How to Convince your parents to allow you to purchase new puzzles?

[NinjaLamprey]

Obviously this thread is dedicated to how to convince your parents to allow you to purchase twisty puzzles.

My mom is very againt my purchasing any puzzle. She says they are a waste of time and money.

Fortunatly, my dad is okay with it, but not my mom.

So to start out the thread, what can one do to convince his parents otherwise?

 

[Bryan]

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/s...ple-(Especially-Parents)-To-buy-cubes-for-you

 

[Zarxrax]

Sounds like you need to focus on your dad. If hes a good dad, he will help you buy it behind your mothers back

 

[freshcuber]

1: Save up money.
2: Go and buy a Visa gift card.
3: Open Paypal acount and load gift card onto Paypal.
4: Purchase cubes from a site that accept Paypal transactions.
5: ???
6: Profit.

 

[antoineccantin]

1: Save up money.
2: Go and buy a Visa gift card.
3: Open Paypal acount and load gift card onto Paypal.
4: Purchase cubes from a site that accept Paypal transactions.
5: ???
6: Profit.

You can use a Visa Gift Card to purchase something with Paypal?

 

[freshcuber]

Yes, Visa gift card=credit card with maximum limit of whatever it says on the gift card

 

[Magix]

You need to be +18 to do that probably and from the OP I assume he's a minor.

What you could do is just save up 10 dollars or whatever, then make a paypal account, get someone you know to send 10 dollars to your paypal account, and give them the 10 dollars back in real life.

No age verification and stuff needed.

As for your question, my money is my money, I do whatever I want with it. Just tell your mom that this is something that actually forces you to think, unlike the video games you would otherwise buy.
Kids spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on shooting people in the face on FPS's and MMORPG's. Solving twisty puzzles is a lot more.. sophisticated form of entertainment, if your mother can't understand that, well.. I feel sorry for you. lol

Though yeah, I can understand where she'd have a problem if you have like 4 3x3's and want to buy another one, because it seems kind of pointless.

 

[emolover]

Ahh... you have that kind of mom. My friend is in the same situation as you. What he does is whenever I order he orders with me. In fact a lot of my friends do that with me, its not necessarily that there parents dont like that cubing, it just that it saves money on shiping.

But there might be a problem with that. A lot of people say they dont have cubing friends(noobs) so this might not be an option for you.

Also a really good argument for when she says its a waste of time, you could say to her "And you TV watching is a good use of time?" or "would you rather me rot my brains out by playing video games?" or "cubing makes you think will doing so, thus making it a good use of time". Thats what I said to my parents and they were satisfied with the statements and arguments I made. Spelling

 

[tertius]

You need to be +18 to do that probably and from the OP I assume he's a minor.

What you could do is just save up 10 dollars or whatever, then make a paypal account, get someone you know to send 10 dollars to your paypal account, and give them the 10 dollars back in real life.

No age verification and stuff needed.

As for your question, my money is my money, I do whatever I want with it. Just tell your mom that this is something that actually forces you to think, unlike the video games you would otherwise buy.
Kids spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on shooting people in the face on FPS's and MMORPG's. Solving twisty puzzles is a lot more.. sophisticated form of entertainment, if your mother can't understand that, well.. I feel sorry for you. lol

Though yeah, I can understand where she'd have a problem if you have like 4 3x3's and want to buy another one, because it seems kind of pointless.

I was unaware you needed to be 18 to buy a gift card....

While I like both, I do not find FPS's to be less sophisticated than twisty puzzles. With a FPS you opponent is a human, who thinks and acts with motives. My cube does not think and does not change cases in the middle of my solve. In my particular case, FPS's has real world application that I use on a daily basis. My cube, not so much.

Not too many people can say that the cube has saved their life, FPS's have saved mine.

 

[Johan444]

Just tell your mom that this is something that actually forces you to think, unlike the video games you would otherwise buy.
Kids spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on shooting people in the face on FPS's and MMORPG's. Solving twisty puzzles is a lot more.. sophisticated form of entertainment, if your mother can't understand that, well.. I feel sorry for you. lol

Pretentious opinion is pretentious.

Also, doing a friedrich solve [EDIT: also a 4x4/5x5/6x6/7x7/2x2/BLD/etc. solve] makes me think a lot less than I'd do playing WoW for example (I used played WoW alot). Point is, I disagree.

 

[uberCuber]

here's how I convince my parents:

Me: I think I'm gonna buy a ___
Mom/Dad: Ok

 

[y3k9]

Don't ask you mom, just say "Hey mom, Ima order some cubes, kay?"

 

[Kirjava]

My parents are dead, you insensitive clod!

 

[Dylan]

My parents are dead, you insensitive clod!

Really i thought you stayed at thier house when you went into manchester?

 

[Whyusosrs?]

My parents are dead, you insensitive clod!

I bet she's a pushover.

 

[Vishal]

Are your parents education oriented? If you tell them that having state, national or world records would look good on a college application.

 

[Andreaillest]

You need to be +18 to do that probably and from the OP I assume he's a minor.

No you don't. I've used and purchased these cards at the age of 16 and have had no problems.

 

[collinbxyz]

guilt them into it of course. That's how I got my 4x4 =P

 

[ianography]

guilt them into it of course. That's how I got my 4x4 =P

did they buy it for you?

 

[collinbxyz]

did they buy it for you?

haha, ya. All I had was the Qj 4x4 which stinks. Guilt is the key to everything