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Wasn't there some person online that lit their whole home with candles? Like tried to create a modern level of light with candlelight, which requires an obscene number of torches.
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Pureauthor posted:You mean the candles thing isn't a parody or joke? I saw this screenshot of a tweet several weeks ago, and I've been hanging onto it to use for this post. I know that it's just silly to think that anyone would spend $3600 on candles. And I know that if his family really were dying, the answer to how to budget that is simple...
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Apr 8, 2016 14:30
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Pureauthor posted:You mean the candles thing isn't a parody or joke? Of course it's a joke you goofball, smdh.
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Apr 8, 2016 14:36
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By gawd, I'm starting to suspect this "wint" character isn't on the up and up.
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Apr 8, 2016 15:24
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FadingChord posted:I know that it's just silly to think that anyone would spend $3600 on candles. And I know that if his family really were dying, the answer to how to budget that is simple... Didn't the candle thing come from this very thread?
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Apr 8, 2016 15:26
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Pureauthor posted:You mean the candles thing isn't a parody or joke? No, Jack Nicholson is hard up for money but also addicted to candles
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Apr 8, 2016 17:22
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Anyone who looks at that tweet and doesn't immediately recognize it as satirical needs to recalibrate their humor detector. It is such an obvious (and good) parody.
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Apr 8, 2016 18:45
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Wow look at this humble brag in the BWM thread, saying that you can afford a sarcasm detector. Well excuuuuuuuuse me, some of us aren't fortunate enough to have them.
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:No, Jack Nicholson is hard up for money but also addicted to candles He snorts them up by the line.
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Apr 8, 2016 23:13
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Is burning your (insured) house down because you tried to illuminate it with 1,000 candles BWM?
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Only if insurance doesn't pay out or you get charged with arson
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Apr 9, 2016 02:40
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Wickerman posted:Only if insurance doesn't pay out or you get charged with arson Does it count as arson if it's a poorly-attempted heating method?
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Apr 9, 2016 03:04
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daggerdragon posted:Does it count as arson if it's a poorly-attempted heating method? No, it comes down to intent. You just claim you are retarded and you'll be able to collect the insurance.
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Apr 9, 2016 04:37
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pig slut lisa posted:OK, thanks. I already...kinda (?) have someone? This is an incredibly messy partnership; the partners are family members who own my grandparents' estate and do not get along particularly well. As in: my aunt was making unpurposed cash withdrawals until we noticed and called her out on it, plus she's already incredibly BWM on her own. There are also horses involved, for those of you who follow the BWM thread. The attorney for the partnership is largely non-responsive, and the accountant can't manage to get us our K-1s before April 10th every year. I took the liberty of re-posting this in a more appropriate location. I hope you don't mind 
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Apr 9, 2016 05:30
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slap me silly posted:I took the liberty of re-posting this in a more appropriate location. I hope you don't mind I don't, although I would like to state for the record that the bad with money parties here are my aunt (sooooooo so bad, I haven't even talked about the private school that she has operated at a loss for years thanks to subsidies from the Bank of Mom and Dad, back before they passed) and my grandmother (who set up this stupid loving partnership instead of just liquidating everything and sending us all on our way). My side of the family's BWM sins only extend inasmuch as we couldn't figure out the best way to disarm this financial suicide vest that got strapped to our chests a couple years ago. But now we have an opportunity to get bought out and gently caress it, even if it's well below the full value of our shares I don't care, I don't care, we're going to be free!
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Apr 9, 2016 05:40
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One cool thing about this partnership is how every year I get my taxes 98% done by early March, and my Federal refund is significantly larger than my state tax liability, and then I wait and wait and wait and stress and stress about when this accountant is going to get my my K-1, and then it finally shows up 5 days before the filing deadline only to see Turbotax wind my Federal refund amount down and my my state tax liability up by several hundred each, to the point where now instead of netting a refund I net owe taxes, and oh by the way the partnerhship economic activity that I'm getting taxed on is my aunt selling things out of the brokerage account for things that aren't related to the partnership at all, but are instead her dumb school, fancy vacations, etc. whatever gently caress gently caress gently caress! Honestly it's the kind of situation where yeah, we could litigate it and eventually be vindicated, but it would be a real Jarndyce and Jarndyce situation so instead we've just waited for a window to get out, which happens to be now.
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Apr 9, 2016 05:47
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Yeah... Get the buyout done asap and never look back
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Apr 9, 2016 05:59
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pig slut lisa posted:i'm going to marry the @dril candles tweet. i say it every time i see it, but this time i mean it. The night my partner proposed he used dozens of tealights I'd gotten as freebies from an acquaintance who was involved in a candle MLM. After I accepted, we drank champagne and I told him to "stop buying candles". He said "no". Then we giggled ourselves stupid. Goddamn, @dril is great. Getting free mlm candles - good with money? Found out recently an acquaintance who bought an albatross of a vehicle that was surprisingly similar to CornHolio's managed to sell it. I can only imagine what they get next.
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Apr 9, 2016 11:39
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froglet posted:The night my partner proposed he used dozens of tealights I'd gotten as freebies from an acquaintance who was involved in a candle MLM. Similar to your sorry, my cousin lit at least a hundred of those candles, lined up around the perimeter of hallway and living room, just to create a romantic setting. Then spent about a day cleaning the soot off the walls. It's a tiny apartment in a high-rise building, and of course there wasn't a fire extinguisher anywhere near.
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Bad With Money: Or How To Build Horse Equiny
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Free GWM business idea: horse shaped candles. Wait, here's another one: candles for horses. You don't want your horse(s) to be the only ones in the stable without candles, do you???
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Apr 9, 2016 18:07
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Ask Mrs. O'Leary how putting animals and fire together works out.
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Apr 9, 2016 18:09
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Dr. Eldarion posted:Ask Mrs. O'Leary how putting animals and fire together works out. This was a very amoosing read on Wikipedia.
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slap me silly posted:I took the liberty of re-posting this in a more appropriate location. I hope you don't mind Who's gonna get the horse?
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Apr 9, 2016 19:03
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Not it. If I've learned anything from this thread, it's "Do Never Horse".
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Factor Mystic posted:Free GWM business idea: horse shaped candles. Wait, here's another one: candles for horses. You don't want your horse(s) to be the only ones in the stable without candles, do you??? Horse gets startled by slight movement of candle, has heart attack, dies.
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Factor Mystic posted:Free GWM business idea: horse shaped candles. Wait, here's another one: candles for horses. You don't want your horse(s) to be the only ones in the stable without candles, do you??? Horse shaped candles made out of the fat from your horse. Let them keep being the light of your life, even after they saw a plastic bag blowing in the wind and died of panic.
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Apr 9, 2016 23:55
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bartlebyshop posted:Horse shaped candles made out of the fat from your horse. Let them keep being the light of your life, even after they saw a plastic bag blowing in the wind and died of panic. No, a truly dedicated pet owner turns their horse into diamonds. Companies Turn Departed Pets Into Gems; A Diamond Lhasa Apso Is Forever Apparently they only need a cup of dead animal per diamond, so you could get a shitload of horse diamonds. quote:Megan Oswald-Held collected samples of hair from three of her dogs, a Yorkie-poo and two Lhasa Apsos, and mixed that with a sample of hair she saved from her deceased Lhasa Apso, Jade, to make a three-quarter-carat radiant-cut diamond. The gem cost $4,700. That's horse-tier BWM.
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Trillian posted:No, a truly dedicated pet owner turns their horse into diamonds. Companies Turn Departed Pets Into Gems; A Diamond Lhasa Apso Is Forever The cheapest LifeGem is $2,490 for a .10 -.19 carat yellow diamond.
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Trillian posted:Apparently they only need a cup of dead animal per diamond, so you could get a shitload of horse diamonds. Nah. Dog diamonds are forever. $4,700 is like three months of boarding your horse, assuming he doesn't stub his hoof and get horse gangrene or some poo poo. In that vein, here is a ludicrously low-balled list of horse expenses, followed up with the conclusion, "The cost of a horse is worth every cent!" http://www.equine.com/horse-cost.aspx Purely coincidentally, the heading at the top of that page is, "HORSES FOR SALE." You can't afford not to buy a horse at today's prices. Edit: lolololol... there's a "compare" button.
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Today at the library I decided to read the aspirational rag Money magazine. Because I hate myself. There was one family who owed something in the region of 2 million because they had half a dozen investment properties. I can't remember what they were asking but I don't think any of the properties rent even paid the mortgage (negative gearing strikes again!). The advice was to "consolidate", by which I think he meant sell off some of the houses because they were waaaay overexposed to property. My favourite was the guy with with 60k worth of shares, a 45k margin loan, 12k in savings while only on 66k per annum including super. He's one job loss and/or stock market crash away from ruin.
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Trillian posted:That's horse-tier BWM. Maybe, but then again, if having the ring keeps her from needing a new animal, it could save money in the long run. You don't need to board a ring or take it to the vet!
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Centripetal Horse posted:In that vein, here is a ludicrously low-balled list of horse expenses, followed up with the conclusion, "The cost of a horse is worth every cent!" http://www.equine.com/horse-cost.aspx Purely coincidentally, the heading at the top of that page is, "HORSES FOR SALE." quote:The Cost of a Horse is Worth Every Cent
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froglet posted:Today at the library I decided to read the aspirational rag Money magazine. Because I hate myself. Money mag is a horrible magazine that proclaims to be about investment advice but very little apart from advertising other companies junk. A lady at work used to bring them in and at first I would read them and... well what stuck in my mind was a story about investors who would buy properties, add/renovate/spend more money and then proclaim they made a profit of $X amount. This was the highlight of advice, renovate the kitchen and sell for more! None of the stories had follow ups of how these investors went.
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Probably a joke, but it got a laugh out of me:https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/4dit7f/i_accidentally_bought_36_rolls_of_single_ply/ posted:I accidentally bought 36 rolls of single ply toilet paper. If I donate the remaining 35 rolls to a homeless shelter can I claim it as a tax write-off? (self.personalfinance) On a more serious note, getting other people to cosign your car loans is GWM. The decisions leading up to that are not. https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/4eb714/would_a_cosigner_on_a_car_loan_be_given_a_copy_of/ posted:I am a college student working part time earning about $1200 a month pre-tax, and my Equifax credit score is about 740 (according to Discover).
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Haifisch posted:On a more serious note, getting other people to cosign your car loans is GWM. The decisions leading up to that are not. I'm trying to figure out what "Computer" is a code word for.
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Rudager posted:I'm trying to figure out what "Computer" is a code word for.
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The response of an Australian when I said having 60% of your pay going to a house, (on a salary of $100,000) is loving stupid:quote:Sure it does, 1 would hope your partner has a job or some form but If circumstance don't allow for that then 60% of $100k still leaves plenty 1 can put extra into the mortgage or aside. even an extra few thousand each year slaughters the repayment time on mortgages. Heck going from monthly to fortnightly lops of 5-10 years on a 35 year mortgage.
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CelestialScribe posted:The response of an Australian when I said having 60% of your pay going to a house, (on a salary of $100,000) is loving stupid: Does he always use "1" as an upper case "i"? And, as a renter, I cheerfully await the housing Armageddon than may or may not happen in our nation.
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Sic Semper Goon posted:Does he always use "1" as an upper case "i"? It won't. I say this as a renter.
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