Premature Esnarkulation 48

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worldwood said:
Are you buying them or your parents??? Because id hate to be your parent with a list like that!!

I was working washing dishes in a local restaurant and delivering news papers at 12 years old, summer time i also worked in a plant nursery from sun up to sun down between working the restaurant and newspaper deliveries. from that point on i bought all my own clothes, shoes, deodorant, tooth paste and the things i just wanted for fun, so to me if you old enough to want all that your old enough to go get a J.O.B!!!
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All my becker knives have been funded by yours truly, I was just kidding, my parents don't really buy me knives, that's my thing.
 
cbwoods67 said:
By my count, your parents will have to keep buying your knives for about 5 more years.:p
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Depends on your perspective, I worked at a non profit thrift store at 1.75 per hour. I saved $400 that way and that is what's funding my Becker purchases at the moment. when that money runs dry I will find more work. If life were fair then I would be paying my parents back for what they have done for me my whole life.
 
So I'm taking drugs right now.....but then again, it's prescription for a herniated disc. Other than that, I don't take much of anything. Don't get sick much either. I think with all of this stuff, YMMV. I've had well meaning friends tell me I should drink "lots of vitamin C"...REALLY? For a herniated disc? Also I should see a chiropractor....which might be OK for some people for the everyday, but, AAAARRRGGGGHHHHH! I HATE IT WHEN THE INTERNET CRAPS OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF A POST!!!
.......seriously? I just smile and say "thank you" and move on. You'll never change anyone's opinion on religion, politics or what they believe works for them (and should therefore work for you) with regard to their personal well-being. If I was vested in trying to change anybody's mind on those subjects, I would go insane with frustration.

Everything before the "argh" was all that auto-saved. Most important is this part, which has nothing to do with the above. I'm going to try and remember what I had typed:

Good news, everybody! I just spent 45 minutes on my feet (with crutches) for the first time in two weeks, gathering materials and making a two-sided strop. It's glued up and clamped and drying in the basement. 60° down there and I was sweating just from the effort of standing. Didn't notice until I took the last pic of the whole thing clamped to my bench; it felt so good to DO something finally. I've been mostly bed-bound since the 10th; being on my feet has been killer for the most part and even though my right leg is still twitching a little bit from all that standing and I'm still experiencing a little pain, it feels damn good to have gotten a little shop time in. While I've been lying here, I've been reading up on a lot of sharpening and stropping techniques and materials here on the BK&T sub and the wider BF community, and just bursting at the seams to get up and try some of this shtuff out. I even managed to take pictures of this endeavor. I'm going to eat something (you'll feel better!) and recharge; hopefully I will finish the strop this afternoon. Strange to say this, but it's a little scary to be feeling better; my neurosurgeon called me with the results of my MRI yesterday and I gave the go ahead to schedule surgery. One thing I will say about opiates like Oxycontin: it's difficult to distinguish between what's the drugs and what is the natural recovery process. We'll see. This place and you fine gentlemen and ladies have kept me sane and provided me with entertainment as well as a carrot (or two) the last couple of months, especially these last 2 weeks. With Thanksgiving a couple days away, I have a lot to be thankful for. My Becker "family" is one of them.

You will now be returned to your regularly scheduled snark thread, already in progress.
 
mountainmist said:
Depends on your perspective, I worked at a non profit thrift store at 1.75 per hour. I saved $400 that way and that is what's funding my Becker purchases at the moment. when that money runs dry I will find more work. If life were fair then I would be paying my parents back for what they have done for me my whole life.
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It may be your money, but your parents have to actually make the purchase because you are a minor.
I am just yankin' yer chain, Kid.

By the way, good on you for earning what you want. Too many kids just throw a fit until they have their way. I don't care what they say about you Kid, you are alright.
 
mountainmist said:
Depends on your perspective, I worked at a non profit thrift store at 1.75 per hour. I saved $400 that way and that is what's funding my Becker purchases at the moment. when that money runs dry I will find more work. If life were fair then I would be paying my parents back for what they have done for me my whole life.
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That gives me hope. And you can pay your parents back by becoming a productive member of society and taking care of yourself. That, and moving out before you're 23. Parenting is a non-profit business, of that you can be absolutely sure. But it does pay handsome dividends at times.
 
worldwood said:
We just ordered 2 kindle fire HDs for our kids. One is 5 the other is 7. so Im glad they make cases like this for them, they look pretty tough for being a "foam" material and makes them more "toy" looking. plus it can stand up for when they are watching cartoons on it.

They were always using my wifes nexus7 or ipad mini for games and netflix, so now they will each have their own tablet.

Got 1 in blue and 1 in purple
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Now I have to find a decent train set for the boy that doesnt take up too much space. We are trying to have all the xmas shopping done by the end of the month. I hate last minute shopping.
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I have 2 boys (6 and 5) and that's what we were going to get them. then I decided it would just be another electronic to stick their faces into, so I bought them sleeping bags instead- and a promised weekend camping when it warms up for their first overnight.
 
OutdoorsFamilyMan4 said:
I have 2 boys (6 and 5) and that's what we were going to get them. then I decided it would just be another electronic to stick their faces into, so I bought them sleeping bags instead- and a promised weekend camping when it warms up for their first overnight.
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+1! Great choice, OFM. Your eponymous BF screen name says it all. It's hard to not buy into all the electronics when a lot of other kids and especially their parents make this the status quo. I'm not saying good or bad, but I can see the tremendous peer pressure across all age groups to want these things. I will hazard a guess, however, that they'll remember fondly the camping trip and the sleeping bags 20 years from now (and quite possibly, still have the bags); their peers probably won't even remember what gizmo they got 20 years prior. And all the iPads and Kindles and Nooks and whatever else (I have a Nexus, so I'm not judging - much!) will be in a landfill or have been stripped of whatever's valuable and turned into the next generation of unremembered shtuff.
Meanwhile, my little one's 9th birthday is coming up and she's getting a used, 5th gen iPod Nano......and a little Gerber multitool. I'm saving the knives for the both of them until Christmas.:wink:
 
OutdoorsFamilyMan4 said:
I have 2 boys (6 and 5) and that's what we were going to get them. then I decided it would just be another electronic to stick their faces into, so I bought them sleeping bags instead- and a promised weekend camping when it warms up for their first overnight.
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That was a good idea. nice move. I would LOVE it if i could get away with that!!! and we would of save some money too!! but my kids have all the camping stuff they could use, i bought it a while back trying to force the wife into going into the woods more often LMAO, and we go camping every chance we get, or every time i can get everyone in the woods which is at least 4 or 5 times a year, but if i tried saying their present is to go camping my wife would say it suppose to be what they want... not what i want LMAO. And they both have asked for a tablet of their own over and over now for months. So i think "Santa" felt they deserved them.
 
worldwood said:
That was a good idea. nice move. I would LOVE it if i could get away with that!!! and we would of save some money too!! but my kids have all the camping stuff they could use, i bought it a while back trying to force the wife into going into the woods more often LMAO, and we go camping every chance we get, or every time i can get everyone in the woods which is at least 4 or 5 times a year, but if i tried saying their present is to go camping my wife would say it suppose to be what they want... not what i want LMAO. And they both have asked for a tablet of their own over and over now for months. So i think "Santa" felt they deserved th em.
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That's parenting. Rocks and hard places.
 
Ya know honestly when my kids said they wanted tablets i told em i think they are still a little too young for them still, and momma told them maybe if they are real good santa would get them.

But me and the wife discussed it and i told her i didnt think they were old enough especially the 5 year old, i didnt understand why at 5 and 7 they needed their own tablet computer, but she made a fuss about how everything is ran by computers these days and how them learning to use electronics now will benefit them later, but i tried telling her if we get them tablets at 5 and 7 by the time they turn 10 and 12 they are going to be expecting big screens, flying skateboards, space ships or some mess. but it was a battle i knew i couldnt win, so i shut up.
 
worldwood said:
Ya know honestly when my kids said they wanted tablets i told em i think they are still a little too young for them still, and momma told them maybe if they are real good santa would get them.

But me and the wife discussed it and i told her i didn't think they were old enough especially the 5 year old, i didn't understand why at 5 and 7 they needed their own tablet computer, but she made a fuss about how everything is ran by computers these days and how them learning to use electronics now will benefit them later, but i tried telling her if we get them tablets at 5 and 7 by the time they turn 10 and 12 they are going to be expecting big screens, flying skateboards, space ships or some mess. but it was a battle i knew i couldnt win, so i shut up.
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Same argument I used on my wife.. this is the world they are coming into like it or not, most jobs of the future will be using electronics, computers, technology.. I got one for my 2 1/2 year old.. Now at 3 he can do more on it than my wife, lol. That case looks good for kids and all, but I went with an otterbox defender because it has a cover for the screen.. It has payed for itself about 4 times over now.
 
LeeBower said:
Same argument I used on my wife.. this is the world they are coming into like it or not, most jobs of the future will be using electronics, computers, technology.. I got one for my 2 1/2 year old.. Now at 3 he can do more on it than my wife, lol. That case looks good for kids and all, but I went with an otterbox defender because it has a cover for the screen.. It has payed for itself about 4 times over now.
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LMAO, thats funny, my 5 year old knows how to use the ipad better than me :D

And that otterbox defender looks TUFF! im going to have to show that one to the wife!!
 
I have an otterbox defender for my iphone 5. I can say its one bad mother f-ing case. I've dropped this phone and fell on it more times then I an count and it's still in perfect condition (the phone at least)
 
worldwood said:
Ya know honestly when my kids said they wanted tablets i told em i think they are still a little too young for them still, and momma told them maybe if they are real good santa would get them.

But me and the wife discussed it and i told her i didnt think they were old enough especially the 5 year old, i didnt understand why at 5 and 7 they needed their own tablet computer, but she made a fuss about how everything is ran by computers these days and how them learning to use electronics now will benefit them later, but i tried telling her if we get them tablets at 5 and 7 by the time they turn 10 and 12 they are going to be expecting big screens, flying skateboards, space ships or some mess. but it was a battle i knew i couldnt win, so i shut up.
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same here. my inlaws got my 5 yr old some kind of tablet for Christmas... we shall see how it goes. I'm trying to get my daughter outside as much as possible. this past weekend we spent a lot of time in the yard..made a fire in our pit, tried to capture lizards, tire swing, Step up 2 extreme coaster.... etc..
 
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