I'm so broke!

[agirlfromnowhere]

My ex boyfriend is always talking about how broke he is. First of all, he makes like $30 an hour and works full time and he is by no means broke. What's annoying is that one day he'd be talking about how we couldn't go to a movie or whatever I wanted to do because he was so broke (I'm in school and worked at McDonald's at the time so I really was broke =P) and then the next day he'd go spend $80 on something stupid and then another $100 on video games or something.

The other night he called me and told me that he got a ticket for having an expired license plate tag. Now, I know it sucks and no one likes a ticket but his exact words were "Well that's another $250 I can't afford". The next night he told me he spent $300 on video games at Gamestop. I mean, if you were that broke you'd think the ticket would get paid first.

[Rapscallion]

I think I can see why he's your ex.

Rapscallion

[crashhelmet]

My old roommates were like this. They'd always ask me to pay a portion, or all, of rent early because they were broke. Meanwhile, the husband is constantly buying new guns, cars, or TVs. Moving out of there was the smartest thing for me to do.

[blas87]

I have a shopping addiction. I'm always broke.

[Tanasi]

My wife and I keep our expenses separate. I cove my expenses, the house and the farm. She covers her expenses and our youngest daughter. She makes more money than I yet she is always broke and wants to "borrow" money from "the house" to cover something for our daughter or (lately) something for one of the grandbabies. I track my spending because I have to budget to make sure everything gets paid, when I suggested she do the same thing I get told to mind my own business and she's entitled to the money because it's part our the household.
So basically the money I make is "our" money, the money she makes is "her" money and never the twain shall meet.

[Ginger Tea]

I may have meantioned this in my redundancy thread, but here it goes again.

I told captain dickehead that due to the possibility of redundancy, I would not be going out at all for the rest of the year (I did meet up with my cousin a week before his birthday as I had that weekend off and we were both working the following weekend, but I had not seen him since the previous year, not that he had alot of catching up from me SSDD) as I was squirreling away my pay cheques into another account that was without a hole in the wall.
So basically I would be left with DD's and food money for the month, the rest along with the redundancy (should I make it that far, no rage quit moments so far) is to tide me over till I get a new job.

Yes I have money, but no I do not have money to go out to the pub, he can milk a 50p lemonade whilst I go through £20 in booze in the same time frame, I feel if I am in a pub I should be spending money drinking not occupying a seat for a few hours with one damn drink.
He's only just clearing his debt problems and thus should know about financial uncertainty and living on a budget, sadly it took half a dozzen rejections for him to get the message, thankfully I have been on late shifts for most of the last few weeks, so I don't have much time anyways.

[Nyoibo]

So basically the money I make is "our" money, the money she makes is "her" money and never the twain shall meet.

The old "what's yours is mine and what's mine is none of your business"

[Racket_Man]

My wife and I keep our expenses separate. I cove my expenses, the house and the farm. She covers her expenses and our youngest daughter. She makes more money than I yet she is always broke and wants to "borrow" money from "the house" to cover something for our daughter or (lately) something for one of the grandbabies. I track my spending because I have to budget to make sure everything gets paid, when I suggested she do the same thing I get told to mind my own business and she's entitled to the money because it's part our the household.
So basically the money I make is "our" money, the money she makes is "her" money and never the twain shall meet.

Your wife sounds a LOT like my Ex except she was unable to work BUT listened to her GFs about "househld money". Their thought was "WELL IT IS your money too so go out and spend it". What they failed to understand was we needed to pay the rent, power, etc., put gas in MY car, buy food and house hold items, etc.

She would tell me or write down check amounts that were not the actual check amount. When I plugged the amounts into my check reconciliation spreadsheet and check the balance against the bank, it was ALWAYS off. I finally used our banks free automated phone service to check individual checks to get correct check amounts.

All I was doing was trying to pay the bills obtain needed things like food and gas and maybe just maybe put a little back for a rainy day.

NOPE HAVE IT SPEND IT.

[protege]

The other night he called me and told me that he got a ticket for having an expired license plate tag. Now, I know it sucks and no one likes a ticket but his exact words were "Well that's another $250 I can't afford". The next night he told me he spent $300 on video games at Gamestop. I mean, if you were that broke you'd think the ticket would get paid first.

I never understood that sort of thing. You'd think that paying off a ticket...and not getting yourself an arrest warrant...would be some sort of deterrent. Never mind that getting busted, having to deal with the fines and court costs is much more expensive in the long run

[Tanasi]

Your wife sounds a LOT like my Ex except she was unable to work BUT listened to her GFs about "househld money". Their thought was "WELL IT IS your money too so go out and spend it". What they failed to understand was we needed to pay the rent, power, etc., put gas in MY car, buy food and house hold items, etc.

She would tell me or write down check amounts that were not the actual check amount. When I plugged the amounts into my check reconciliation spreadsheet and check the balance against the bank, it was ALWAYS off. I finally used our banks free automated phone service to check individual checks to get correct check amounts.

All I was doing was trying to pay the bills obtain needed things like food and gas and maybe just maybe put a little back for a rainy day.

NOPE HAVE IT SPEND IT.

One of my son in laws was of the same have it spend it mindset until his daughter was born and the realization of her going to private school and college hit him. Now he and my daughter both save as much as possible.

[insertNameHere]

Lately people have been criticizing me for blowing MY money, I got a decent bonus few months back and have been playing with it more recently. I always live like im broke without trying to say I'm broke, but the reality is I am rather well off for someone my age and all my friends have spent large amounts of money on going out to eat and the bars, and I have spent my money on tangible items.
I hate when people are so broke they want to borrow money and I refuse and that same person few days later I catch buying something stupid instead of paying bills etc.

[Rapscallion]

Interesting, Insert. You remind me of a time when I was saving up for a deposit and there was a guy at work I was talking with. We were comparing overtime and how much we'd done over the last three weeks.

He did a quick mental summation and reckoned he'd spent about a thousand pounds over the last three weeks on party weekends. We're talking drink and recreational pharmaceuticals.

"Do you remember any of it?" I asked.

"Er, no..."

"I'm a thousand pounds closer to my deposit," I noted.

He began to think about it by then, but not soon or deep enough. He dropped out of workplace not by choice a while later. Tweaking from the weekend still on Monday sort of thing.

Rapscallion

[smileyeagle1021]

I never understood that sort of thing. You'd think that paying off a ticket...and not getting yourself an arrest warrant...would be some sort of deterrent. Never mind that getting busted, having to deal with the fines and court costs is much more expensive in the long run

Or you know, renew the registration before it expires, that would be cheapest of all...
I mean, I will go without eating before I fail to make a registration payment, because I know that in the long run skipping food for a day (especially with my fat stores) will cost me a lot less than failing to register.

[HYHYBT]

Depending, it can be very easy to miss a car registration. For example, where I live, you get a blue envelope from the tag office about two months before your birthday. Very simple. No reason even to think it *might* be different elsewhere, until you move to a county that doesn't do that, but instead makes you come in and do it in person, as happened to my brother. He changed his registration when he moved, but didn't know about the lack of mailing... and so didn't even think about the fact he hadn't renewed his tag until it had been expired.

(I don't remember how much, if any, trouble he got in over it beyond a late fee. And he didn't blame anyone for his oversight. I'm just pointing out one of the possible cases where the oversight is reasonable, not justifiable.)

[Aethian]

Or when our state was doing registration for the month of your birthday so if you were a may 2nd baby you had till the end of May to pay for the next year. Now you have to get it done by May 2nd or your going to have a HUGE late fee and might get a ticket in the mail. I've only seen that once but then she was over a month late in renewing.