Woman discovers resort waitress was adding extra meals to family’s dinner bills to feed her kids, husband confronts her and quietly accepts cash repayment, but his wife reports it, causing waitress to be fired: ‘I feel terrible’

There are simply no excuses for stealing, but sometimes it is important to hear someone out before taking serious action against them. Most times, it will not excuse what they have done, because for whatever reason, theft has no valid justification…However, this husband is left feeling guilty after seeing the consequences his dishonest waitress faced… …
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Penny pinchers discuss the normal age to hit $100K in savings: ‘It seems like everyone is doing it by 21’

At what age did you save your first $100K? For some of you, that question makes you laugh out loud. You barely have $ 1,000 in savings, let alone 100 times $1,000. Saving a ton of money is not always someone’s top priority, especially if they’re paying off debt or live in a high-cost-of-living area. …
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22 Payday Memes That Highlight Pocket Change & Paycheck Pain

It’s the most wonderful time of the month…ahhh payday: when your card goes from ‘declined’ to ‘you’ve got 78 hours to act rich babe!’ The only thing better than reaping the fruits of our labor is…Yeah, we’ve got nothing. Whoever said money can’t buy happiness obviously has never seen us by the 14th of every …
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‘I paid for $1.00 worth of Ramen with a check at a grocery store. The check bounced.’: Former broke people share the brokest things they did while living in poverty

We all have different definitions of «broke.» I would argue that someone who makes $150,000 a year but has $150,000 in debt is pretty dang broke. I can also admit that someone with that amount of money coming in is probably not living a stereotypically «broke» existence as someone without any debt who’s making $35,000 …
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Tax Day Memes for Procrastinators Asking for an Extension on April 15th

Ah, Taxes. They are one of the most American things to complain about. Our forefathers didn’t dump a bunch of British tea in the Boston Harbor because they were mad about foreign policy. They were raging over British tea being taxed and America not being represented in Parliament! Now, we’re almost 250 years out from …
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26 Memes for Broke People with Expensive Taste

Why is everything so expensive? It’s a tale as old as time, but seriously, I’m just trying to grab a little sweet treat (multiple times a week), and it’s really adding up. We’re all in the seasonal blues, just looking for that small dopamine boost, only for our bank accounts to shut it down immediately. …
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Boyfriend of 2 years calls his girlfriend greedy for not sharing her $50K of lottery winnings with him: ‘He said things like, “Finally, you can help me pay off some of my credit card debt.”’

If you get one piece of financial advice, let it be this: never tell anyone if you win the lottery. While your accountant and your wife of 40 years might be exceptions to that rule, it’s one that you must apply to every other relationship in your life. It doesn’t matter if you win $2000 …
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Customer refuses to ‘pay forward’ the $42 coffee order from the car behind him after a kind stranger pays for his $4 coffee: ‘The cashier looked at me with total contempt’

I’m so glad I never worked in a drive-thru window because if I did, I would’ve floundered the second somebody wanted to pay for the person behind them. I don’t know how to pull up the credit card information of a customer who just left! What are you, nuts? Against all odds, drive-thru employees find …
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Mother of 6 charges sister’s family $250 for staying at her house for a weekend: ‘I did a grocery run before arriving. I never wanted to be a burden on her.’

Money is such a tricky topic to broach, especially among family members. You can get away with never really talking about specific finances with your friends, but with family, it’s inevitable. It’s even more inevitable when you travel together and do things together regularly. Some people are strict splitters: you put down two cards at …
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