Still, good on her for not dipping into the emergency fund for not-an-emergency. That takes a lot of willpower, especially when it’s not like she has to talk herself out of buying a lunchtime burrito with that money, but an actual long-term, life-changing purchase.
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How I built my Fuck Off Fund ( and continue to build my growing fuck off fund):
I got very similar advice years ago from a woman who had lived most of her life in poverty, but made it a priority to stash away $1 per day. Her cache of cash eventually allowed her to get herself and her three kids out of an abusive marriage. For a while, I kept my own little fund, but eventually blew it on…
and that people who are doing important hard work (like you) aren’t on the brink of needing help yourself constantly.
You forgot something.
My mother told my wife she needed her own bank account 21 years ago before we got married. My own mother!
Nope.
Done and done!
Haha my sister has an ENORMOUS Fuck Off Fund. Probably $500k. She has a very stressful job and knowing she can leave at any moment keeps her sane.
It is consistently difficult to explain how fervently I believe in this to my lovely, sentimental, romantic-at-heart boyfriend. It’s not that I don’t trust HIM, but that I need these sorts of things for my own sense of security/independence/wellbeing.
I love all of this advice about savings and retirement and financial planning that completely ignores the actual situations and economic predicament of much of America, let alone the rest of the world. Having a “fuck off fund” is, for many many people, about as realistic as having a “vacation house on Martha’s…
“Here we are in the middle of the dang Dust Bowl just trying to survive day to day and Warren goes off and spends our last dollar on a bet against the Harlem Globetrotters. Ill fix his wagon with this stick of dynamite under his mattress.”
Amen. In the past three months I’ve had two garnishments levied against my salary (taxes and student loans) which were patiently collecting interest while I lost everything to drugs then got sober and I just found out my identity had been stolen on the same day my roommate gave me thirty days notice to vacate. I’m…
I’ll acknowledge that Alexis has walked the walk but she needs to stop it right the fuck now with talking the talk for others. That was so beyond not cool.
Go join OG Aunt Viv on the bitter bench Alexis. No one needs your input in anything. Ever.
I hate that Jennifer uses the word “Successfully” as if the rest of us fatties are failing at bikinis. Also, I’m pretty sure Dame Helen Mirren is going to beat her to it.
Not to get all Dan Savage here, but I too have heard the Will and Jada rumors of course, and since they are staying together this long I tend to lean more towards them just both being bisexual with some sort of agreement/open relationship.
You guys should really bring back Blind Items. This Will and Jada Smith thing would’ve surprised no one. Also didn’t Jared Leto sex up Alexis Arquette? Brings a whole new meaning to 30 Seconds to Mars :D
Helen Mirren is 70. I'm pretty sure she's going to beat Jen to be the first person to wear a bikini in public in her 80s.