Originally Posted by userfriendly
I've been a wage earner all my life, so nothing I have has been taken from the labor of others. We can drift off topic, you know... for research.( I have a prairie storm over head that sounds like a battery of 105s).
How many of you have heard "My parents never gave me a ____ or ____ or ____ , so if you (son or daughter) want something, you can get a job, save your money and buy it yourself".
I used to hear; "You make the most money of anyone of 16,000 employees at the railroad, yet drive the worst pos car in the parking lot?"
Well, for one, I'm a single parent and two, I spent over $30,000 on snowboarding last year. (1996)
Go back a generation. My parents paid for my brother's PHd in bio chem, and my sil's parents paid for her's. U of Sydney, AU 1976. My parents gave me the down payment for a house.
My dayghter was paying $1,800 a month for rent, so I gave her a down payment for a house. Then when I could, paid off her student loans and credit cards.
Go back another generation. My grandparents put my mother, McGill class of 50 through university.
Go back another generation. How did my grandmother get her grade 10 in piano? By saving her money for music lessons?
I could go on, but I think that most of the people reading this get the picture.
Crazy money! Glad you and yours did well. Some of us are pretty much self made, and view things differently, of course, as we all do coming from different backgrounds.