@nordlead

OH yeah I had that whole chore system thing too. We had a points system. I could do any number of different chores to equal the same amount of points.

For example: making the bed was 5 points, doing laundry was 40, setting the table was 3, washing the car was 25, garbage was 10, trips to the convenience store were 15.

So, in a week I had to get 100 points to earn my allowance. So, I could just do really big chores, and not have to ever make my bed. Once I got to some number of total points, say 500-1000, I would get some kind of reward. Either a school lunch plan for one month (30$), a new game (40$), movies with a friend (35$), 20$ cash, or something else. Or I could save those points to even bigger rewards.

Even so, by doing every chore available it would take me 7 or 8 weeks or more to get 1000 points, so the movies were once every two months or so. It was a brilliant game, but I think a lot of the things I was rewarded, were things I should have been getting anyway. Like things for school, food, and clothes that fit me.

I actually kind of liked this way of doing things, because I basically learned that I had control over my life (in some small way). It was my parents distinct lack of care that upset me. I never got anything I asked for, always had knockoff stuff or really lame things, and pretty much never fit in until highschool when I bought all my own things..

ALso, yeah if I complained about what I got, be sure that I would either never get it back, or never see the thing I wanted either. I did that several times and just had things taken away. lol?

EDIT: The funny thing is, we were never poor. MY 'rentz made over 80k and only had like 700 a month in rent. It's not like I can say, "it's cool, they were trying their best with what little they had." They just seriously did not give two shits. It was like I was their roommate rather than a child lol.

Gamestop in immensely more worse when it comes to hurting the video game industry though. And walmart's chinese shit is cheap too, even if it does give you lead poisoning, or HIV!

So now while all his friends are playing Halo he can play Wii Sports Resort. Major score.

In general terms...

Nintendo systems are chosen by the parents to be played mostly by their kids.
Sony and Microsoft are systems chosen by kids to be played mostly by themselves.


I can see now why some people hate Nintendo, because is easier than hating your parents.

Maybe she wants it for herself, maybe she wants something in the living room that the family can play together instead of little Timmy locking himself in his room and cursing out other xbox live members, or maybe she grew up playing NES and likes their franchises. Whatever the reason it's her money and she should spend it however she wants.

I got $5 a day for lunch at school.... nothing in the summer. If I wanted something I started raking leaves, mowing lawns, or shoveling drives until I had enough money to buy it. I'm really glad she didn't give in and encourage that kids behavior. There is way to much of that crap going on nowadays. She is spending the money and wants a Wii, if he wants something else it's his own responsible to get it for himself. Until then he can just buck up and enjoy the fact that his mom bought any gaming system at all.

Which cheap chinese shit are you talking about? Things like my xbox 360 and my wii both of which are made in China? Or brands like Maytag and Sanyo both of which are partly owned by China and sell chiense goods.

Wait till you see the Chinese Hummer...

Id cry if I had to get a wii. Poor kid

Dang whippersnappers. Back when I was six years old, all I had was my dad's increasingly ancient NES (was 1993) that he got before my parents met, and I was happy playing SMB, Duck Hunt and SMB 3 over and over again! Sure, I had to blow in the cartridges until I almost passed out to get them to work, but that was half the fun!

Eventually I got a Sega Genesis in a contest I didn't enter, but by then it was around 1995 and I was beginning to want a Sega Saturn. Thankfully, for all concerned, the Saturn failed before I could get one, and ended up getting a PS1 in 1998.

Good times...

Do you pay taxes?  Then you support walmart also.

Here in WI, Walmart takes advantage of our health care known as badgercare.  They don't provide their employees with affordable health care or they don't give them enough hours to qualify.  They help their employees sign up for badgercare, then they have their employees redeem the services at walmart (prescriptions, visits, etc).  So that way, Wisconsin pays walmart to provide health care benefits to walmart.  In 2007, it cost the state over a billion dollars.

I don't know about other states, but my guess is that you support Walmart whether or not you want to.

No need to keep checking with the Xbox 360. Every game comes coded with its ESRB or BBFC rating and you can set the parental controls on the Xbox 360 to limit what rating's can be played. So you can set it to ESRB E (Everyone) Or BBFC PG and any games above those ratings will not be allowed to start up. You can even set timers on the parental controls to like 4 hours every week (Which is just fucking harsh to be honest).

Also if you make a under 18 Live account you need your parent's permission and all the privacy settings are enabled by default. You can turn off voice chat all together which is the only reason Live isn't suitable for kids. You can also disable access to all these settings and the previous through a password.

Personally to me it sounds like the mother and heard alot about the Wii from her friends and thought of her own needs more then her Sons. Wii Fit anybody?

Of course he's still getting a free Wii but its still not that he wanted.

And the price arguments mean nothing. You can get a arcade model much cheaper than the Wii.