Getting closer to the weekend is a dangerous time for personal finance. You have been responsible all week. You packed leftovers for lunch, ignored shopping ads, and told yourself there would be no unnecessary spending. But the weekend arrives, and your budgeting plan becomes a mere suggestion. Of course you want to order food. Maybe …
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23 Lighthearted Broke Memes for People Romanticizing Their Bank Account Situation
My bank account said, «Be humble,» so I became a minimalist overnight There’s a very specific kind of character development that happens when you check your bank account and just… sit there for a second. Not panicking, not crying, just accepting. It’s not ideal, but it’s also kind of funny in a way. Like, okay, …
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Husband spends his wife’s grandma’s $5K inheritance on his $4.2K in credit card debt, leaving little for his wife to pay her $2.1K in credit card debt: ‘He says it’s for the good of the family.’
Inheritance should not be spent by someone for whom it wasn’t intended. Many people feel entitled to their family members’ money. We all know someone who thinks that they deserve thousands of dollars from their grandparents upon their passing, even though they made no effort to have a relationship with them when they were alive. …
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58-year-old woman sends $1.5M to scammers, gets angry when 20-year-old son prevents her from taking money out of her 401K to send the scammers $30K more
Some people can’t be saved from their own stupidity. Do you recall the article from a couple of years ago about a woman who put her life savings in a shoebox and gave it to scammers? She claims that she never thought she would fall for something like that, but scammers can manipulate otherwise intelligent …
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41-year-old brother borrows $16K from 39-year-old sister over the years, insists that she give him more money after she gave him $2K just 2 weeks before: ‘My husband and I just had a 3 hour conversation with him saying no!’
You really can’t help someone who refuses to help themself. You can throw as much money as you want at a situation, but it will not address the underlying issues of irresponsibility and dysfunction that lead to the need for extra money in the first place. It’s difficult to accept that you can’t do anything …
Seguir leyendo 41-year-old brother borrows $16K from 39-year-old sister over the years, insists that she give him more money after she gave him $2K just 2 weeks before: ‘My husband and I just had a 3 hour conversation with him saying no!’
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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Irresponsible woman asks her roommate to cover her rent because she spent her money on concert ticks, friends say she needed to go for her mental health: ‘I don’t want to be someone’s safety net when they make poor choices.’
Roommates can either be a saving grace or a pain in the tuchus. If you have a responsible roommate who pays their rent on time, cleans up after themselves, and is friendly but not too friendly, you will probably feel pretty good about the arrangement. If you’re the roommate who sends the collective money to …
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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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25+ Saving Money Memes for Balling on a Budget
Everything is expensive these days. Heck, eggs are out of the question. Everyone is trying their best to get by, and that often involves curbing your spending. It can be difficult to do that, though, in a world where a treat can take a bad day and make it a good day. Have you ever …
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‘For Christmas we got a coupon for a cup of coffee…from the coffee shop in the building. The coffee was already free’: Employees share the worst «bonuses» their jobs have ever given them
Getting a bonus means different things to different people. For the average Joe, a bonus will help them add a little more padding to their emergency fund or finance Christmas presents for their kids so they don’t have to go into debt for Santa. I recently learned from reading Disney Wars that bonuses are extremely …
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