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**MRT144** · March 11, 2003, 10:03

actually im not going to buy a graphics card for my computer because i wont be needing it...thats 100 dollars saved right there

**Sava** · March 11, 2003, 10:03

Are you knowledgable enough to build a computer? Or do you need to buy a pre-built one? Just curious. If you have a job then buy it yourself. Buying components seperate is a lot cheaper than wasting money on a computer from a store or from a company like Dell. And even if you have to buy from Dell or Gateway, you can get financing so you can pay like 20-100 bucks a month. The positives from doing so are:
1. you aren't being a little spoiled kid

2. you are establishing good credit
3. the computer will be yours and you won't have to rely on your parents

**MRT144** · March 11, 2003, 10:05

I am building it myself...

**Ming** · March 11, 2003, 10:09

is this wrong?

It's really sad that you even have to ask this question...

**MRT144** · March 11, 2003, 10:12

i have the moral compass of a starving rat!

**Ming** · March 11, 2003, 10:22

Obviously...

**MRT144** · March 11, 2003, 10:24

will you be buying the kids expensive things when they reach their teenage years? would you really deprive happiness from your children?

**Lefty Scaevola** · March 11, 2003, 10:26

Re: is this wrong?

Originally posted by MRT144
so i was planning on spending all my money on a road trip and then delibritly destroying both my computers. then pleading with my dad that i cant go to college without a brand spanking new computer.

An amusing plan son, just one little mistake......

**MRT144** · March 11, 2003, 10:28

**Ming** · March 11, 2003, 10:38

Originally posted by MRT144
will you be buying the kids expensive things when they reach their teenage years? would you really deprive happiness from your children?

My 14 year old buys many of the more expensive things herself... She works and earns the money. If she can't afford something... she saves for it and works more hours. It makes her appreciate things more...

Oh... and expensive gifts doesn't buy happiness...

**MRT144** · March 11, 2003, 10:45

youre right. everything that is expensive that i have right now i have bought on my own...

its just with all my budgeting and penny pinching and ebaying im still going to come up short for this expendeture. this is something that will not only help me in school but also make life more enjoyable by enabling me to continue to create music...

and i just feel resentful towards my dad because he pleads poverty to me while he takes 2 trips to europe a year.

**Ming** · March 11, 2003, 10:47

Some of the weakest justification I have ever heard.

It's wrong and you know it... so deal with it in another way.

**MRT144** · March 11, 2003, 10:49

which is what im trying to do by bouncing progressively better ideas off you

**woke26** · March 11, 2003, 10:52

poverty exists because the richer wont share. Your course of action is just MRT, proceed!

**MRT144** · March 11, 2003, 10:53

should i make a deal where i take out a loan with him and repay him with zero interest at a later date?

or possibly taking 10 dollars a week out of my weekly food allotment and using that to pay back a loan for my computer.

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