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Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X
How much of the $300 a month to Sheetz is gas? Because Sheetz is a terrible place to buy anything other than gas so I'm curious what "daily poo poo" means here.

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Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X

Adar posted:

You make a net $36k a year after taxes (so like low 40's gross?) and owe $40K (including $10k on ultra high interest cards), own a house with barely positive equity, and have no savings, but also have bonus income + a shared household coming up next year and no student loans. You also want to be responsible going forward and are taking some steps in that direction.

My dude, please for the love of God just declare bankruptcy yesterday. You are the exact definition of the person that should do this. Don't do this balancing on a knife's edge while paying off 27% interest on cards that correctly tagged you as high risk for the next three years - take your get out of jail free card and then live smart from that point on.

The alternative is that you sit there taking baby steps for two years until oops the economy gets worse and you're back to square one with nothing built up for that.

I think this is right, yeah. The thing is--someone who knows more about finance than I do should correct me if I'm wrong about this--but as I understand it, even if your current plan goes perfectly, 10 years from now your credit will be in about the same place as it will if you declare bankruptcy now and live smart thereafter.

I mean if you just can't stand the stigma of being ~bankrupt~ then OK. But you might want to just squeeze out a couple hundred bucks to talk to an expert, who I'm pretty sure will also recommend declaring bankruptcy and starting over. Because that last line of Adar's post is the really important one--your current situation is such that if you lose your job tomorrow, you'll be forced to declare bankruptcy whether you want to or not by Halloween. And in TYOOL 2018, sooner or later you are going to lose your job.

I know it sucks hard to hear it, but the most likely alternative to bankruptcy by far is that 2 years from now you lose your job to random corporate bullshit and then are bankrupt anyway and 2 years behind on rebuilding.

Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Sep 11, 2018

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