Should he be worried about her not having a job if it doesn’t affect his finances? When somebody in your life is unemployed for a long period of time, you sometimes can’t help but wonder why. I often assume that if someone has been unemployed for 2 years and still has a vibrant social life, …
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‘Spending our prime years like monks feels like a waste of life’: Why retiring at 35 isn’t as freeing as the F.I.R.E. movement promises
Almost everyone wishes they could achieve «financial freedom,» but people have different definitions of the term. If you’ve never had access to a life-changing chunk of change, you might think of financial freedom as a state where you never have to think about money ever again. You have enough green stuff to swipe your plastic …
Seguir leyendo ‘Spending our prime years like monks feels like a waste of life’: Why retiring at 35 isn’t as freeing as the F.I.R.E. movement promises
35-year-old with $225k savings pays $100 monthly to live with parents, gets offended when brother tells him to backpay rent: ‘He’s lived at home since graduating high school’
Are family members entitled to tell us what to do with our finances? Unsolicited opinions are one of those annoying things that we can all depend on hearing from our relatives. They have ideas on how we should or shouldn’t be living our lives, and they feel like it is a matter of urgency that …
Seguir leyendo 35-year-old with $225k savings pays $100 monthly to live with parents, gets offended when brother tells him to backpay rent: ‘He’s lived at home since graduating high school’
24-year-old making $125K rebuffs his siblings’ request to pay rent while living at home because his 2 teen-parent siblings lived at home for years: ‘I was thinking I’d invest like 75k a year.’
Why shouldn’t he have to pay rent to live at home if his siblings did? Some Gen Zers believe that the only path to homeownership is living with their parents for all of their twenties, and they might be onto something. If your parents can’t gift you enough money to pay for a down payment, …
Seguir leyendo 24-year-old making $125K rebuffs his siblings’ request to pay rent while living at home because his 2 teen-parent siblings lived at home for years: ‘I was thinking I’d invest like 75k a year.’
Aunt finds 19-year-old niece’s bank statements, demands niece give her a monthly loan after discovering her savings account, niece refuses: ‘I’m tired of helping you out’
What is family for if not to «loan» each other money whenever someone finds themselves in yet another debt? That is a question the mother and aunt in the story below are probably thinking to themselves every time they come running to their 19-year-old daughter and ask her for more money. When one grows up …
Seguir leyendo Aunt finds 19-year-old niece’s bank statements, demands niece give her a monthly loan after discovering her savings account, niece refuses: ‘I’m tired of helping you out’
26-year-old girlfriend pays her unemployed boyfriends rent for 4 months, discovers he got a 6-month severance package worth thousands of dollars
He has been lying about having barely any savings the whole time. If there’s one piece of relationship advice that everyone should follow, it’s that you shouldn’t financially support someone you’re not married to. It’s understandable to want to help pay your partner’s bills if they’re struggling, but it’s a red flag if they’re asking …
Seguir leyendo 26-year-old girlfriend pays her unemployed boyfriends rent for 4 months, discovers he got a 6-month severance package worth thousands of dollars
24-year-old husband forces 23-year-old wife to cover all the bills from her paycheck, spends his money on whatever he pleases, while draining their savings
He should treat «his money» and «her money» like it’s «their money,» because it is!
Mom refuses to give out son’s savings account information after grandmother demands the details so she can make a deposit: ‘Just give me cash’
It is possible that this mom took her son’s privacy one step too far. Do you remember how fun it was to get money from your relatives on holidays and birthdays? You’d collect all that cash, the bills, and the coins, and put it in a cherished piggy bank until you had no choice but …
Seguir leyendo Mom refuses to give out son’s savings account information after grandmother demands the details so she can make a deposit: ‘Just give me cash’
Girlfriend leaves boyfriend after he spent $18.5K of their savings on a cheese wheel: ‘If I cut it into 200g wedges and sell it at $60 each I can make $38K’
He’s not the brightest crayon in the box. There’s a pretty big chasm between those who fall for get-rich-quick schemes and those who invest safely and steadily over the years, so they’ll be millionaires by 60. The path to wealth at a young age is probably somewhere between «quit your job to become a Twitch …
Seguir leyendo Girlfriend leaves boyfriend after he spent $18.5K of their savings on a cheese wheel: ‘If I cut it into 200g wedges and sell it at $60 each I can make $38K’
54-year-old dad spends $130K set aside for his grandchildren’s education on a boat because his adult children don’t have kids, adult children freak out: ‘They admitted that they expected me to leave them a good inheritance.’
He has helped them so much; he deserves to have some fun for himself! Inheritance is one of those things that is not frequently discussed in polite society, and for good reasons. It’s kind of a morbid reality that fortunate young people can come into a great sum of money after the passing of their …
Seguir leyendo 54-year-old dad spends $130K set aside for his grandchildren’s education on a boat because his adult children don’t have kids, adult children freak out: ‘They admitted that they expected me to leave them a good inheritance.’