“It may seem easy to write Woodrum off as ignorant of finance, or budgeting, or the car buying process. In reality, he’s one of thousands of people in recent years who have been ensnared in high-interest “subprime” car loans aimed at buyers with bad credit”

Speaking as someone in the process of moving, this sounds like a pretty good deal.

Also, economic and historical research depends on the census. It’s a vital part of understanding America.

Heck, sometimes even a month isn’t enough. I’ve had my pet for years, and we just this month worked out a signal for ‘I barfed in a corner while you were gone’. Pets aren’t humans, but they are some variety of people, and relationships with them take effort just like human relationships do.

You mean the person who suffered burns so severe she got permanent nerve damage and needed reconstructive surgery? Especially after McDonald’s had been repeatedly warned that their coffee was too hot to be sold safely?

That’s terrible - I lost my voice with mono but at least didn’t throw up.

Of course not! The only cause of women being tired is them not doing enough and not paying enough money for special tiredness cures. Everyone knows that!

Go bags are easy, do it!

I tried YNAB and found it really counter-intuitive. Plus, their mobile app wasn’t great, and I really need to enter purchases on the go before I forget. I do better with making a plan and adjusting if something happens than setting a hard limit based on where I am now. It all depends on how you think about money.

the most intuitive strategy: letting the kids in on the budgeting process

I was thinking about replacing my car until some dingbat scratched the back bumper, and now I can get back to those plans. THANK YOU for this!

If you’d ever actually said ‘This is how you’re coming across’, you’d have a point. But you didn’t. You got huffy and upset and then insisted on talking only about your feelings, instead of talking about your feelings upfront so that we could deal with any misunderstandings and move on.

I was telling you that you were coming across as doing it, which I specifically mentioned in the post where I linked to it. And you then proceeded to double down by focusing even more on how you felt about how other people were talking to you instead of the issue at hand.

They’re ebooks and so downloadable. You should be able to read them in most ebook software, which is available for all operating systems.

I am talking with my SO about this right now. They’re smart and competent and good with technical work and really, really not suited for a white collar job.

I was thinking short-sighted, ignorant and hypocritical, actually.

I have been nothing but calm and polite to you throughout this entire exchange.

Any field where the objectives you have to meet are fuzzier than ‘produce X widgets’ or ‘fix X machines’.

Didn’t Thoreau also try to dodge taxes, and wrote a book about how he’d lived in nature while actually he was having a constant stream of visitors and going to people’s houses for dinner?