Cupidopolis

“I want a Laptop for Christmas. My parents don’t want to get me one. They say it is too big a gift. I told them I need it for school and they still refused. How can I get them to give me one?”

Your parents are right in the fact that a laptop is a big gift. Laptops are very expensive. Trying to coerce them into buying it for you is not nice and very disrespectful too.

If you really need a pc perhaps you ought to consider a desktop rather than a laptop, as they can be substantially cheaper.

If you are a teenager, you could get a part-time job and start saving to buy one. Your parents are more likely to partially fund a pc than fully pay for it.

Why don’t you take a look at websites to see just how large a gift you want. A good place to start could be PC World. You could also ask your aunts, uncles, grandparents and anyone who asks you what you would like for a cash gift to go towards your pc. You could also ask for individual parts eg a tower, a monitor, a cd reader, a modem etc. If you split it up, it won’t seem so big and you might have yourself a Merry Christmas after all.

“My family is so messy. I am simply going out of my mind. Help me please!”

Most of the time, messiness is a result of lack of storage space. If you can organise some storage solutions, you will find that you are half way there. The rest will boil down to be strict and insisting that until they tidy their mess they cannot get dinner / dessert / go out / do something fun etc! You will need to put your foot down but get organised first so that they cannot have any excuse for not tidying up.