Buying goods with your own money, would it mean more?

Question

for example.

i have had a drivers license for over a year but my dad wont insure me on his car or trust me to drive it. i cant afford it myself but i realised to myself when i grow up i will buy a car from my own money and insurance without my parents help.

its difficult as most my friends drive their parents cars and i cant, everyone asks me when will you drive etc. yeah it gets to me a lot.

but i was wondering do you think when i buy a car with my own money and insure myself etc maintaing a car.

that it would mean more to me then as i didnt ask for my parents help?

Answer 1

It depends on your feelings.

>its difficult as most my friends drive their parents cars and i cant, everyone asks me when will you drive etc. yeah it gets to me a lot.

Yeah, I remember that situation... social pressure is really annoying (I'm 26 years old now and it still annoys me).

>but i was wondering do you think when i buy a car with my own money and insure myself etc maintain a car that it would mean more to me then as i didn't ask for my parents help?

Well, rules being as they are in the west, when you buy it with your own money etc, you own it and nobody can say anything about when you can use it or what you can modify on it or who you can give a ride to or where you can go using it.

That is, you are free to use your possessions as you want. If anyone not authorized by you did try to interfere with this right, you'd have grounds for a lawsuit and/or police action against him and/or force, no matter who he or she is.

Contrast that to someone else "graciously letting you drive a car": He gives you the *revocable* right to drive the car under certain conditions: 1. only if he doesn't need it; 2. limits on where you can go; 3. limits on who you can give a ride; 4. no modifications.

Not so nice, eh?

I remember when I got my first car paid for with my own money, and it felt better.

Note that from a financial point of view, most insurances dislike inexperienced persons, and so if you insure it while having little experience in driving, they'll charge you an arm and a leg for it. Not so much for the parents with, like, 40+ years experience.

Answer 2

yes.

and sweeter is the fruit of ones labor.

not to mention no one can take it away.

Answer 3

Definitely!

Answer 4

Yes, it will mean more to you. You will respect it more and have way more pride in it as well. Why- because YOU bought that car and paid for it by yourself.

Answer 5

I just know that you will take a lot better care of something you bought yourself. Using money you had to earn makes that money more valuable to you. Just like everything else, when it has greater value to you, you do appreciate it more.