Comments on: The Best Financial Advice Ever Given

By: CindyM

CindyM — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:44:10 +0000

Bravo, Beer Guy. The kind of sound advice a kid won’t forget and they all need to hear it that way, girls included (maybe girls especially these days). Responder #46 says it all.

By: mom

mom — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:02:40 +0000

Say it crass and the message will last.
Say it boring and the kids are snoring.

90% of what we say to teens comes out sounding like the adults in Peanut Cartoons. There’s a lot to be said for shock value and this uncle knew it.

This advice has been copied, pasted, and delivered to my 17 year old son. Hopefully it will cut through the static of wahwahwahwahwah’s.

I was a mom at 18. I’ve worked very hard to support myself and my child with no support from his father or the state. Let the record show, I didn’t ask for the support. We are now doing fine. But the truth is I’ll never have the financial security I would have had if I’d waited to have him. No regrets, but had someone given me this colorful advice instead of “don’t have sex” perhaps I would have made some smarter choices. Choices that would have allowed more financial freedom for myself and more financial support for my child. Kids are great but the cold hard truth is they’re freaking expensive!

By: hanneng

hanneng — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:49:07 +0000

I cannot agree more with his uncle’s advice.

It is still a good advice, just using with un-appropriate words.

By: Gail

Gail — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:33:32 +0000

As someone that most people who know me would consider a prude and also a religious woman, I sit here wondering how the original post demeaned women. If the Beer Guy was posting his uncles coments verbatim, it was obviously sound advice both for family planning, health issues and financial savings for Beer Guy.

Teens need to hear advice given them in language they can comprehend and respond to. I learned this lesson as a student nurse when an unwed teen mother was laboring to get her baby out. She did not understand any of the nurse’s ways of telling her to push until the nurse used said push like you are taking a S**t. The light dawned and the girl started pushing. We can not hold our own moral principles so tight that we can not communicate our message.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:57:53 +0000

@Christine

LOL. Trolling is a art, my good woman, and you are Michelangelo.

By: ownpersonalopinion

ownpersonalopinion — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 01:13:02 +0000

Well..my stepdaughter just popped out her third illegitimate baby on welfare living in a section 8 apartmentc omplete with a salt water pool on foodstamps eating better than I am and calling everyone with her free welfare cell phone and collects WIC and TANF and free utility check and OHHhhh and the free day care. Now, where is the baby daddy? Who knows. The whole situation is digusting. So this advise about wearing condoms is not as vulgar AND DISGUSTING AS WELFARE QUEENS SUCH AS MY STEPDAUGHTER AND MANY MANY OF HER FRIENDS SPITTING OUT ALL TIS KIDS.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:32:39 +0000

Not only good advice but funny too! I did not get my X wife pregnant, thank God, but just being married to her for three years cost me a quarter of a million dollars. Live and learn…

By: Isabelle

Isabelle — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:38:44 +0000

Good advice. I told my daughter something very similar. I shall not tell you what I said as I don’t want the might of the American religious right chucking their bibles at me!

As a lawyer I had a client who had a ‘one night stand’ with a girl and got her pregnant. The difficulties this gives him and his now wife are WAY beyond the financial drain. He is a father, should he abandon his child, created by him in a drunken night out and now rightly paid for for eighteen years – or should he take moral responsibility and be a father?

And the girl? Sex for her is lasting twenty years as she raises this child alone or with maybe resentful boyfriends/husband. Bet she wishes a condom had left her able to make her first baby with a man she loves, who will support the family.

By: I agree

I agree — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:08:31 +0000

Also, I have a son, and if my Uncle told him this, with the same results, I would be thrilled. Beyond thrilled.
I will try and teach my son common sense and right from wrong, but nothing sticks in your head better than some hilarious real world advice. I bet anyone who read this article will remember what the Uncle told Beer Guy for a long time to come. As you should…

By: I agree

I agree — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:04:26 +0000

So wait, some of you are saying that the advice that kept this guy from impregnating a teenager, and kept him free of STDs is somehow bad?

The advice that helped him build a savings account and not live off the system because his family couldn’t pay the bills is somehow bad?

I say GOOD FOR YOU BEER GUY!