ain’t my fault either.
I almost cancelled cable. Barely get by after being laid off.
Thanks LIV.
I’m sorry here... But hear me out :
I live on about $300 a week with my wife in a one bedroom rental. We’re on time, and we have 4 months of that rent stored away in the house in case of emergency.
We’re not on food stamps, I make a car payment and we eat pretty well. We even go out sometimes.
I travel for work, weekly. I make more than that - but I keep it all away in savings. My cell phone is $10 a month and my cigarettes are about $3 a week. I have full coverage on a 10 year old BMW and I still afford to maintain that.
I’m not falling for this sh!t. I was homeless, I’ve had my electricity off for weeks at a time, and I’ve lived without heat in the winter time for extended periods (A fireplace and an axe seemed to help that - Imagine that.)
The key is that I moved out of the urban BS areas that all these pity-sing cases seem to stem from. I couldn’t live in CT on my salary. I could in PA. So I moved.
Hell, I’m living as comfortably on my salary in PA as I did on 4 times that salary in CT. It’s all the BS that people are continuously SLAVING for everyday that really made a difference.
I don’t have an iPhone. I don’t have a video game console, and my computer is 8 years old. If I want something, I save for it (The BMW I put 80% down on because it was a really good deal. Had to have it.)(Didn’t even require a credit check.. imagine that too)
Credit is NOT like Cash. Credit is designed to enslave you.