do you find yourself acquiring things you don't need as an adult?
2007-09-13 14:41:00 · 20 answers · asked by from HJ 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I grew up with 5 siblings, but we always had the essentials !
A roof over our heads, food in our bellies, plenty of love and hand me downs. Even though we might have been "deprived" of some material things, we always had love and respect for our parents.
We were very grateful when we did get a little something.
Unfortunately, I can't say the same about kids growing up today, they feel that everything is owed to them and that money grows on trees.
Hugs,
2007-09-14 05:26:42 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't use the word deprived but there were things that we went without. As an adult I don't find myself acquiring things I don't need. When I was a teen I did but now I've learned to manage my money better.
2007-09-13 21:46:48 · answer #2 · answered by Nico 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That would often be the result of childhood deprivation. I wasn't deprived,personally,so I acquire things I don't need as an exercise in existentialism.
2007-09-13 21:48:45 · answer #3 · answered by Galahad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, for most of my life my family lived in one room...only recently we got a small house with two bedrooms, and in the last 2 years I have been working hard to earn money so I can actually shop in a mall, and not a thrift shop.Sometimes, if I have some money saved up, I'll just buy something because I remember a time when we didnt have that something and we needed it. But I usually return it in the end, because I don't want to waste my money.
Good Luck!
2007-09-13 21:51:03 · answer #4 · answered by -:-vInTaGe PaSsIon-:- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well when i was little i didnt have everything i wanted but i wouldnt call it deprived i had food in my stomach and a roof over my head and clothes on my back! but i dont get stuff i dont need now as an adult i hate clutter!!
2007-09-13 21:47:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I were deprived, I would be much better off, for I would be more then likely somewere so far away, that I wouldnt know what a I-Pod was, and then would become more self suffecient. Flat screens wouldnt mean anything too me, can you catch my drift???
2007-09-14 08:45:26 · answer #6 · answered by campfire03 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sadly, yes. I used to want fruit roll ups as a kid and my mom never bought them, when I got older and my nephew offered me one of his I nearly ate up the whole box, he's cautious now when offering me something. Another thing that I wanted terribly was a power wheel. I wanted one soo badly to the point that one day while visiting my aunt and her little girl, I noticed that she had one. I was 15 at the time and was too big to fit into her power wheel but I tried to drive it anyway. I didn't get very far...It wouldn't cooperate.
2007-09-13 21:53:15 · answer #7 · answered by Survivor 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't have alot but I never felt deprived. I collect some things now.
2007-09-13 21:47:30 · answer #8 · answered by furious but whatever 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I make sure my kids are not deprived..too much.
2007-09-13 21:46:14 · answer #9 · answered by Nick Name 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I was raised without alot, and I still live happily without alot. Everything's relative, I guess.
2007-09-13 21:45:56 · answer #10 · answered by JonBoy74 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋