Yes, the laptop was super expensive when it was first bought.
I never ever said spend that much on it, it was a graduation gift.

The laptop is 4 years old and still in pretty good condition. I don't know why I wouldn't make some cheap repairs.

It's $43 after tax for the keyboard, the battery and the charger cord on Amazon. That's super cheap, considering how expensive that **** is other places.

I have a college fund, the laptop is an education expense so I can do online classes at home.

The issue isn't with my laptop.
The issue is with my mom.

I know how to fix the laptop.
I buy parts to replace the keyboard, the battery and the power cord.
I remove the ghetto version of windows 7 she gave me and put on a legitimate copy.

The issue is with my mom, going behind my back calling my grandmother, telling her what I am and am not "allowed" or do and her lying to my grandmother telling her I broke my laptop and that this stolen bootleg copy she downloaded off the internet and put on my computer is JUUUUUST fine and that I don't know what I am talking about.

She's still trying to manipulate and control me and I no longer live in her house, she doesn't give me any money and any money I get from my grandmother for the laptop is my college money and my laptop to do online classes at night and during the weekends is an education expense to my grandmother, she is FINE with doing this. My mom needs to sit the **** down and stop trying to step in and control what I do.

That's what I am having trouble with, my mom interfering with my life when I fully don't live at home and I am supporting my way. I pay my rent, I haven't been using the gas card. My laptop is an education expense so I can stay home and do online classes at night and on the weekends and not drive out gas driving to a campus or the library. Plus library computers have 30 minute time limits, at home I can spend however long I want doing my classes.

I got it for graduation, it's a $2000 laptop, no need to get a new one just repair what's wrong with it now.

And I can use my college money for school stuff, including getting my laptop fixed. I am going to be taking online classes because I can't take them on campus, not until TG and I have the same schedule or another vehicle. I can't be driving all the way down to Littleton to take classes and out to where TG works and then home, we'd go through gas so quickly. If I can take online classes and drive him to work and come home and not go anywhere else and work on classes at home and then once we have the same schedule still just do online classes after we get off work while making dinner or on the weekends or something.

But its my college fund that I am using to fix it.
My grandmother said yes, the only reason I had to go to my mom is because she has the checks.

But I need a new battery, a keyboard replacement (laptop keyboard) and a new charger cord. It's $17 for the battery, $10 for the keyboard and $7 for the charger cord, so its cheap stuff.

And it was my mom who illegally downloaded it, not me. I needed to get the virus off.

They were doing illegal things at work and his managers started treating him differently and like ****. He was only making 9/hr, now he's making 13 and is always guaranteed 40 hours a week of work.

Of course, I will have my money and him his, we'll have our pooled money but I will have my savings as well and my paycheck is my paycheck, we've just been solely using my money while there was a gap between leaving his old job and starting the new one.

We're pretty set right now.
We're bringing in nearly $3000 a month between the two of us once his second paycheck hits, the first one will be small since its the first check but the others will be full checks.

But we can pretty much cover our expenses with about $1000, our SET expenses. Rent/utilities/cable/internet is all bundled into $730, my cell, my car insurance all fits with in the $1000.

But that means we pretty much have like $2000 after that where the majority can go into savings, so we have it really easy right now and I am so glad he's a great financial planner when it comes to this stuff because once we get the second car out of the way, the camping gear and the bed we are going to start putting away for even bigger ticket items like housing but he wants to take all this slow he says he have a long time to do the things we want to do so we have at least a year or more to start putting away for a house or whatever, it'll be more like 3 years or so and we could put away a lot during that time.

Yes I know that right there would be 14 years paying it off but the more we save and the more income we have it could be a little more each month whatever, it could be adjusted.

He already said we can put it in the budget and I am doing $100 a month to her but in the mean time we still are going to AT THE SAME TIME, save for a tent and things like that. For my birthday I am asking for an IKEA gift card so that can help us with buying the platform bedframe.