Tell me about it. First you have to buy new outfits to go to the fancy theater and then there is dinner out and of course you have to get some souvenirs for each of them. It never ends. The last show I saw was “The Phantom of the Opera” at the Kennedy Center years and years ago. My kids have never been to a professional stage performance either. They are lucky if they get to go to a movie every now and then. Even with that it generally means about $100.00 by the time you buy the dinner out before the movie, and spend a few minutes playing the arcade games, and then there is the popcorn and drinks that they have to have even though they just ate dinner and had a dessert. I do try to take them to the cheap movie place if I can. The seats there are only $3.00 each. You still pay through the nose for the popcorn and drinks, but it is better then paying $7 or $8 each on top of the popcorn. And we have to wait until the movie is not showing in the other theaters before they are showing them at this place.
I’m not looking forward to when they will start to want to go to concerts with their friends. And Chris will be 13 in a few weeks and he wants a cell phone. *shakes head* I don’t even pay for the one I have, my dad does. And my husband’s is paid for by his work. I don’t know if we are ready for him to have a phone of his own yet. He can’t even keep his room clean. I can just see him losing it in the first week.
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Date: 2007-05-18 02:28 am (UTC)I’m not looking forward to when they will start to want to go to concerts with their friends. And Chris will be 13 in a few weeks and he wants a cell phone. *shakes head* I don’t even pay for the one I have, my dad does. And my husband’s is paid for by his work. I don’t know if we are ready for him to have a phone of his own yet. He can’t even keep his room clean. I can just see him losing it in the first week.