# How do you convince your parents to buy you a yoyo?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [December 1, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964 "2012-12-01T20:16:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MrSquirrel](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MrSquirrel)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/21 "2012-12-03T02:51:15Z")
I just write a Christmas list or ask for one for my birthday. It’s generally 3-4 throws for Christmas and 1 for my birthday. I don’t get an allowance from my parents, but my grandmother gives me $5 every week. It doesn’t really add up very fast though because I need to buy other things beside yoyos. My parents don’t even give me anything for good grades because they expect that from a gifted student.
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### Author:  [@yoyofoot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyofoot)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/22 "2012-12-03T03:03:29Z")
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### Author:  [@offstring-stewart](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/offstring-stewart)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/23 "2012-12-03T03:23:26Z")
> [@yoyofoot](#):
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> [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://i.imgur.com/cMut3.png)
Oh, that slaps me on the knee!
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### Author:  [@bonesraphs](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/bonesraphs)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/24 "2012-12-03T03:28:49Z")
You should invest you’re money for retirement. thats whuts up
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### Author:  [@mozartm99](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mozartm99)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/25 "2012-12-03T03:30:44Z")
I don’t.
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/26 "2012-12-03T20:16:25Z")
> [@jrodriguez](#):
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> > [@jhb8426](#):
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> > From my own jaundiced parent’s point of view, if you asked for one more than $5 you’d be hard pressed to get more than a curt “No.” from me.
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> I imagined the figure would have looked more like ↑. 🙂
Hmmm, you know me too well. :wink:
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### Author:  [@yoyoavenger](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoavenger)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/27 "2012-12-03T20:46:34Z")
I save up, babysit kids. Well…I am a kid, but I can get a nice deal for baby sitting my sister or her friend.
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### Author:  [@abby1371](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/abby1371)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/28 "2012-12-03T21:18:28Z")
Same I get a nice salary from it so far I got around $200 from babysitting!
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### Author:  [@potatobobguy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/potatobobguy)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/29 "2012-12-03T22:02:49Z")
> [@abby1371](#):
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> Same I get a nice salary from it so far I got around $200 from babysitting!
If you get that much money, why is actually buying the yoyos yourself a last resort?
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### Author:  [@abby1371](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/abby1371)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2012, 10:20pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/30 "2012-12-03T22:20:00Z")
> [@potatobobguy](#):
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> > [@abby1371](#):
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> > Same I get a nice salary from it so far I got around $200 from babysitting!
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> If you get that much money, why is actually buying the yoyos yourself a last resort?
because my siblings have “tax payer” Aka i get Money from what you do because I’m lazy! (my parents make me give them money or else I get sent to my room even though it’s the money I make!)
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### Author:  [@Logi](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Logi)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/31 "2012-12-03T23:45:28Z")
Wait, people give yoyos to their kids? That’s a new one.
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### Author:  [@Nemyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Nemyo)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/32 "2012-12-04T00:01:11Z")
> [@Raphael](#):
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> You should invest you’re money for retirement. thats whuts up
RAPHAEL!
I hAvent seen you post in a while…
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### Author:  [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/33 "2012-12-04T06:07:10Z")
> [@Logi](#):
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> Wait, people give yoyos to their kids? That’s a new one.
I hear ya
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### Author:  [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/34 "2012-12-04T20:47:23Z")
OK, my wise-guy answer, trying to force the thread back onto topic after a theological derailing that’s still causing casualties:
My father’s dead. Kinda hard to make requests at that point.
Big falling out on my family, so I have no contact with my mother.(Don’t even get me started, I don’t feel like getting sued by people’s whose brains explode out the back of their heads)
I’m 40(almost 41). I can buy my own yoyos.
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### Author:  [@offstring-stewart](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/offstring-stewart)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/35 "2012-12-04T22:44:58Z")
> [@Studio42](#):
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> OK, my wise-guy answer, trying to force the thread back onto topic after a theological derailing that’s still causing casualties:
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> My father’s dead. Kinda hard to make requests at that point.
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> Big falling out on my family, so I have no contact with my mother.(Don’t even get me started, I don’t feel like getting sued by people’s whose brains explode out the back of their heads)
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> I’m 40(almost 41). I can buy my own yoyos.
And here I thought you were 42…Silly usernames…But as for me, like I said, I only asked my Uncle, cause He asked me what I wanted for Christmas/Hanukkah. I really haven’t asked my mom for a yoyo in a year and a half, other than on Christmas season. I usually save my money to buy my own.
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### Author:  [@oldyoyograndma](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/oldyoyograndma)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/36 "2012-12-05T00:05:41Z")
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### Author:  [@Nemyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Nemyo)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/37 "2012-12-05T00:30:13Z")
> [@oldyoyograndma](#):
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> [http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k598/Oldyoyograndma/truth.jpg](http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k598/Oldyoyograndma/truth.jpg)
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### Author:  [@abby1371](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/abby1371)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/38 "2012-12-05T01:45:30Z")
Okay so how do I get yoyos uh mostly I save up for it myself (I got the cash but I don’t like spending it alot 😛 )
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### Author:  [@YoyoGeezer](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YoyoGeezer)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/39 "2012-12-06T02:56:12Z")
Scream, cry, stomp my feet and pout until I get my own way.
Ask my wife, it works every time. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Logi](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Logi)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-convince-your-parents-to-buy-you-a-yoyo/45964/40 "2012-12-06T03:05:57Z")
> [@YoyoGeezer](#):
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> Scream, cry, stomp my feet and pout until I get my own way.
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> Ask my wife, it works every time. 🙂
Lol
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