50 Painfully True Posts And Jokes About Being Poor

Brilliantly put. Well done.

His ex-wife divorced him for (obviously amongst other things) very similar reasons 😊

YES! 👏🏻👏🏽👏🏿

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Hahahaha!

Are you hiring?

Oh I thought the climate change floods would take care of that! Phew!

Just heart breaking. I am so sorry for your loss

Not all Americans :( but way too many

In Canada we pay for prescriptions, but my antidepressants are $18 a month. I meet with my doctor once a month. My employer pays for my twice-a-week counselling appointments through my employee benefit plan. My total bill for mental health care is $18 a month. I wish everyone could have it this easy :( we all deserve good health care.

Yes, exactly! I wish everyone could be more open about money.

My 18 year old son in a night owl. He's looking for a night job after he graduates. He would looooove this s**t. Edit. I asked him. He's 100% on board. 😂😂

I'm applying for entry level jobs with 13 years experience...but I have "too much" experience? Hurumph

True. Might as well try to get some happiness

*scribbles notes down*

Reading is honestly so beneficial :) those people that type things like “should of” instead of “should have” is often an indication that they haven’t read a lot of books. People who spell words correctly but pronounce them incorrectly is usually a sign that they learned that word from a book first :) scammers these days are actually relying on mildly illiterate people to not be able to notice small spelling errors in their emails or text messages that would give the scammer away….and those poor folks with a low literacy level tend to fall for scams at a much higher rate :( it’s really uncool

I started renting my apartment 5 years ago at just over $700/month. They can only raise my yearly rent at inflation rates as per my contract so I’m currently paying just over $800. The exact identical apartment across the hall from me just got rented out for $1490. Most of my neighbours are paying $1200 or more. For an identical apartment to mine. I’m so lucky but also very annoyed on their behalf. Eventually the strata will find a way to charge me $1200+ but for now I’m lucky as hell.

Remember the border bill the US GOP begged for…..then voted against it and shut it down because they were scared it might make their political opponent in the upcoming election look good? 🙄 sounds like a party that truly cares about the people and country and not their own personal career interests at all.

Honestly my dream job would be flipping burgers for $350,000 a year. I’d be the chillest burger flipper.

Brakes on this beater are optional

Very good point!

Vote out Republicans in the US and it could happen!

Rich people sadly don’t have to play by the same rules as us mere peasants :(

As long as they have the people locked into crippling debt, what else matters? The rich get richer and the poor get f**ked over every time. Think for a minute that maybe a bright, disadvantaged kid of had the inkling of the cure for cancer but couldn't get a scholarship because of their gender, disability, colour or religion? The crushing debt applied by institutions of higher learning and government is quite happy to forgo humanity saving intelligence, because there is no money in it for them.

This should be higher.

Oh gosh - you noticed? Whoops! Its a freakin' goldmine for the very few.

I wish I made enough to care about that

Good point! NZ citizens probably weren’t as scared of their government offering social welfare as some other certain countries though, so it wasn’t a big scary deal to them to receive benefits. I bet it helped them out so much during covid.

Chemist in OZ, they're something like a 2 pack for $10 (so more like 2 for $6US)

So relatable 😂 sitting here on my secondhand iPhone 13 watching movies on my (thrift store) big screen tv on my (thrift store) memory foam mattress cover and 4 walls around me and a roof over my head….but kinda hungry 😅

Is water not a human right?

Honestly. I donated $1 to some charity at McDonalds and then got mad at myself - companies are just words on paper but humans are real, why can’t the humans that run McDonalds use their massive profits to help other humans out? Solve some hunger issues they probably helped cause or something?

OP is broke but can afford dsily pizza? Don't know what the pizza cost there, here it is a minimum of €12 plus delivery = €15 to €16 for the cheapest one. For the price of one delivered pizza I can buy the ingredients for 7 days of home made pizza.

When you donate through a company like that, they take the tax deduction. When YOU donate directly, you get the deduction. Or you would if Trump hadn't changed the tax laws.

i get the sentiment but if you're broke your pizza comes deep frozen from the supermarket.

I never donate to those charities. I have my own to worry about.

This one makes me crazy. Every Loblaws (Canada's biggest grocery store) constantly fixes prices as high as they can manage while trying to pass off a wholesome image. But they all ask for a $2 donation on EVERY transaction. Interestingly they can't get a tax deduction for that, as they have to co-partner with a charity for an at-the-till style donation. How do they get around it? They form their own charity that they then give the money to and then find creative ways to partner with that charity in other ways that give actual tax deductions.

If You were broke you would make your own pizza or buy supermarket kinds

What I saw in France: the CEO of a company with €1.000.000.000 yearly turnover going to a supermarket, doing the pitch to customers and telling them that for each €1 they spend on her company product, her company would send the same amount to a NGO helping people (mostly poor ones). This is done every year (involving not only the CEO but lot of employees) and allows the NGO to get around €200-300k each time. The company calls this kind of action "giving back to society".

Sold

For real though 🥵

And yet ....

Old people have been calling young people lazy since the beginning of time. I’m only 31 but I’m sure when I’m 50 or 60 I’ll think the younger generation is lazier than me too.

I had a college math professor that would teach you how to do the math after the assignment. He would give the homework with no instruction. have us turn it in, then teach how to do it. Then, he would grade you to see if you had figured it out on your own and the grade would stand. I dropped that class after 2 weeks.

For real though 😂😂

How I wish we could count pets as dependents!

I accept that Pharmacy/OTC medications can be quite expensive. But WTF costs $83K+? A large bottle of invincibility & immortality?

Ask her if she found the Jewish space lasers yet 🤡

I’d be enraged 😂 if you’re going to steal my card at least leave those poor underpaid workers a fat tip

Communists! Or socialists or whatever is more scary! Aaaah!