Reply #118: Ask her why she has a car loan at 17 with a mimum wage job. [View All]

[JayMusgrove]

I think she needs to learn that you cannot depend upon a job as a security blanket, and you need to save to get luxuries like a car.

When I grew up, only 1 in 20 kids from the rich families let their kids have a car in their teens. This is just too much consumption... a non-skilled job at a Dairy Queen is NOT the job one should have when one buys a car on credit. She should have saved the money, found rides and public transportation until she could buy the car for cash.

She dug her own hole, let her learn how to get out of it.

Talk about living beyond one's means. There will be other jobs for good teen workers in the next few months, there always is, but why on Earth did family agree she should go into debt at her age?