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stzacrack
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trees said: Growing up as a rich kid is fucking great as long as your parents make you work for the stuff you want.
My parents never gave me and my brother stuff for free. If I asked for something like a video game, they'd laugh in my face and ask me why I want a piece of useless shit, and that I'll have to work for it if I really want it.
It was 20 bucks to mow our 1.5 acre lawn each week, 10 bucks to wash 1 car, 10 bucks an hour to pressure wash the pool deck. If we did a bad job thy'd make us redo it or not pay us
They paid for all necessary survival things in our life, including college so I feel so blessed and obligated to return the favour to them by being a most successful offspring.
I asked for a horse when I was about 13. I had been riding for over a decade at that point, and leased(yes, this is a thing) several horses.
My parents laughed in my face.
I procured all their financial information, made a giant spreadsheet of every single associated cost of ownership(from boarding, healthcare, contingency for emergency healthcare, to every single piece of equipment that would be necessary to buy) and compared it to what we were currently paying for riding lessons and the partial lease on the horse I rode most days out of the week, then I wrote a giant persuasive essay arguing my case and citing things like enrichment of character, sense of responsibility, and providing incentives such as working out a deal with the stable owner wherein I'd get a discount on board if I mucked stalls. Then I gave my parents a presentation on why it was not a giant financial leap nor totally unreasonable for me to suggest simply buying a horse.
So yeah, that's how I got a horse.
Now I work in data analysis/strategy, which was something I never thought I'd end up doing....but looking back, I'm not all that surprised now.
Another great story!
I might be biased though, I fell in love with horses after reading "the black stallion " when I was a young boy
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Nolan92]
#23884736 - 12/01/16 02:49 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Nolan92 said: Growing up in this environment has made me a very generous person though , I have a feeling I do not deserve the money I have and that it belongs to the starving children. One day when my mother dies I'm going to sell all her companies and donate most of the proceeds to grass roots football for the less fortunate. .
By the way, my family had a fortune before grandmother squandered it like an idiot. A dozen people grew up in poverty because our inheritance was mismanaged by one dope.
Good job putting the amusement of strangers before the needs of your family.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23884740 - 12/01/16 02:50 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: I feel like growing up with a lot of money helps you realize money truly has no value and shouldn't be desired.
You have to be rich to even think that way.
Funny, after looking through some of the replies...I could have pretty much singled out those people that were born into wealth before they even said anything.
Me, I grew up in a big family that struggled to put food on the table. If I wanted anything for myself other than food, clothing and shelter...I had to work for it. Started mowing lawns or shoveling snow when I was 10 yrs. old. Growing weed when I was 14 and even ran a trap line that I checked before school in the winter. Life was tough but very rewarding. I learned to earn an honest buck (except for the weed part)...lol, and that didn't work out very well anyway. The things that I acquired like my first shotgun or my first car meant a lot.
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moonrockmushy
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Ezuma] 2
#23884760 - 12/01/16 02:55 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah I spent a couple months living on the street pretty much by choice, or because I didn't want to conform or whatever, but in the end that lifestyle is even more bullshit than sticking by your family and remembering where you come from. It's weird being in the middle sometimes, lots of different influences pulling you in different directions, but in the end it seems like middle class people are the only ones who are capable in a realistic sense. Like it's only really rich or really poor people you encounter that you'll find don't know how to do things like use a computer or drive a car.
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Is this the shroomery...? Am I in the right place?
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moonrockmushy
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Who the fuck are you? State your class affiliation.
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SARAtonin
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Damn my comment ruffled a lot of feathers... I'm sorry for having an opinion, Christ.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Crystal G]
#23884785 - 12/01/16 03:02 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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pirate-blues said: I asked for a horse when I was about 13. I had been riding for over a decade at that point, and leased(yes, this is a thing) several horses.
My parents laughed in my face.
I procured all their financial information, made a giant spreadsheet of every single associated cost of ownership(from boarding, healthcare, contingency for emergency healthcare, to every single piece of equipment that would be necessary to buy) and compared it to what we were currently paying for riding lessons and the partial lease on the horse I rode most days out of the week, then I wrote a giant persuasive essay arguing my case and citing things like enrichment of character, sense of responsibility, and providing incentives such as working out a deal with the stable owner wherein I'd get a discount on board if I mucked stalls. Then I gave my parents a presentation on why it was not a giant financial leap nor totally unreasonable for me to suggest simply buying a horse.
How did you procure their financial information? Most parents don't just freely give that kind of information out. My parents never even told me how much they made.
I convinced them to give it to me. Well I went to my mom for it, I think she was amused and entertaining me, she knew I wasn't gonna go spouting it off to my friends - it was strictly for my "presentation". I knew my dad would say no.
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moonrockmushy
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23884795 - 12/01/16 03:04 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Damn my comment ruffled a lot of feathers... I'm sorry for having an opinion, Christ.
We don't hate you for your opinion, we hate you because of your unearned wealth of course it is meaningless if you don't have to work for it.
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SARAtonin
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Well then I'm sorry for being born, my bad.
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moonrockmushy said: Yeah I spent a couple months living on the street pretty much by choice, or because I didn't want to conform or whatever, but in the end that lifestyle is even more bullshit than sticking by your family and remembering where you come from. It's weird being in the middle sometimes, lots of different influences pulling you in different directions, but in the end it seems like middle class people are the only ones who are capable in a realistic sense. Like it's only really rich or really poor people you encounter that you'll find don't know how to do things like use a computer or drive a car.
I think this is pretty true, a lot of richer folks I know are just clueless or kind of incapable of practical problem solving, but the poor are often even worse, just utter shambles. Middle/working class folks tend to be less entertaining but more 'useful' in my experience.
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SARAtonin said: Damn my comment ruffled a lot of feathers... I'm sorry for having an opinion, Christ.
We don't hate you for your opinion, we hate you because of your unearned wealth of course it is meaningless if you don't have to work for it.
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23884841 - 12/01/16 03:18 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Well then I'm sorry for being born, my bad. 
It's not your fault for being grossly naive. It's your parents fault, for spoiling a potentially worthy life in the saddest way possible
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: trees]
#23884849 - 12/01/16 03:21 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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You guys should watch this, some of the most extravagant children's parties. People spending $50,000 for a 5 year old's birthday party.
I swear I've been to some of these parties. I went to a bar mitzvah when I was in 8th grade and I swear that dad dropped $100K on that party.
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SARAtonin
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: trees]
#23884851 - 12/01/16 03:21 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm unworthy...
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moonrockmushy
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: trees] 2
#23884853 - 12/01/16 03:22 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hey she apologized no need to rub it in. Not like you're one to talk. You know what I got for doing my chores, not hit
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SARAtonin
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: Crystal G]
#23884854 - 12/01/16 03:22 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ey yo G, link don't work. Blocked by ABC
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: SARAtonin]
#23884870 - 12/01/16 03:26 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Ey yo G, link don't work. Blocked by ABC
It just doesn't allow embedding, if you click on the "Watch on YouTube" link in the middle, it'll take you to the YouTube link where you can watch it.
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akira_akuma
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: trees]
#23884878 - 12/01/16 03:27 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Well then I'm sorry for being born, my bad. 
It's not your fault for being grossly naive. It's your parents fault, for spoiling a potentially worthy life in the saddest way possible
um...dude. who the fuck are you?
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Re: Growing up as a rich kid. [Re: akira_akuma]
#23884914 - 12/01/16 03:40 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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moonrockmushy said: Hey she apologized no need to rub it in. Not like you're one to talk. You know what I got for doing my chores, not hit 
You and I are probably around equal in terms of earning our living at this point in time though. My parents cut me off after college and I had to sacrifice nearly 100% of the creature comforts to begin making the life i live now. I'm still homeless and I sleep on a concrete floor on a yoga mat every single night so I can use the money that would go to residential bills and rent to continue expanding a business which I luckily managed to start which benefits our entire human species
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