HOw many people bought their own car
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yea well im paying for my car myself... unfortunately... 
but i think its worth it cuz well... i dont want to sound like a beeeoootch buuut... i KNOW what its like to have to work for something... i wasnt brought up w/ a silver spoon in my mouth... more like a plastic spork from mickey d's or something.. but yea... i admit im jealous as hell of the ppl whos mom and dad bought their car... and so what? i got my very first car for free... even tho its a junker (but i still have it tho) and i chose to buy a new car... to me, it just feels good to know that everytime i get in my car i can be like... "i paid for this... its mine!!! all mine!!!" so thats my story... im sad and poor now... i need a [IMG]i/expressions/beer_yum.gif[/IMG]
but i think its worth it cuz well... i dont want to sound like a beeeoootch buuut... i KNOW what its like to have to work for something... i wasnt brought up w/ a silver spoon in my mouth... more like a plastic spork from mickey d's or something.. but yea... i admit im jealous as hell of the ppl whos mom and dad bought their car... and so what? i got my very first car for free... even tho its a junker (but i still have it tho) and i chose to buy a new car... to me, it just feels good to know that everytime i get in my car i can be like... "i paid for this... its mine!!! all mine!!!" so thats my story... im sad and poor now... i need a [IMG]i/expressions/beer_yum.gif[/IMG] 
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or how many of them got their mommy's and daddy's to buy it for them. .[hr]
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or how many of them got their mommy's and daddy's to buy it for them. .[hr]
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Rep Power: 0 I have owned three cars, I am 19, 84 CRX, 86 CRX and now 94 GS-R. I still owe 4k on the GS-R. I bought it used from someone in April. Sometimes I wish my parents paid for my car but, that doesn't mean I am jealous of the person that gets everything from there parents and I don't think that I am better then anyone just because I bought my car on my own and I pay for almost everything.
It's just that some kids out there, take advantage of what they have and don't realize that it takes alot of hard work to get some of these things. Take my friend for instance, when he turned 16 he got his license, the very next day, he has his parents buy a new 1998 Civic EX. In a matter of 3 months he has fully modified the look of the car by having it painted baby blue w/ blue pearl, Skyline taillight conversion, 5 piece Kombat body kit. Unfortunatley he thought his car was fast and all he had was a Weapon R short ram intake system and dual exhaust
(dual exhaust on a 130+ hp car) sad if you ask me. Now this a poster child of a spoiled brat. Now, I know not all kids are like that but, many are. So those of us that have to pay our own way notice this as something that we are curious about not that we are jealous, We ask ourselves, is this guy going to make it in life? That is how I see it but, others might see it differently
It's just that some kids out there, take advantage of what they have and don't realize that it takes alot of hard work to get some of these things. Take my friend for instance, when he turned 16 he got his license, the very next day, he has his parents buy a new 1998 Civic EX. In a matter of 3 months he has fully modified the look of the car by having it painted baby blue w/ blue pearl, Skyline taillight conversion, 5 piece Kombat body kit. Unfortunatley he thought his car was fast and all he had was a Weapon R short ram intake system and dual exhaust
(dual exhaust on a 130+ hp car) sad if you ask me. Now this a poster child of a spoiled brat. Now, I know not all kids are like that but, many are. So those of us that have to pay our own way notice this as something that we are curious about not that we are jealous, We ask ourselves, is this guy going to make it in life? That is how I see it but, others might see it differently 
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Rep Power: 0 This is my third car, it's all mine and took the 6 year plan on it. I don't pay for the insurance though.
If i have kids once i am set for something like that I would probably do one of two things, either pay for a car for them and make them pay the insurance or pay the insurance and make them pay for the car. Or maybe help with a down payment if that is all they wanted.
There is an extreme difference between being spoiled and having parents who are willing to offer a safe econo-car vehicle as an incentive for getting good grades or whatever reason it may be. I say if you have the money to spend on your kids like that, do it. I would. But not to spoil them. If I have kids who decide to be a$$holes for their life, are they getting a car? no. I'll make sure they know the value of a dollar first and are respectful and then reward them for it later. And yeah, i would expect any kid of mine to have a job. Maybe not a super amount of hours, but at least something where he or she can spend money that they make.
If i have kids once i am set for something like that I would probably do one of two things, either pay for a car for them and make them pay the insurance or pay the insurance and make them pay for the car. Or maybe help with a down payment if that is all they wanted.
There is an extreme difference between being spoiled and having parents who are willing to offer a safe econo-car vehicle as an incentive for getting good grades or whatever reason it may be. I say if you have the money to spend on your kids like that, do it. I would. But not to spoil them. If I have kids who decide to be a$$holes for their life, are they getting a car? no. I'll make sure they know the value of a dollar first and are respectful and then reward them for it later. And yeah, i would expect any kid of mine to have a job. Maybe not a super amount of hours, but at least something where he or she can spend money that they make.
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NO I'm not hating I just think it is a bunch of crap that you cant work for your own car that you have to get mommy and daddy to spend thier money because they are to lazy to get a real job. You know what I think that people that have their parents buy their own car shouldnt have the right to call that car theirs because when u can put time AND YOUR OWN MONEY into (buying it) then u can call it ur own car. For the people that are paying for their own car good on you. and for the little kids that have their parents buy it for them grow up get a job and welcome to the real world where mommy and daddy dont cut ur meat for u anymore. and yes i hate little spoiled brats that call that car theirs when mommy and daddy buy it for them. incase ur wondering. and since ur paying for half then i will give u half the credit.[hr]
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NO I'm not hating I just think it is a bunch of crap that you cant work for your own car that you have to get mommy and daddy to spend thier money because they are to lazy to get a real job. You know what I think that people that have their parents buy their own car shouldnt have the right to call that car theirs because when u can put time AND YOUR OWN MONEY into (buying it) then u can call it ur own car. For the people that are paying for their own car good on you. and for the little kids that have their parents buy it for them grow up get a job and welcome to the real world where mommy and daddy dont cut ur meat for u anymore. and yes i hate little spoiled brats that call that car theirs when mommy and daddy buy it for them. incase ur wondering. and since ur paying for half then i will give u half the credit.[hr]
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NO I'm not hating I just think it is a bunch of crap that you cant work for your own car that you have to get mommy and daddy to spend thier money because they are to lazy to get a real job. You know what I think that people that have their parents buy their own car shouldnt have the right to call that car theirs because when u can put time AND YOUR OWN MONEY into (buying it) then u can call it ur own car. For the people that are paying for their own car good on you. and for the little kids that have their parents buy it for them grow up get a job and welcome to the real world where mommy and daddy dont cut ur meat for u anymore. and yes i hate little spoiled brats that call that car theirs when mommy and daddy buy it for them. incase ur wondering. and since ur paying for half then i will give u half the credit.[hr]
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NO I'm not hating I just think it is a bunch of crap that you cant work for your own car that you have to get mommy and daddy to spend thier money because they are to lazy to get a real job. You know what I think that people that have their parents buy their own car shouldnt have the right to call that car theirs because when u can put time AND YOUR OWN MONEY into (buying it) then u can call it ur own car. For the people that are paying for their own car good on you. and for the little kids that have their parents buy it for them grow up get a job and welcome to the real world where mommy and daddy dont cut ur meat for u anymore. and yes i hate little spoiled brats that call that car theirs when mommy and daddy buy it for them. incase ur wondering. and since ur paying for half then i will give u half the credit.[hr]
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Rep Power: 0 Hm. My parents traded in the old ford escort and got the civic as a gift. but i pay half the payments and half the insurance.
i live in a condo my grandparents got for me, but i make the rent payments (with rommates), utilities, food, etc, work 40 hours and i pay for my own college (5 classes this semester) !!! So i've been half helped...i'm glad tho [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]
o yeah I'm 20. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/IMG]
i live in a condo my grandparents got for me, but i make the rent payments (with rommates), utilities, food, etc, work 40 hours and i pay for my own college (5 classes this semester) !!! So i've been half helped...i'm glad tho [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]
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lol must have been, and guess what a$$hole, I do have a REAL JOB, in fact I've had 3 REAL JOBS since I was 16 (the earliest u can legally work in Texas), and busted my *** at all of them, I've been at my current job for almost 2 years now, and mommy and daddy dont cut my meat for me, but I do also go to a university full time which I am paying for myself, and still working 30 hours a week, how many adults can claim that? I'm sorry that my mom and dad love me and like to buy me things, I would hope to extend the same gratitude to my kids if they made me proud like I have my mom and dad. Go preach it to someone else.[hr]
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Were you one of those kids who didn't have Nintendo growing up?[hr]
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NO I'm not hating I just think it is a bunch of crap that you cant work for your own car that you have to get mommy and daddy to spend thier money because they are to lazy to get a real job. You know what I think that people that have their parents buy their own car shouldnt have the right to call that car theirs because when u can put time AND YOUR OWN MONEY into (buying it) then u can call it ur own car. For the people that are paying for their own car good on you. and for the little kids that have their parents buy it for them grow up get a job and welcome to the real world where mommy and daddy dont cut ur meat for u anymore. and yes i hate little spoiled brats that call that car theirs when mommy and daddy buy it for them. incase ur wondering. and since ur paying for half then i will give u half the credit.[hr]
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NO I'm not hating I just think it is a bunch of crap that you cant work for your own car that you have to get mommy and daddy to spend thier money because they are to lazy to get a real job. You know what I think that people that have their parents buy their own car shouldnt have the right to call that car theirs because when u can put time AND YOUR OWN MONEY into (buying it) then u can call it ur own car. For the people that are paying for their own car good on you. and for the little kids that have their parents buy it for them grow up get a job and welcome to the real world where mommy and daddy dont cut ur meat for u anymore. and yes i hate little spoiled brats that call that car theirs when mommy and daddy buy it for them. incase ur wondering. and since ur paying for half then i will give u half the credit.[hr]
Good point, wanan think that I'm a spoiled brat AceKicker? just cause my parents paid for part of my car?? ok, try this on for size, I've had a job constantly since I was 13 years old, I started off doing a apartment maintnance job, then I worked at a conservation club doing land work, then a dry cleaners, now I work about 30 hours a week at a nursing home, when did you start working?? 16??? psssh
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Rep Power: 365 Did anyone ever think that those who did not monetarily pay for their cars could still very well earn it? My 'job' is school. I work my @$$ off to get good grades and place high in any competitions I do. I am currently ranked 2nd in the state for Lincoln-Douglas style debate. That'll look pretty nice on my application to law school. I doubt my parents will be complaining when I'm making their Lexus payment.
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[hr]lol must have been, and guess what a$$hole, I do have a REAL JOB, in fact I've had 3 REAL JOBS since I was 16 (the earliest u can legally work in Texas), and busted my *** at all of them, I've been at my current job for almost 2 years now, and mommy and daddy dont cut my meat for me, but I do also go to a university full time which I am paying for myself, and still working 30 hours a week, how many adults can claim that? I'm sorry that my mom and dad love me and like to buy me things, I would hope to extend the same gratitude to my kids if they made me proud like I have my mom and dad. Go preach it to someone else.[hr]
[hr]lol must have been, and guess what a$$hole, I do have a REAL JOB, in fact I've had 3 REAL JOBS since I was 16 (the earliest u can legally work in Texas), and busted my *** at all of them, I've been at my current job for almost 2 years now, and mommy and daddy dont cut my meat for me, but I do also go to a university full time which I am paying for myself, and still working 30 hours a week, how many adults can claim that? I'm sorry that my mom and dad love me and like to buy me things, I would hope to extend the same gratitude to my kids if they made me proud like I have my mom and dad. Go preach it to someone else.[hr]
My father worked hard to where he is at. He didn't have anything growing up and went through many holidays without any gifts. He feels that since he was able to make it in life, he wanted his children to have what he couldn't have growing up.
So deal with it. It doesn't make me a spoiled brat.
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I paid (pay) for my civic and her insurance.
I had a top of the line 00 accord with the v6, leather, etc....Dad gave me 12k to put down on it because that is the amt that would give me the monthly payment that I desired (a very low one). Then, my father offered to pay off the lien on the car which would give a 6 month old, 25k car that is paid for. I declined and ended up trading the accord for my present civic. I wanted to drive something I could afford and live at my level of income.
I had several nice cars as a teenager that were paid for in cash by my parents. They paid the insurance and for the gas. My point is this: Just because someone has well-off parents, it doesn't mean they are spoiled, little arogant bastards that don't know the value of a dollar.
I paid (pay) for my civic and her insurance.
I had a top of the line 00 accord with the v6, leather, etc....Dad gave me 12k to put down on it because that is the amt that would give me the monthly payment that I desired (a very low one). Then, my father offered to pay off the lien on the car which would give a 6 month old, 25k car that is paid for. I declined and ended up trading the accord for my present civic. I wanted to drive something I could afford and live at my level of income.
I had several nice cars as a teenager that were paid for in cash by my parents. They paid the insurance and for the gas. My point is this: Just because someone has well-off parents, it doesn't mean they are spoiled, little arogant bastards that don't know the value of a dollar.
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Rep Power: 0 Jesus this is a freaking poll I was jsut taking dang im sorry if yall got offened grow up and live with it. yall want to be hateful then good be hateful i dont care. and no my parents were great to me. They raised me right. nad yes i had a nintendo when i was young. lol. but this is a poll im sorry yall can jsut shut the F up and leave it alone. yall are coming after me saying im better then yall I never said that at all. just becuae i hit a soar spot yall want to jump down my throat. yall came up with the aligation saying I was better then yall. So if yall have some type of beef for what i wrote then pm me about it and B!T ch to me on there with ur probs on what i said but not on the thread because it is jsut a POLL OK READ IT AGAIN A POLL. one more time POLL. and yall want to brign up working hours that is great now let me ask u do yall wnat a cookie or a medal. I work 52 hours a week and im not braggin and yes i started working when i was 14 guys. construction, and now the navy. so shut up with teh arguing and calm ur nerve and stop gettign ur panties in a bunch and chill I though we all were suppoe to be friends on here.
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Rep Power: 0 lol, sorry i was posting in pissed off mode. I dont have any problems with you man, i appreciate the fact that you pay for your civic, but i did not appreciate you making blanket statements that people that did not are lazy and immature. SOme are some are not, it really depends, I just didn't appreciate the fact that you would generalize so blatantly. Again dude I've got no quarrels with ya sorry if I offended ya hopefully you feel the same way.
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Rep Power: 0 My parents bought my first car when I was 17, It was a POS 90 pontiac grand am. But hey, it got me from point A to point B and I am happy they did. For this, I was able to get to my job and college and save up mad money. I drove the pontiac till it could go no further, so with my money in hand I set off for the HONDA dealership, where I bought MY first car. I am happy that I could afford everything by myself with no co-signer, but on the otherhand, I don't really care how others have come to own there first car, its still there's. Just like I am sure that you don't care how I have come to own mine. (well not own yet, still 4 years left:cry[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/IMG] I also by all my own parts, with the exception of a few gifts.
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lol, sorry i was posting in pissed off mode. I dont have any problems with you man, i appreciate the fact that you pay for your civic, but i did not appreciate you making blanket statements that people that did not are lazy and immature. SOme are some are not, it really depends, I just didn't appreciate the fact that you would generalize so blatantly. Again dude I've got no quarrels with ya sorry if I offended ya hopefully you feel the same way.[hr]
[hr]Originally posted by: WhiteRiceBoi
lol, sorry i was posting in pissed off mode. I dont have any problems with you man, i appreciate the fact that you pay for your civic, but i did not appreciate you making blanket statements that people that did not are lazy and immature. SOme are some are not, it really depends, I just didn't appreciate the fact that you would generalize so blatantly. Again dude I've got no quarrels with ya sorry if I offended ya hopefully you feel the same way.[hr]
Hey man it is cool no prob on my side. I uderstand where u coming from when u say that. I just little kids driving their bmw's and hooked-up hondas and know that they didnt pay for $h!t and i guess it ate at em so i just wanted to see on here. NO hamr to anyone and I'm sorry to **** anyone off. See no harm no foul guys?
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[hr]I doubt my parents will be complaining when I'm making their Lexus payment.[hr]
[hr]I doubt my parents will be complaining when I'm making their Lexus payment.[hr]
, but you left the F-word out. 
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Rep Power: 0 Everyone knows you are just taking a poll. You brought in on yourself with your original post that was whining about young kids having the cars bought for them. So, don't whine more now about how you are just taking poll when I can post YOUR reply that started the whole thing. Now, who needs to grow up. Oh, go brush your teeth because I can smell your breath from here.
I sure wish my car was newer
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Boiler Room... Good movie, but you left the F-word out. [hr]
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[hr]I doubt my parents will be complaining when I'm making their Lexus payment.[hr]
[hr]I doubt my parents will be complaining when I'm making their Lexus payment.[hr]
, but you left the F-word out. [hr]
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Rep Power: 0 bough tthe car myself.... dont pay for insurance cause its under my parents name.... for those who are saying they are working their *** off for good grades HOR*ESH*T highschool isnt hard at all, if you cant get good grades dont bother with University
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Rep Power: 0 Yeah i bought the car myself this year, and i'm also paying for the insurance. i'm on my own!!!.....but i still live at home... sucks. And my first car was a '66 Mustang that I still have actually, but i'm selling it... [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif[/IMG]
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Rep Power: 0 im payin for it myself. work for the old man (rich old bastoid) and he only pays me 9 bucks an hr (25 and been workin for him for a while) guys worth a couple mill and he wont even give me a 25 cent raise. 4 more yrs to go on the car tho. 
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Rep Power: 0 i was payin for it..payedof at least a 1/4 of it and a about a month ago
my mom payed it off with this check she got from the job she quit
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that's the only reason i have my rims now and don't feel like goin to work anymore
my car payment was the only reason i was really workin
my mom payed it off with this check she got from the job she quit
i'm still payin the insurance thou[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/IMG]
that's the only reason i have my rims now and don't feel like goin to work anymore
my car payment was the only reason i was really workin
