Just spreading the love a little here. This blog post is pretty darned good. I found that it gets better towards the end. I particularly enjoyed the statements about spending a weeks worth of salary on one pair of pants. SHE tries to explain to someone that rich people don’t do this, to which that person says, “Yes they do. I see them wearing this kind of jeans”. Uhhh yeah, but they make more than $8 an hour.
That seems to sum up the point that so many people miss: We aren’t all at the same income level. Trying to keep up with someone simply because they live near you, or you know them, just doesn’t make sense. Certainly a barber can’t spend in the same way as a doctor even if they live right down the street from each other. Anyway, check out the blog post. It’s worth reading:
http://www.violentacres.com/archives/30/you-can-le…
I believe it’s “She” and not “He”.
Ooops. I guess I better check that!
It’s a pretty vitriolic SHE. She’s a mommyblogger with a caustic pen and Photoshop.
It’s a great post though about debt and owning up to it.
Yea, she’s a she :).
Unless people have a telling internet moniker, we all make assumptions. I thought experiglot was a he for a while, until she explicitly mentioned that she was a she. Go fig.
Yeah, this particular person mocked up some fairly offensive pictures of other people’s children (swiped from their sites) in Photoshop and posted them on her site. They’ve been moved to less obvious locations, but I believe that they’re still there.
That has got to be the BEST post I ever read on personal finance. I mean the part where she tells how she paid off the credit card debt.
WOW.
Thank you for this.