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Bad with Money: when you live at home with your mom rent-free "to save money" but she's a hoarder and the kitchen is full of crap so you can't use the stove or most of the fridge meaning you have to eat out all the time, and the shower is broken so you have to have a gym membership that you only use for showering.
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DizzyBum posted:But man oh man I wish we had Google Fiber nearby. If they start laying cable nearby, I'm dropping AT&T like a bad habit. They're not doing this anymore, but I got (basic) seven years free service after paying the $300 installation fee, which was a pretty good deal.
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Apr 29, 2016 01:01
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I don't have a link because I'm on my phone but there's a guy on Reddit right now who wants to buy a sailboat with his friends in Seattle and rent it out on AirBnB.
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Jun 9, 2016 21:52
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Weatherman posted:BWM is living in a country where "gently caress you, got mine" is the national motto. You guys should have that on your coins instead of E Pluribus Anus or whatever it is at the moment. Benjamin Franklin wanted the money to say "Mind Your Business" to remind people to be financially prudent, which probably wouldn't have worked. 
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Jul 22, 2016 14:17
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FourLeaf posted:Bad With Money, also Bad With Morality: Abusing your girlfriend while allowing her to manage all the household payments because you can't be bothered, thus making it easy for her to kick your violent rear end to the curb. I also posted this in the Schadenfraude thread. Somebody call Paul Simon so he can update 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover Make the perfect plan, Jan then lock him out of your place, Grace and make him homeless, Jess Just get yourself free
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Aug 17, 2016 03:08
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El Mero Mero posted:The only thing I can think of where that would make sense would be a person with no vision insurance buying two pairs of fancy prescription sunglasses. Yeah but you don't have to buy two pairs of prescription glasses every drat month. Sidenote: I work for an eye clinic and get one pair of free glasses every year and all additional glasses at cost. It's pretty great. I could also get free LASIK if I wanted.
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Sep 12, 2016 02:17
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Less Fat Luke posted:Just a question, why would you not get free LASIK? I had PRK which is a super loving painful version of it and it was still one of the best things I've done healthwise. My vision isn't that bad. I only wear glasses for distance and I don't wear them unless I have to drive or go to the store or something. It just seems like it would be a lot of hassle for what is a relatively small issue in my life.
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Sep 13, 2016 03:16
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brainwrinkle posted:I would think the fixed costs like stabling and veterinary bills don't scale with horse size. No, miniature horses and regular size horses both live 20-30 years. Food costs would be cheaper for sure, though.
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Oct 20, 2016 14:38
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I just use Ms. for all women regardless (pronounced "Miz"), mostly because it is easy and also I am unsure of what the proper form of address is for a married woman, such as myself, who has kept her birth name. No one has ever seemed to mind.
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Nov 9, 2016 04:37
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Agile Sumo posted:Rappers should have more songs about saving money.. $ave Dat Money https://g.co/kgs/z3YOMA And, of course, Thrift Shop.
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Nov 12, 2016 05:05
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Ask Reddit thread about the saddest return you ever processed while working in retail (mostly people returning baby stuff after a stillbirth) quote:A guy came in to a jewelry store and wanted help to find his wife something nice. Throughout the process he told me that they were having problems and he thought they were going to split up. He was lovely, but slightly weird for whatever reason. Anyhow, he bought her a diamond ring and left. Exactly two days later he returned, sad and asked if he could have a refund as she had split up with him. Turned out their problems were about how much money he was spending and so she wasn't exactly thrilled he had gone and bought her diamonds.
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Nov 20, 2016 17:36
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H110Hawk posted:Dedicated piano movers who hire a crane, pull a permit to block the street, and lift that sucker into your Manhattan apartment. In Boston there's a company that does this called "Deathwish Piano Movers" that also moves all sorts of giant heavy expensive stuff. I can only imagine how much that it costs to hoist a piano out of one apartment and into another. edit re: music expenses. My best friend from high school plays cello, and she did a study abroad program in Chile in college, and she had to purchase a second airplane ticket for her $8k cello.
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Nov 29, 2016 14:59
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Nail Rat posted:Rent-to-own horses? Funny you should say that... quote:Hey--unusual situation, but maybe you can just think of it as a car payment and it will help normalize it. source: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/5hbcjk/i_make_payments_on_a_horse_the_owner_is_extremely/
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Dec 9, 2016 17:33
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New job, new bad with money coworkers! So I have a coworker who moved halfway across the country and did so without most of her family's furniture, on the theory that it would be cheaper to replace than move. This would have been a good idea, had she not gone to Nebraska Furniture Mart and purchased a super nice and expensive dining room table and chairs set for Thanksgiving with a store credit card. She has been paying it off for 5 months and still owes $2500. Her husband does not know about this card. Ok, not the worst story ever but now her son is going to college and will need student loans, so she is going to have a credit report pulled that will show all open credit cards...and her husband will discover that not only does she have this card, but that she put him down as a co-signer. Her plan is to borrow money from her mom to pay off and close the card before the credit report gets pulled.
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Jan 14, 2017 16:58
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NancyPants posted:It isn't possible to just put someone down as a cosigner even if you have their SSN, unless she also forged his signature, which would be fraud. She specifically said "cosigner" but who really knows?  and as far as I could tell, the husband thinks the table was paid in full.
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Jan 15, 2017 00:20
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theHUNGERian posted:Edit: GWM: Befriending the campus cat, so I can always pet a cat when I go take a walk but I don't have to deal with a cat in my home. If you volunteer at the cat shelter you can pet lots more cats than that. I probably pet 50 different cats today, including 2 fluffy kittens, and it didn't cost me a thing. On the other hand, I have had to seek medical attention twice from being at the cat shelter (once for a bite, once for Bartonella aka cat scratch fever) and that did cost me a fair bit.
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Jan 15, 2017 04:54
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DarkHorse posted:Just heard from my coworker that his stay-at-home wife had put down a deposit on a $2000 purebred dog, that they'd have to drive across the continent to get, that they could pick up once "they were ready" i.e. the dam hasn't even been bred yet. GWM on the breeder's part though, getting money for dogs that don't even exist yet. I have coworker who backyard breeds German shepherds, which she charges $1000 for. She had 10 puppies and has found homes for four, so she is desperately trying to find homes for these dogs before they grow up and aren't cute puppies anymore. I can't imagine she actually makes that much money from this scheme, what with supplies and vet care and all.
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Subjunctive posted:(I have bipolar disorder, though it's type 2 so it has mostly manifested in a bloated Steam catalog and large charitable donations.) I also have bipolar 2 and about 8-10 years ago I bought so many craft supplies (beads, fabric, yarn, etc) that I am STILL working through them. Taking your meds: GWM
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