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My parents do the 'big' present thing too. Unfortunately a lot of them have fallen flat - the bicycle especially was a dead loss - but that is more to do with the child than the gifts. We hauled out the bike a few weeks ago under great threats. 3 years that bike has gone hated and unused before...

My parents offered me their quite new car today (I'm 33.9 though, not 18). I'd rather have all these subdivision fees I'm feverishly saving for paid if they're giving away money.

Hehe. The big one stands around when she can't/won't try to do something either looking morose and incompetant (anywhere but home someone will come up and offer help when she does this) or saying "this is tooooooo haaaaaaaaaard, I can't dooooooooooooooo this" in a whining voice. And then the...

The patience of a saint and how to effectively resist strangling small children :D Also makes internet trolls seem like nice, sane people in comparison. We have some children playing on one of our servers and its the parents and grandparents that do the best keeping the peace, the ones without...

Oh, she begs for work to do around the house for money but then doesn't do the big ticket $5 one. And then goes and spends $4 on bird seed which is still in the cupboard (no, we don't have birds). She's also prone to stopping 90% of the way through a job and deciding she doesn't need the money...

I've already told The Child she's getting the car later (by which time it will be a 16yo corolla), she absolutely hates the concept and the car, but then she's almost 9 and has no concept at all on the value of a car. What age does this savings mentality/work ethic kick in? I pay The Child $5...

May not happen - my grandmother has 4 kids. Two of them had two each, one had one, one is pushing 50 and hasn't even got a steady girlfriend. And now I'm being statistically 'odd' by being an only child having 3 of the buggers myself ...

Yeah - I'm planning to buy that unit for her to live in not just give it to her - I'd remain the landlord but give security of tenure that you can't always get from a private landlord. She wants to get her own, she can save up for her own. I have around 9 years to get my act together and buy...

My house is 90sqm with 4 and a bit people in it and all the furniture from a much larger house and shed - we really don't have room for more books, as it is we've got boxes and boxes of Stuff everywhere there's just nowhere for :p I'm hoping to have this house sold by the end of February. I...

Sure you can. I've been buying/getting given books for years now, plus the books I had as a kid, and they fill to the brim a 6' bookshelf and overflow 2 shelves into another one. We've had to pack and stack the adult books to get them to fit. And more books keep coming ... and its almost...