Except for a few lesbians armed with turkey basters, I don't know anyone who "got herself pregnant."
I had a decent job when I was 20. Union. Great pay, paid time off, generous vacation time. My health insurance cost $9 every other week and my co-pay was $5. Matching retirement contribution. Unemployment was low that we were constantly understaffed, so I had all of the OT I could handle. When there was a holiday or two thrown into the pay period, my paychecks rivaled those of my mother, who worked as a health practicioner in a prestigious medical facility.
Guess what? The union faced some tough pressure and that same job now pays the same wage as it did 20 years ago when I worked there. Health insurance contributions/co-pays have gone way up, and the matching retirement contributions have shriveled down to zero. Unemployment is high, and every position is filled, no more OT. $11 an hour in 1994 was awesome--$11 in 2014 is a pittance.
A young something without any real education or skillset could walk in and take that same very position, but they won't be benefitting anywhere near to the level that I did.
Once again, your posts demonstrate clearly that you are incapable of thinking outside of your own experience.
Again, Marla, read my posts outside of what I did as a young age.
FWIW, my stepdaughter doesn't have a tattoo, and the only devices that she owns are a 6-year-old laptop for school, a cell phone (that *we* insist she carry), and a kindle that was gifted to her as she's a voracious reader.
It's not as though she was precisely $479 from being completely independent and decided to buy an ipad instead.
You, OTOH, seem pretty quick to talk about all of your electronic devices and family tattoos.
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