On the other hand, my brother lives with my grandma (hes 25 im 24) he has never had his own place, doesnt pay bills, and he is ALWAYS broke (eats out everyday, goes to bars, plays in a flag football league that he has to pay for all of his own equipment and travel, buys new clothes every couple of weeks)
- Sadly he has nothing to show for blowing all of his money, because it is mostly spent on consumables. His computer is a hand-me down i built for him, his television is a 30" CRT 1080I from 03 or 04, no stereo, no jewelry or watches, $10 pair of sunglasses.... he lives like a bum, but eats and drinks like a king... i just don't get it.
The only decent thing he owns is a 2006 dodge ram. Unfortunately my grandma bought it for him....
- Sadly he has nothing to show for blowing all of his money, because it is mostly spent on consumables. His computer is a hand-me down i built for him, his television is a 30" CRT 1080I from 03 or 04, no stereo, no jewelry or watches, $10 pair of sunglasses.... he lives like a bum, but eats and drinks like a king... i just don't get it.
The only decent thing he owns is a 2006 dodge ram. Unfortunately my grandma bought it for him....
AyashiKaibutsu
Diamond Member
- Jan 24, 2004
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I spend most of what I earn, but I barely spend anything on luxury. About 2k on everything I do on my computer over the past 3 years, and about 150 a month internet/phone/mmo/eating more expensive than I could get away with.
CrazyAznDriver
Golden Member
- Nov 28, 2010
- 1,200
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My extra money is going to paying off debt at the moment, though if there is something we want/need we usually get it.
- Oct 9, 1999
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I can think of two people in my life like that right off the bat. One was my g/f for nearly two years. She was then earning $80,000 + as an in-house writer for Pharma companies. This was the mid-eighties so it would be the equivalent of much, much more today.
She spent every single dime, and not only that, but often somehow ended up in financial trouble! At one point towards the end of our relationship, she was seriously up against it. Her company downsized her with a very generous severance package which she proceeded to go through like a house afire long before she got another job. So she turned to me. I lent her serious money, like 5 figures serious (I've always been a saver and financially prudent.)
No rigid time frame for payback, but the one thing I asked of her was that she replace the lost interest that I would forgo on this. She flat out refused, saying friends didn't charge friends interest. So, eh, I didn't.
And that was ok enough. She was one ton of fun, and ranks up there with the best sex I've ever had, and I'm a tad experienced in that department.
She was also generous to a fault with everyone, and that, of course, included me. She organized a huge, lush, catered with open bar surprise b-day bash for me and invited all my friends, and I have huge overlapping circles of friends! She also twice bought me uber-extravagant Christmas presents that there was no way I was ever going to completely match. So, all in all, she was a good deal!
It would just blow my mind how she could end up burning through her money so quickly. Some of it went to past debts, true, but there was still more than enough for her to make her way if she had cared to at all.
People like that amaze me. I have never wanted to end up bent over and owing with little or no recourse. Never!
Another close female friend just does what the hell she wants and somehow always ends up on her feet. Example: She moved back from New Mexico to help with her aging parents. Then her car is totaled in an accident, and she gets like $5,000 for the older Hyundai that it was.
What does she do? She decides to heed her inner voice that she must go to Wales. Now, mind you, she doesn't really know anyone in Wales, she just feels that spiritually she must go there and talk with the Druids, I don't know!
So she blithely spends most ALL of that money on going there and traveling around on her own. She's a real hardy traveler that way, just like I am, or was.
So she comes back nearly penniless and car-less to our still slightly rural suburbia, where you are marooned like a Maroon without a vehicle, and just manifests a series of vehicles that are given to her!
She is now living on my friend's farm (a tres cool old stone Bucks County farmhouse) and doing her thing, which involves being a paid chaplain in a couple of nursing homes and doing massage on the side (she's very good -- hands STRONG like Stalin!)
She had a fairly nice Chevy pick-up that someone had given her but she totalled THAT in the wilds of NJ on her longish way to work one day. She got by in the meantime alternately borrowing her current b/f's car and the cars of two other female friends.
And I just heard from another female friend that her (this other friend of mine's) b/f's father died, leaving an old but quite serviceable Buick, and that, of course, they're giving it to Cindy!
Fearless or feckless? A little of both, I guess, but it seems to work for her.
Part of me really admires the fearless portion of both of these women's approach.
After all, you're a long time dead.
It just ain't for me, is all.
She spent every single dime, and not only that, but often somehow ended up in financial trouble! At one point towards the end of our relationship, she was seriously up against it. Her company downsized her with a very generous severance package which she proceeded to go through like a house afire long before she got another job. So she turned to me. I lent her serious money, like 5 figures serious (I've always been a saver and financially prudent.)
No rigid time frame for payback, but the one thing I asked of her was that she replace the lost interest that I would forgo on this. She flat out refused, saying friends didn't charge friends interest. So, eh, I didn't.
And that was ok enough. She was one ton of fun, and ranks up there with the best sex I've ever had, and I'm a tad experienced in that department.
She was also generous to a fault with everyone, and that, of course, included me. She organized a huge, lush, catered with open bar surprise b-day bash for me and invited all my friends, and I have huge overlapping circles of friends! She also twice bought me uber-extravagant Christmas presents that there was no way I was ever going to completely match. So, all in all, she was a good deal!
It would just blow my mind how she could end up burning through her money so quickly. Some of it went to past debts, true, but there was still more than enough for her to make her way if she had cared to at all.
People like that amaze me. I have never wanted to end up bent over and owing with little or no recourse. Never!
Another close female friend just does what the hell she wants and somehow always ends up on her feet. Example: She moved back from New Mexico to help with her aging parents. Then her car is totaled in an accident, and she gets like $5,000 for the older Hyundai that it was.
What does she do? She decides to heed her inner voice that she must go to Wales. Now, mind you, she doesn't really know anyone in Wales, she just feels that spiritually she must go there and talk with the Druids, I don't know!
So she blithely spends most ALL of that money on going there and traveling around on her own. She's a real hardy traveler that way, just like I am, or was.
So she comes back nearly penniless and car-less to our still slightly rural suburbia, where you are marooned like a Maroon without a vehicle, and just manifests a series of vehicles that are given to her!
She is now living on my friend's farm (a tres cool old stone Bucks County farmhouse) and doing her thing, which involves being a paid chaplain in a couple of nursing homes and doing massage on the side (she's very good -- hands STRONG like Stalin!)
She had a fairly nice Chevy pick-up that someone had given her but she totalled THAT in the wilds of NJ on her longish way to work one day. She got by in the meantime alternately borrowing her current b/f's car and the cars of two other female friends.
And I just heard from another female friend that her (this other friend of mine's) b/f's father died, leaving an old but quite serviceable Buick, and that, of course, they're giving it to Cindy!
Fearless or feckless? A little of both, I guess, but it seems to work for her.
Part of me really admires the fearless portion of both of these women's approach.
After all, you're a long time dead.
It just ain't for me, is all.
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Good question. Don't know never asked. Apparently their parents said if you work hard and make something good out of yourself we will set you up for life. She became a doctor and they bought her a house and car. He doesn't give a shit really so they didn't give him anything but he lives in the house. Still spends his money like water though.
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- Nov 28, 2001
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Yes they are Asian. I'm 1/2 Asian but look 100 percent white just about. Dad is white mom is Chinese.
zerocool84
Lifer
- Nov 11, 2004
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Who cares what these people do with their money. It`s their money, let them do what they want with it. Too many people here try too much to tell others what to do with their money. OP, you have never left home and leech off your family so you're the last person to be judging anyone what they do with their money. Let them spend it all and become broke, then they'll have to learn how to spend money wisely.
AMDZen
Lifer
- Apr 15, 2004
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- Nov 28, 2001
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Sorry didn't mean to make it sound like I was judging them. That's the last thing I'm doing. I would just like to hear more stories of people like this. Like what Perknose posted. You are correct.
- Nov 28, 2001
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some friends of mine. theyve mentioned before that theyll pay a double cable bill one month, and a double phone bill the next, and that a few weeks ago a local music shop was calling because they hadnt made the payment on their kids violin
but when the wife started working again (making pretty decent money waiting tables at a popular place in town) the first thing she bought at the end of the week was a shiny new iPad2 (not the entry level version) /facepalm
really good friends of mine and i love them to death, but holy shit, people.
but when the wife started working again (making pretty decent money waiting tables at a popular place in town) the first thing she bought at the end of the week was a shiny new iPad2 (not the entry level version) /facepalm
really good friends of mine and i love them to death, but holy shit, people.
- Nov 28, 2001
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HardcoreRobot
Lifer
- Nov 7, 2000
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Average credit card debt per household with credit card debt: $14,750*
yeah, id say there are quite a few people out there living beyond their means
http://www.creditcards.com/credit-c...ustry-facts-personal-debt-statistics-1276.php
yeah, id say there are quite a few people out there living beyond their means
http://www.creditcards.com/credit-c...ustry-facts-personal-debt-statistics-1276.php
- Oct 9, 1999
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Let me turn your foot stamping petulance back on you.
How does it concern you at all? This is OT, after all.
If you don't 'get' the OP or don't see a point that your little brain can wrap it's tiny tentacles around, then move on, k? It wasn't for you. Obviously.
But take heart. The high end cologne thread is still out there somewhere. Weigh in!
- Nov 28, 2001
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A more interesting breakdown would be to know how it breaks down along income lines. How many of those with 14K+ are earning min wage for example. I bet there are a LOT!
gorcorps
aka Brandon
- Jul 18, 2004
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It's not even out yet... or I guess just released today. Kind of hard to make a recommendation over something when you haven't used one or the other.
- Nov 28, 2001
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Just released today. Already got almost 200 back ordered here lol. Reviews look good, especially paired with the keyboard dock. However it's Wifi only remember.
alkemyst
No Lifer
- Feb 13, 2001
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There is a TON down here in S. Florida...people in their 30's and some 40's that are still living at home...many for the last 10+ years.
The story is always the same: "saving for their own place and want to do it right".
Most used the boom as an excuse not to buy and the fall now as an excuse as well.
Fact is they have always blown their money. $1000+ car payments, going out every night, renting hotel rooms to pick up 18-21 year olds, expensive clothes, trips, etc.
They still bounce 'checks'...it's utterly ridiculous, plus many have gotten themselves in debt even though they have no rent/mortgage and make decent money...I'd estimate most are well north of $50k.
The story is always the same: "saving for their own place and want to do it right".
Most used the boom as an excuse not to buy and the fall now as an excuse as well.
Fact is they have always blown their money. $1000+ car payments, going out every night, renting hotel rooms to pick up 18-21 year olds, expensive clothes, trips, etc.
They still bounce 'checks'...it's utterly ridiculous, plus many have gotten themselves in debt even though they have no rent/mortgage and make decent money...I'd estimate most are well north of $50k.
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