My parents would never give me an allowance. They'd say "make your own money - the roof over your head in an allowance". And when I tried getting a job, they said "focus on your schooling - your job will hurt your grades". AND they refused to get me a car, anything but the slowest computer, an iPhone, iPod, and iPad.
I was bombarded with all of this advertising, all of these "wants", and was denied my right to CONSUME!
NO electronics, NO video games, my mom packed SHITTY lunches that made me want to barf, NO XBOX, NO fast computer, NO music player, NO car, NO iPhone, NO ipad!
So I "broke bad" and started making lots of money (thousands of dollars and then tens of thousands) illegally. Just a way to say "f*ck you" to the world that denied me my wants.
It's really my Asian mom's fault. Making me take a slave curriculum (Chinese lessons, SAT prep, extra tutoring) and denying me material privileges.
I now have a car, a fast computer, an XBOX, a PS3, 30 video games, and more CASH hidden in my closet than my mom has in the bank. Enough to straight-up buy a small house here in Tennessee. I rejected all her extracurricular CRAP. She is mad but she has NO RIGHT to be - I was "goody-goody" and POOR for the first 16 years of my life!
ALL I WANT is the American Dream - not the Asian Nightmare!
SO is that OK?
Added (1). I might add my mom is getting about as much from me as I got from her: ZERO.
Every time she talks about bills I'd stick a stack of $100's in her face and then say "NOT YOURS - EARN YOUR OWN MONEY". Feels GREAT!
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