SURVIVAL DIVORCE 9
Living frugal is no big deal. We’ve all done it while going to college (
and if you didn’t that meant mommy and daddy spent gobs of money keeping you in
high style and why in the name of all that is holy would you be reading
something like this because I’m sure they are also using the family lawyer to
ruin your soon to ex-wife, AND I’m sure they have a mansion in Paraguay down
the street from the Bush ranch so that you and all the other insufferable rich
pricks can survive the Apocalypse you helped cause ) or starting out after the
military, or whatever. All you need to
do is be out of debt, not have a car and live in as low a rent district as you
can without having to pay Tyrone protection money. For most people this was the “character
building years” as you struggled mightily and manfully to create a better life
your yourself and soon to be blushing bride. The problem is that after you’ve
built your life up to a middle class existence you don’t want to devolve back
to those years. You’ve got the whole
status thing going for you. America
might not have a class structure that is recognized, but there is a shadow,
quite plainly understood hierarchy based on money. Those on welfare are scumbags and get crapped
on for the price of survival. Those in
entry level positions, if they don’t have better-off family as an indicator of
their position, are barely better and had better stay on their part of
town. The middle class will never be
allowed entry to the 1% but they are allowed to emulate the trappings of power
and wealth by staying in debt forever, enriching their betters for the privilege
of erecting a façade.
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That is the life you just left, and that is the life
you are being forced to keep your ex in.
Wow, such a loss! I feel for you,
bro! Okay, not really. I’d actually like to slap that sad and
pathetic boo-boo look off your face because you have just been freed from your
golden handcuffs and you are too completely friggin ignorant to process
this. Wake the crap up. You just gave up a thirty year mortgage and a
perpetual car payment and the need to have a two income earning family unit and
all the stress you get from being two weeks away from bankruptcy and living
under a bridge. Even with vastly reduced
take home pay you can live a much freer and carefree life. You just have to leave the middle class. Okay, it kinda sorta sucks one step down the
socio-economic ladder. Bitches be
crazier. But, friends tend to be truer
rather than money hungry and shallow.
And living frugal is no big deal.
It is simply reclassifying what was once thought of as essentials as
luxuries and being content with what you have rather than always striving for
more. I’ve got a big old fist full of
reality for all those Yuppie Scum out there- the God Mammon you worship is
constructed of paper fiat money worth absolutely zero. Keep chasing him and you will find all you
hold dear to have the same value.
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Yes Sir, been there and done that. Living small now with another woman that understands. Most of the small living stuff is hers and she shares with me.
ReplyDeleteLucky puke.
DeleteI find there's nothing like a major financial downturn for sorting out who your true friends are. I was surprised at how that shook out. Some I thought were fair weather friends were with me to the end. Others I thought of as brothers did a vapor.
ReplyDeleteWhat they really should teach in school is how to find the right spouse. That has more bearing on one's financial outcome and happiness than anything else.
I think, after indoctrinating you on Big Daddy Gooberment, they then teach you to hate learning. Then you stay stupid and compliant. They do both things well. Don't ask then to do another, they'll want a raise
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