#my credit card balance

[slafkovskys]

me getting sad is so detrimental to my bank account

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

🎺🎺It's donnnnne!!! 🎺🎺 For the first time since ~February 2020, all of my credit cards are finally paid off again. Between getting hit hard with covid right at the beginning of the pandemic, then being unemployed for 8 months but not actually qualifying for unemployment, then going through a series of shitty jobs that didn't actually pay a living wage, for a long time it felt like I was going to be stuck in a debt loop forever. The light at the end of the tunnel only really appeared last year after I got a promotion and raise at my current spot, and even then it still took me another year of buckling down and putting most of my additional income directly into card payments. But it's fucking done. I know that this doesn't affect anyone else but it's such a fucking relief I'm sitting here crying while I try to get ready for work and I don't really have anyone to share it with so as usual I'm just yelling it into the blog void.

[tiarasnteakettles]

Time for a little controversy.

One thing I'm starting to realize is not everyone is like me. Not everyone reads a post fully for context, or pays attention to when and what and where. Most people don't assume that they don't know the entire picture when reading things online.

Worse still, sometimes they don't do these things simply because they would rather believe you're a bad person in some way.

I realize now that no matter how hard I work to be transparent, to show receipts, to prove I am not spending my money on dumb things. No matter how much I try to present as this perfect poor person who never takes a day off nor ever spends an unnecessary dime, people just don't care.

They will barely scan over your posts and make their negative assumptions because they WANT to. They don't care enough to read. To check other posts. To pay attention or investigate something. Or hell, to just ask. They are dedicated to viewing you as wrong, bad, lazy, or stupid and they don't want to make any effort to correct it.

The eureka moment here is that I'm tired of being a victim. I'm tired of being disrespected.

You think Patreon is just me sitting on my ass and begging for handouts while refusing to work a REAL job?

Fine.

You think I spend all my money on dumb shit and that's why I can't pay my bills?

Fine.

You think there's nothing wrong with me and I'm a fraud who doesn't want to work?

Fine.

I realize now that no matter how hard I try, there are still going to be people who don't care enough to understand a situation. They just don't.

If I do the things they think I do, they will hate me.

If I am the most frugal person you know, they will still hate me.

Nothing I do matters because these people will always think the worst of me anyways, so fuck it!!

I'm not staying home wallowing and wishing I was allowed to have nice things for myself anymore. I am no longer going to abstain so these people have no criticism. I'm getting criticized all the same.

So sure Jan, I'm always going to cons constantly.

I'm always taking vacations and buying things I don't need.

Whatever! Make that shit up and then choke on the turds.

Anyways, I'm not cancelling my trip. Fuck it. --

And just to be crass here's the fuckin link to chip in on my trip (if you want)

[leonsrightarm]

me: i'll keep working after one ror2 run

the ror2 run:

[gaysails]

one thing about me is I love to mail the billing department a check. another thing about me is I love to insist on paper statements for my records. no I will not interact with your online portal grow up

[dungeoncrawlergf]

medical bills my beloved ♥️

[witchcraftingboop]

Me: Hey, since you've been unemployed for forever, who has been paying your credit card bill? Cause it hasn't been me.

Little Sister: Oh that went away!

Me, sinking feeling in my stomach: What do you mean?

Sister: I deleted the app

Me: . . . Okay, but who paid it off?

Sister: Boop, relax. It's just gone, I couldn't log in, so they must've cancelled my account or something, so it's gone now! Problem solved!

Me: . . . . What d'you mean??

Sister, exasperated: It's gone! I don't owe anything!

[menlove]

this TDOV donate to ur local transmasc butch thing bc I just had to put all but $32 of my check into rent 😭 anything at all is appreciated!! or just any boosts. love yall regardless! 💖

paypal: paypal.me/arijk99

cashapp: $arijk99

venmo: @ arijk99

[tiktaalic]

Credit cards are so funny they’re like we want a consumer who has credit card debt…….. but not TOO much credit card debt

[there-will-be-a-way]

Conversation in our communication app

Chris: N., I'm hereby officially filing an application to allow communication between us again.

N., two days later: Approved.

*communication works again*

My head is an office I swear.

[dottybot]

We found a place!!

Hi, last post died, but we still need help and have a lot of expenses;;;;

Cash*app & v*nmo : dottybot

Also if you would like a small loose commission in return , I can draw a little thing of your request like anything within reason and not too complex !

[deklo]

absolutely panicking about money lately but also panicking about getting a job while simultaneously not actively applying for jobs

[nat-20s]

um not to brag but i have money in my bank account that's in the double digits ;)

[birdadjacent]

The guy who stole my car (the first time, not the second) last year has his trial coming up soon and the DA's office keeps sending me these letters trying to get me to make a statement about how this has emotionally/financially affected me.

But somehow they don't appreciate me writing back to say "what am I, a cop? My anti-carceral ethics don't suddenly leave my body when I'm the one being inconvenienced," which is essentially what I did with the first letter they sent 🙄

[squirmple]

just throwing this out here, I just got through driving my whole family across the country and it sucked up every cent i had to my name. I’m their only transportation for right now and i could really use the gas money + food and stuff until i get a job over here. I always pay it forward 🙏

[blastlight]

i booked myself a 12 hour train ride and got there on time and everything and all it took was 1 hour of sleep and losing my credit card