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Excuse me, a kid? I may not be a sage adult but I thought being age 21 at least took the "kid" label off.
I think what the poster who referred to you as a "kid" was just saying that you are young and many here have lots of life experience to base their opinions on.
I am 43 years old. When I was your age, I saw a lot of people who I worked with, making the same money as I did, driving flashy, expensive cars. I would think to myself, while driving my $500 '78 Buick Regal, " Man, those folks must have some side hustle making a lot of money"
When I actually got to know them, I found out that 90% of those people A: worked a ton of OT to pay for the car and other bills B: Lived with multiple people and did not own their own homes or rent their own apts.Some still lived in their mother's basements. C: Bought high mileage used luxury vehicles that broke down every week or D: Sold drugs on the side.
Experience will teach you that all that glitters is not gold. Or maybe you'll learn by listening to us "old folk"
One of ther funniest Speeders episode was the 20 year old pulled over in his Dad's Hyundai sedan (or Kia I forget which) and when the cop asked him why he was speeding the answer was "I'm going to a party and want to impress the girls with my ride". I thought the cop was gping to lose it right there.
Trying to impress with possessions is just human nature. I have a couple moderately expensive shotguns guys drool over and complain they can't afford them. I bought them because I wanted them and saved up for awhile get them. Also got heckuva deals on them.
Just put it all on my card, and take it out of my Estate, once I kick the bucket.
Yeah, can't hoard it all and take it all with you, right? Of course some people want to pass down their wealth to their kids.... so that the kids can grow up and blow right through it, of course.
I think what the poster who referred to you as a "kid" was just saying that you are young and many here have lots of life experience to base their opinions on.
I am 43 years old. When I was your age, I saw a lot of people who I worked with, making the same money as I did, driving flashy, expensive cars. I would think to myself, while driving my $500 '78 Buick Regal, " Man, those folks must have some side hustle making a lot of money"
When I actually got to know them, I found out that 90% of those people A: worked a ton of OT to pay for the car and other bills B: Lived with multiple people and did not own their own homes or rent their own apts.Some still lived in their mother's basements. C: Bought high mileage used luxury vehicles that broke down every week or D: Sold drugs on the side.
Experience will teach you that all that glitters is not gold. Or maybe you'll learn by listening to us "old folk"
Are these mostly men you're talking about in these situations? I just wonder what most working mothers with kids should be driving? An old unreliable or something with a warranty on it?
Are these mostly men you're talking about in these situations? I just wonder what most working mothers with kids should be driving? An old unreliable or something with a warranty on it?
That's a good question. I found it was more of the men who would fornt like this, but there were some women who did the same thing as well.
I knew one woman, single mom, who won an insurance settlement. She blew the whole thing on a brand new ( at the time: 1995 I think) Mitsubishi Eclipse, fully kitted.
Yeah, can't hoard it all and take it all with you, right? Of course some people want to pass down their wealth to their kids.... so that the kids can grow up and blow right through it, of course.
I don't know one person, that was left money, that didn't just blow it on toys. Their Parents should have used it to take vacations or something. Mine left me their name, and some debt. things we don't earn, have little value.
Because they are expensive. And to afford them, you generally have to be successful at something. Duh.
You can debate the vacuousness of this standard of measure all you like, but that is why.
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