Were you an expensive kid to raise?

[eddiehaskell]

Was it expensive for your parents to raise you?

I went to public school, rode the bus to my grammaws house after school/summers, played recreation sports for our small city ($20-30 per sport), played sports in school which was free and I wasn't overweight or anything so just ate basic amounts of food.

My clothing was pretty average for my school...usually bought on sale at department stores. maybe get a nice pair of shoes to start school and perhaps a nicer pair at Christmas.

I had a few video games systems I got for Christmas -- Sega/N64, but I didn't have a computer until later teen years. I had a basic boombox and one of our older tvs, but that was about it for electronics.

Some field trips 2-3x a year with the school and the occasional outting with church but usually nothing over $50-60.

[ConTroLFreaKK]

no i literally went summers wearing the same t-shirt all i needed was a $2 water gun & football to entertain myself with friends

i remember getting my first console (xbox 360) and feeling like a god lol goodtimes

[eddiehaskell]

no i literally went summers wearing the same t-shirt all i needed was a $2 water gun & football to entertain myself with friends

heck yeah...spent many a days playing "war" and "cops and robbers" outside with nothing more than some old plastic guns. playing baseball, football or hoops around the neighborhood was peak level fun back in the day. there was also riding bikes and just general exploration.

there were 10-15 boys around my grammaws house so we had some epic football games. when my cousins and i heard her yelling to come in, we might try to stay longer but it could result in some hickory stick if you pushed too far. food was usually some type of taters, mac and cheese, fried bologna, veggies, meatloaf...basic southern country cookin.

[eddiehaskell]

no expensive kids here? no helicopter parents?

[Redfish225]

No, lol. I was poverty af.

[GaryRidgway]

I don't think so. My mom didn't work and raised 3 of us. And my dad's job would be considered poverty by misc standards.

[sfgiants13]

I was probably somewhere in the middle. A lot of sports summer camps and all that but not much else.

[BigElephant]

Nope lol. I had good clothing without holes but none of it was designer shiit. Starting in middle school I had access to a computer for word processing and researching stuff for school projects. I had an NES for most of my childhood, got an N64 in middle school, and a Gamecube in HS. The first PC I got that was really capable of high end gaming was my college laptop. I did get a car in my junior year. It ran well but it was a used Honda Accord so not luxury or anything. We took one vacation a year, after school got out in the summer to see my grandparents who lived 700 miles away.

I never felt deprived, even though a lot of my friends had better gaming consoles or were driving Audis or Mercedes. We had a nice house that my dad built, good food on the table every night, and clean clothes. My mom was stay at home and took care of myself and my sister and helped with homework, picked us up when needed, et cetera. My dad worked hard all day but we ate dinner together every night and both of my parents would do whatever was needed to support us. I'd take this situation any day over driving a Bentley, living in a mansion, having all the newest gaming consoles, having designer clothing, but having rich hands off parents and a nanny.

[swordplay76]

Idk. I had a lot of electronics, but didn’t overeat, did some sports at a few churches, not really sure how expensive I was.

[eddiehaskell]

Nope lol. I had good clothing without holes but none of it was designer shiit. Starting in middle school I had access to a computer for word processing and researching stuff for school projects. I had an NES for most of my childhood, got an N64 in middle school, and a Gamecube in HS. The first PC I got that was really capable of high end gaming was my college laptop. I did get a car in my junior year. It ran well but it was a used Honda Accord so not luxury or anything. We took one vacation a year, after school got out in the summer to see my grandparents who lived 700 miles away.

I never felt deprived, even though a lot of my friends had better gaming consoles or were driving Audis or Mercedes. We had a nice house that my dad built, good food on the table every night, and clean clothes. My mom was stay at home and took care of myself and my sister and helped with homework, picked us up when needed, et cetera. My dad worked hard all day but we ate dinner together every night and both of my parents would do whatever was needed to support us. I'd take this situation any day over driving a Bentley, living in a mansion, having all the newest gaming consoles, having designer clothing, but having rich hands off parents and a nanny.

sounds like a nice life man and very similar to mine. i didn't see myself as lacking for anything although i did have those kid desires for better gaming systems...maybe new expensive sneakers like a few kids at school seemed to get every month.

[radrd]

Fortunately, jergens and kleenex are cheap.

[NextPound]

The real question is how much are you costing your wife by being a worthless husband who doesn’t work?

But to answer your question, I had to hide my one pair of bugle boys under my cords that my parents wanted me to wear just long enough so I could take the cords off without them seeing me.

Get a job fgt.

[eddiehaskell]

The real question is how much are you costing your wife by being a worthless husband who doesn’t work?

But to answer your question, I had to hide my one pair of bugle boys under my cords that my parents wanted me to wear just long enough so I could take the cords off without them seeing me.

Get a job fgt.

why would i need to work when i have more than enough money? i put in my dividend paying "work" at a young age while most were still having their parents wash their dookie stained undies from late night COD group play.

[eddiehaskell]

Fortunately, jergens and kleenex are cheap.

interesting

[r32gojirra]

Yet another thread obsessing about money

Seek help OP

[eddiehaskell]

there seems to be a disconnect between the tropes of "a kid costs $1.5M to raise" and the actually cost of raising most miscers.

[Godfrd824]

The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I suggest you try it.

[georgeenoob]

Nope. Grew up playing a GameCube instead of a PS2 or Xbox.

[Saddleshoes]

I paid for my own college. (Dad made sure I had a great summer job.)
I never had a car till I was 21. (A free beater from a relative.)
Clothing was never important to me.
Never had any health issues or braces.
I was a public school kid.The major expense raising me might have been feeding me as I may have eaten as much as any two of my sisters at each meal.
--SO YES!!!! I was a cheap kid to raise!

[theory816]

My education was the most expensive thing for my mom. She worked 9-5 as a breadmaker(and minority) to put me into small private school through middle and high school.

Now was it worth it? I'd say 80% yes. It's a smaller and more controllable environment. You're not as likely as public schoolcels to engage in premarital sexors and you'll have lower ambitions as a public schoolcel.

[Godfrd824]

My education was the most expensive thing for my mom. She worked 9-5 as a breadmaker(and minority) to put me into small private school through middle and high school.

Now was it worth it? I'd say 80% yes. It's a smaller and more controllable environment. You're not as likely as public schoolcels to engage in premarital sexors and you'll have lower ambitions as a public schoolcel.

I couldn't imagine working as a minority. BRB be white but have to clock in as a negro for 8 hours a day.

[thesloshedman]

Probably more expensive than average to raise just because I played high level travel hockey.

Other than hockey, which my old man forced me to play, we didn’t have much, nothing fancy, mostly ate wild game and veggies we grew on our small farm.

Always had a job in the summers and made my own money.

[jimbob007]

No, my mum basically had to force me to choose sweets at the local newsagent shops. Even the staff used to express what a good kid I was, as all the others were in there grabbing huge amounts of stuff like pigs. I usually just settled for half a bag of Aniseed Balls or Aniseed Twist.

When our cat we inherited after somebody dumped her outside got run over we had to choose between new winter coats or the leg operation-of course we all chose the operation. Back in those days you would also patch clothes-at least in the UK anyway-rather than throw them away. I still wear clothes until they have holes in them-under Thatcher you barely scraped by.

[kusok]

No. Got full scholarship, and help my parents with anything and everything daily.

And everything I own is theirs anytime they need it. Same goes the other way too. Our relationship is such that we are one unit. We don’t even talk about money. There is no mine or theirs. It’s all ours.

[kusok]

there seems to be a disconnect between the tropes of "a kid costs $1.5M to raise" and the actually cost of raising most miscers.

You’re forgetting that most miscers are ceo 10k/day since age 7.

You’re also assuming that miscers have been raised at all.

[SpeakethTruth]

there seems to be a disconnect between the tropes of "a kid costs $1.5M to raise" and the actually cost of raising most miscers.

There's a massive difference between kids that just hang out with their friends during school holidays and those that need to go on supervised $4k vacations. Similarly, big difference between high school kids that work part time jobs and take public transport compared to kids that need to be driven to overpriced sports.

I wasn't expensive to raise. Had gaming consoles but otherwise going out was fairly cheap. Movies, eating at takeaway places etc. Expensive sports by late teens is a completely useless wank unless the kid has potential to make it as a professional.

[FoulSmell]

I’m gen-x we were raised to be feral.
I was the 4th child of older parents so they gave zero fuks by that point. Was made fun of in school for wearing dept store brand clothing like “Big Yank” jeans and even then they needed patches sown in to cover the holes that came shortly afterwards. Had to use rubber bands to keep my socks up because all the elastic wore out. Wore socks on my hands in winter because I didn’t have gloves. First name brand anything I got was a pair of used canvas Converse sneakers from a garage sale, and I thought of was styling with those on. (With mismatched socks held in place by rubber bands.)

January of 9th grade parents told me you get food and housing. Nothing more. Buy your own clothes. Not as punishment, it was just the way it was in my house.

Paid for my own karate lessons in 7th grade. Paid to play baseball in the town league 9th to 11th grade. Bought my own Intelivision and games for it. Got 1 game a year for Christmas.

[eddiehaskell]

You’re forgetting that most miscers are ceo 10k/day since age 7.

You’re also assuming that miscers have been raised at all.

lol my bad

[FelixTheCat1919]

no expensive kids here? no helicopter parents?

Almost everyone here was a kid in the 1990's or prior. We even have a few who talk about being born back in the 50's, meaning they were already basically middle aged by the time the 90's kids came around. How common was the helicopter parent thing really for those generations and prior? Even in the 90's, kids did tons of cheap oldschool stuff outdoors in their neighborhoods.

[freeburn]

Probably

I played just about every youth sport then played high level travel soccer across multiple teams/programs all thru highschool

We traveled for soccer tournies like every other weekend. I played for my club team, the Olympic development program team, regional and league select in the summers, and then also the highschool team which was coached by my club team coach too.

So, yeah I'm sure it cost my parents alot to travel with me and have me in all of those leagues