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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Struggling taught me that if I don’t use my money right now it’ll be gone.

    And I’m not saying that to contradict you. It’s funny how different people learn different lessons from the same experience. I grew up dirt poor. If I didn’t spend my money as a kid it might be called upon. And that’s the lesson I took for years.

    This is something others had to explain to me as I didn’t experience this first hand.

    If I didn’t spend my money as a kid it might be called upon.

    In case others are reading this there’s a few extra points to gaining the understanding of this concept. An example of this may be:

    You have come into $100 without it being allocated to anything. If you wait “too long” a bill/need will show up that will consume all of that $100 (and probably still leave you needing more). However, if you spend the $100 as soon as you get it, you can buy a nice pair of sneakers or a video game. The bill will still come, and you’ll still be in debt at the end, but you’ll have your sneakers/video game. So this mindset incentivizes spending immediately instead of saving. An additional angle on this is that you may not have the bill/need but someone in your life does, and if you have $100 and don’t volunteer it, or refuse to “lend” it when its discovered, there are large social consequences. So again, spending it immediately is incentivized, because there are no social consequences for not having the money to “lend”, only having the money and not “lending” it.

    This is far more common that I had understood initially.





  • Every year the government takes 1 hour away from every American with the implementation of Daylight savings time. They return the hours to each American in the fall. However, in between March (when the hours are taken) and November (when the hours are returned) over 2 million Americans die, and don’t get their hours returned to them, or their estates. This happens every. single. year.

    What is the government doing with all of these stockpiled hours of dead Americans?







  • If you’re posting on the internet in a broadcast form (just as Instagram) about deeply intimate details of your life, you should not generally expect heartfelt nuanced discussion. You’re going to get short attention span pithy responses (as your example shows) or harsh reactionary responses from fringe minority positions (also as your example shows).

    Those are internet responses. Those are not representative of real life. This is what the prior poster was telling you.