OT: Kipp, great response.
I didn't know that much about you....and based on the few posts of yours that I've read....sort of thought you were some spoiled trust fund kid :)
With my screen name and profile info., I suppose one might think I'm some sort of spoiled trust fund kid to, but probably have more in common with people from your generation.
I was also taught to work for what I need. When I was 11 I wanted an expensive BMX bike, so my Dad pointed to the lawn mower and told me I needed to earn the money to pay for it so I would appreciate it. After I earned the $200.00 for the bike, I continued to work to save for my college fund. At the peak, I had more than 20 regular customers and cleared $6,000.00 one summer, while not charging more than $10 per lawn....yeah, that's more than 600 lawns....each which took more than an hour....so I was working more than 40 hours a week all summer by the time I was 14. All that work paid for my first year of college....and for my hockey and ski equipment for winter-time hobbies.....little did I know how much more hockey would cost me in dental work down the road :)
So anyway, sorry for the misunderstanding.
"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Economy, 1854
