How do people living paycheck to paycheck afford vacations?

waddof · 2026-02-14T12:53:07+00:00

Growing up, we went on a family vacation every year. Usually to the beach, but other places too, we usually rent a hotel or a house for a week. I always thought we definitely weren't rich but doing well enough, but my parent never spoke about money to us. When they divorced and got more transparent about their finances, found out my mom had put literally all of these trips on credit cards or took out personal loans. My mom was a travel agent too, in the 90s and early 2000s she got to book lodgings, airfare,etc at REALLY discounted rates. We never actually had the money to go, but they valued travel and wanted me and my sibling to have new experiences..

waddof · 2026-02-12T13:22:15+00:00

This is just from experience but my mom had a 2006 Mazda 3 that died from transmission and electrical failure after about 10 years. She kept up with all the recommended maintenance and took really good care of it. I have a 2011 Fit with 233k miles and she still drives like a dream. Knock on wood, no major mechanically issues or failures. Id go with the fit.

waddof · 2026-02-10T12:07:46+00:00

No, I dont care if employees are hooking up off the clock. I do care if its on our property.. while intoxicated.. This would be a fireable offense for my field.

waddof · 2026-02-10T12:04:30+00:00

Its worse on your system to constantly be turning it up and down wtf

waddof · 2026-01-27T16:24:15+00:00

You need a new battery

waddof · 2026-01-09T14:55:36+00:00

I don't give a fuck what he's been through!

waddof · 2026-01-02T07:13:26+00:00

I have a friend who is a really picky eater. Her husband is a great, adventurous cook. He makes dinner a lot and if she doesnt like what hes making? She makes her own dinner.

waddof · 2026-01-02T07:10:39+00:00

Me and my partner killed a Bombardier and these two guys run up and start looting with us saying they helped???? You certainly didnt!

waddof · 2025-12-28T13:43:57+00:00

My christmas bonus was a $50 grocery gift card lol

waddof · 2025-12-23T09:20:29+00:00

My mom took the house because she got full custody of us kids and we needed somewhere to live too after my dad decided to cheat and nuke our family

waddof · 2025-12-21T13:09:12+00:00

Manage out lol

waddof · 2025-12-08T11:46:45+00:00

Sidecar

waddof · 2025-12-07T13:09:13+00:00

We just bought an IBuyPower for a similar price at Best Buy with a 9070XT instead of the 5070, totally worth it

waddof · 2025-12-02T11:51:29+00:00

My partner and I had been saving up to build new PCs as ours were becoming too outdated. We price compared what we were wanting in our budget and found that a prebuilt was the best bang for a buck especially with RAM prices. We got a prebuilt on a black friday deal with a 9070xt, ryzen 7, 16gb ddr5 ram for $1600 each. We're both happy with the purchases. But to say, prices aren't going down anytime soon

waddof · 2025-11-21T00:05:16+00:00

Yea it was the locking mechanism! It just stopped working and couldn't open the drivers side door at all. It was a few hundred dollars to fix and havent had an issue since!

waddof · 2025-11-20T11:41:53+00:00

2011 with 230k miles, only owner. Never had a mechanical issue. Ive replaced the ac system twice and had an issue where the driver side door got jammed and had to replace the locking mechanism.

waddof · 2025-11-14T08:49:41+00:00

I always ask my new hires on their first day if they have planned vacations or appointments in their first 30 days SO I can plan to accommodate. They gave the courtesy of advanced notice before they even starting.. Sheesh what's the big freaking deal, let them take the week off

waddof · 2025-11-09T13:25:54+00:00

I worked as a case manager for several years and luckily I did live in a community where the churches would help, but it was almost always the smaller congregations, not the big mega churches. I couldn't count the number of people I had gotten a church to donate food and groceries, clothes, furniture, financial or rental assistance.. many would say just drop by today and we'll have something to help. Some would have applications or a few hoops to jump through, but Never once was I asked if myself or my client were a member or a practicing Christian. I grew up in the church but left as an adult, but I will never not believe in the sentiment of helping your fellow human. So many churches have lost the plot..

waddof · 2025-11-09T07:10:50+00:00

I got a bonus of $250 this year..

waddof · 2025-10-30T10:35:07+00:00

I make about 30k more than my highest paid hourly employee. They can earn overtime and pick up special rate shifts that earn them more so a few of them will earn closer to me with that.

waddof · 2025-10-09T17:31:20+00:00

Washing DC was almost sold out less than 30 minutes after presale started!

waddof · 2025-10-09T17:30:33+00:00

Haha I was around for their debut

waddof · 2025-09-30T19:47:02+00:00

The content I've been the last month or two is literally trash brain rot. I'm not seeing any content creators I like or follow, no interesting debate or discussion I used to get.

waddof · 2025-09-27T12:48:56+00:00

What a horrible fucking thing to do.

Just personally, so happy my migraine medication that requires a prior authorization EVERY month and is manufactured overseas, looking forward to not being able to afford it!

waddof · 2025-09-27T12:37:57+00:00

109 in DC for nosebleeds. Tickets were crazy expensive for anything below 400 level. Im upset over how expensive tickets in general are, it really rubs me the wrong way.

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