Well, I'm still in a shitload of debt. But I'm not stupid.*
My tivo-ing of Oprah has been established.
Today's show was about personal finances and the idiots who are digging themselves into poverty. $135,000 in credit card debt. Two mortgages of $700,000. Stay at home mom who spends $4000 on a birthday party but doesn't have health insurance for her kids. $900 shoes. $400 a month on Starbucks. Yep. All on your husband's middle to upper middle class salary. Not a millionaire's salary by any means. And your "my mother never believed in me, and I've never felt any self worth and wah wah wah"...give me a fucking break, lady. Your $60/week hair extensions are ugly and sure as hell aren't giving you any self-worth either.
Financial Guru Suze Orman: "I've been doing this for a long time, and I've never seen a family in such a terrible financial situation." Yikes.
Then there's the couple expecting a baby who aren't answering the phones when their student loan providers are calling but who are paying $2600 per month on two luxury cars, but, ha, "not to impress anybody." Fuck. You don't deserve a child. (Sidebar: I have ALWAYS wondered why you need a license to do almost everything in this world except be a parent. Don't give me the "it's a natural human right" stuff. Intellectually, I know that. Morally, I want to sterilize a lot of people. Maybe the "intellectually" and "morally" should be switched. I don't know.)
Did anyone else know that Washington state has no income tax?! I've always wanted to visit Seattle. Now I may have to move there.
*I'd like to thank my parents for instilling within me a life-long stinginess.
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Oooooh.... the Seattle Law Offices of Harmless & Grace. Got a little bit of a ring to it!
And yes, you couldn't be more right about parenting.
You rock.
GREAT post! :) Most people shouldn't be able to have children, end of story.
Let's start a federal agency based in Seattle where we get to decide who gets to procreate and who doesn't. Although we'll have to figure out how to make it sound less...you know, bad.
Nevada doesn't either. I haven't paid any income tax my whole life. If I ever have to I'm going to be pretty pissed off.
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