Your Parents and Cubing

at first my parents were kind of against me cubing since I did it so much and it was downstairs on a desktop so the clacking of the cubes were annoying to them (plus, I did roughly 250 solves a day). Then I had one phase where I played a lot of video games, and my parents actually wanted me to cube. For a while I honestly didn't, because I didn't want to accept that my times would be slower since I was out of practice. Eventually I got back into it, and now they don't really mind at all, probably partly now because I can tie myself upstairs on a laptop away from the rest of the family so it wouldn't get annoying. They still don't really understand me buying cubes with my money unless they're surely going to be my main, which is why I just use my gift cards from online comps to buy cubes:)
 
My parents literally hate me cubing so much that I have to hide all my cubes from them so they don't throw them in the trash and I have to do very very very very very very very good in school for me to still pay double the price of the cube. I think that I just need to be sub 10 for them to encourage it but based on how much time I have I don't think that's any time soon
 
EvanTheCuber said:
My parents literally hate me cubing so much that I have to hide all my cubes from them so they don't throw them in the trash and I have to do very very very very very very very good in school for me to still pay double the price of the cube. I think that I just need to be sub 10 for them to encourage it but based on how much time I have I don't think that's any time soon
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That totally happened
 
My parents were OK with it. The only thing that ended up being a problem (still is) is I had a really loud cube (D-FantiX Cyclone Boys 3x3) to start. Every time I'd cube around my parents they'd ask me to stop because it was so loud and annoying.
Now I have a nice main that's not so noisy.

I didn't ever really have the problems some cubers seem to have with buying cubes, because all the cubes I own I've bought with my own money.
 
When I started I had a few low quality cubes that my parents bought for me. They were okay with it because I only one or two of each "kind" (3x3, 2x2, 4x4, pyraminx, square-1). (See them here https://www.speedsolving.com/thread...ntification-thread.17946/page-83#post-1372312)

Fast forward about 8 years, now that I had some money from an internship and a credit card I bought a whole bunch of cubes and kept buying. Some friends in college cubed and we could talk about different cubes which was a lot of fun. My parents say I have too many cubes, which is untrue because you can never have too many cubes, but I do have a puzzle purchasing addiction. I recently just ordered another nine cubes (zcube is having a large sale :p)
 
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qwr said:
When I started I had a few low quality cubes that my parents bought for me. They were okay with it because I only one or two of each "kind" (3x3, 2x2, 4x4, pyraminx, square-1). (See them here https://www.speedsolving.com/thread...be-puzzle-identification-thread.17946/page-83)

Fast forward about 8 years, now that I had some money from an internship and a credit card I bought a whole bunch of cubes and kept buying. Some friends in college cubed and we could talk about different cubes which was a lot of fun. My parents say I have too many cubes, which is untrue because you can never have too many cubes, but I do have a puzzle purchasing addiction. I recently just ordered another nine cubes (zcube is having a large sale :p)
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I have bought a lot of cubes as well and feel like it is too much sometimes, but I feel like the main thing is that it doesn’t matter that much if it will improve my times or that it’s new, but I (and I assume most of us) truly enjoy getting and using new cubes.
 
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PingPongCuber said:
I have bought a lot of cubes as well and feel like it is too much sometimes, but I feel like the main thing is that it doesn’t matter that much if it will improve my times or that it’s new, but I (and I assume most of us) truly enjoy getting and using new cubes.
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I have a bunch of budget cubes (sail, mf3rs, little magic, warrior w, meilong) and a few more magnetic cubes ( rs3m, cubicle labs little magic, pro shop gts2) and all of them really do have their own characteristics. And recently I've been into buying old cubes likes Alpha and Dayan to experience the cubes I never had back in the day. Often you can find old cubes on clearance on some sites.
 
qwr said:
When I started I had a few low quality cubes that my parents bought for me. They were okay with it because I only one or two of each "kind" (3x3, 2x2, 4x4, pyraminx, square-1). (See them here https://www.speedsolving.com/thread...be-puzzle-identification-thread.17946/page-83)

Fast forward about 8 years, now that I had some money from an internship and a credit card I bought a whole bunch of cubes and kept buying. Some friends in college cubed and we could talk about different cubes which was a lot of fun. My parents say I have too many cubes, which is untrue because you can never have too many cubes, but I do have a puzzle purchasing addiction. I recently just ordered another nine cubes (zcube is having a large sale :p)
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You already have an (X cube that you want to replace because its bad)! You don't need another

That's why I always get expensive cubes.
 
PetrusQuber said:
My parents are OK, but I can’t cube too extensively or buy cubes constantly.

Why are new cubes out of the picture though? You could say you would earn the money, it’s just one cube, and it will cost a few dollars.
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Partially, it's because you can only buy them online and there are shipping charges and keep in mind they were trying to stop me.Yeah ofc I'd buy them myself but. Oh well
 
xyzzy said:
When I first won something at a competition (setting NR single+avg as well, but it was low-hanging fruit then) they were happy for like a couple of hours, and then everything went downhill from there and they were upset I wasn't spending more time "studying". Never mind that I was top 5% of the cohort for that term and a couple more after that.

(I don't need to ask them to buy cubes for me because I have money of my own. Not that I buy cubes frequently anyway; like twice or thrice a year?)
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It's amazing you could balance your time. I think they like the idea or they wouldn't have been happy for you, let alone leave you cube. Well, at least they don't ban you
 
At first my parents hated the whole cubing thing because I would get carpel tunnel, it was a waste of time (I did spend a lot of time cubing when I started out as it was fun to do and think about), and it was loud and annoying. As the years went on though they became less against it and helped drive me to competitions in my state, I got and main the Dayan Tengyuns to beat the noise factor and I do cube less so nowadays their totally good with me and cubing.
 
I mean my parents didn't really care when I bought cubes; they're just annoyed because I'm at home and I cube a lot, some of which I bang my cube down in frustration and they come in looking real pissed lol
 
qwr said:
I never understood the noise factor unless your house only has 2 rooms or something. if you have a phone or laptop you can solve.
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Like if they can hear you in another room, cubing away, at that point it’s their problem and they just illogically hate that specific noise. There are, like, flushing toilets, dishwashers, and passing cars making more noise than a cube all the time.
 
Both my parents encourage me, and my dad even learned beginners method while borrowing my little magic! I ended up setting up and gifting him that cube for him for fathers day, and he solves it from time to time (even keeping track of his scores! I think he'll be sub minute soon with practice :D) I'm grateful to have parents which encourage and even take part in the hobbies i enjoy, even if they are somewhat pushy to get me outdoors (my time to shine will come soon, dad!)
 
I guess I am very lucky with my parents. They let me cube everytime I want, when I have my school work done. They support me and actually see it as a real "sport" and are happy that i have something that is so fun to me. I am currently even teaching my dad how to solve a 3x3.
 
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