finance

‘Spending our prime years like monks feels like a waste of life’: Why retiring at 35 isn’t as freeing as the F.I.R.E. movement promises

Emmy Pratt

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38-year-old son offers Mom to move into his house after he relocates abroad, siblings find out and demand to move there instead, he refuses: ‘You're not allowed in my home’

Bar Mor Hazut

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19-year-old brother tells 22-year-old sister to invest in gold, sister demands he pay her back after she loses $1000: 'She sold everything and locked in a $1,000 loss. After she sold, the price went back up.'

Emmy Pratt

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26 Cash Money Memes for Everyone Who Needs to Be Rich By Next Week (It's Urgent)

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Parents pressure teenage daughter go to expensive out-of-state school instead of her in-state choice, call her a 'spoiled brat' for accepting their help: 'I want to know I can stand on my own two feet'

JR Atkinson

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Husband refuses to disclose to wife how much money he makes, despite their decade-long relationship, she refuses to grow their family without financial transparency: ‘He says that it’s not important'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Administrative job paying $17 an hour requires applicants to have a minimum 700 credit score to be hired: 'What does my credit score have to do with checking emails and updating spreadsheets?'

Emmy Pratt

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32-year-old husband forced to act as unofficial executor for recently passed father-in-law even though his wife is left nothing, mother-in-law demands 27-year-old brother-in-law gets it all: ‘[He's] not the brightest…’

Elna McHilderson

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61-year-old dad secretly pays off kid's student loans, who finds out their dad did it by selling his beloved Harley: ‘He used every penny to clear my debt’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'She said my money 'isn’t just mine anymore'': Entitled girlfriend pressures a salesman into using his hard-earned $5000 bonus on a romantic vacation, he refuses and prioritizes personal financial stability

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'I’m not a bank': Man-child quits his job on a whim, expecting his 24-year-old girlfriend to financially support him until he "figures it out," she refuses so he gets Mommy involved in the guilt-trip

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Woman fed up with being the household’s sole financial manager and ATM for her husband and mother-in-law, finally quits handling the money: ‘I pay all the bills, buy all the food, I'm the one who gives her money when she overspends, I was done’

Etai Eshet

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Retired mom takes out $30,000 personal loan in her son's name to buy a boat, threatens to call CPS on him if he reports it to the police: 'They've missed 4 payments and [are] going to let it default since the boat can't be repossessed'

Emmy Pratt

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Parents demand access to daughter's savings account after she reveals her financial state, daughter refuses, entire family gets involved: ‘I’m not a walking bank account'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Mom insists her 23-year-old daughter, who has financially supported her for 5 years, send her and her 5 other adult children $1K per month: 'If my mom supported me financially growing up I would have, but she didn't'

Emmy Pratt

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Controlling European roommate tells roommate not to use the oven because the electricity costs too much despite the electricity costing €20.37 a month split between 3 people: 'I was using the oven for exactly 10 minutes'

Emmy Pratt

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