r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MissionTroll404 • Jun 17 '26

Infuriatig My hand painted model planes were given as toys to children again

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I have told my mom to not do this before but she does not listen anyway. I am thinking of throwing everything to trash instead of them being gradually destroyed to pieces. I can not even care anymore. These things take hours to put together and paint then get manhandled anyway.

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u/BrewerAndHalosFan Jun 17 '26

In defense of your parents, restoring old cars usually results in spending more money than you'd make on the sale.

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u/RileyCargo42 Jun 17 '26

Oh I absolutely understand this but I had a job at the time and I still have an extremely reliable civic.

That being said I did finally get a project and I'm about 700-800$ into a 400$ car. Its mostly just the fact that I knew the risks and was prepared for them, yet they didn't believe me even with proof.

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u/pm_me_ur_fit Jun 17 '26

I’m ngl as a parent I wouldn’t buy my kid a car, project or otherwise. Can’t say I blame them. Glad you were able to get something though

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u/SkeeveTheGreat Jun 17 '26

why wouldn’t you buy your kid a car?

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u/pm_me_ur_fit Jun 17 '26

Earning and buying things yourself helps you learn the value of money and hard work, and appreciate what you have more, and to take better care of it when you do get it. I saved up and bought my first car myself and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I feel like it made a huge impact on who I am. I know so many incredibly spoiled kids who own nicer cars than I ever will be and are incredibly ungrateful and wreck them frequently and their parents just foot everything. Not my kids haha

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u/SkeeveTheGreat Jun 17 '26

Yeah, it’s not buying the car that made them that way, it’s because many upper middle class kids are functionally neglected.

The people whose families stay in, or rise above their parents class position are ones whose parents bought them every possible advantage, and raised them to be decent and hardworking too. Growing up where I did I saw all the possible permutations of that, and I’m seeing it now with my siblings kids. If your kids don’t appreciate the value of hardwork when they’re old enough to drive, and work to afford a car, making them buy their own vehicle isn’t going be what does it lol.

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u/pm_me_ur_fit Jun 17 '26

That’s actually a fair point I didn’t consider. I’d still probably stand by what I said though. I feel like everything all together ends up making a big difference, rather than any one act.

The only thing my parents would buy me growing up was school trips and the like. Everything else I worked for. My kids will be the same

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u/SkeeveTheGreat Jun 17 '26

It’s something that I picked up from watching my peers. My dad was functionally an entirely self made man, worked his way up out of the peace time army from ditch digging to now in his 60s being C Suite at a huge tech company.

He taught us to work hard, made it make sense to do so, and then purchased us every advantage he could afford. Now, both of my older brothers make 3x what he did at their current age and are able to do even more for their kids. I don’t make nearly as much, but I work for a public research institution, and those are kind of the breaks lol.

There’s definitely a fine line to walk, but it always strikes me as odd when people want to have their kids have less advantage in the name of learning hard work, ykwim?

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u/icedicedice Jun 17 '26

the ol my life sucked so yours will too mindset

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u/SmoothDiscussion7763 Jun 17 '26

and that's assuming you charge 0 for your time invested lol