Today, my daughter mentioned that she didn't need to work because she could convert a dollar to 13 Mexican pesos and convert it back into "13 USD", over and over again. She's 17. FML
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Today, I realised I’d raised an idiot when my daughter confidently told me she discovered an infinite money glitch by just using one of her credit cards to pay off her other credit card, then swapping them over every month. This is why she’s 28 and still living in her childhood bedroom. FML
Today, my 7 year-old daughter was counting all the money she made over the weekend from her lemonade stand. She made sixty dollars and said now she has more money than I do. She's right. FML
Today, my second-grade daughter asked her teacher how much money she makes. FML
Today, I tutored a kid for two hours, for $25 an hour. When it came time for them to pay, my mother told the kid's parents that they could give me ten bucks for the whole thing. She does this a lot. FML
Today, I found out my fourteen-year-old daughter is making more money than me, thanks to babysitting and winning writing contests. FML
Today, my daughter is mad sulking because she got her first wage today and learned a bunch of new words like national insurance, pension contributions, taxes, automatic student loan repayments, and so on. She actually thought she got to keep ALL the money she earned, and is taking it out on us. FML
Today, I learned that my daughter pocketed the money I'd paid so she could go to college. FML
Today, a lady came into my workplace to pay her $120 bill in one dollar bills. I kept losing count. FML
Today, I told my mom I had 73 cents in my checking account. She gave me a penny and told me I had 74 cents and it was even now. Thanks mom. FML
Today, a lady I know gave my 3 year-old daughter a little coin purse, saying, "Your mum can put some money in that for you." My daughter responded, "But mummy has no money." I would have laughed, had it not been spot on. FML
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angiemarie96 25
Let her try, she'll learn
amadeclton 27
If only that was how it worked...
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angiemarie96 25
Let her try, she'll learn
whiteangel361 10
She might be right... She might have to convert the money into thirty different forms, but she might be right.
incoherentrmblr 22
I think I'll just plant a Money tree. I'll make sure it gets enough liquid assets, has a steady income at the roots, and see how much I can get...
fortune789 17
#31, I've had multiple friends use the currency exchange as a source of income. Not their only income, but they use it to boost profits by a couple hundred dollars a month, maximum.
dcam13 19
Bahahaha i love your daughter; that is fantastic!
enginsteve 17
#43. profits from what?
NiceGuysDoWin 21
#90 - I have a friend who does this as well. There is no standard set for currency exchange. Each kind of currency is set against every other kind of currency in a fluid dynamic. For example, at any given moment, 1 Dollar might be worth 15 Yen or 25 pesos, but 1 Yen might be worth 2 pesos. So you spend 10 dollars and buy 150 yen. Then use the 150 yen to buy 300 Pesos. Then exchange those 300 pesos for 12 dollars. If you can do that 100 times a day with thousands of dollars at a time, you can make some serious money. Generally the inconsistencies are far more subtle, and it may take converting Dollars to yen, to pesos, to lira, to euros, to Juan, and then back to dollars in order to see a really big return. The guys I know who do this wrote a computer program to track these inconsistencies in real time in order to take advantage of the variances in the markets. There is a level of risk involved, because the markets are so fluid that the inconsistencies sometimes change within the time it takes to make those 4 or 5 exchanges, but if you are fast and know what you were doing, you can make a lot of money.
ChoolyBooly 32
If the girl does it correctly she may earn a good amount of cash. However due to her age she might not have the resources to be able to do this and have more than a few extra bucks here and there.
amadeclton 27
If only that was how it worked...
sayyestothedress 24
God help your child!
FYlife604 18
It does If you know what you are doing. But the old saying you have to have money to make money couldn't be truer.
WallyQ 18
And we wonder why older generations think ours is doomed. Smh
kinky44 28
Older generations were a lot worse than ours. We have significantly lower crime rates and less drug abuse.
xleanne_aLly 23
Yeah back in the day my grandma went HARD. My grandpa still drinks and does more drugs than I do.
xleanne_aLly 23
And they played harder too. I would climb trees and read a book. My gram would climb to the top and sling-shot to the next tree. I would use a sled and sneak into a golf course. My grandparents would use anything as a sled. Sneak up on cars passing by and hitch a ride on their bumper. I would use a soft ball and play ball tag. My grandpa would use big rocks for ball tag. His friends and him would only pause if someone lost a tooth. I hid behind trees and would throw snowballs at cars coming up a hill. My grandparents hid behind that exact tree and would roll old tires at cars coming up the hill.
smokecloud_ 37
Your grandparents sound awesome.
pitapizzaparty 18
Thats because we have internet
JayGatsby 25
And also the pregnancy rate for teens is decreasing.
jthmtwin 16
That is too funny :)
martin8337 36
Yeah, #42, those were great days, sounds j uhh st like my childhood.
ashlynn610 12
I'm probably gonna get hate for this, but I agree with you. Our generation sucks.
tantanpanda 26
speak for yourself
TrippingOnAcid 29
Parents shouldn't need to explain these things
GoldFishPony 21
I'm sure she'll get results if she tries hard enough
FrozenMusic 26
How does she not fail in math
hard_candy 25
or at life.
angiemarie96 25
Who says she's passing?
granCanyon 12
Despite what most people believe you can memorize how to solve most high school level maths problems. I had a few friends who did this. They didn't have the slightest idea why they were doing what they were doing but at least they got their high school diploma. In my country high school tests and exams rarely require any creativity. It's just a set of classic maths problems and you can buy cheap books teaching you have to solve them. i've seen some SAT math problems and they weren't any better than those in my country. That could explain how OP's daughter coud have a successful academic career despite being not very smart.
supertacowaffle 41
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I wonder how old she is?
amadeclton 27
It says she's 17.
nana_star 27
Clearly she's 5.
rocker_chick23 27
Read the last sentence. It says she is 17.
2i1337i2iscore 13
She is YOUR age lmao... I hope it's not a generational thing.
headofmedusa 15
*facepalm*
aruam365 24
Are you by any chance friends with this girl?
karin_smith 2
It says she's 17.. I'm sure other people have already replied tho
supertacowaffle 41
Jesus Christ. I'm not much better than her and missed the last line :')
Ichiya 29
Kill it with fire.
jdcg116 10
Wow. Go future leaders of the free world.
devildog562 33
Well you can't win them all. I'm not saying give up on her, but by chance does she have a sibling that's worth rooting for ?
DoubleDosexo 12
favoritism is so wrong
Ichiya 29
Not in this case.
akorpija 12
If she had a sibling, then said sibling would have been rooted for!