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  1. RumpledElf

    Money Irresponsibility - Needs - Wants

    His parents aren't paying for the therapy for all the damage caused though. I think he'd rather forget. Some people have parents ranging from not nice to outright abusive, I'm all for them cutting ties with their parents and getting on with their life alone. Adults can make their own...
  2. RumpledElf

    Money Irresponsibility - Needs - Wants

    My mother is a social worker - helping people is actually her job, and she gets paid at the standard public service rates to do so. My father is forever at the local school with the kiddies, he's long been retired and gets up to all sorts of nonsense :) He's an artist. I won't need to look...
  3. RumpledElf

    Money Irresponsibility - Needs - Wants

    My parents probably fall in the 'wealthy' basket - I have no idea how much money they have but they've squirreled the difference between being paupers and being medianly employed for about 20 years now - all gone into shares, they don't do property. All I know is they have over $1M of assets of...
  4. RumpledElf

    Money Irresponsibility - Needs - Wants

    Well as long as they don't ask for bailouts aaaaaaall the time. Incidentally, we're the madly saving low-debt ones in our family - on my partner's side anyway - and they get all uppity because THEY give us MONEY for birthdays like its such a big deal. And they give us hand-me-down frypans, food...
  5. RumpledElf

    Money Irresponsibility - Needs - Wants

    I need an iphone. I don't want one, I need one. But when you *need* one its tax deductable ;) I do feel like you with respect to cars though. Ours works just fine, but is too small, and has been too small since the baby went into a front-facing car seat earlier this year. I don't want to buy...
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