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Parents are cutting off teens as ‘stupid’ in-app spending spirals out of control: ‘I won’t pay for that s–t’
NY Post
The Bank of Mom is closed.
Frustrated by her teenage daughters’ frivolous spending habits, Kim Orozco is putting her foot down — and refusing to foot the bill.
Instead, the New Jersey mom now forces Caylee, 14, and Carolina, 15, to dip into modest babysitting earnings to bankroll any nonessential purchases — like their $40 per year Snapchat+ memberships.
“I won’t pay for that s–t,” Kim, 48, told The Post, adding that she also won’t pay for their manicures, deliveries from Crumbl and Starbucks or “another crop top that looks exactly like every other crop top” they already have sitting in their closets.
“They’ll DoorDash Starbucks every day if I let them.”
And the piqued parent isn’t alone — most others in her circle, she said, are flat-out refusing to fork over cash for their teens’ impulse buys, especially for in-app purchases of nontangible extras that can quickly and easily add up, a phenomenon she called “highway robbery.”