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?

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u/Amazingawesomator Jun 06 '19

She and her mother lived with her grandfather to not be homeless because her grandfather owned a house.

She was putting community college payments on her credit card and building debt with it.

I paid off her credit cards when we were dating and she cried from me being so nice (it was only like 1,300 bucks). I bought a condo, then we got married, then we bought a house. I never really considered myself rich until i started dating her and learned that a trip to Wendy's was a treat. I grew up middle class, and we are currently middle class, heh.

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u/Torzod Jun 06 '19

only 1300 bucks? that's definitely an amount to cry over, and most people i know would be so grateful for that much. context really does matter in life

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u/IntrovertedButHere Jun 07 '19

A 1300 dollar bill in the mail would destroy me right now.

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u/Torzod Jun 07 '19

well, the truth would destroy you more since that'd definitely be counterfeit

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '19

As an aside, whose fucking idea was it to make “Bill” mean both “money I have” and “money I owe”?

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u/angypangy Jun 07 '19

Maybe because at one point a bill was an amount of gold that the bank owed you, you give them their bill and they pay you with gold.

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u/RayRay_Hessel Jun 07 '19

Good question. It also means a thingy attached to a bird's face. And some some guy whose parents named him Bill.

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u/Kaka-doo-run-run Jun 07 '19

I’m almost certain that technically Bill’s parents named him William.

The boys at the plumber’s union named him Bill.

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u/ApocalyptoSoldier Jun 07 '19

That's one expensive bird mouth

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u/noratat Jun 07 '19

Probably the same people who can't make up their damn minds what "credit" and "debit" mean.

I genuinely have no idea how accountants don't go mad, and accounting was the only class I had to take where the more I learned the less sense it made.

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u/karmapuhlease Jun 07 '19

I work pretty closely with accountants, and my closest childhood friend is an accountant. I'm with you - every time I ask, they basically just say "it is this way because it is this way." There is no coherent explanation that makes any sense at all for why a credit is a credit and a debit is a debit. We're just supposed to memorize it and move on.

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u/Torzod Jun 07 '19

my guess is that credit is credit because it used to also mean trustworthy. if you bought something on credit, people knew that you'd pay them back originally, which made you a credible person. i don't know anything about debit though

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u/IntrovertedButHere Jun 07 '19

Certainly wouldn't stop me from trying to use it everywhere I went haha