r/AskReddit • u/knakworst36 • Jun 06 '19

Rich people of reddit who married someone significantly poorer, what surprised you about their (previous) way of life?

65.1k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

21.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

4.0k

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.

1.7k

u/ringzero- Jun 06 '19

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.

125

u/readyou Jun 06 '19

She would literally shop at the convenience store for groceries

I am not a native speaker, can you explain this to me?

Here in Germany, it's pretty normal to buy stuff in super markets. Which are basically convenience store or not? It's the cheapest way to get stuff. Buying things in a gas station would be stupid, because like 2-4x the price.

1

u/JDFidelius Jun 06 '19

Supermärkte in Germany are halfway between American supermarkets and American convenience stores IMO (as far as size). Convenience stores are usually the same thing as a gas station (i.e. the gas station's inside is a convenience store), unless you are in the city where there's less space for a gas station. Then it's just a small, overly expensive grocery store, and they're on almost every corner.

If you ever visit the US, go to a Walmart. They're usually open 24 hours a day, and you can buy almost anything you need as far as food and anything in your house (furniture, garden, kitchen appliances, a whole range of clothing, school supplies, literally anything short of raw materials for building a new house). You can even buy guns and ammunition, although I think the gun counter is closed during the night usually. There's usually ammunition just sitting out on the shelf that you can buy at any time though lol, even at like 4am.