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if you arent using youre money to invent an AI capable of ripping off online poker sites and eventually eating the entire bitcoin network get the gently caress off of these FORUMS
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thats why you should live in a van and only rent space to park your van, so you can take a different accounting job in chicago or new york or singapore (ship it) or whatever
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Splitting your money into various sources is wise. Having some money in savings is wise but most should be invested - us equities sometimes crash altogether ya know!!! Similarly, you should keep some of it as cash hidden in your home somewhere, and some of it as cash hidden outside of your home somewhere, in case the police are coming and you gotta run.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Splitting your money into various sources is wise. Having some money in savings is wise but most should be invested - us equities sometimes crash altogether ya know!!! Similarly, you should keep some of it as cash hidden in your home somewhere, and some of it as cash hidden outside of your home somewhere, in case the police are coming and you gotta run. What pray tell do you have to run from? Crippling depression?
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Toilet Shoes posted:What pray tell do you have to run from? Crippling depression? Divorce 
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Toilet Shoes posted:What pray tell do you have to run from? Crippling depression?
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:if you arent using youre money to invent an AI capable of ripping off online poker sites and eventually eating the entire bitcoin network get the gently caress off of these FORUMS
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:unknown unknowns this but unironically
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Splitting your money into various sources is wise. Having some money in savings is wise but most should be invested - us equities sometimes crash altogether ya know!!! Similarly, you should keep some of it as cash hidden in your home somewhere, and some of it as cash hidden outside of your home somewhere, in case the police are coming and you gotta run. don't forget the banana stand
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Pick posted:this but unironically black swan has lot to answer for
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Hobologist posted:My grandfather was in his twenties during the Depression, and when he died he had about $30 grand hidden behind the wall of his garage. I know it was that much because when he died my parents threw a plastic bag full of money at me and said "Count that." He also had about a hundred grand in his bank account, because, as he put it, they kept sending him his pension and Social Security money and he kept not spending all of it. I had a distant great Uncle that no one in my family had even met until my Dad tracked him down about 15 years ago and it turned out he was living in a tin shack "out bush" which was full of junk he'd hoarded over the decades. The neighbours never spoke to him and thought he was some kind of weirdo hermit and he only ever went into town once a month or so to buy supplies. He'd also been collecting a pension for decades without spending most of it and had tens of thousands of dollars just sitting in the bank. My Dad convinced him to take the money out of the account and enjoy it while he could so he withdrew the entire amount and donated it to some random charity. 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I had a distant great Uncle that no one in my family had even met until my Dad tracked him down about 15 years ago and it turned out he was living in a tin shack "out bush" which was full of junk he'd hoarded over the decades. The neighbours never spoke to him and thought he was some kind of weirdo hermit and he only ever went into town once a month or so to buy supplies. He'd also been collecting a pension for decades without spending most of it and had tens of thousands of dollars just sitting in the bank. My Dad convinced him to take the money out of the account and enjoy it while he could so he withdrew the entire amount and donated it to some random charity. Aww... sorta happy ending to the hermit story. Even though he didn't want to spend it on himself he did a kind thing for others in need. 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:My Dad convinced him to take the money out of the account and enjoy it while he could so he withdrew the entire amount and donated it to some random charity. This type of thing always goes bad. "You're right, I should enjoy my money. I'm going to enjoy it by donating it to find a cure for oversized nipples in cats. No longer will affected felines be the victim of mockery for their massive areolas. "
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There's a certain kind of older person, usually male tradespeople, who thinks nothing of just walking around with literally tens of thousands of dollars in cash and doesn't even necessarily trust banks but simply can't be bothered to learn the basics of how they work. This has 'hilarious' ramifications when they get robbed and/or arrested for drug possession. Sometimes there's men who basically have their wives handle all the money and never bother to learn how much they actually have on hand, probably wilfully oblivious to the impact of their gambling habits and their wife embezzling from her job. Not really cheap and more likely BWM, but it comes to mind. I imagine these are also likely to be incredible cheap people when it's near pointless and spendthrift otherwise.
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green chicken feet posted:Aww... sorta happy ending to the hermit story. Nah not really. A few years ago Dad realised he hadn't heard from the guy for a while so he tried to get in contact with him, turns out he'd dropped dead and his corpse had been kept on ice at the local morgue for 6 months because they couldn't find any details on his relatives so there way no way of paying for his burial and they didn't know what to do with him.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Nah not really. A few years ago Dad realised he hadn't heard from the guy for a while so he tried to get in contact with him, turns out he'd dropped dead and his corpse had been kept on ice at the local morgue for 6 months because they couldn't find any details on his relatives so there way no way of paying for his burial and they didn't know what to do with him. wait what? I can't imagine that's standard procedure. when do they get rid of the corpsicle?
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Whenever the power goes out for a while.
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my loving roommates are the worst sort of "thrifty at all the wrong times" idiots. every time I forget and leave a light on they bitch and bitch at me. like granted its not awesome and I don't do it often, but it's like 4 fuckin cents to leave a normal lightbulb on for a full 24 hours. it wouldn't even bother me if they didn't insist on keeping the thermostat at seventy loving six all winter because "sweaters are itchy"
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Nah not really. A few years ago Dad realised he hadn't heard from the guy for a while so he tried to get in contact with him, turns out he'd dropped dead and his corpse had been kept on ice at the local morgue for 6 months because they couldn't find any details on his relatives so there way no way of paying for his burial and they didn't know what to do with him. Now I'm gonna have to append a  to my  Bloody Hedgehog posted:This type of thing always goes bad. This makes me think you don't take feline hyperareolism seriously! 
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:my loving roommates are the worst sort of "thrifty at all the wrong times" idiots. every time I forget and leave a light on they bitch and bitch at me. like granted its not awesome and I don't do it often, but it's like 4 fuckin cents to leave a normal lightbulb on for a full 24 hours. it wouldn't even bother me if they didn't insist on keeping the thermostat at seventy loving six all winter because "sweaters are itchy" Yeah that's a false as hell economy.
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My mom bought a pair of crappy plastic shoes from a thrift store for my three month old daughter, in 3 month old size, for 25 american cents. Promptly thrown in the trash, never taken out of the packaging.
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Inescapable Duck posted:There's a certain kind of older person, usually male tradespeople, who thinks nothing of just walking around with literally tens of thousands of dollars in cash and doesn't even necessarily trust banks but simply can't be bothered to learn the basics of how they work. This has 'hilarious' ramifications when they get robbed and/or arrested for drug possession. Sometimes there's men who basically have their wives handle all the money and never bother to learn how much they actually have on hand, probably wilfully oblivious to the impact of their gambling habits and their wife embezzling from her job. All my relatives who lived through the depression were truly scarred for life by it. None if them trusted banks and all of them had a weird hoarding issue. Not like todays hoarding people are, but like weird specific things. My impression was they absolutely believed at the time that it was the end of human progress, the world had grinded to a halt and they didnt have hope that it would get better or return to normal. It pulled the veil back on how fragile it all is and you cant unsee that.
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:my loving roommates are the worst sort of "thrifty at all the wrong times" idiots. every time I forget and leave a light on they bitch and bitch at me. like granted its not awesome and I don't do it often, but it's like 4 fuckin cents to leave a normal lightbulb on for a full 24 hours. it wouldn't even bother me if they didn't insist on keeping the thermostat at seventy loving six all winter because "sweaters are itchy" it is below 60 in my apartment and I'm in heaven. How you could not want things to be cold so you can wear more sweaters and blankets is beyond me.
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DogonCrook posted:All my relatives who lived through the depression were truly scarred for life by it. None if them trusted banks and all of them had a weird hoarding issue. Not like todays hoarding people are, but like weird specific things. My impression was they absolutely believed at the time that it was the end of human progress, the world had grinded to a halt and they didnt have hope that it would get better or return to normal. It pulled the veil back on how fragile it all is and you cant unsee that. I feel like this after the late 2000's recession
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naem posted:I feel like this after the late 2000's recession I was out to lunch at an NYC bar while visiting for the weekend and got into a discussion with a couple of fintech startup women at the office I asked them how they plan to set their product apart and the answer was "oh we're appealing to millenials by improving our web interfaces and personalizing sales techniques" I asked her how she plans on doing that when Millenials barely have any money due to being underemployed and distrustful of the financial sector due to the recession, besides being able to easily just toss stuff in an index fund and call it a day Her answer was, "well, Millennials tend to invest later than their boomer counterparts, but when they hear about their friends and coworkers making big money they'll see they're missing out and look for ways to invest, and we want to be the ones they invest with" I wanna say we're better than that but tbh deep inside I know she's right
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I mean, they're right. You want people to give you money, make it easy as possible for them to do so, and you'll rarely go wrong.
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Inescapable Duck posted:There's a certain kind of older person, usually male tradespeople, who thinks nothing of just walking around with literally tens of thousands of dollars in cash and doesn't even necessarily trust banks but simply can't be bothered to learn the basics of how they work. This has 'hilarious' ramifications when they get robbed and/or arrested for drug possession. Sometimes there's men who basically have their wives handle all the money and never bother to learn how much they actually have on hand, probably wilfully oblivious to the impact of their gambling habits and their wife embezzling from her job. When I very young we lived next door to an older couple and the husband was so cheap that he would go the grocery store with his wife and put things back on the shelf as she put them in the cart if he didn't think they needed it. When he died his wife went upstairs into the attic and found boxes filled with cash. I would do little chores for her or pick up her order at the butcher shop down the street and she would pay me with silver certificates, although by then you couldn't exchange them for actual silver anymore. I still have them in an envelope in the closet. DogonCrook posted:All my relatives who lived through the depression were truly scarred for life by it. None if them trusted banks and all of them had a weird hoarding issue. Not like todays hoarding people are, but like weird specific things. My impression was they absolutely believed at the time that it was the end of human progress, the world had grinded to a halt and they didnt have hope that it would get better or return to normal. It pulled the veil back on how fragile it all is and you cant unsee that. When the mother of a friend of my parents died they found a cabinet in her attic filled with at least 100 bars of soap, some of which was probably from the 50s or 60s judging from the packaging and price tags. Another had a dad who had a closet filled with boxes of cereal. Oh, and the son of the soap lady was so cheap that he didn't buy shoes for $25 at discount store, he bought them for $15 from some guys in a tent in the vacant lot behind the discount store. Then spent another $10 on glue to put them back together when then fell apart in 2 days.
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thank you for bringing my thread back, this is one of my favorite ones, it makes me laugh and it makes me so mad
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I worked in the elementary school flea market today and drat those grandmas love towels. (Their daughters(in-law) will re-donate the unused towels next year. )
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My dad orders a large popcorn at the movie theater, keeps the bag afterwards and wipes it out so that he can fold it up and bring it back for free refills next time he goes
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peanut posted:I worked in the elementary school flea market today and drat those grandmas love towels. My grandma is constantly trying to give me towels. I've been living out of home for nearly 15 years, I've got the towel situation sorted, but every time I visit her she tries to foist a dozen towels on me.
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Jesustheastronaut! posted:My dad orders a large popcorn at the movie theater, keeps the bag afterwards and wipes it out so that he can fold it up and bring it back for free refills next time he goes The theater we go to has a perforated tag they tear off for people that get refills to prevent cheapskates from doing this.
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Jesustheastronaut! posted:My dad orders a large popcorn at the movie theater, keeps the bag afterwards and wipes it out so that he can fold it up and bring it back for free refills next time he goes It it worth how this makes him smell
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i had a friend who refused to meet me for dinner because he refused to pay for public transportation. i jokingly offered to give him two tokens, because i really wanted an excuse to go to this restaurant and get margaritas, and he was like, "oh yes, that would be perfect, thank you!"
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i had a friend that refused to use cards for anything and instead wrote checks for everything, even like candy at a gas station. on top of that, he kept the stubbs on him for every check he ever wrote and his wallet was about the thickness of a grapefruit, which he kept in his back pocket his parents were weird and rubbed off on him and we all got sick of his retarded ways and quit hanging out with him
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My grandma was a hoarder (and a nasty old bat of a woman but whatevs) and when I was very little and we were staying there, offered my mother tylenol that had expired 30 years ago. When my mom pointed this out and thew it in the garbage, my grandma fished it out of the trash, put it back on the bottle, and back on the medicine shelf. She would also drink out of old jelly jars and plastic tins for butter. When she died, her house was full of cat piss and poo poo, decades upon decades of old magazines, and garbage that my father bitched about having to sort through. Joke's on him, now my dad is the hoarder and I'm trying to convince him to clean out his garage. Found a tin of potted meat from 06, a great year for potted meat. I pointed out that it was over a decade old and threw it in the garbage bag. Watched him fish it out of the garbage bag a few moments later and put it back on the shelf.
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Blue Raider posted:i had a friend that refused to use cards for anything and instead wrote checks for everything, even like candy at a gas station. on top of that, he kept the stubbs on him for every check he ever wrote and his wallet was about the thickness of a grapefruit, which he kept in his back pocket 
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like a cigarette should posted:Found a tin of potted meat from 06, a great year for potted meat.
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like a cigarette should posted:Found a tin of potted meat from 06, a great year for potted meat.
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like a cigarette should posted:
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