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Cake day: August 4th, 2025

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  • I’ve lived at home with my parents my whole life and I’m 30. I pay for all of my own stuff including food outside the occasional family treat where we all take turns paying for it. My parents don’t charge me rent, but view having me pay the Internet bill along with my car insurance (which for some reason is under my dad’s name) and getting them sweet teas from the gas station as close enough to paying rent. I never went to any higher education beyond high school, but I can imagine they’d help pay for it or help pay the loan like they did my sisters who are much older than me.

    I do have friends whose parents are similar to you. Paying for everything their kid wants when going to college, including their own apartment to stay at and giving them money whenever they need it for groceries or gas. Enough of a regular allowance to also allow them to have some money to spend on random things they could also want like a videogame or trip to the movies. One of them is a few years younger than me and about to finish his computer science degree while not having done any kind of work outside of schoolwork or personal projects since maybe around 2017.



  • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.ziptoFunny@sh.itjust.worksHappy Birthday
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    16 days ago

    If you don’t tell me exactly what you want, then you’re most likely getting either nothing from me or just a gift card. This goes for both friends and family and not just birthdays. Every year when it gets to Christmastime, my mom says she doesn’t want anything. So I just get her the same gift card I always get her for her favorite restaurant.






  • No? It’s hypocritical for Dems to demand voters give them money while telling people they want money out of politics. Personally I’d make it so politicians are paid the minimum wage of the state they represent and aren’t allowed to take bribes, donations, gifts from corporations or CEOs, and election funds are a pooled resource where everyone running for any party, big or small, has access to the same amount. Anyone found getting extra funds is immediately kicked out and banned from holding any level of government office, including even being a town mayor.