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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?

Cubist wrote:
> Hmmm interesting, well I'll be wanting to pay for driving lessons in
> about 1 and a half years, my parents are buying me a car so I wont
> need money for that but chances are I'll want to go on holiday with
> mate at the end of 6th year too or 13th year if you're in England.
> Maybe if I save £10 a month for 2 years? That give me £240
> and if I get a job when I'm 16 I will hopefully be able to socialise
> of that and put all £50 in. Of course I'll get Birthday Money,
> Christmas Money, Easter Money, Halloween Money, Exam Success money
> blah blah blah which will all contribute a hefty little sum :D


And you say you are not spoilt......

These accounts are usually set terms e.g. 5 or 10 years. I doubt you'd get one for 2 years.

Car?
Easter money?

Hmmm interesting, well I'll be wanting to pay for driving lessons in about 1 and a half years, my parents are buying me a car so I wont need money for that but chances are I'll want to go on holiday with mate at the end of 6th year too or 13th year if you're in England. Maybe if I save £10 a month for 2 years? That give me £240 and if I get a job when I'm 16 I will hopefully be able to socialise of that and put all £50 in. Of course I'll get Birthday Money, Christmas Money, Easter Money, Halloween Money, Exam Success money blah blah blah which will all contribute a hefty little sum :D

It is pretty crap

I got up at 5am on Saturday and worked 5 hours.

I got paid about £17.50

£50 A MONTH!!!!!!!

I work my arsé off and I'm lucky if I'm given that much each season.

You don't put it all in. Often it's a fiver or tenner a month, which over 5 years will be a tidy little sum- 300 or 600 quid plus interest if you open one that gives interest. I have one that I get 1 euro back on for every 4 in the account, so over 5 years I'll get 1200 back plus 300 interest, all for putting in 20 a month.

A way to show that you don't think you're spoiled is to give your money back to your parents.

Lindgren wrote:
> If you're irresponsible with money Cubist then you should save it
> somewhere you can't get at it as easily. I'm sure you have saver
> accounts there where you put in so much a month and can't touch it for
> 5 years or something. That would be a wise thing to do when you're
> getting hand-outs that big from your parents. You might be thankful
> you did it in the future.

Hmm interesting proposal but if I put in my £50 a month what am I supposed to live on? Especially in the holidays. I'll maybe do that when I get a job but until then that's my only source of money for socialising and I can't give it up.

RoJ wrote:
> Well thats a good positive attitude to put up, anyway, instead of
> moping around all day feeling sorry for yourself.

I have to be positive, I'm stuck with this illness for the rest of my life so I guess in a way it's made me appreciate things that bit more.

If you're irresponsible with money Cubist then you should save it somewhere you can't get at it as easily. I'm sure you have saver accounts there where you put in so much a month and can't touch it for 5 years or something. That would be a wise thing to do when you're getting hand-outs that big from your parents. You might be thankful you did it in the future.