Lawyer boyfriend asks girlfriend for €30k for mother’s failing business after she refuses initial ask of €60k: ‘The cafe (and his mom) is a money pit’

Asking for money is an incredibly difficult task. Nobody enjoys doing it. We all wish we could live in a world where whatever we want falls into our lap and whenever we need money it magically appears in our bank accounts. Think about how much happier we’d all be. There would probably be no war, …
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Husband spends $160k on baseball cards behind wife’s back, lawyers up when she asks for $80k back: ‘The cards are everywhere’

Financial infidelity is one of those common things that we’ve only just started learning how to talk about. When you have a joint account, you need to have a lot of discussions about how that account gets used, and just what you’re spending money on. Even if the relationship has a foundation of trust in …
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‘Y’all thought my $1400 Tahoe payment was bad’: Nonsensical woman baffles internet with combined $3000 monthly car payments

One of many things that has up to this point made me a committed non-driver is that acquiring and maintaining a vehicle can be incredibly expensive. Everyone knows that a car loses up to 10% of its value as soon as it’s driven off the lot, and yet many people find themselves paying it off …
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24-year-old daughter racks up $3000 in credit card debt, mother refuses to bail her out: ‘She is an adult, but still acting like a teenager’

When you’re a young adult, figuring out your finances is one of the hardest life things you’re tasked with. If you weren’t taught financial literacy growing up, it’s easy to be flying blind, especially once you get your first job. Getting paychecks is exciting, and if you’ve never had that kind of money before, it …
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TikToker Goes Viral for Proving That ‘Girl Math’ is Actually Legitimate Econ

Remember «girl math,» the viral thought project that had every girl explaining their budget? For example, if you go to Starbucks to buy yourself a little treat and you get yourself a $7 chai, but you used your giftcard, that was free. Or if you buy a skirt, but you didn’t like it, so you …
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Redditors Share the Wildly Out of Touch Things They’ve Been Told

If you find yourself rubbing shoulders with the upper crust, it won’t be long before they say something that they think will be relatable to everyone, but actually reveal their deep ignorance. The result can be a fun mix of amusing and insulting. Of course, being out of touch is not all about wealth, it …
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People Consider The Most Out-of-Touch Sentiments Rich People Have Expressed to Them

Rich people, right? It’s pretty easy to discern who grew up with wealth with a quick conversation. Not to say that’s an inherently bad thing; some of my closest friends are complete trust fund babies. It’s just that there’s an inherent disconnect between those who grew up with and without money. One of the most …
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Greedy Family Demands Inheritance from Daughter They Refused to Support

Family drama can get messy. Throw any sort of inheritance issue into the mix and you have a recipe for disaster. Greed shouldn’t get in the way of familial relationships, but, unfortunately, people are money hungry by nature. I suppose that’s cynical; it’s just quite often true. In a post to the /r/amitheasshole subreddit, user …
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A Treasure Trove of the Richest Bitcoin Memes for Overconfident Crypto Investors

When Bitcoin was launched in 2009, the world wasn’t ready for it. We were too busy with low-rise jeans, the Kardashians, and Rihanna’s greatest hits to realize that the fakest fake money ever to cross our paths was secretly on the rise. Well, almost 15 years later, after the black market decided that crypto was …
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‘They can’t afford a child’: Couple asks friends and family to finance their $27,000 IVF treatment, get offended when their sibling refuses to give them $10,000

Raising a child is expensive. If you’re unfortunate enough to attempt to have a child in America, with healthcare costs, it’s debatably even more expensive to even birth the child. To complicate things even further, most American healthcare companies don’t recognize IVF (in vitro fertilization– a technique to have a baby despite all natural odds) …
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