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STORY: My friend Tricia has direct deposit for her paycheck into her bank account. Every month she gets a statement (that tells her what she has taken out as cash, what checks she wrote and the deposits) which is mailed to her home every month. Instead of taking out money for the week she takes out $20 to $25 a day. Yesterday when the statement came Tricias mother helped Tricia reconcile her bank statement and saw that Tricia wasnt taking out for the week but taking out $20 $25 every day. Her mother said; Tricia you have to budget. You really should take out for the week. You are spending more than you make; They argued about it a little bit. Later on Tricia said; mom are you telling me not to buy the jewelry I buy; Her mother replied: no I am not saying that. I am telling you to take out for the week; She told her friends the story and her friends said: Tricia your mother is not saying she doesnt want you to buy the jewelry she just doesnt want you to take out $20 - $25 a day, she wants you to take out for the entire week. MY QUESTION: DO YOU AGREE WITH HER FRIENDS?
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And Tina said that these questions are rediculously stupid. These fucking questions should be banned, seriously.
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Tricia/Tracy/Daniela and whomever. You have a distinctive way of asking questions with a pattern of introducing a character, telling a story, and then saying that the character asks her friends and 'her friends say ___. MY QUESTION: DO YOU AGREE WITH HER FRIENDS?'
Are Tricia, Tracy, and Daniela all really the author or do you collect your friends' stories of living with their mothers, having problems with budgets, etc., to post? Really, it's no big deal. I'm just pointing out a pattern.
I believe that Tricia's mother told her that she should take out her spending money for the week at one time. She didn't say anything about buying jewelry, according to the transcribed conversation above, until Tricia brought it up. So NO, I don't think Tricia's mom is telling her not to buy jewelry. She is likely *thinking* it, but Tricia seems paranoid and prone to overanalysis and jumping to conclusions. She is reading too much into the conversation and ignoring her mother's main message, which is that Tricia needs to have a budget within her means and to stick to that budget, even if it means not shopping for a day or two if she blows her spending money at the beginning of the week.
When she was directly asked whether she was commenting on the spending on jewelry and the mother said no, this leads me to believe that she was not saying that. Tricia's mother seems to be willing to help with her finances and is telling her about budgeting. If she were concerned about the jewelry purchases in specific, why would she conceal her true message? Take her at face value.
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I do and I don't agree with the friends. I do because her mother seems that she is mainly concerned with her going over budget. I don't because I know that her mother has in the past had issues with her buying the jewelry.
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Yes, I agree with her friends. The mother would have said the same thing if the daughter had been buying potatoes, rare coins, or gold dust; the material doesn't matter, only that she's spending too much.
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