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I think it's one of those "cool to be uncool" things. :rolleyes:

could be worse - my 18yr old sister still likes pokemon!!! :eek:

That's alright, we never took your seriously anyway :p :D now I'm a much bigger fan of Rugrats then Pooh bear.

Shhhhh..... Don't tell people that :D

One of my younger sisters wouldn't be happy if she didn't have something to complain about, but she will freely admit that. "oh, bother."

Eeyore wasn't nasty, he was just the glass is half empty type. Always saw the worst in whatever happened. Rabbit was mean.

that's the beauty of acronyms ;)

And why do you call your other half DH Rugrat? DH stands for Darling Husband.

We bough our silver car 2.5yrs ago, It has been washed once (we put it in for a service and they washed it for us :) ). But now it is the colour of all that red dust we have had around, the rain just makes it worse. I might digg out the piggy bank for some coins and get DH to take it through a...

lets see how much further off topic we can go :p

A couple of points. For some people, Cars are their passion. They enjoy building them, driving them, racing them, working on them, looking at them. Just as I enjoy property. ;) Also it is possible having a new car has NOTHING to do with how you wish to project yourself. My car, which was...

yeah we looked at leasing secondhand, but the cars were all much bigger and still more exxie (ours was about $24k new) and the running costs were much more (most that would fit our family were 4wd or fuel guzzellers). Ours held its redbook value reasonably well for a new car (although it hardly...

Don't know why everyone is so against new cars. there are benefits you know. after driving around in a '77 model Galant for years, my DH and I finally up graded to a 'family' car, a lancer wagon - and shock horror! It was brand spanking new!! I like new! We did look at secondhand, but...

true. but the fact remains that some personal choices are just stupid, and thus subject to judgement. Take one of my younger sisters for example. She would (and has and likely will again) gone out and spent a couple hundred $ on shoes and clothes (some of which she still hasn't worn more...

It isn't the being 'poor' that offends my sensibilities. I have been there, done that, stared longingly at the T-shirt I couldn't afford to purchase. I understand that there are numerous reasons why someone is in bad financial circumstances, and these thing may very well be beyond their control...