CookieandOatmeal
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- Joined
- Apr 12, 2014
With a vacation? Or their phone bill when they’re on FB (so have the cash for Internet) crying poverty while simultaneously talking about the latest episode of Game of Thrones (so have cash for cable)? I will help someone in dire need but I will not enable poor life choices or someone who refuses to take responsibility for those choices. “Helping” with those kind of things only makes the situation worse and continues a cycle they can’t get out of. If someone is always bailing them out why should they bother to try and figure it?
I totally agree with you. People who tend to ask financial help for those things really need to work on priorities and budgeting. It really is no one's responsibility than your own to take care of you.
Our close friends had set up a GoFundMe recently for their puppy's emergency vet bill that ended up totaling over $5000 and basically cried poverty. I did not feel moved at all to help them because I knew they just dropped $$ on a wedding, $$$ on a 2 week European honeymoon, going out to eat/drink, and home improvements like a fence for their yard. I really felt that they should have carefully considered what dog ownership was truthfully going to cost first before jumping head first into adopting a puppy. They are used to having cats. We recently went out to dinner and couldn't get over how they were complaining about the cost of puppy wellness/vaccination visits that they had to take their puppy to. People need to learn to save money I think for a rainy day instead of just spend, spend, spend. They are great people but I think money managing is not a strong point.