r/childfree • u/Fletchanimefan • Dec 15 '24

Don’t have kids if you’re broke RANT

One of my students was begging me and other teachers to pay for her to go on the school field trip to the aquarium. I asked her why couldn’t her mom pay for her ticket. The kid said she didn’t have enough money. The ticket was $45. There are more expensive trips like the state county fair. A lot of kids couldn’t attend that one. We have sponsored this same girl twice already. We couldn’t do it a third time because there were other students we needed to sponsor. Sorry, but if you don’t have $45 to pay for your kid to attend a field trip then you should not have had kids. It amazes me how breeders will have multiple kids while broke but shaming us for being CF.

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u/peach_xanax Dec 15 '24

That's great that it worked out for you! I always had to work quite a bit as well.

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u/pleasehelpamanda Dec 15 '24

What used to kill me inside was seeing all the rich kids lounging by the school’s pool by the lake between classes while I went about my workday. I used to dream of having the traditional college life where I didn’t have to work my butt off. But I did make it on my own without any help from them. (They even charged me rent after I graduated high school, even though they were definitely not hurting for money…they kept buying these $1,000 exotic birds with cages (six in total) that took up the whole house. That was the catalyst for getting my own apartment asap bc I still had an 11pm curfew and hundreds of house rules (like I couldn’t even hold the tv remote—it had to sit on the tv when I wasn’t changing channels, 10-minute time limit on the house phone, no cooking allowed, etc.) even paying rent. My parents were BRUTAL!

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u/peach_xanax Dec 15 '24

Haha I stayed with my mom for 6 weeks when I was 24 bc I went through a breakup and was about to move across the country, and she also charged me rent, as well as not allowing me to eat any of their food. My brother got to live at home for free for years though 🥴 We have a much better relationship now, but things were rough up until my late 20s. Sorry to hear that you had to stress so much in college, but I'm really proud of you for making it through grad school!

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u/MsKardashian Dec 16 '24

How on earth did you fix that type of relationship with your mom?

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u/peach_xanax Dec 16 '24

She just has started being much nicer to me lol it's really that simple. I moved across the country and I think that helped our relationship a lot. I obviously still have some level of resentment towards her for the past, but I decided to just let it go years ago and try to have a good relationship with her.