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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 £50 a month is a bit over the top, myself.

It depends

You can be well off and still have as many things as a spoiled child but the important thing is that you appreciate it.

I am indeed Sheepy...wait a second! Anyway I get £50 a month so that only works out at £12.50 a week and I although I don't go to the cinema and into town every weekend meaning the money builds up in the bank it's still not that much. My friend gets £17 a week with his paper round but then again he has to get up at the crack of dawn even on holidays Mon-Sun to get it, but I don't do anything. It's all twisted when you think about it. Don't do work but get paid less, get paid more but do more work. I had two paper rounds over the course of about a year before I quit paper rounds for good and now that £50 a month, whatever I have in the bank and whatever I get for getting good marks at school, from relatives etc is what I live off of.

I think the problem may have been that you asked your friend to help you chose, some people may not welcome being asked for help with things like that.

Ignore your friends, and if they continue then find some new ones.

Awww is wittle Cubist upset awwww

How often is this £50 payment, out of interest?

The craziest Col! wrote:

> I wouldn't say cubist is spoilt, but you were deprived.

Because I had to get a paper round and do jobs around the house to get money?

Not deprived, just not spoon fed like a lot of you.

I'm not even gonna start properly commenting on your upbringing though. From the little I know, something certainly went very wrong.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> A £50 allowance and you're 15?
>
> Jeebus, I stopped getting pocket money when I was about 12.

I wouldn't say cubist is spoilt, but you were deprived.

A £50 allowance and you're 15?

Jeebus, I stopped getting pocket money when I was about 12.

no problemo my poetic friend