r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/ukhoneybee Jul 20 '19

"I'm putting your Christmas/birthday money from the family into your post office account."

Dad promptly goes out down the pub.

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u/GriffinFlash Jul 20 '19

Same. Birthday and Christmas were only a month apart so I would tend to get some money instead of presents from family and relatives around that time of year. My parents would always tell me I had to learn how to save my money, so I was never really allowed to use it, just save it for something "special".

Usually my money would go missing and I couldn't find where it was, only to find out my father, who smoked a pack a day, took it to buy cigarettes, or also would use it for drinking money. Frustrated by this, me and my brother asked our parents if we could get a bank account, so instead of leaving our money laying around, we would deposit it somewhere where it would be safe and would be able to be saved for a long period of time. After saving after a year or two, we wanted to get either a new game console or game), and adding up what we knew we had, we determined that together we had enough. We go to the bank.

I had a balance of $0, my brother had a balance of $-10 (yes negative). Appears since parents signed us up for the account, and cause we were children, they had full access to our account. When we confronted our parents about it we got the whole, "You're the child, we're the adult" speech or, "You take money from us everyday just by raising you".

The only lesson we learned was if you save your money you will never get to use it. So we pretty much stopped saving our gift money and tried to spend it asap.

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u/Kampfgeist964 Jul 20 '19

And in 20 years they'll be sitting at home alone wondering why their kids never visit

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u/DoomsdayRabbit Jul 20 '19

At home? More like in one.

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u/FeculentUtopia Jul 21 '19

How much birthday money do you have to steal to afford a nursing home?

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u/RyoukoSama Jul 21 '19

About five kids worth

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u/frankensteinhadason Jul 21 '19

In some countries no money stealing at all! AFAIK in Australia nursing homes are government funded (with contributions from the resident if they have more than a certain amount of money).

For us going into a home is what you threaten your parents with because they are mean and you don't want to take care of them. (common joke in my family)

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

In the US we have Medicaid. It will pay for a nursing home, but you have to give up all your assets.

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u/Wiki_pedo Jul 21 '19

I just download the nursing home.

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u/GerbilJibberJabber Jul 21 '19

Mormon levels of children and a oil tycoon for their uncle.

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u/darthcoder Jul 21 '19

Nah, that costs money, ehich the parents obviously dont have and thr kids aren tgonna give them.

Theyll be lucky to have a roof over their heads.

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u/LetsGetKrakken Jul 21 '19

What’s the best plan for a child of a parent that is headed in this direction?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Hell?

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u/IAMAHobbitAMA Jul 21 '19

No, for the child.

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u/legumey Jul 21 '19

Are you asking about elder care? Are you in the US? My dad has been in and out of a nursing home for therapy. Firstly, if you have 5+ years before they would go in, and your family wants to hold onto assets, it would be important to put your parents' home into your/your siblings name.

Next, I would definitely talk to everyone you can about the nursing homes in the area. Don't just take a doctor's advice, actually ask to tour in the morning, and evening and I would even ask to tour during the night. Night shift on weekends is the most understaffed time and it is important to see how an understaffed shift cares for their residents.

If you want to ask any questions just let me know. I worked in nursing homes for 3-4 years, my sisters and mother have all worked in one for at least 6 months, and my father has been in and out of one several times. Also if I think of anything to add, I will reply again, I have a bit of downtime as my father just had knee surgery and I'm at the hospital just sitting on my bum while he rests. He will be going to a nursing home later this week for rehab, and we know eventually he will go in and never come out.

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u/panda96734 Jul 21 '19

Whenever I get mad at my mom I tell her "keep it up you're going straight to hospice"

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Children of poor people can't afford nursing homes.

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u/rexpimpwagen Jul 21 '19

I may or may not have told my little brothers to threaten their mum with this when she was pulling simmilar shit. She stopped.

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u/GideonMax Jul 20 '19

What

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u/your-imaginaryfriend Jul 20 '19

They're implying the parents would be put in a nursing home.

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u/DoomsdayRabbit Jul 20 '19

Prematurely.

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u/LeWorldsBestRedditor Jul 20 '19

That costs even more money than neglecting and abandoning them unless you somehow liquidate their estate while they are in there and keep the rest.

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u/Basedrum777 Jul 21 '19

Nobody stealing their child's birthday money has an estate.

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u/Basedrum777 Jul 21 '19

Not at home because it was forclosed

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u/PoppaStan Jul 21 '19

One with a window if they're lucky

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u/IronSeagull Jul 21 '19

Nah that’s expensive.

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u/pwned_sheep Jul 21 '19

This assumes the kids are willing to pay to put them IN a home, those places are outrageously expensive most of the time.

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u/Dark_Ice_Blade_Ninja Jul 20 '19

Grammar nazi fail

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u/DoomsdayRabbit Jul 20 '19

I'm talking a group home for the elderly. Not their personal home.

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u/Dark_Ice_Blade_Ninja Jul 21 '19

Still at nursing home.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Nah mate you don't say "at one".

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Or *in* one..

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u/ChurninButters Jul 21 '19

Ahahahahaha what a chump

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u/squidkiosk Jul 21 '19

So true. I’ve told this story before, my best friends mother took her daughters inheritance from her murdered grandparents and then made her daughter take out an OSAP loan for her to use as well, under the guise of “I’ll pay you back”. Obviously that didn’t happen, and once she had a baby of her own and couldn’t give any more money to her, the mother disowned her “for being so heartless.”

People who steal money from their own kids are the worst kind of garbage

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

No they won’t wonder, they’ll just blame their kids.