23. "Type of folk talkin bout "We bought our first TWO homes at 23 y..." In response to In response to 18 Thu Apr-05-18 12:22 PM by FLUIDJ
....and didn't even have full time jobs yet! We just work hard and save our money..."
Yeah...you save YOUR money and spend your FAMILY's money..aka..Mommy & Daddy's money...
SHit really irks me... I mean...i'm happy for them...but i'm hating on the false representation...
We got some neighbors like that... matter fact...i'm vent right here...
So yeah...we renovated our house about 2 years ago After living in the same 2 bed 1 bath under 1,000 sf. cape cod for nearly 10 years....and then we had our 1st kid and another on the way we knew we didn't want to leave Arlington so we decided to move forward with the renovations I'd been designing (just for fun) for the past few years.... We did a modest reno but it nearly doubled our square footage...we were cool, happy..ARE cool ARE happy... But our bank account/s are on struggle mode lol... but meeds are being met so I can't complain..we're fortunate...but we WORK for it...
Meanwhile, younger couple that we kick it with and that has a daughter same age as our oldest all of a sudden decided THEIR house didn't meet their needs anymore and started looking into renovations on their 2-story nearly 2,000 sf. home. Ultimately decided they couldn't modify their house to their liking so the just up and bought a different house at the other end of the block! ..... TO RENOVATE THAT HOUSE....
Anyways...that's what "they" did..... Talking all this noise about they were just going to scrape for a little while and live frugally yada yada yada..... Wife didn't work at the time...so it was already suspect....
One day wife was chatting with them and they just casually mentioned that their mom had some "inheritance" just sitting on ice that she couldn't figure out how to use so she'd be happy to GIVE it to them....
SMH...
Fast forward to them moving in.....needing new furniture....
Guess who footed the bill for that??...zactly...
Meanwhile..they be always casually talking about how it's rough living frugally...but STAY getting new shit, throwing little dinners, going on vacations....
I don't even like chilling with them anymore over that mess.... I know it's petty...and a tinge of jealousy...but whatever.... all that false representation is annoying... I'd much rather folks be straight and keep it real....