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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My favorite was that time I was making enough to afford the payments on a mortgage but they wouldn't give me a mortgage because my credit score wasn't good enough and they were worried I couldn't make the payments even though I provided the income information that showed I could totally make the payments because fuck me for being young I guess.

So instead I spent years paying way more to rent, preventing me from saving up enough to buy much of anything.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why would you become a cartoon mouse at 25?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

See, this is what's wrong with America. This is the future liberals want. The demonrats are putting estrogen in the vaccines to turn everyone into cartoon mice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

first or second

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

It’s not my fault!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I own a house, car, etc and I still make sure that I get every last drop of shampoo out of the bottle. Not saying that is how you save enough for down payment but just that they aren't mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

"Own" is a very tricky word, when paired with "Down Payment"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Same. I still believe "if you take care of the pennies the dollars take care of themselves" of course, that implies the ownership of dollars, which some do not have, so this wisdom does not always translate completely.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I'm even designing a 3D printed jig so I can securely connect any two bottles and let gravity do the work overnight.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

The only thing that it indicates is that you're not wasteful.

But i'm thinking if you cry about it, the meaning is pretty clear.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

At 25 I lived in a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom house with 13 people in a beach town and chuckled to myself about how people waste so much money on having a house all to their own when they could be having so much fun, surrounded by friends every day. Sorry 25 year old me... I enjoy quiet, peeing indoors and not fighting over power usage and who left their dishes laying around.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

If you are into peeing a lot of free content

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What exactly is that poorly drawn mouse-like creature actually doing, and why?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Running a small amount of water into a nearly empty bottle of shampoo (or body wash, etc.) allows you to get the last little bit out of the bottle. It's basically an austerity measure, a sign that a person is stretching every dollar.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

That's Jerry from Tom and Jerry

Specifically, from this scene

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Watering down the remaining 7-in-1 shower product because they can't afford to replenish supplies because the price of everything is too damn high.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Of soap tho? Here in Germany you can buy the store brand, which is decent, for like 50 cents a bottle - which lasts you weeks.

The brand stuff (fa, nivea, axe, old spice) is 1 to 3 euros and the luxury (rituals, loccitaine, etc) 5 to 15.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Well, it is kind of an extreme example to illustrate that OP feels like they have to save money wherever they can. Well, it might also be somewhat of a hyperbole for comedic effect, I don't know that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's $6 a bottle. Cheapest comparable is probably $4

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I showed this to my wife and she said "Who the fuck had Dove money at 25?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Dove body wash is the cheapest per ounce at Costco. Yep, even cheaper than Kirkland.

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