05-01-2007, 06:21 PM
Wingy wrote: Wowee, you have to pay for your internet? :o I can't imagine me paying for mine... I only get $30 a week! Good thing Freddy has money, we'd be lost without him.
Only$30 a week? Sheesh! When I was a kid, my parents paid me a quarter a week! Yeah, it takes a LONG time to save up for anything you want when you make $1 a month! And then my quarter-a-week allowance disappeared when my older brother and sister needed braces.
I guess that's why I got into making shareware... even getting a few $10 registrations on some early TI-99/4a games I made felt great as a kid. :-)
Oh, and Wingy... trust me, paying for internet is the *least* of life's expenses. Try paying for housing (most expensive -- thousands a month if you want to own or rent a home), utilities (hundreds), car insurance (about $100 a month for one car), gas ($100 to $200 a month), food (probably around $300 a month), etc. And that's not spending money on anything
fun. Yeah, that's what you get to look forward to when you get older!
When you're a kid, a few hundred seems like a lot of money. When you become an adult, you realize that the cost of just
livingis several hundred per week, and that's if you're only renting a small room in an apartment you share with other people. ;-)