I think it's cultural to spend money when you have it, because if you don't spend it, all your friends/relatives will ask to loan money, there's always a relative/friend who needs to go hospital, school, clothes, etc.... and if you have money and don't give, then it's you who looks bad.
So culturally, filipinos are trained to just spend the money whenever they have it, that way they enjoy themselves and don't look bad when people ask to borrow money...
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Originally Posted by manilaboy2007
Yah I found a lot Pinoy PMETs like to utang here and there. On Pay day, you see them in big group at pubs drinking and merry around or go restaurant buy people meals here and there. Buy this hp or that gadget or handbags. On the last week of the month, you will see them asking singaporean colleagues for loans or eating bread for lunch. This is the same for both man and women.
I guess their mentality is you get to live once and enjoy the fruit of their labour? Pretty sure they never think of the future if not you won't see them buy a Iphone4S today and pawn it for $$ a few months down the road when their contract is up and back in Pinoyland.
Most sickening is a lot of the female friends of my gf take money from their bfs in Singapore and send it to Pinoyland to feed their husbands or bfs not knowing their husband is using their money to fuck another woman or having fun.
Personally, I don't mind treat treat the girls well and romance them a bit since I enjoy the whole process also. But like you say, once they ask me to buy this buy that and make me feel like a robert, I know it is time to cut loss.
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