Employed 17-Year-Old Bought A New Gaming PC On A Payment Plan, But Now He Refuses To Give His Old One To His Little Brother

Mila Cardozo

3 days ago

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Hand-me-downs from older siblings are a given, except when they worked really hard to purchase a new computer and want to sell the old one.

What would you do in this situation?

A teenager asks the internet if he’s in the wrong for not giving his old computer to his little brother.

Read the full story and see what people are saying.

AITA for refusing to give my little brother my old gaming PC even though I just bought a new one?

I’m 17 and I finally saved enough money to buy a new gaming PC.

My old one still works, but it’s slow and can’t run games very well.

My little brother is 13 and has been asking my parents for a computer for a long time, but they keep saying no.

But he has other plans for his old PC.

When my new PC came, my parents told me I should give my old one to him.

I said no because I want to sell it to help pay for my new PC.

It’s still worth a couple of hundred dollars.

My parents said I was being selfish because I already have a new computer.

My brother started crying and I said I don’t care if he cries, it’s still my computer.

But now he’s second-guessing his decision.

I told them that I worked really hard to save up my money, and I shouldn’t have to give away something expensive for free.

I only work 4 hours on the weekends, so around 16 hours a month, and in that time I make $120.

But the payment plan I’m on is $160 a month, so I was going to use the money from my old PC to cover the difference every month. He only gets around $20 a month.

I also said that if they want him to have a computer so much, they can buy him one.

Now everyone at home is mad at me.

AITA?

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this.

This is a good idea.