Posted on 05/02/2005 8:31:54 AM PDT by qam1
Thank you, I've used up my quota of profound pedantry for this year (I'm lyin')
I didn't like my parents all that much when I was a kid, but I love my daughter's parents.
Wow, with 2 grandkids, your 27 y/o daughter must've been working really hard.
The 17 y/o kid from down the street (the straight one) was here for his monthly battery charge yesterday and he's working for Sears now and got a steal on a 42" HDTV wide-screen so he can play computer games, rewired an X-Box and dumped a 240 Gig HD in it and thinks most kids his age are too mad for fads.
You know, some people take a lifetime to properly despise, you're an exception.
Well...yeah but is it legal??
OK, first I am 59 years old. A lot of things were different when I was a late teen – early twenty. I couldn’t wait to get out of the family home and on my own.
I noticed the change on a personal level when my daughter was determined to stay with us until she could move out on her own with a lifestyle she had become accustomed to. This included a new car with a lot of class, a good stereo and TV, fully equipped kitchen, good new furniture and a nice house. When I told her of how I lived when I first went out on my own she could not believe it. She actually believed that grownups always had everything. We never had to save up or do without.
She also watched far too much of the TV series “90210”.
Parents, when the last kid moves out, move into a one bedroom condo. Otherwise, they'll be back!
…that immediately ups your insurance payment about $250 per month.
"Can you see having your kids around when you're in your 70s?"
Isn't that what people use as one of the benefits of having kids? That they will be around to care for you in your elederly years?
"...all irreversible."
Really? It never occurs to parents to say, "Nope. Sorry. You're an adult now. You can't live here anymore?"
I was out of the house at 17 and off to the Army; and I LOVED and still do LOVE my parents very much. I was done with HS in three years and ready to get on with LIFE. (I'm at the tail end of the Boomers, born 1960.)
If my son needs to move back home after college (he starts this fall), we'll be having a MAJOR budgeting and open checkbook policy around here! If he can't afford to make it on his own, I want to know exactly where his money is going. If it's going for consumer cr@p (fancy car, electronic junque, etc.) then no dice. He can sell the luxuries, buy a Walkman and ride the bus before he sponges off of us. He can always join the military. Decent pay and benefits, and he'd could start out as an Officer with a college degree.
I'm not worried about him. He's been working nearly full time his Senior year, and he only needed one credit to graduate, so he's cool. (I wanted him to graduate early; he wanted to stay with his buds; undertandable.)
Now, if he has a medical problem, or is in an accident or something and really needs our help, of course we'd be there for him. In a heartbeat. :)
Unfortunately not! I've got a son, and boys are higher than girls, but I've heard from parents of girls, too, and their insurance went up about $200 per month.
We use Geico, and the kid also gets a good grade discount, plus a safe driving course discount.
Of course, he is insured to drive all three of our cars, but from what I could ascertain from the insurance rep, the cost would not be that much less if he were just insured on the car where he is listed the primary driver (a 1996 Subaru Outback wagon).
My son hasn't had an accident, but I spoke with some parents of a kid who had had a couple accidents, and their insurance for him was something like $3500/every six months.
Teenagers are expensive, LOL!!!
WOW!
Glad my daughter is all grown up and on her own. Glad I’m getting old. Glad my car is 22 years old. Glad I have a good driving record.
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