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"My friends think I'm spoiled and "spoon fed"! :("

I was on Special Reserve looking at their digital cameras when I realised that all the statistics were just technical jargon to me. Because of this I went on to MSN and asked my friend to give me a hand when choosing the digi-cam for me. Unfortunately his reply was simply "Why do you do that?", "You don't need a camera", "You all ways waste money just to get the best of the best" etc etc Naturally I enquired further to find out what he meant by all of that. He started saying I always buy the best in everything like TVs even though I don't even have my own TV and that I had the best mobile phone even though my mobile phone (Motorola V.50) is terrible in comparison to everyone else. Just because I spent £120 on it and theirs were cheaper due to sliding mobile phone prices. As a matter of fact one of my friends mobiles who's is better than mine cost £140!

He went on to say that I get spoon-fed and that I'm spoiled because my parents give me £50 for nothing as an allowance of sorts. Even though I've had two paper rounds before and have worked for about a month in a restaurant but since I'm underage (15) it was just really me subbing for a wee while. What should I do to stop them thinking I'm simply a spoiled brat? I feel I'm at the age that I should be quitting paper rounds, not starting them, I'm too young to get and actual job and I'm obviously not going to throw away £50 a month. Any suggestions?

I think I got a tenner for a '1', fiver for a '2' and nothing for anything else in my Standard Grades/GCSES

But for my Highers/A-levels

I think it was £30 an A
£20 a B
£10 a C

I got 3 As and 2 Bs

To the joy of my parents until they relised they owed me £130

Hoho

It certainly was English_Bloke.

Hard in our day, wasn't it Lindgren.

I got a tenner for each of my 2 A's and the rest of my grades were B's and C's but hardly deserving of emptying my parent's pockets for.

For my GCSE's I got £20 for a curry out with my mates.

Cubist wrote:

Oh and no I don't get money for p1$s poor results. It works on a
sliding scale. For my GCSEs if I get a top mark in any test I get
£50 and the money slides from there. If I get the second best
mark I get £40 blah blah blah. I don't know how much my grand
parents are going to give me but if I get top marks in all 8 of my
tests then that's 8 x 50 = YAY ME! :D

0y parents did a similar thing but it was a fiver for an "A" etc

Cubist wrote:
> Now it doesn't.

Yes it does.

If you work hard, and get 35 pounds in one month, you'll think hard ad carefully about how you use it, as you worked for it. If you get given money, you don't think as much, and in your case, if you get something, and wish you had bought something else, you know you're getting fifty quid each month, so you care a lot less than someone who worked so much more for it.

Oh, and

Jonathan Nash wrote:
> Memorandum wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> I agree with your friends cubist.

everyone appears to have spending patterns. i like to have big bursts of shopping every half year or just a bit under. ill buy a couple of games, 5 or more cds some clothes etc. and then not spend a penny for ages. atleast my way i value what i buy, because i take a while mulling it over in my mind. wasting money is stupid. I set myself limits.

ask yourself>
do i need this (no impulse random purchases)
can i get it for cheaper (internet, look around)

if you say yes to both then fine.

but to me you do sound spoilt. money on a tap. and for fake "good" reasons.
like the others said> "I agree with your friend"

Now it doesn't. Either way you get whatever it is just if you have to work for it you have to wait longer and since you were working you'd be less likely to use it because you'd probably have to go to work the next day.

Oh and no I don't get money for p1$s poor results. It works on a sliding scale. For my GCSEs if I get a top mark in any test I get £50 and the money slides from there. If I get the second best mark I get £40 blah blah blah. I don't know how much my grand parents are going to give me but if I get top marks in all 8 of my tests then that's 8 x 50 = YAY ME! :D

Money always feels better when you have to work for it and then you feel like you've earnt what you have bought.