When people with virtually no financial obligations and massive safety nets try to act like they are so, so poor and we have it so good and are so rich.
At the end of the month, we are $30 in the hole. Every month. Except on really good months where we break exactly even.That is with not one penny going into savings, no cable, the cheapest internet, the cheapest phone plan that I can have with my businesses, virtually no eating out, making most meals from scratch, and living in a beaten up fixer upper that barely functions as a house, but that we canāt afford to fix even a little bit. We havenāt even spent one freaking night away on any sort of trip or vacation even in town since our honeymoon 2 years ago. And we desperately need a vacation after the last 12 months or so that weāve had. All of our medical and vet expenses from the past year are on a credit card, which I hate but itās not like we could pay for them any other way. And I have a lot of health issues about to rack up a LOT more in bills.
Of course, a lot of these people who act like we are so wealthy and greedy (what because we have 2 fucking degrees we canāt use, or my husbandās job is salaried and not hourly?) are often the same fucking people who complain about our ācrappyā house/clothes/lack of a life/the fact that we eat mostly rice and pasta/lack of human children.
Do people not have any grasp of how much things like a mortgage or a car payment (which we didnāt want to have but my car died before we were able to save for a new one, and we are not lucky enough to be able to survive on one car, especially not a gas guzzling old truck that is about to fall into a million pieces) cost? Or all of the renovations and babies and vacations they think should be a part of our life? If you do, then you know why we are broke, and if you donāt, you can kindly shut the fuck up and give google and a calculator a try.
You know, if someone who was in a similar situation or has had a similar experience wants to talk, then fine, sure, whatever, but if not, itās really not your place to judge. But if you really want, Iāll show you our fucking budget that I maintain every month where I track every single penny that goes in and out of our bank accounts and you can see for your fucking self. Because I have gone to people for financial advice many times to see if thereās something weāre missing, some way to squeeze a few more bucks out of our pay and the answer is always ānope, nothing left to cut, you just need to make more money.ā As if itās that simple, too.
But if you are still living at home with your parents or have had all of your housing expenses provided for you, or if you have never actually paid for a grocery trip yourself, or if you have a significant other who buys all of your meals and all of your vacations and date nights, or if you have a safety net larger than we could ever dream of making in years (which Iām not attacking you for having, just saying that you likely have no concept of what our financial situation looks or feels like), then you can kindly go fuck yourself before you can fucking dare tell us that our house looks cheap and crappy (which is not only stupid and rude, but also kind of offensive because we went through hell to get this house and are fucking proud of that, even if it needs work) or that we are being greedy and entitled when we are looking for jobs that pay enough to cover the bills and maybe, at some point in the future, allow us to have a few hundred dollars in a savings account. Itās not like weāre ever retiring, so thatās not even a fucking factor here.
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