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Submitted by NoWireCoatHanga... on Sat, 04/25/2015 - 1:15pm

I told him not to buy all that softball gear and bags or to at least buy it second hand. I reminded him of volleyball . She didn't even make the team but he bought her all the gear. I reminded him of dance and ballet. She wanted all the outfits and shoes and bags for the introductory class. Ishe never went back. I reminded him of the eukalali and how she dropped it after two weeks and we still don't know where they expensive eukalali went. But no. He bought all that softball crap. So I said "how's softball going?" "Oh I dropped out. There were games and practices five days a week!!!! Can you believe that?"

So i am not saying anything . If he wants to waste his money so be it. I am just going around singing Randy Travis' song "I told you so .... Oh boy I told you so."

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Submitted by ctnmom on Sat, 04/25/2015 - 6:41pm

Whenever I signed my kids up for something, it was with the caveat that they couldn't drop out, and they could only miss 2 practices. This mom is too cheap to spend that money and then have them not go!

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Submitted by fedupstep on Sat, 04/25/2015 - 2:08pm

My parent's made me make a 6 month commitment to anything I wanted to try. If I wanted to quit before the 6 months was up, I had to pay back every cent they spent on me to put me in the activity. As a kid, that meant extra chores. Only did that once!

DH is guilty of this too. SD16 BEGGED for a guitar a couple of years ago. He ran to the store and spent $250 on one. She played it once and never touched it again. SD16 feels that unless she is good at something right away with no effort, she can give it up. She did this with BM as well with Karate (one lesson), cheerleading (one tryout) and saxophone (she made it to 2 whole lessons with that one).

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Submitted by Cover1W on Sat, 04/25/2015 - 6:17pm

SD11 has not finished any non-school class series but one.
Gymnastics, quit
One week dance camp, quit
Drama class 2, quit
(She completed drama one I think because it was easy)

She has a one day babysitting course next month and think she'll go to that because she wants a babysitting job. But I withdrew from assisting with any classes or camps after she quit the last drama class. If it actually turns out to be work (!) to master something, forget it. It's all on DP now.