Roomie
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See the below comment. While I agree with you, making it a commercialized norm is silly. Great example is valentines day. Over priced everything with most price tags saying $sucker.
push present?
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See the below comment. While I agree with you, making it a commercialized norm is silly. Great example is valentines day. Over priced everything with most price tags saying $sucker.
daught
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Neah. I'm always skiing out west most of february. Usually I pick up a bra from the local bra tree. Cheap and thoughtful.
I got an iPod touch when I had my first. We did not know it was a "thing" much like Le my first changed us and my hubby wanted to get me a little something that he knew I would live and use. That first year with my first that iPod was perfect to document the first year of my baby's life as it was always in hand as it was much easier with a crying kid at my boob to use than a computer. Some call it fad, I call it a bunch of like minded people just started advertising what they have been doing and would have done all along.
The thing I love most about parenthood is it has a great habit of making people eat the words they said before they had kids. The things we think we know are quickly pushed aside and our children are great at putting us in our place.
The gift of disappointment?
Touche?
My wife's sister and her husband are all over this "Push Present" stuff. And any other type of consumerism you can imagine.
For a wedding present he bought her a Trek Lush mountain bike (a fairly expensive one) that has been ridden exactly once in two years. She's not a serious mountain biker either. At the moment I forget what they got each other as Push Presents but I do remember thinking it was ridiculous and excessive. What's a little more debt?! Just think of all those credit card points they're getting!
For a wedding present he bought her a Trek Lush mountain bike (a fairly expensive one) that has been ridden exactly once in two years. She's not a serious mountain biker either. At the moment I forget what they got each other as Push Presents but I do remember thinking it was ridiculous and excessive. What's a little more debt?! Just think of all those credit card points they're getting!
They must be rolling in dough
The sad part is that they aren't.
My wife and I are very alike in that we don't like wasting money. I think we have really good financial priorities and in the long run it'll make life really easy for us. Not many people are mortgage free at 35.
I think it has to be how they were brought up. Look at their parents, most likely you'll find the answer there
Two sisters, two years apart, very different financial priorities.
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People always want to blame stuff on how people were raised. It's very convenient.
Glad you got one of the good ones too! So many couples fight about money because of a difference in priorities....hell, it was one of the factors with my parents divorce!
My wife and I think very much the same which just seems to make things so much better....I mean, there's so many other things to fight about!
And I've still got a couple of years until I'm 35, but we're almost out of the mortgage strangle-hold. If things continue going the way they are, it'll be gone by the time I'm 35-36...I can't wait!
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It can be accurate...if you were beaten and abused as a kid...if you were brought up on booze and drugs...
If you only ever saw your father (if you had one) drink and gamble then...
If you only ever saw your mother (if you had one) drink, shop, lots of men...
So true. Also makes me sick when I hear people say they can't stand kids or never want to have any. Weren't we all kids at one point? And I always say, imagine your parents said they don't want to have kids. And nothing wrong with giving your baby mama a push present for doing what they did, pregnancy for over 9 months, body going through extreme changes and labor, extreme pain that men will never have to go through. Doesn't have to be something expensive, just something meaningful and affordable for the individual
Currently not missing disposable income, holidays, free time, peace and quiet, RESPs, diapers, impulsive and spur of the moment decisions, and inane conversations.
I always imagine my parents not wanting MORE kids. I hate them for it. To this day I mourn my unborn brothers. I don't know how many more they didn't want because my parents won't tell me! I wanted more brothers but only got four. I didn't want or need any more sisters, three's plenty. So I'm not really mad at my parents for that.
And the push present thing should be between the mother and father, not a national movement promoted by the Johnson+johnson owned Baby Center website, "Hollywood celebrities are doing it" and peer pressure. Those are the wrong reasons.
