is this wrong?

[MRT144]

my dad badgers me when i ask for money for food. FOOD! i feel bad because i feel like im in the wrong for asking him.

[Urban Ranger]

Why he doesn't go to the supermarket to get food regularly?

[Stuie]

When does school start again? Are we talking September? If so....

Get another job.

If the one you have only gives you 20 hours/week, then supplement it with a second income during the summer - landscaping, road work, fast food... anything. Come to think of it, get a food services job of some sort and that should also provide at least one meal a day, thus reducing your meal budget. Just make sure you put EVERY penny from the second job aside, and you'll have enough by the time late August rolls around.

Don't try cheesing your way into a computer.

[MRT144]

because he cant cook and neither can his wife. he eats out all the time but unfortunately i work the night shift. and there are never any left overs.

he also just moved up to seattle and isnt living in the house any longer so what is in the fridge right now is some beer and some milk and some condements like mustard and soy sauce. im going out to buy 15 dollars worth of cheese bread salami and more milk for myself today. hopefully that will last more than a week until my next paycheck

[Ozz]

Originally posted by MRT144
i dont intend on asking them for anything ever again. i already feel guilty as hell when i do now.

Yer mom won't be sad that you sell the for car for
"college" (you do need a good computer for any
non artsy-fartsy course) , she'll be proud that yer
making the tough decisions.

If you seemed to get the "warm toasty feeling" from
some of the posts in this thread, some of us here sent
themselves thought college without anyones help, and
suffered pretty bad doing it, now it's takes every penny to send our kids though college so they don't NEVER have to go through that. Going hungry is one of the worse things you can ever experience.

[MRT144]

actually stuie, im looking for another job in food service. i didnt much like my first job i ever had in food service because of the 12 hour days i worked, but the free food was good.

school starts in july, and im moving up there at the end of may.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by MRT144
im going out to buy 15 dollars worth of cheese bread salami and more milk for myself today. hopefully that will last more than a week until my next paycheck

Buy a big sack of rice. Rice is cheap and is quite filling. You can get a whole bag of chicken legs cheap. Make soup with the chicken legs and eat whatever meat you can find on them afterwards. You can also make bean curd (tofu) yourself, it's cheap and nutritious.

Also, some supermarkets sell bread etc. cheaply when it's near closing time. I remember going to them near midnight to pick up cheap bread.

[DaShi]

How much is your Dad's life insurance policy?

[MRT144]

Ozz i understand that youve had to endure a lot of hardship and sacrifice things so your kids wont have to. i feel like thats what my parents should have done to help me but i only see one of my parents doing that.

i go hungry even without being in college. if anything college will be better because i can take out student loans and apply for grants(which will most likely be denied because my dad makes 6 figures) and hopefully room with a culinary student. i know what hunger is and i angers me when my dad just shrugs and says not his problem.

UR, i eat rice a lot but rice by itself or butter rice is just terrible day in day out. salami cheese and bread is somthing i can eat all the time and never get tired of, until i die of scurvy

[Urban Ranger]

You can mix rice with tofu, some vegetable, and the occasional slice of meat. That will be nutritious and filling. I used to eat that all the time.

[pg]

just upgrade one of your computers. you'll mostly be able to do so for under a few hundred dollars. you can probably re-use almost everything except mobo/cpu/ram.

[MRT144]

maybe its cause im white that i dont know what to do with rice and tofu. i need a rice cooker because all the time that i make rice it turns to mush.

[MRT144]

heres how i think im going to make this all work out. ill see if i can get a repayable loan with my dad and then also look into making sure excess from my student loans is directly deposited into my bank account. if need be ill open up a line of credit and use that to purchase off the remaining of the computer.

[Ben Kenobi]

maybe its cause im white that i dont know what to do with rice and tofu. i need a rice cooker because all the time that i make rice it turns to mush.

One can learn, MRT144.

Some of these folks here might be likely to help you out.

[Ozz]

Originally posted by MRT144
i know what hunger is and i angers me when my dad just shrugs and says not his problem.

Sorry, Your in the same boat I was ## years ago,
(my dad was a doctor) Go get a job for 2 years and go to college as a mature student, (you can't live at home
for 2 years, maybe differient in US) it changes your status for loans and grants and your dads $ status has no effect. Don't put your savings in the bank during the
2 years, the college/goverment will see it there.
(hindsight is wonderful)

Oh, once you get clear of your dad your relationship will improve, when he wants someting you don't want to do
just shrug and say not my problem.