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The Kids

posted 10 years ago by msnell10
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I feel sorry for the kids being forced to follow their cheap parents' ways. Do they really think they are teaching kids the value of a dollar by forcing them to to eat old food from a work fridge and share bathwater with the whole family as well as share a bed with everyone well into teen years? Descent food that won't make you sick should not be a "luxury".

You always see the grown kids come to visit. I wonder how many moved out the second they turned 18.

They could at least splurge for the kids birthdays. If they want a cheap cake, betty crocker mix and frosting is under $3 total. It's not hard to make. Baked in a sheet pan each kid can get a nice fresh piece. And why not have a party in the huge yard instead of some raggedy venue?

This is why I kept a job as a teen. My mom wasn't that cheap but I was able to buy my teen crap without her saying it's "not in her budget".

I don't have low self esteem, I have low esteem for everyone else.

[–] DCompton86 10 years ago

The children get my pity as well. The spouses not so much since they are staying married for whatever reason. I get the vibe from most of the adult children that they did move out the second they legally could. Occasionally you also see a parent who's adult kid is coming around and you can tell it's been a long while since they have.

Also the people supposedly being frugal are being wasteful and aren't getting the best value out of their dollar. Like you mentioned, bake your own cake and frost it - nothing wrong with that - $3 dollars or so. A lot of pizza places will do decent discounts if you do carry-out - some down to $5 a pizza - so picking up 2-3 and even cutting the slices in half so it feels like there's more food could be a good idea. Go to any Dollar Store and spend even $5-6 bucks and you can get enough balloons, streamers, candles, and candy. Throw in a couple 2-liters (so easy to find on sale) for $1 apiece. So for under $25, I could throw a party in the middle of my living room and make it feel pretty great for a kid. I've done this for a nephew once and he loved it. I had a bigger budget though, so didn't make pizza slices smaller, had more party favors, etc.

"It's better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you aren't."

[–] Sixxlet 10 years ago

DCompton, it's like we share the same brain! I was saying the same thing through that episode, but again, I think it was all staged. And if I WERE to have a party at a retirement home, I would spend $10 on cake mixes and frosting so that I could make enough cakes that EVERYONE could have a piece.

"The first time I saw you, I knew that I wanted to eat candy bricks out of your neck hole."

[–] DCompton86 10 years ago

Sixxlet, Judging by some of the comments I've come across of yours in threads I've read, we do sound like we could be related.

All these shows tend to be about extremely dramatized.

"It's better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you aren't."

[–] corinnacarpenter 10 years ago

And the idiot didn't want to pay for birthday balloons that had already been blown up with the salesman's oxygen.

What a moron. The balloons are filled with helium, not oxygen. They'll just be lying around the room.

Is he for real?

C.C. Loves B.G.

[–] corinnacarpenter 10 years ago

I'm not surprised that the man's wife got sick THREE times from the leftover food he brought home from the firehouse.

She had it coming out both ends! Sounds like food poisoning to me. I have NEVER been that sick in my life. Wouldn't a person have to go to the hospital if they became so violently ill?

His poor daughter should not have had her Sweet 16 party in a strip club. I hope her friends didn't make fun of her for that.

And what kind of father spray paints an old car?

C.C. Loves B.G.

[–] DCompton86 10 years ago

That's definitely food poisoning. I've had it once or twice myself...haven't had to be hospitalized though.

I totally was behind him giving her his old car since hell a lot of parents do that....but geez a paint job really doesn't cost that much.

"It's better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you aren't."

[–] corinnacarpenter 10 years ago

That is beyond disgusting. Why can't this idiot cut some coupons out of the paper and go to the store? I'm all for saving money but this is wrong. No one in their right mind would do that!

What a jerk!

C.C. Loves B.G.

[–] Dragon000 10 years ago

And what kind of father spray paints an old car?

LOL I had an ex-husband who did that back in the '90s, but he was tweaked out, and too impatient, yet broke, to take it to a shop and have it done properly. So that answers the question ... what kind of father does that?

A very bad one.

[–] cooler56 9 years ago

I agree. I think the kids will grow up to be irresponsible with their money because their parents were cheap their whole lives. I am surprised CPS has not taken any children away.