ducklite
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I have a friend, I've spoken about her here a few times out of sheer frustration, she and her husband could have a decent financial situation, but instead have a widescreen, take an expensive vacation every year, and never pay anything on time. She's borrowed money from me in the past, I finally had to stop lending her cash for two reasons, first, she never paid it back on time and it was putting a strain on our friendhsip when she would brag about some new gadget they ahd bought or deposit for a cruise while she still owed me money that should ahve been paid back months ago, and second I decided to stop enabling her irresponsibility. They are in their mid-40's and have less than $20K saved for retirement--and the husband just "retired" from his union job and isn't working (he's getting a pension that's about half of what he was making), and they are just about to lose their health insurance because it only covers him for free for six months after retirement and they can't (or won't) pay the COBRA.
But I think the craziest thing I've ever read was a person who posted (not sure if it was the Dis or another WDW message board) about an upcoming vacation, it was ten nights IIR in a deluxe resort, concierge level at WDW, and this person has credit card debt equalling their annual income and zero savings!
They were complaining about being broke, yet whenever anyone suggested they scale back the annual deluxe WDW trip, they had a holy cow.
And yet another. The friend of my son called last night and mentioned that the family was moving back in with the grandmother--again. This is the third eviction in six years. The father has a decent job and the mother claims to have all sorts of illnesses and can't work. She's been denied SSDI several times because even her own doctor won't say that she's disabled. But frankly the area they live in is very inexpensive, when you're paying $600 a month for rent and the father is making $40K a year, the only reason they can't pay the rent is that they blow their money at baseball card shows, concerts, etc. Classic case of wanting to make sure their kids want for nothing, and digging themselves into a pit for it.
Does anyone just not understand the mentality of these people? Anyone else have some doozies they'd like to share?
Anne

But I think the craziest thing I've ever read was a person who posted (not sure if it was the Dis or another WDW message board) about an upcoming vacation, it was ten nights IIR in a deluxe resort, concierge level at WDW, and this person has credit card debt equalling their annual income and zero savings!


And yet another. The friend of my son called last night and mentioned that the family was moving back in with the grandmother--again. This is the third eviction in six years. The father has a decent job and the mother claims to have all sorts of illnesses and can't work. She's been denied SSDI several times because even her own doctor won't say that she's disabled. But frankly the area they live in is very inexpensive, when you're paying $600 a month for rent and the father is making $40K a year, the only reason they can't pay the rent is that they blow their money at baseball card shows, concerts, etc. Classic case of wanting to make sure their kids want for nothing, and digging themselves into a pit for it.
Does anyone just not understand the mentality of these people? Anyone else have some doozies they'd like to share?
Anne