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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High school acquaintance asks 27-year-old woman if she can have her old food stamps now that she doesn’t qualify for them anymore, gets angry when she declines: ‘She told me I was being stingy and privileged now that I have a job’

I hate it when someone thinks they can have something of yours just because you aren’t using it. I don’t go snooping around in my roommate’s closet, looking at her clothes, thinking, «Wow, Audrey hasn’t worn this in a long time. I wonder if I can keep it.»  We are taught from a very young …
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‘I ended up using a Cash App loan to cover the meal’: Mom insists son take her to Chili’s, forks the bill over despite him not having money to pay it, leaving him with $.30 in his bank account

When money is tight, the last place you want to go is out to dinner. It’s a luxury that not all of us can afford all the time, let alone regularly. You’d be hard-pressed to eat at a sit-down restaurant and not spend a pretty chunk of change, especially if you’re covering somebody else’s meal. …
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‘Your husband sounds like he wants a 1950s housewife’: Wife works full-time remote job while taking care of 1-year-old, husband pressures her to do more around the house

The division of labor between members of a household can be hard to dileniate. There’s money to be made, a house to be cleaned, and children to be reared. But who can do it all? But even when you do have a partner to share the load, how do you decide who does what, especially …
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Brilliant Loopholes People Exploited For Years

We love to see ordinary people exploiting glitches in the system, flawed discount deals, lazy employers, and any big institution that profits from usually doing the exploiting. When you spend most of your life rising and grinding every damn day to pay the bills, even the smallest win can feel like striking gold, like figuring …
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