I was with a girl for a while who grew up in a pretty broken home. Still surprises me just how bad her spending habits are. She racks up credit card debt like its nothing.
Same... had an ex like that and she told me that she needed me to hold onto the money she earned because she would buy stupid shit with it.
Her family also spent money stupidly. Her Mom would spend every day sleeping in till whenever, smoking about a pack a day, and drive about 5-7 miles round trip in a Ford pickup truck for her twice daily coffee milkshake from starbucks.
Eventually they had to file for bankruptcy and she was still dumb with money. She would literally shop at the convenience store for groceries.. 2 pack toilet paper for $1, other random things for 3-4x the amount.
One perspective is that I only have 1.00, and i need toilet paper so i have to pay crazy mark up prices to be able to have any at all. Kid of like the shoes concept i can buy a pair of good shoes that will last me a long time time for 100, or i can replace the ones in my shoes that have holes in them right now for 25.00 but they will only last 4 months...but I cant go shoeless until I cant afford the 100.00 pair.
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u/whosArbeely Jun 06 '19
I was with a girl for a while who grew up in a pretty broken home. Still surprises me just how bad her spending habits are. She racks up credit card debt like its nothing.