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Phanatic posted:We now return you to your BWM discussion and I express amazement that Nationals season tickets were so loving expensive. Christ, attendance at that ballpark has been so lovely that a few years ago, the Nationals had to open ticket sales to Phillies/Nationals games to Maryland, D.C., and Virginia a month before they would allow sales to credit cards with Philly zip codes, because the Phillies fans greatly outnumbered the Nationals fans at their home ballpark. Prior to 2012 (when these articles were published) the Nationals had a franchise record of 492 - 640 (really bad). Since then they've gone 601 - 463 (really good) and Kavanaugh bought all these tickets in 2016. Prices go up a lot when the team is good. Still idiotic to zero out your net worth on baseball tickets though.
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If he was good with money, he wouldn't be Brett Kavanaugh.Washington Times posted:His past financial disclosure forms reveal that Kavanaugh has incurred significant credit card debt on and off for more than a decade. He previously reported between $60,000 to $200,000 in debt among three credit cards and a loan in 2006, the same year he was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. As for stories from reddit: I Got a Dream Job in CS Research making 70k for Family of 3 Immediately After Graduation... I'm Living Paycheck to Paycheck and I Think I Have to Get a Higher Paying Job. quote:My wife makes a small amount of money from disability although its not very dependable or predictable, I can't remember how much but it pays for her fancy gym membership (300 bucks) and high quality water (148.85) we get delivered (which she feels is necessary for her well-being and the babies). I can't dispute these charges, she goes to the gym every morning at 8am, and they even watch the baby for an hour and a half (everyday). That's well worth the price for her, and probably downright necessary for her sanity. Also from reddit: TLDR: Luck turned upside down, went from 50k* in savings to being 5k+ in debt and now need to move back with parents. Feeling unmotivated and want to give up. *Actually only had 10k in savings. quote:My time there I was able to save a good 20k or so, sold my $500 car and bought one worth $25k which is now half paid off. Felt like I finally had things together and it was now time for me to move off on my own, so I did. When I said I had 20k saved, about 10k was profits from crypto, the other 10k was left in savings.
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golden bubble posted:As for stories from reddit: I Got a Dream Job in CS Research making 70k for Family of 3 Immediately After Graduation... I'm Living Paycheck to Paycheck and I Think I Have to Get a Higher Paying Job. Oh you're 600 bucks in the hole every month? Conveniently your wife is spending 448 dollars each month on some really overpriced nonsense. After eliminating that he can probably rely on the wife's disability income to push them into the black.
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Jul 12, 2018 18:20
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What loving gym costs three hundo a month. Are the weights made of silver instead of iron? Do the trainers move your muscles for you?
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Doc Hawkins posted:What loving gym costs three hundo a month. Are the weights made of silver instead of iron? Do the trainers move your muscles for you? Amenities like child care, spa, etc really jack it up Personal training is like 75 to 150 bucks an hour Crossfit nonsense gyms are like 250 a month even with zero amenities because they're paying high rent and huge $$$ on speciality equipment and gotta recoup that somehow I'd share a juicy BWM story of a $620 gym payment if this thread didn't have a "no stories starting with I/My" rule
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The rest of the guys budget is really high too. They are spending 800/mo on groceries and 1450/mo on rent. I checked zillow for the Atlanta area and they could definitely have a decent place with room for 2 adults and a baby for much less than that. Seriously, rent for 3+ bedroom 2000+ sqft homes is less than that there.
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Amenities like child care, spa, etc really jack it up
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Jul 12, 2018 19:26
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CornHolio posted:Is this guy in America? We're not getting the normal '19 Focus, we're getting that stupid Focus Active. (I knew we weren't getting the 19, it was all over the news... Americans want SUVs because we're all "plus size"...)
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Jul 12, 2018 19:30
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And margins on turbo or +power models are far lower, so we get boring crap powertrains forever
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Jul 12, 2018 19:32
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Wait, Atlanta is now among the 'more expensive places'? When did this happen?Splicer posted:How often is she going? If it's every day that's 10 bucks an hour for childcare. Very GWM. Yeah, if his swole disabled wife is going every day and not spending a shitload on other things then I'm not sure I can protest a $300/month gym membership that much. But holy poo poo, the YMCA will watch your kids too. And it's a good place when you're short on your dough and there are many ways to have a good time.
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Jul 12, 2018 19:49
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Twerk from Home posted:Houston absorbed more than a million people in 6 years, and housing costs didn't skyrocket. Up until Harvey destroyed a huge chunk of the housing stock, the new apartments were having to do 3+ months free on a year lease! houston has minimal zoning so developers can put pretty much whatever they want where ever they want and also relatively high property taxes which discourages speculators and investment property. you need *both* of these
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Jul 12, 2018 20:15
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the talent deficit posted:houston has minimal zoning so developers can put pretty much whatever they want where ever they want and also relatively high property taxes which discourages speculators and investment property. you need *both* of these These two things seem to work well, and wouldn't be impossible to put in other places. If California wanted to fix their housing, then you could fund a major income tax cut by doing a large prop tax hike accompanied by repeal of Prop 13, and getting rid of zoning entirely is just a legal problem. You'd immediately see tons of people selling and un-stick the property market.
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Jul 12, 2018 20:46
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Amenities like child care, spa, etc really jack it up What the gently caress on all of this
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Jul 12, 2018 22:11
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There exists a price and quality level above Local YMCA, shocking but true
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Jul 12, 2018 22:39
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Wife's on disability through California for post partum depression, I did not know you can use that for disability. So she goes to the gym daily to work out and I don't know how you can get disability for this and even this fast when most people on disability take 4 years and you need to be destitute jesus
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Jul 12, 2018 22:52
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California state disability is super easy to get. They will give it to anyone, but it doesn't last very long. Federal disability is a much longer and more difficult process.
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Jul 12, 2018 23:28
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He's also seemingly shrugged the whole problem off as solved because they'll be getting like $1600 bucks a month for 3 months. I guess he thinks everything else with just magically fix itself over 3 months.quote:EDIT: The gym is actually $175 a month the other $125 was smoothies, water, and clothes apparently. Also, apparently we/she is getting $5k for the next 3 months from disability???? I don't understand this at all, her doctor had to sign off on everything and send out of state paperwork to California. Basically I had a minor panic attack over nothing?
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Jul 12, 2018 23:28
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:There exists a price and quality level above Local YMCA, shocking but true TBH if the local YMCA wasn't only 3 blocks from my home I'd be willing to pay a lot more than they charge for a nicer place. Like it's totally adequate, but that's about the best I can say. Convenience wins out though since it means I actually go.
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Jul 12, 2018 23:38
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"Athletic Clubs" with $10,000+ initiation fees and $300+ monthly dues are where it gets REAL good
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Jul 12, 2018 23:40
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My dudes have you been to an equinox though? Those eucalyptus towels get people in the door
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Jul 13, 2018 00:12
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Guinness posted:TBH if the local YMCA wasn't only 3 blocks from my home I'd be willing to pay a lot more than they charge for a nicer place. Ours has a big indoor pool with a hot tub, water slide, and small lazy river we can use any time. A giant kid watching area with a huge playscape thing that is supervised to leave your kids while working out, two basketball gyms, a huge exercise area with a bunch of cardio and weight machines, a big free weight gym, and a bunch of yoga, Pilates, Zumba, etc classes. All for 40 bucks a month for a family membership. It’s pretty great.
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Jul 13, 2018 00:38
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SiGmA_X posted:/r/legallulz It's so beautiful...
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:"Athletic Clubs" with $10,000+ initiation fees and $300+ monthly dues are where it gets REAL good If we’re talking about the MAC I used to live right by it and saw almost no one in-shape going in or out of there. I’m starting to think it might not be about health!
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Day Man posted:Ours has a big indoor pool with a hot tub, water slide, and small lazy river we can use any time. A giant kid watching area with a huge playscape thing that is supervised to leave your kids while working out, two basketball gyms, a huge exercise area with a bunch of cardio and weight machines, a big free weight gym, and a bunch of yoga, Pilates, Zumba, etc classes. All for 40 bucks a month for a family membership. It’s pretty great. Congrats on your nice cheap Y. As I'm sure you know, most of them are not this nice. Many Ys are still tan colored poo poo from the 60s.
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Jul 13, 2018 03:25
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CannonFodder posted:He got screwed on the terms, has buyers remorse because a new model year is coming out (he maybe got a deal on the remaining dealer stock. Maybe) and he also wants to void any warranty with 3rd party exhaust work? Someone linked a youtube of a Fuckis with an exhaust. Holy bad sound.
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CannonFodder posted:He got screwed on the terms, has buyers remorse because a new model year is coming out (he maybe got a deal on the remaining dealer stock. Maybe) and he also wants to void any warranty with 3rd party exhaust work? Illegal third party exhaust work.
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CannonFodder posted:He got screwed on the terms, has buyers remorse because a new model year is coming out (he maybe got a deal on the remaining dealer stock. Maybe) and he also wants to void any warranty with 3rd party exhaust work? You know, the terms hosed him over but a $14k new car is fine. Drive it for a couple years before you sell it and you're doing better than 80% of America in their $50k pickup trucks.
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Inept posted:Congrats on your nice cheap Y. As I'm sure you know, most of them are not this nice. Many Ys are still tan colored poo poo from the 60s. Suburban YMCA's are great. They manage to afford pretty good facilities by catering to the exact kind of housewife who uses the gym as a babysitter and drinks $150 in special water every month. I imagine urban ones have a more challenging time. Do old single guys still literally live at the YMCA in big cities?
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Krispy Wafer posted:Do old single guys still literally live at the YMCA in big cities? With their nuts out, yes.
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My hometown YMCA is great in a town of 100,000 people. Plenty of space there and people I guess see themselves as a community. The mediocre gyms in LA are really, really mediocre. And combine that with the desire for the semi-rich to be both away from poors and people who actually want to lift and voila, you get Equinox.
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Krispy Wafer posted:YMCAs in big cities In my relatively large Midwestern city, the YMCA built a new downtown facility within the last decade, and it's p. great. Clean and modern; mostly a mix of executives, families, and college kids. They must be keeping all the wrinkly old man balls in a back room somewhere.
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This is one of the tiniest instances of BWM I've seen, but it blew my mind. One of my coworkers was sharing their love of Costco. Her one complaint was that they didn't have any reasonable cereal sizes, so she had to shop at the normal grocery store and make an extra trip just for cereal. She hardly ever buys cereal, but her kid loves Cheerios and she can't get them from Costco. Why? Because apparently all cereal boxes are single-serve to her. She thinks that there is no way that the cereal stays fresh in its original bag and won't eat it or feed it to her kid if the sealed package hasn't just been opened. She used to have some kind of food preserver (???) for cereal, but it broke and they haven't replaced it. So, cereal boxes are all single serve and then done for them.
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Jul 13, 2018 14:15
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jesus christ
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Jul 13, 2018 14:17
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You would need to have a fierce hunger to eat an entire box of cereal every time you opened one, jesus gently caress.
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Jul 13, 2018 14:18
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Have you had Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
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Hoodwinker posted:You would need to have a fierce hunger to eat an entire box of cereal every time you opened one, jesus gently caress. I don't think she eats the entire box. I'm pretty sure she either gets a bunch of those tiny pre-packaged travel boxes or throws it out.
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Hoodwinker posted:You would need to have a fierce hunger to eat an entire box of cereal every time you opened one, jesus gently caress. 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I don't think she eats the entire box. I'm pretty sure she either gets a bunch of those tiny pre-packaged travel boxes or throws it out. 
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I was complaining really hard about that guy not being able to cook a few pages ago, and this kinda poo poo is on par. People don't understand what food is anymore.
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Hoodwinker posted:You would need to have a fierce hunger to eat an entire box of cereal every time you opened one, jesus gently caress.
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