Current Events > How are you guys doing with money?

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I've got a little bit right now. Not a shitload. Under 10k total including crypto, but I have some. I want to go to Europe this year, though, so that will probably take a lot. A couple thousand.

Since flights are so god damn expensive now.

Dibs on half your money

Poorly

are you asking what we want to do with money? or how we're doing financially?

Completely broke

SlySpyBalloon posted...

Dibs on half your money

I wish I had enough to share, but I'm perpetually saving to see my kid. That amount I have will go quick.

dj1200 posted...

I wish I had enough to share, but I'm perpetually saving to see my kid. That amount I have will go quick.

I dont think you know how dibs works.

perpetually saving to see your kid? what?

ROOTFayth posted...

perpetually saving to see your kid? what?

I have a kid in Europe and I live in California.

I've got no money saved but I've got no debts as well.

After rent and bills, every bit of money I get goes to drinking, video games, drugs, records etc.

how much do you spend on drinking? drugs?

Starting to save up finally. Got a job after like 4 months unemployed, stacking it up. Just going a little crazy since V-Day and anniversary are on same week.

dj1200 posted...

how much do you spend on drinking? drugs?

A lot.

But I've got no debts or any shit like that.

have been investing roughly between 20 and 25% of all the money I've made the past 6 months or so into crypto, just accumulating bitcoins and ethereum

I spent basically all of my 20s doing almost nothing except making money so I'm well off

I'm doing fine. Saving money right now, because my girlfriend's best friend suggested we all go to Disney World during the summer. And that's not gonna be cheap lol

NoxObscuras posted...

I'm doing fine. Saving money right now, because my girlfriend's best friend suggested we all go to Disney World during the summer. And that's not gonna be cheap lol

tell me about it, my wife is a huge fan of disney world and we go every year with the kids and I find the entry price in the parks so ridiculous, I actually didnt get any tickets for me this year and last year, I just go and chill at the house we rent and she goes to disney world with the kids

ROOTFayth posted...

tell me about it, my wife is a huge fan of disney world and we go every year with the kids and I find the entry price in the parks so ridiculous, I actually didnt get any tickets for me this year and last year, I just go and chill at the house we rent and she goes to disney world with the kids

Wait, you guys own a house and rent a house?

Own my home, with about 150k in equity on it
67k in investment accounts
21k in the bank
About 15k equity on my car (will be paid off in 2025)

So I consider myself a quarter of a millionaire.

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In terms of money, I have no money.

Realistically, like 10 months worth of expenses saved up.

I'm a big fan of money. I like it. I use it. I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator.

stockpiling money for no particular reason, just hanging out in a dead-end town

Counting stocks and whatnot, close to $30k I think.

I have like $150k but I'm saving it to buy a house. Once I do I'll be poor again >_> Mortgage payments sound insane

Decently. I worked so much overtime and extra days at my job that I actually managed to save up a lot of money. It was really wrecking me though, and things weren't great there. So when I got a passive secondary income, and I was making as much from that as I was work I just quit my job.

Kept the passive income going until it eventually died out. So I didn't even really lose a lot of money for the 9 months I was out of work. My savings started going down after the secondary income died off.

They recently called and asked me to come back. So I'm working part time only at that same job again. Gonna get back to saving it up. So, right now I'm still on and starting to build it up again.

dj1200 posted...

I wish I had enough to share, but I'm perpetually saving to see my kid. That amount I have will go quick.

Dad....is that you?.....money me?

Not well at all.

saving's: fucked

staying afloat: yes. though i have gone through rough times and gotten back on top every single time.

hell month (had to cover rent on a small paycheck)
hell month 2.0 (had to cover rent and a vet bill, that one was the most painful).

both times in which roommate lost his job and couldn't help with rent.

I feel like you're not falling for the son thing. Ill suck your dick for some money. Please. Im in a bind. Both financially and romantically

ROOTFayth posted...

tell me about it, my wife is a huge fan of disney world and we go every year with the kids and I find the entry price in the parks so ridiculous, I actually didnt get any tickets for me this year and last year, I just go and chill at the house we rent and she goes to disney world with the kids

Yeah it's crazy. I went to Disneyland with my ex back in 2014 and it cost around $1800 total. And we live in LA, so there wasn't any flying in that cost lol. But I like going to theme parks, so I'm looking forward to it.

dj1200 posted...

Wait, you guys own a house and rent a house?

I'm assuming he means that they rent like an Airbnb or something for the trip.

dj1200 posted...

Wait, you guys own a house and rent a house?

well I own a house in canada, when I go to Orlando we rent a property for a week or 2

Oh, ok.

Doing well thanks for asking

Have probably enough savings to keep me going for a decade without touching retirement funds or selling my house

$8000 in checking.

$43,000 in savings.

As a 27 year old high school teacher. Not that hard to save money, tbh.

I dont have any, probably gonna be working homeless in a couple months

My salary is $94k, plus my rent all gets paid by my employer as well as annual flight allowances, among other, smaller expenses. Plus I have an arrangement with the landlord so he gives me $500 a month too.

Add that to the fact that I live somewhere where a decent meal can be had for less than two dollars and a beer can be cheaper than a dollar, plus the local equivalent of an Uber costs you about 4 dollars to get from one end of the city to the other.

All of that combined means that the money situation is good.

Over the last three years I've been living in temporary housing. At first because it was cheap and I was in financially poor shape, later because of a housing crisis where I live. I've been having to move several times during the past three years, but on the plus side, the low rental costs allow me save up quite a bit. I've gone from less to 1000 in savings to almost 25000 in savings/investments in three years.