<p>A maid? haha My butler Chives, chauffeur Alfred, cook Hansel, valet Moncriffe, gardener Javier, pool boy Chad Bro, Nanny Beelzebub and Manny Lucifer, and personal tutor Professor Plum make up the staff at my family’s cottage. Don’t get me started on the rest of our real estate. Spoiled? Hardly…</p>
<p>a lot of people around me have maids…in french the teacher asked a kid who takes out the trash at his house and he said the maid</p>
<p>^ spoiled much?</p>
<p>Do you live on a plantation by chance Spruce? Cuz maids are not really common anywhere in America as far as I know.</p>
<p>haha people around here have maids…
not ones that live in the house and takes care of every 24/7 but once that come in every week or so to do some cleaning
and it’s even more convenient if they come on trash days.</p>
<p>not THAT unusual…</p>
<p>but then again, we’re all a pretty spoiled bunch in my school.</p>
<p>I wasn’t asking about people that live in Buckingham Palace, Smile614! JK
Most people around my hood also have those people but they are called cleaning ladies…</p>
<p>haha, central nj…</p>
<p>Haha I have to admit, my neighborhood and surrounding areas are NOT normal by any means. It’s pretty crazy. Like 95% white population, lots of kids running around, tons of spoiled teenagers driving around in BMWs…etc </p>
<p>I like it here though, everyone around here may have a lot of material things and get whatever they want and such but they’re all friendly and welcoming. Only a few get really really spoiled and snotty.</p>
<p>Yeah, we usually have maids that stop by how ever many times the family asks them to just to make sure the place is clean, cook some food to store in the fridge, take out the trash, put the pile of dirty dishes in the dishwasher, dump everyone’s laundry …just typical household chores that they’re too lazy to do. So I guess you can call them cleaning ladies…?</p>
<p>9.5/10 (some might give me a 10/10 or even 11/10 lol)
My dad gave me his 2006 mercedes slk for my 16th (he lives in NJ now), my parents pay for gas, insurance, phone (unlimited txt, minutes). If I go out they pay for food or if I need new clothes even though I have money. I don’t have a job, or chores because we have maids that come by once a week. I got a new laptop for xmas even though I have a good desktop and last year they got me a wii and xbox 360 the year before. For my bday I just go out to dinner with my fam, then a separate dinner with friends that they pay for. </p>
<p>I don’t really ask for money, they just give it to me because I get good grades and don’t have much time for a job with sports. </p>
<p>We go to Jamaica at least once a year for the past 6 years, and this summer we’re going to Italy and Greece and to the Jersey shore to my dad’s house there. My dad works in New Jersey and comes down to FL every other weekend. </p>
<p>I haven’t ever been grounded, and I rarely get reprimanded, if I’m past driving curfew it’s not a big deal. My parent’s aren’t extremely rich, OMG I sound like such a brat lol</p>
<p>If you lived in my city you’d see that this is not out of the ordinary, one girl at my school was almost on My Super Sweet 16 no joke.</p>
<p>same deal. some girls party got taped for my super sweet 16, idk if theyll use it. ive also never been grounded, but i also dont do stupid **** that would get me grounded</p>
<p>Probably 0 or 1. I get tossed around by my parents. Even though they care but they don’t know how to do it.</p>
<p>My parents have never came with me on first days or orientations. Never came to my games. I bike around 10 miles everyday to places commuting to my activities.</p>
<p>But if I need money they will give me because they know I don’t buy crack or marijuana. I think I should though.</p>
<p>@ Spruce oh I’m glad someone else is on the same boat as me. I don’t have any reason to get grounded, I’ve never skipped class or gotten detention or talked back</p>
<p>“oh I’m glad someone else is on the same boat as me. I don’t have any reason to get grounded, I’ve never skipped class or gotten detention or talked back
The Seasons is online now”</p>
<p>Whoever is in that boat hasn’t lived I’m afraid^</p>
<p>I think it’s important not to equate material possessions to how spoiled someone is. It is much better to look at all factors including work ethic and whether or not these material things are within the means of the family.</p>
<p>I’m probably at 6-7, I’m pretty lucky, but my parents make me work a little for what I get, are frugal, but I can’t complain, I live a very good life.</p>
<p>I’d say I’m a 6/10. My parents pay for my cell phone, but then again we have like a family plan thing. I don’t have a car and I pay for the majority of my clothes. I can’t complain though… they are helping me pay for college. I don’t get an allowance and I rarely ask for any money. I feel like many kids have it worse than I do. Way worse.</p>
<p>Like 2/10.</p>
<ul>
<li>I get school materials when I ask, but I usually don’t.</li>
<li>No cell phone</li>
<li>No car. My parents just bought a car, so we have 3 now. None are mine ;>!</li>
<li>I’m predicting 0 contribution to tuition from them</li>
<li>I often have to skip meetings at ECs because my dad doesn’t want to pick me up</li>
<li>We have a clothes drier. I can’t use it.</li>
<li>We have a water heater. We can only use it every 2 days. Sometimes I take cold showers.</li>
<li>Despite all of that, I have a closet full of jcrew & ralph lauren, because every other week I go to my mom’s and I’m 7/10 spoiled there, I guess. o.o</li>
</ul>
<p>I have a weird life.</p>
<p>Like a 3/10.</p>
<p>I buy most of my stuff, don’t ask for expensive items, or anything of that sort. Once in a while, my mom buys me DVDs or clothes or something, but not too often.</p>
<p>i am homeless</p>
<p>/thread</p>
<p>
Oh, dude, same here! My dad ALWAYS gets the new car. My mom has always had her Toyota Camry from 1988, and my dad has always had his 1989 Toyota 4Runner. In the mid 90s, my dad bought a Chrysler (in addition to his truck). A few years later, it got stolen, so he bought a used 2000 Toyota Camry. A little later, he bought a brand new Toyota Corolla, and my mom finally got my dad’s old car (which itself was used), and I <em>finally</em> got the 1988 Toyota Camry as my first car. Less than a year later, my mom was driving my Toyota Camry one day, and <em>apparently</em> it broke down on her, so she donated it to charity without first asking me. -_-</p>
<p>So now I walk/bike to and from school everyday, as I always have, =/</p>
<p>Anyways, Steven’s list reminded me of some new “things”, so I’ll add to my list:</p>
<ul>
<li>No car</li>
<li>No allowance/no lunch money</li>
<li>Have chores (vacuuming, weeding, dishes, etc)</li>
<li>No cell phone (ever)</li>
<li>No birthday celebrations (or gifts)</li>
<li>No Christmas gifts</li>
<li>New pair of shoes every 2-3 years</li>
<li>No article of clothing over $20</li>
<li>Had 56k dial-up until 2006</li>
<li>iPod is three years old (long before the iPhone was even heard of)/it often times shuts down arbitrarily</li>
<li>Didn’t get a brand-new computer until my last year of high-school (had a string of old computers [from the 90s] that all broke down on me)</li>
<li>Never met 3/4 of my grandparents (one dead, two no idea), so no “grandparent spoiling”</li>
<li>Not allowed to use tissue paper to blow my nose (supposed to use napkins)</li>
<li>Not allowed to wear “outside clothes” (good clothes) inside the house; have to wear worn and often-ripped “inside clothes”</li>
<li>Not allowed to print out Mapquest directions or things of that nature (have to copy them down on scratch paper)</li>
<li>Have strict guidelines over how often I can change my shower towel and pillow case</li>
<li>Not allowed to wash my outer bedsheets</li>
<li>Not allowed to use the clothes drier; have to let them dry in the sun (thus getting stiff and full of lint)</li>
<li>Have had to eat chicken, rice, lettuce, and oatmeal nearly every single day for the past 15 years (because they’re cheap)</li>
<li>Not allowed to use the heater even when it’s extremely cold (oftentimes so cold that I wake up in the early morning, shivering)</li>
</ul>
<p>So…maybe a 6.</p>