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‘I’m not your safety net’: 26-year-old mooch begs her roommate to use their emergency savings fund to pay for rent after spending her money on a ‘weekend getaway,’ frugal friend refuses #Fun

unitedyam January 11, 2025

Living with someone is the quickest way to see their true colors. With their guard down, Q-tips scattered on the floor, their dishes undone, and the bedroom door left ajar, there’s no room for secrets when you share an abode. However, when you move in with your best friend, the unlikeliest character reveals can often leave friendships in tatters, especially when one roommate is a frivolous mooch who feels entitled to their friend’s emergency savings account… Like the college girl in this next story.

When you’re in your early 20s and don’t really know anything about the real world yet, moving in with your best friend seems like the dream–a real-life Disney Channel Original Movie. Except, what most people don’t expect is the high probability of ending up hating that person they thought they loved so much by the end of their lease. And let me tell ya from experience, best friendships rarely last when you become roommates.

Entitled mom demands passenger switch his economy plus seat with her 9-year-old sons basic economy seat, claims she can’t sit back with him because she needs the legroom: ‘Clearly she cares more about her own comfort than her son’s well being’ #Fun

unitedyam November 20, 2024

You can totally control the kind of experience you have while flying. If you want the most frugal flying experience, you can pack a lunch before getting to the airport, arrange your possessions so you don’t have to check a bag and fly on the economy jets available at Frontier Airlines or Spirit Airlines. Your back might not thank you for choosing to fly this way, but your wallet certainly will.

If you have money to spend, the same goes for ensuring a genuinely luxurious experience while flying. First class and economy comfort plus seats are always waiting for someone to sit there, so long as they pay for them. Unfortunately, there will always be that group of people who feel they are entitled to a Delta Diamond experience without paying Delta Diamond money. The mom in this story is one of those people, and her entitlement is beyond belief.

unitedyam October 26, 2024

At the end of the fifteenth century, simplified versions of medical charts featuring an image of the “Zodiac Man” began to appear in Books of Hours. The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division contains many examples of these printed editions, one of which uses a skeleton in place of the Zodiac Man.

‘You’re wrong. My mom is right’: Mother-in-law saves the day with stringent budgeting tips from her ‘single mother’ days, then her son’s heavy-spending wife gets called out #Fun

unitedyam September 30, 2024

This man learned that his wife’s over-spending was the reason they were dipping into the red every month, so he brought in the heavy artillery: His frugal mother who raised him and his 2 siblings as a single mother on a meager income… And his wife did NOT like that.

When your parents give you your first allowance as a kid, your mind races and you start thinking of all the fantastic things you’ll buy with the $20 bill in your hand. You could buy a Hot Wheel, some candy, maybe even a movie! But as soon as the stars in your eyes fade from some frivolously silly purchase, you realize that the money’s quickly dwindled and you have nothing left. Most people take that lesson into adulthood, learning to taper their spending and mitigate their losses, but the woman in this next story learned that her daily ‘little treat’ at Starbucks was literally starting to bankrupt their family.

Keep scrolling to read the details of how a marriage was tested when a frugal mother-in-law saves the day with a stringent budget.