Comments on: Being broke

By: Stefan Scheytt

Stefan Scheytt — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:47:25 +0000

Haha Krys, I totally hear you on that one. It was totally brought to my fore when somebody told me “don’t you know? it’s all over my twitter!” Baby.. sorry to say, but I can’t be arsed to read everybody’s twitter all the time anymore. It’s not that I wouldn’t have the time, mind. I just can’t be arsed, period.

Hear you about the money issues. If I have 12 bucks left to my name, I tend to spend it on a bunch of cheap food at Lidl and a pouch of rolling tobacco. That will last me about a week.

However, knowing myself and knowing I earn/eat like a snake, I believe in getting all nigger rich when I have money, but spending it on stuff that I know is going to do me good once the money runs out. Being broke with a shitty computer is a lot worse than being broke with a new computer.

Courtney, I’m not sure if I am one of these people you talk about. Maybe I am and I am not. In my younger years I worked my guts out 60-70 hours a week, and I did that until one day I said hey, what for? I don’t need all that money, and what good is it if I never have time to enjoy it? So these days, I tend to work for a few months, and then slack off for at least a month afterwards. Some people would say, sleeping till noon and playing video games all night is slacking. To me its quality of life – actually doing what I want to do, when I want to do it. Total freedom. Maybe I’ll go out today, maybe I won’t.. get what I’m saying?

The rat race is overrated. Even if you win, you’re still a rat.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:55:12 +0000

I don’t run programs to tell me that stuff. I figure that some people don’t believe or feel or vote the way I do, and they don’t want to deal with people who are different and vocal about it. I understand that. My cousin hates a lot of things I love and is very vocal about it. If we weren’t blood related, I would unfriend her.

About the jobless friend, you know, I have friends from high school who are that guy. They aren’t unemployed as much as I would consider them non-workers. However, they have every video game they want, they see every movie as soon as it comes out, and the latest computer stuff. They complain about how bad the economy is and how they can’t find a job. What about the last 10 years, dude? I haven’t deleted these folks, because I’d get a new friend request, and email, and a phone call about it (because let’s face it, they have the freaking time.)

By: Michael C. McGreevy

Michael C. McGreevy — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:17:25 +0000

Sheeit, you have THREE jobs, Christen. If anyone can justify going out when broke it’s you!

By: christen

christen — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:05:56 +0000

hahahah, you know, probably some people think the same way about me, but I don’t care because I am uber-cheap, and know the Secret Way of the Getting Free Shit Ninja… I hardly ever spend my OWN money on frivolous things…and at least my bills are paid, and I have more than $12. Win for me, lose for that guy. And I have boobs. Double win.

In other words, that shit would piss me off too.

S. & I had an acquaintance who bitched and moaned about being unemployed and broke – yet drove a Prius, had an iPhone, and took a cross country trip on their unemployment money… SO ANNOYING.

By: Krystalle

Krystalle — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:22:33 +0000

Stuff like this is partially why I find myself using facebook, twitter, etc. less and less. It’s not that I don’t have things to contribute, but to be a good netzien, you have to read as much as you write.

Frankly, I’ve read some stuff lately across the board (and not singling facebook out) that is just… sad.

Anyway, yeah, GET OFFAH MAH LAWN, etc. etc. curmudgeon, curmudgeon, grumble, grumble, etc.