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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 414375" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I dont think you are in any financial position to be buying her a car. If she wants one, she needs to work for one and buy herself an old hoopdies as we call them down here. You know, those $500 cars that teens get as first cars because most of them wreck the first one. She should get it after she is 18 though so she can pay her own expenses and nothing falls back on you. None of my kids got a darned thing from me. </p><p></p><p>I also wouldnt give her a laptop, she can go to the library or work on stuff at school. Many kids cant afford a laptop. They survive. As far as a cell phone, if she gets a job, she can buy her own. Problem solved. If she tells you she wont go to college if you wont buy her a car, well then it sucks to be her. She will figure out in the next few years she should have done it when she had the chance and she will have to figure out how to do it on her own. In most families, and it should work this way in yours, either you go to school full time to get to live at home, or you go to school part time and work part time, or you work full time and pay rent. Otherwise, move out and dont let the door knob hit you where the good lord split you!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 414375, member: 1514"] I dont think you are in any financial position to be buying her a car. If she wants one, she needs to work for one and buy herself an old hoopdies as we call them down here. You know, those $500 cars that teens get as first cars because most of them wreck the first one. She should get it after she is 18 though so she can pay her own expenses and nothing falls back on you. None of my kids got a darned thing from me. I also wouldnt give her a laptop, she can go to the library or work on stuff at school. Many kids cant afford a laptop. They survive. As far as a cell phone, if she gets a job, she can buy her own. Problem solved. If she tells you she wont go to college if you wont buy her a car, well then it sucks to be her. She will figure out in the next few years she should have done it when she had the chance and she will have to figure out how to do it on her own. In most families, and it should work this way in yours, either you go to school full time to get to live at home, or you go to school part time and work part time, or you work full time and pay rent. Otherwise, move out and dont let the door knob hit you where the good lord split you! [/QUOTE]
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