Beautiful Saturday

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Beautiful Saturday
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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?

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Registered: 05-31-2011
Sun, 03-16-2014 - 5:15pm

blackandwhitemolly wrote:
<p>Again, Marla, read my posts outside of what I did as a young age. </p>

Um, I did. I read that you stayed at home at your parent's house and banked a lot of money. 

And?

The young adults that I have referenced here did not have that choice. Can't you get that through your head? Both of them were thrown out because their parents think (just as you do) that these kids just need to get off their asses and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

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Registered: 05-31-2011
Sun, 03-16-2014 - 5:20pm

Once again, my social psychology homework comes to life on this board.

Fundamental attribution error

It totally applies.

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Registered: 12-22-2013
Sun, 03-16-2014 - 5:20pm

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. 

We are adults with jobs and dont go and buy the latest device every time it comes out and dont have sleeves worth of tattoos. My dh has 3 tatoos from the last 26 years and the total cost of all 3 was probably about $100. 

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Registered: 05-31-2011
Sun, 03-16-2014 - 5:21pm

If your husband's tattoos cost all of $100 over 26 years, then why would you think that tattoos are holding young people back from financial independence?

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Sun, 03-16-2014 - 5:21pm
    blackandwhitemolly wrote:
    <p>Again, Marla, read my posts outside of what I did as a young age. </p>

    Um, I did. I read that you stayed at home at your parent's house and banked a lot of money. 

    And?

    Again, I gave the story of my dh and young kids of today. NOT just me.

    The young adults that I have referenced here did not have that choice. Can't you get that through your head? Both of them were thrown out because their parents think (just as you do) that these kids just need to get off their asses and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

    and so was my dh. Read my posts.

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    Registered: 05-31-2011
    Sun, 03-16-2014 - 5:25pm

    Did you miss the part where the homeless girl who sleeps on my couch tried the military and was discharged for medica reasons?

    She tried that route.

    Perhaps you can help me out and name a job that pays a livable wage, offers benefits like health insurance and PTO that requires no higher education, job experience, or skill set? Not one that you could have gotten in the 1980s when you were young, but one that you can get today. Like, where are you pointing your kids to work?

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    Sun, 03-16-2014 - 5:26pm

      If your husband's tattoos cost all of $100 over 26 years, then why would you think that tattoos are holding young people back from financial independence?

      You must not be too familiar with the prices of tattoos. Most of them cost in the hundreds to thousands of dollars. 

      #1 tattoo...gotten in the army for $25

      #2 tattoo.....not sure what year but about $40, not sure of the exact price 

      #3 tattoo....$25, would have been $100 on a regular day as they were doing special prices

      so under $100 and they are small tattoos, not like the kids are getting now.

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      Sun, 03-16-2014 - 5:28pm
      A FEW MINUTES AGO

        Did you miss the part where the homeless girl who sleeps on my couch tried the military and was discharged for medica reasons?

        She tried that route.

        Perhaps you can help me out and name a job that pays a livable wage, offers benefits like health insurance and PTO that requires no higher education, job experience, or skill set? Not one that you could have gotten in the 1980s when you were young, but one that you can get today. Like, where are you pointing your kids to work?

        Again, with no skills, unfortunately this girl might have to work more than 1 job to live on her own or have a roommate. Did she ever live on her own or with someone?

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        Sun, 03-16-2014 - 5:30pm
        My husband's sister was kicked out of the house at 17 or 18 when she got pg with her first child, The girl went on to have two more kids back to back. The irony is that she is now in her 40s and her mom enables those grandkids, her daughter's kids b/c they come to her for everything. Funny isn't it, How tough love doesn't teach a thing. And the circle of life just begins again b/c one of those grandkids is pg, unmarried and unemployed.

         

         

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        Registered: 05-31-2011
        Sun, 03-16-2014 - 5:30pm

        blackandwhitemolly wrote:
        so under $100 and they are small tattoos, not like the kids are getting now.

        So your point is that tattoos cost thousands of dollars, but not for your husband. Just for other people. His only cost $25 because he's like a super tattoo shopper. 

        This is getting more amusing by the second. 

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