- Snerkey : arnt you literaly insane? I choose poverty hunny. I can quit any time I want
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No links, just text. If you're out booze cruising, you'll notice that poors often have their entire dashboard covered in random paperwork. Doesn't matter what kind of vehicle, as long as it's cheap and poorly maintained.
Why is this such a common behavior? What documents could they possibly have that are so damn important, they need to be on the dash? You really don't have an afternoon once a month to go through it and get rid of what you don't need?
As a secondary, you also know they're driving slow as shit everywhere because otherwise the papers would fall.
Goddammit I hate poors.
I want to create a post on Reddit (in bad faith ) asking this question, just to get the expected responses
1. "they're too busy trying to survive under capitalism"
2. "what does it matter to you, it doesn't affect you"
3. "idk what you're talking about, I'm friends with multimillionaires who have random papers covering their dashboard and empty coffee cups on the passenger seat"
4. because I'll specifically call them the poors
instead of poor people.
Then I'll ask a similar question asking why Hispañols drive slow as shit, too. Like they're afraid to get it above 1,200rpm. Expected response there is "they're being safe and maybe you need to learn some patience" (when they pull out in front of you on a country road)
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Willow, 27, Tuscon Arizona
Personal Life:
Got COVID last week timestamp
- tested negative this
Has a kid in Tuscon, divorce just finished
Has an IT degree + some IT certs
Subsisting off severance pay, savings, and freezer meals timestamp
Has a "partner" timestamp
Rekt the partner's car earlier this year
- Early on in the relationship, things still going well
Partner is currently in the room
Career:
Usually IT, got laid off 3 weeks ago timestamp
- Has been applying to a jobs, about 10 applications a day, "getting kind of desparate"
Uber driving timestamp
Was using the truck but it broke "really bad" and couldn't the fix
"Very first drive got blinded by the sun and wrapped it around a pole"
Car was worth 4 or 5 grand, Ford Focus
- Mother gave money to bail out? And give partner?
Truck has since aged out of Uber
Financials:
401k $32'000
- "About to get split in half" (divorce)
Divorce Deets timestamp
20k legal fees
- Lawyer felt bad so no interest on a pay as you go timestamp
Caleb pretends he didn't notice this guest is transgender
"My ex-wife decided to kidnap my child across the country when I started hormones"
"She lied just long enough to establish residency in Tuscon and then I got served divorce papers"
Sold home in Michigan (a half-acre) for net $53'000
- Home was a gift from family?
"My ex does have to pay for a portion of my attorney's fees now which feels nice" timestamp
- About a third of them
Married for 4 or 5 years timestamp
Married because wife got pregnant
"A lot of pretty terrible things she did in the meantime which resulted in other bills I had to pay off"
- Psych ward visit "from her abuses that sent me going insane"
50/50 custody of the daughter, 4 years old
"Why was the divorce messy?" timestamp
"She got really resentful because she didn't want me to [transition] because she's Catholic and very strong in her belief that trans people aren't real"
"She wanted me not to have unsupervised access to my kid"
"During the divorce she accused me falsely of five felonies"
"Forging, child abuse, diddling the kid, and abusing her, and I forget what the fifth one was"
"That's why she has to pay a large portion of my lawyers fees, the judge was not pleased with that"
Wife is living with her parents rent-free, judge decided to count this free rent as income
Has until June 1st to get a job
Does not qualify for unemployment currently
Wife did have a job during the marriage
Used to have 3 cars, sold a Chevy 1 ton truck to help pay for the lawyer
More deets timestamp
Ex's mother is retired
Communication is "sparse" with a rude message from her here and there
Worked for 6 months of the last year? Intiaily timestamp
Got a job mid-last year but it was "an IT sweat shop"
Explanation of this - timestamp
Making $52'000, "much lower than what I made in Michigan"
Tried to start a business, "it didn't work out well, I ended up breaking even"
So where'd the money go? timestamp
"So first, I have a big stupid truck I love, that I keep fixing and I have a loan on it. It's lifted and-"
"So here me out-"
Self-scored 1 or 2, "it's pretty bad"
Credit Card 1 (Quicksilver) (9'167) timestamp
$334 minimum payment
$10 in transactions
242 interest accrued
$167 over the credit limit
30.7% interest rate
"For a while I wasn't allowed to touch the funds from the house" timestamp
Explanation of how he has this bill from needing to keep "both his cars"
Has another car in Michigan at his mother's house
"It's also very old and broken"
First car, it's always broken but he wants to keep it. "It works, mostly, there's always something a little wrong with it"
"I actually hate car-based transportation but I like cars"
Credit Card 2 (Wells Fargo) (7'270) timestamp
$73 minimum payments
interest free but not any more, now 30%
no new purchases
"I've gotten very used to losing money at this point."
- Caleb takes shots at the Reddit, guest takes a potshot as well
Thinking about bankruptcy timestamp
Pretty reasonable thoughts behind this actually
Has already talked to a lawyer about this, $1700
Planning to pull the lawyer fees from his retirement this goes forward
Would take about a month or two for the proceeding
Mother has agreed to sign onto a loan if needed, already bailed out once while he wasn't able to touch the house funds
Credit Card 3 (Trio) (2461) timestamp
$49 interest accrued
$73 minimum payment
Does not plan on using credit cards again timestamp
Rent is $850
Tried applying other places, "Walmart, the gas station down the road" timestamp
Rejected from these
Walmart mentioned specifically as ghosting him
Car (Dodge Ram 1500) ($7'000) timestamp
From 2007
Bought in 2021 - 4 year term, cost 11'000
Truck deets timestamp
Thinks about $7'000 in repairs over the time he's had it
Uses for off road driving frequently for fun (based)
Repaired own front suspension
Partner bought him new tires
Thinks that it's worth more than he owes on it
1 payment late right now
RV ($20'000) timestamp
Bank this is from is "super shady" and won't give statements
Thinks 7% or 8%
10 year term
has had it a little more than a year
Thinks it's worse more than he owes but would be extremely difficult to sell
1 payment late right now
Caleb pushes back on the bankruptcy timestamp
Caleb suggests that he move to Phoenix for better job prospects and only see kid on weekends [timestamp]
- "That doesn't feel like an option - that kid has so many emotional problems from being taken from me, I couldn't do it to her"
Some pushback on whether ending up in this situation was actually out of the guest's control
Checking Account timestamp
Some eating out, oil changes, fair bit of amazon, google, a car wash for the '90s car
He gets maybe 5 more car washes for the '90s car - wanted to fix rust on it?
$64 worth of steam games
$45 venmo to Therapist
Got state health care? timestamp
Partner hops on timestamp
Did not know about this much CC debts
Dog barks because nobody's paying attention to it
Partner has "about 10'000" in CC debt
On marriage
"not happening any time soon" both divorcees
partner is 25
Dog had lime disease when younger
Don't live together, did briefly because guest was briefly homeless in January
Guest and daughter were staying in the apartment for a little while
"She doesn't know how to cook so she heads to McDonalds"
"She hasn't been applying to fast food jobs" timestamp
"Only thing I can't see myself being able to deal with is fast food - it just seems so overwhelming"
"She's neurodivergent" timestamp
Guest hates IT and wants to become a lawyer timestamp
- Thinks mother or grandmother might pay through school
Mention of a quarter million inheritance
Birds-eye view of the debts timestamp
Caleb thinks it's 2 years to pay off
Caleb cuts it there
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I was wondering why I was doing all these no tip orders for diapers and candy (I'm not exaggerating holy shit so much junk food and baby formula) but why are the orders always for a few items but the fee I'm getting is like 8 bucks to drive a few miles? You'd think they'd order more so it's worth the exorbitant fee.
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Cameron, 20, Houston TX
At least two Red Bulls
Segment like a really sus video where Cameron explains he consents to the show timestamp
Career:
"Kinda complicated I guess"
Part time real estate, part time construction with my Dad
"From Sunday to Wednesday I do real estate, I guess full time"
He lays out his schedule timestamp
5am wakeup
6am gym
Real Estate agent, lots of calling people
Done it for a year
Wants to do this full time
This month is "most money he's ever made"
$14'000 this month but he "spent most of it"
- Sold a single listing and got them a new place - he knocked their door
He tries to explain how timestamp
When he started he "spent the money before it was in [his] pocket"
Was a server at resturaunt, quit it to be agent
Hems and haws then admits it's 2'500 "over 6 to 8 months" so much less than other guests
"I try to prospect but like I've started playing Minecraft and stuff you know what I mean?" timestamp
- This is what he was doing last year instead of working?
Works 4 hours a day 4 days a week timestamp
Actually it's 1 hour a day of calling people?
Actually he's showing houses as well?
Maybe 3 a day?
A day in the life of a real estate agent timestamp
Later clarified to 1 hour a day with a lot of staring at the screen doing literally nothing, sometimes watching Financial Audit videos MARSEY LFMAOOOOOO
HE ALLUDES TO HAVING THE ZOOMER PHONE PHOBIA
3 hour lunch break lmfao
Saved $2000 of that $14000 check
Construction timestamp
Dad's company, Dad cuts him a check
About $125 a day, 3 days a week (around 10 hour days for this)
Doesn't know if he's W2 or not
"Uhhhhmmm my dad has his company and I just kind of go in and he gives me a check"
"I don't know I just get the check and I just picture deposit it into Wells Fargo, it goes into my account"
Just started this, started around last month
Living with his parents
"I used to make a lot of money as a server"
Personal Life;
- Girlfriend of 2 years is in the room timestamp
Financials:
Parents helped him out 7'000 on a car downpayment
- He paid them back 4'000
He did not set money aside for taxes
Credit Card 1 (Discover) (1'015) timestamp
1326 previous - 994 payments + 664 new transactions
"Why are you putting more money on a card that is accumulating interest?" timestamp
- He is extremely confident things will just work themselves out
"If you look at my spending I try to be really conservative with it"
Lots and lots of eating out, some paint he got reimbursed for
"Everyone's net worth is negative at 20 years old"
Credit Card 2 (some bank name) (2404) timestamp
$2391 - $200 payment + 157 new purchases + $55 interest accrued
He paid another $200 payment on this
Credit limit is $2500
Ate $29 in fees this year
His stonks timestamp
2016 Jeep Wrangler timestamp
$31355 balance
10.something interest rate
There's an unpaid balance of $680
He tries to explain, his parents took the car out for him, in their name, he's paying for it
Caleb seethes because he keeps looking at the camera
6 year term
Jeeps in the shop, $300 - lots of other spending on parts for the jeep
Suspension is messed up
Lots of other issues with it
Pays for car insurance under his parents name - $400 a month
Went to college for a year, took a year off, couldn't afford to both go to college and pay the jeep
He didn't really know what he was doing at college
"My way of justifying it was I didn't know what I was doing in college and I had the Jeep anyways"
Credit Card 3 ($472) (Spark Business) timestamp
536 - $71 payments + $12 interest accrued
Not the real estate card
"This card was a really dumb decision... probably the worst one"
"Every year we get a fee as realtors, we have to pay like 400, 500, I didn't have the money so I opened a credit card and paid it with that."
Minimum payment 17, 30% interest
Credit Card 4 (CapitalOne) ($352) timestamp
Minimum $25
$8 interest accrued
$727 - $700 + $323.85
"This month I spoiled myself"
- He tries to explain why he thinks this is a good idea
How much he owes to his family timestamp
$11'000 total?
Informal, gets brought up when the dad's mad
He paid 4000, it's down from 15'000
Pays $400 for rent
Checking Account timestamp
$150 in there
fair bit of going out to eat, eBay headphones, smoking "trying to quit," $1000 into his RobinHood
THIS R-SLUR INVESTED 15% of the portfolio INTO TAKETWO HOLY SHIT
- waiting for GTA 6 thinking it will moon shot
Spending piechart timestamp
- He gave his parents 4000 which might be upfront rent payments might be debt payment? to help pay off the house???
Caleb makes him cry bigly timestamp
- "To be honest, it might just be a reaction to the Red Bull"
Oracle seems to be a long-term sponsor, every video now
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ya'll see the tweaker faces the "substitute elemetary school teacher" is making the whole time?? lmao. Gee I wonder where all the cash is going tsk tsk
In my opinion more authentic than caleb hammer.
Next week I'll post the pitty parents making 6 figures who send their kid to live with grandma during the week.
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Maya, 24, San Antonio
Personal Stuff:
Full time student timestamp
Gets a "Chapter 35" from the VA, her mother is a "totally disabled" veteran so she gets a stipend for all the months she's in school?
Gets $1488 a month
- Will last 36 months
Taking 12 credit hours this semester
Doing her first sophomore semester right now - took a 5 year break from college
Dropped out of HS at 17 years old
Started working at 19 - "partied" for two years
- Got a job at Taco Bell, promoted to manager at 21
Bought an RV to move out from her mother timestamp
She'd moved back in with her after a long-term boyfriend didn't work out
"I talked the RV down to 4000"
"1993 Fleetwood Flare"
Sold it for 6'000, all that's gone now though
Why don't you have a part time job? timestamp
Owns a pet, there's a Petco transaction on CC 1
Got her eyebrows waxed before coming on the show timestamp
- "Like you can't tell because - [words words words]"
Studying "Neuroscience premed" timestamp
"I never plan for the future for anything"
"There were a lot of times where I was genuinely unable to get a job" - "I just wasn't allowed, physically wasn't allowed"
Confusing story idk what this means?
Over the summer worked at Six Flags, "passed out multiple times" because they would not let her drink water timestamp
Family Deets timestamp
Mother in San Antonio
Father in San Diego
Divorced when she was little, father raised her and sister alone - mother left to San Antonio in 2011 - first reached out to mother during the RV arc - father is very poor, won't be able to help with much
Has had to help father with money a couple times
Financials:
No Savings
Both cards' balances have gone up, gone up more since the papers shown
Self-scored financials 3/10 - timestamp
Credit Card 1 (quicksilver) ($7'494) timestamp
Paid $247 off on this
$141 in new purchases
Accrued $182 in interest
"I kinda girl math myself a little bit"
Can't cancel a $60 a month subscription because it's "complicated" timestamp
Tiktok shop timestamp
"I see stuff on Tiktok and I'm like that looks like a good thing to purchase"
"I put a 30 minute timer on it because I'm on there so much"
"Just Delete it"
- "But then how am I supposed to send my friends memes"
30% interest, she thought it was 25%
Some vet stuff, two cats, kitten got neutering botched and cost another $400
Marseypicker ate the last half of this somehow and I'm not retyping
High points without timestamps-
1000 shortfall in her budget
Tried to kill herself with vodka and ibuprofen wandered over to the police station and called the suicide hotline
Yugioh deck worth of medical bills from doctor shopping about her a "pain in her right side"
- Female doctor gave her more tests for no result which she thinks is somehow better than the male doctors telling her to go home because nothing's wrong
She's got a simp paying for her groceries and her car
- She goes grocery shopping with this simp and he buys her stuff
Had sugar daddies a year or two ago while living out of an RV
Roaches are living in the microwave at the apartment she shares with 3 roommates
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Ted, 62, Austin TX
Career/Personal
Retail Manager
$21 an hour, at least 40 hours a week
time and a half overtime
Around $3000 a month
No benefits, he's on his wife's
Wife makes around $3500 a month
"retail management is not my endgame"
Spent 14 years working for Texas "Commission on State Emergency Communications"
- Got a Master's degree because of this?
Went to Art school at some point
Went through a bankruptcy 6 years ago
- All of this debt has accrued since bankrupcy
Wife has probably the same number of credit cards timestamp
He has $17'000 saved for retirement
Financials
"Why is there so little invested?" timestamp
- Boomer ramblings and deflection
Self-scored - 5/10 timestamp
150k or so left on his mortgage
Credit Card 1 (CreditOne) ($811) timestamp
$20 in new purchases, $20 in interest
Paid $75 on this
Minimum payment 30
Why Spend on his card?
- "Our expenses are higher than our income"
Credit Card 2 (Apple) (2115) timestamp
Minimum payment 67
$41 in interest accrued
Puts his life insurance payments on his card?
Credit Card 3 (Discover) ($4196) timestamp
$69.50 in new purchases
Made a $100 payment, also made $100 purchase?
Minimum payment $84
$57 in interest
Lots of mobile games micro-transactions on this card (company called "Zynga")
- "I was able to quit smoking, and drinking, but I can't quit this"
Credit Card 4 (eBay) ($1'487) timestamp
Made a $75 payment
Minimum payment of $30
Credit Card 5 (Lowes) ($535) timestamp
Made $50 in payments
$12 in interest accrued
$30 minimum
Credit Card 6 (JC Penny) ($1'591) timestamp
Made 75 in payments
$40 in interest charged
$57 minimum payment
Credit Card 7 (Venmo) ($753) timestamp
$30 minimum payment
$102 in new purchases, made $30 in payments
$15 in interest
Eating out and microtransactions on this card
Credit Card 8 (Walgreens) ($441) timestamp
"I think that's the one that started it all, they had this display when you walk into the store"
$29 minimum payment
$12 in interest
Credit Card 9 (Verizon) ($1'290) timestamp
He wanted to take advantage of the discount on the phone bill using the card to pay for it
$48 Minimum payment
$34 interest accrued
Made a $100 payment
Credit Card 10 (Upgrade) ($1'272) timestamp
- $72 minimum monthly payment
Credit Card 11 (Upgrade) ($9'260) timestamp
Thinks he has two Upgrades because traveling?
$126 interest accrued
$474 minimum monthly payment
"Uhhh I I uh I run a non-profit"
"Some of these now that I think about it might have been expenses"
"Performing Arts Venue" - He's the president (doesn't get paid)
Credit Card 12 (Sitco) ($378) timestamp
$29 minimum payment
$10 in interest
Credit Card 13 (Chevron) ($128) timestamp
$29 minimum payment
$71 in purchases
50 in payments
$2 in interest accrued
More mobile payments on this one
Playing "Empires and Puzzles" and a couple others
Credit Card 14 (Ally) ($228) timestamp
- $28 balance
Credit Card 15 (Amazon) ($580) timestamp
$29 minimum payment
$14 interest
$50 payment made
Credit Card 16 (At Home) ($45) timestamp
- "Why wouldn't you just pay off $45?!"
Credit Card 17 (Alta) ($0) timestamp
Synchrony ($656) timestamp
$30 minimum payment
Made a $50 payment
Made $12 in purchases
- It was Starbucks
$14 in interest accrued
Credit Card 18 (didn't catch name) ($28) timestamp
28 minimum payment
70 cents in interest
Credit Card 19 (NFL) ($1'474) timestamp
$39 in interest charged
Made $43 in purchases
$54 minimum payment
More in-app purchases
Credit Card 20 (MGM) ($242) timestamp
"We went to Vegas"
$5 interest accrued
Student Loans ($229'000) timestamp
he's in forbearance, doesn't know why, Caleb can't figure out why
7.6% interest, 17'000 a year in interest if they ever start back up
"Yeah, I'll never pay that off"
- "You're right"
"That servicing company is under investigation or something, it's in the news"
"Well it doesn't matter much I'll be dead before that's paid off... so I don't even consider that a debt"
Mortgage ($122'205)
3.8%
$1'268 monthly payment
Synchrony Bank is where most of his cards are from timestamp
Car
Doesn't have one, wife has a car, not paid for, newish because of a car accident that wrecked their old one
Used to have two
Both worked at home but he got laid off then when to retail
Checking Account timestamp
3'240 + 8'111 - 10'094 -> 1'259
Lots of eating out
A $100 Verizon payment here, not using the Verizon card since it's maxed out ]
More microtransactions
"That's how I pay my daughter, we give her money to help her live" timestamp
She's finishing up her undergrad
Boomer gets testy when question about this
Wife debts itemized timestamp
- Not even going to try writing these out, 28 different ones
$906 in interest is accruing a month (not counting Student Loans)
Should he consider bankruptcy? timestamp
- Total $379'000 ($122k of that is the mortgage), includes the student loans
Income/Spending Pie Chart timestamp
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Lol he was renting out rooms. This is like the perfect outrage producing news story. This is a Rosa Parks moment people.
- Snappy : R-slur
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$30 for a hot dog is insane pic.twitter.com/CzX53csz1S
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) April 23, 2024
It's Harry potter dollars tho
My local NY hot dog is like 14-18 euro without a drink.
So he should just get a job
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Let's say the ticket on my car said if was for sale for 22k
I put a 12k down payment on it.
Walked out with a 72 mo loan and 330.00 car payment. (That includes a 72mo warranty)
2 weeks later I get the title and in the same envelope is a paper that says the purchase price was 32k.
I'm so lost someone help me.
Does that mean I actually bought a 32,000.00 2021 honda civic with 0 bells 0 whistles???
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Isaac, Houston, TX
Career:
2022 - working as Sales Rep at a Tile store, making 3-4k a month while going to school full time
- Left job to focus on classes because he was having issues
Doing UberEats/Doordash, also getting money from his father
"If I need some I'll ask and he might send it"
He stopped doing the gig stuff because he injured his knee timestamp
Can't do regular Uber because his car does not qualify
Has a 2012 Corolla - later clarifies that it's above the miles limit
"My knee hurts when I drive"
He drove 3 hours over to Caleb, driving 3 hours back later.
Something to his meniscus
Costco opening nextdoor - planning on getting a job there
Was a Solar Salesman at the beginning of this semester but the company closed down?
Education:
Studying Biotech (undergrad)
4th year but with credits he is a junior, will be finishing in 5 years
- Had some issues during COVID, didn't pass a lot of classes - trying to make up for that now
2.0 GPA overall
- "Yeah I just got to 2.0 last semester" timestamp
"Yeah I passed one class... in COVID" timestamp
Failed Intro to Biotechnology class timestamp
"I was passing that class up until the final"
Failed "Fundamentals of Chemistry"
"Why'd you pick this major" timestamp
He thought it sounded interesting
"So what's your career path"
- "What do you mean my career path?"
"A 2.0 is good though" timestamp
He's taking 26 credits this semester
Payments to "StudyPool" timestamp
Website where you "get help" on your assignments
"I would never cheat" - this site is definitely cheating
Looks like it's a per assignment basis - lots of these
$360 last month (allegedly splits with his friend)
NBS Facts timestamp
- $30 payment, he says he doesn't know what that is
Finances
Put his all tuition on his credit cards timestamp
An Apple card specifically
"I haven't missed a payment"
Spending a lot on eating out/misc bullshit
Self-rated a 5/10 in finances timestamp
Credit Card 1 ($14'715) timestamp
- $548 minimum payment
Should he consolidate his debt timestamp
- If he could actually control himself yes
Missed payment timestamp
- He says he doesn't have any but there's $40 in late fees - he paid it a day late but confused this with the concept of a missed payment
Reasoning for putting tuition on the CC timestamp
thought his dad would help pay it off
Dad had purchased a house but needed help with the down-payment - $15'000
- Father is letting him live there rent free and considers this repayment? Not sure if I followed this right
Coinbase and Robinhood timestamp
Invested in crypto?
Coinbase - $3'666 in 2021, down to $60 today
Robinhood - $6'006, down to $6?
Miscellaneous
Oracle ad placement
There's some sort of on-boarding video now timestamp
- He didn't bother watching it
Girlfriend gets time to talk timestamp
Didn't know how much debt he's in
"I think he's nervous he's not usually like this"
"He gets defensive when we argue so I think that's what he was doing with you"
Thinking about marrying him, wouldn't until he's out of debt
Guy's dad doesn't actually give him that much money
Guy applied to show through Insta