04/24 - Speechless Saturday

I mean, yes and no. they eff off to do whatever but you're still financially responsible if they do bad shit in society, lol.

also I heard from a very good source (my mother) that girls are worse teenagers than boys. so glhf, fam.

 

well, that's terrifying.

lolllllllllllllllll

boys don't care about clothes or makeup, maybe a new hoodie when they outgrow one. deodorant & shaving supplies are cheaper.

girls need the latest fashion trend in clothes, need new makeup every month, oh wait, PERIODS, now you need to buy her pads/tampons every month, deodorant, shaving supplies, basically all bathroom stuff has the pink tax. lol you better up your subscription prices in 10 years just to pay for that.

 

also @ChrisTurk

skin care: girls care way more than boys.

shoes: they need different shoes for everything.

almost forgot, birth control: she's gonna ask for birth control to "regulate her period" at like 15 and the doctor's gonna give her free condoms with her rx.

 

okay now that I've given CT a heart attack...

 

yeah, mileage may vary, with all things. I was working summers from 13 and had to buy a lot of it myself, plus my mom took a chunk of my paychecks as rent. I had friends who's parents bought them everything though and never got a job til they were 17 or 18.

also, bc does regulate for a teenage girl but I knew some girls who used that as the excuse.

 

I was mostly just trying to scare @ChrisTurk into a distraction so I could outpace him in the weekend warrior but being the garbage that he is, he hasn't even joined.

 

I feel you. my dad died when I was 13 and my mom was super poor, so she couldn't really buy me everything anyway. and I understood way after the fact why she was asking me for money from my paychecks. I make 3 times as much as she did now and I can't even imagine holding a family together on that kind of income.

we're trying to do the same as you with ours. I only have the one boy. he's really intelligent when it comes to electronics and different things, may be on a path to an engineer one day. not gonna bog him down with "gimme $50 of your paycheck". I'll just take care of the side stuff, lol.

yeah it's a tough choice with the bc. there's times I needed it. and then I regretted it and went full au naturale. but also I get migraines that one of my many triggers is the drop in estrogen at that time of the month, so I have to regulate that at minimum just to function properly. hopefully you find a happy medium for your daughter when it comes time.

 

oh good, he lives.

 

now will you please join the gd fitbit challenge?

 

yeah I feel bad for mrs. CT