Internet troubles

[VernJensen]

Wingy wrote: Wowee, you have to pay for your internet?  :o I can't imagine me paying for mine... I only get $30 a week! Good thing Freddy has money, we'd be lost without him.  

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$30 a week? Sheesh! When I was a kid, my parents paid me a quarter a week! Yeah, it takes a LONG time to save up for anything you want when you make $1 a month! And then my quarter-a-week allowance disappeared when my older brother and sister needed braces.

I guess that's why I got into making shareware... even getting a few $10 registrations on some early TI-99/4a games I made felt great as a kid. :-)

Oh, and Wingy... trust me, paying for internet is the *least* of life's expenses. Try paying for housing (most expensive -- thousands a month if you want to own or rent a home), utilities (hundreds), car insurance (about $100 a month for one car), gas ($100 to $200 a month), food (probably around $300 a month), etc. And that's not spending money on anything

fun

. Yeah, that's what you get to look forward to when you get older!

When you're a kid, a few hundred seems like a lot of money. When you become an adult, you realize that the cost of just

living

is several hundred per week, and that's if you're only renting a small room in an apartment you share with other people. ;-)

[ryos]

Vern, you're in LA...of course all your costs are inflated.

Living as a single college student in Provo, UT is pretty dirt cheap. I used to get by on $400 a month (thankfully those days are past...but I still don't make all that much more).

The costs go up exponentially once you start having a family. I'll get there eventually...

[Wingy]

VernJensen wrote:

Only

$30 a week? Sheesh! When I was a kid, my parents paid me a quarter a week! Yeah, it takes a LONG time to save up for anything you want when you make $1 a month! And then my quarter-a-week allowance disappeared when my older brother and sister needed braces.

I just got back from the job I have, and I get paid $30 a week. Its hard labor! I wonder if you had a job when you where 13... I had the job since I was 11, and I bought this computer for $850! Now its breaking apart, and crashing alot... :'( I think its the motherboard or ram... I am officially broke, for the second time, owing some money to some people for pointless reasons, such as, I opened the car door, gust of wind caught the door, hit someone's car, dented it 1cm deep, (Took me 5 minutes to find it!) And a $750 bill at my face!  If I won the contest, I would be offically out of broke status. I'd be at hard labor for the next two months, if not...  :'( I currantly have $7 in bank, and $7 in my wallet. And my brothers do have a few depts to me, but they will pay me back, hopefully.  :-[ I had $207 a few days ago...  :'(

But this time of hardship to me will pass...
But if you want to talk about spoiled kids, my little brother's friend that he never saw for like a year gets $20 for cleaning his less then 15 ft. square room!