Comments on: Being Smart and Looking Rich http://frugalunderground.com/being-smart-and-looking-rich/ money: saving more, making more, needing less Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:31:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Clair Schwan of Frugal Living Freedom http://frugalunderground.com/being-smart-and-looking-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-7971 Clair Schwan of Frugal Living Freedom Sun, 31 May 2009 17:40:17 +0000 http://frugalunderground.com/?p=260#comment-7971 The teenager fashion thing seems easy to address. Parents buy the basics, and the child buys the fashions - whatever they can afford. There is nothing like having the money come out of their pocket (or stay in their pocket) to give them a healthy dose of reality. After all, that's how it works in real life and we should be preparing our children for that eventuality. My stepson wanted a phone of his own, so he got a job to pay for the luxury. When he lost his job, he lost his phone. Fashions are a luxury in my mind. Just like the large styled chrome wheels on SUVs. To me it's a utility vehicle with wheels, to many others it's a fashion statement. As long as they're paying for all the "peacocking" around town, I don't much care. Clair The teenager fashion thing seems easy to address. Parents buy the basics, and the child buys the fashions – whatever they can afford. There is nothing like having the money come out of their pocket (or stay in their pocket) to give them a healthy dose of reality. After all, that’s how it works in real life and we should be preparing our children for that eventuality.

My stepson wanted a phone of his own, so he got a job to pay for the luxury. When he lost his job, he lost his phone.

Fashions are a luxury in my mind. Just like the large styled chrome wheels on SUVs. To me it’s a utility vehicle with wheels, to many others it’s a fashion statement. As long as they’re paying for all the “peacocking” around town, I don’t much care.

Clair

]]> By: Phil http://frugalunderground.com/being-smart-and-looking-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-7908 Phil Fri, 22 May 2009 11:26:16 +0000 http://frugalunderground.com/?p=260#comment-7908 Good idea on the whole clothes issue. My 16-year-old is starting to see the value of saving, especially since he now has a job Good idea on the whole clothes issue. My 16-year-old is starting to see the value of saving, especially since he now has a job

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