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System Build Upgrades - Do You Pay For Your Own Upgrades or Do Mum & Dad?

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My parents are very nice and helpfull people. But they've always had the "If you want it you've gotta work for it" mentality^^ So i've paid for everything myself.
 

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Your parents gave you cash?

Lol no. I usually give them money......
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Work in a hospital as an R.T. so yeah, I buy everything.  :)

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Well I hope you do at 28 years old. :P

I knew I shouldn't've displayed my age on my profile. :o

Well sponging of mum and dad is just wrong I think. ;)

Everything I've bought has come out of my own pocket.

That's not what you told me yesterday. :D

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My parents are very nice and helpfull people. But they've always had the "If you want it you've gotta work for it" mentality^^ So i've paid for everything myself.

You've got some excellent parents there mate! :D

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I get money for bdays and shizzle and some times (like xmas where my parrent think you should get gifts not money) they get me somthibg like a pair of earbuds or a small tech item but i mostly buy them on my own from money i get my reffing ball hockey

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Worked for it.

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Lol no. I usually give them money......

Ah okay. Wrong assumption made. Sorry, my bad.

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Worked for it.

Swoit! :)

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Ah okay. Wrong assumption made. Sorry, my bad.

Lol no worries. My career feels morally wrong every once and awhile. Thats why i said i sold my soul.
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I pay everything by myself, except for the rent, bills and food in our home.

 

My mother almost never gives me money, but sometimes she forces me to give her money. The joys of living in a family in which mother refuses to get a job and father is dead...

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I work full time and pay rent >_> buying a new computer is the biggest #firstworldproblem i have

 

I work full time, professional desk job, 6 years working experience, just got promoted to senior post. Live in the most expensive city in my country and earning 20% above living wage.

 

Yet purchasing a "rig" is a huge problem because 1st, I live away from parents and 2nd, despite everything my salary barely reaches American minimum wage? A "value gaming pc" would be a month's salary.

 

Newly industrialized country problem?  :ph34r:

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I worked part time and cut expenses on travel and food for 4 years... All I got is the machine in my sig... I blame the economy...

 

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I got my machine as an upgrade from my previous laptop due to it basically dieing. Following that I've either payed for or salvaged every update since I got it. Mostly the later.

 

I do however get money from them either due to birthdays or Christmas.

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I pay for everything, I hate relying on someone for my stuff. My rig is 10x better becasue of that fact. 

I would hate to go to my mum and dad and say 'I need to upgrade my system, can I have some money that I didn't earn to do that please?'

Makes me feel gross typing it

i feel the same way its like how could i ask for a 1000 bucks so i can get a pc and sit on my ass all day and play videogames or sit on the internet

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I pay for little miscellaneous items in my pc that I can't really justify asking for, like led strips/fans/thermal paste/sleeved extensions...with pocket money from my parents...oh dammit, I don't qualify...

But really, I would pay for my own rig if I could, but I can't because I'm a full-time boarder at my school, so weekend/after school jobs is a bit hard to come across. When holidays come, I do jobs around the house (mostly fixing things/cleaning/gardening) and I get some pocket money off that... so...that's sort of like doing a job...riiigghhht?

 

BUT

I only got my rig on my birthday last year, and nothing is gonna be upgraded anytime soon.

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I got a Job working as a paper filer for a company, $50 bucks a day, bought me a PC wit dat money!

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I got my machine as an upgrade from my previous laptop due to it basically dieing. Following that I've either payed for or salvaged every update since I got it. Mostly the » latter «.

 

I do however get money from them either due to birthdays or Christmas.

Good stuff!

BTW, I just thought I'd point out something. You should notice the difference. ;)

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I paid for my MacBook Pro Retina myself. I basically have the money for a beast PC now, but I somehow do not feel that I have enough yet :P But I am paying for it myself, when that time comes.

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I pay for little miscellaneous items in my pc that I can't really justify asking for, like led strips/fans/thermal paste/sleeved extensions...with pocket money from my parents...oh dammit, I don't qualify...

But really, I would pay for my own rig if I could, but I can't because I'm a full-time boarder at my school, so weekend/after school jobs is a bit hard to come across. When holidays come, I do jobs around the house (mostly fixing things/cleaning/gardening) and I get some pocket money off that... so...that's sort of like doing a job...riiigghhht?

 

BUT

I only got my rig on my birthday last year, and nothing is gonna be upgraded anytime soon.

You jjuusstt scrape through because you do work for it at least. So you deserve it. But that doesn't stop me from suggesting the you change your member title to "LTT's Resident Sponge" :P. Haha, just messing with you mate. :D

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I had a dreamcast as a kid for my birthday, that's the last time I asked my parents to buy me something.. But I started working since I'm 14, so I didn't need to ask my parents for money to buy hardware..

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You jjuusstt scrape through because you do work for it at least. So you deserve it. But that doesn't stop me from suggesting the you change your member title to "LTT's Resident Sponge" :P. Haha, just messing with you mate. :D

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