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Originally posted by: CowboyKell
This is true.
On a similar note...I have a nephew, who at the age of 20, demanded $10,000 from his father. His rational was that he had stayed off of drugs and his father never had to pay for him to go through "re-hab". He would just take the cash option.
Originally posted by: CowboyKell
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Originally posted by: forkushVQuoteAlthough you may have been spending like a drunken sailor (subtle insult), I don't think you turned around and used that as an excuse to make financial demands from your parents.
Originally posted by: CowboyKell
I wasn't too smart with money in my youth either. At 22 I was responsible for 40+ lives and quite a bit of military hardware. Yet I spent every dime of my pay partying and chasing women. Government bonds with a 50% match?? Marine Corps deposit program?? That's just crazy talk, Uncle Sam trying to take my beer money.
I even took a sponsored exit to make more money and have more adventure in a foreign country. It seems a young person might get even dumber before getting smarter.
Things change, people grow, lessons are learned. I turned out alright financially.
This is true.
On a similar note...I have a nephew, who at the age of 20, demanded $10,000 from his father. His rational was that he had stayed off of drugs and his father never had to pay for him to go through "re-hab". He would just take the cash option.
"Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him."
