…kind of a bummer that I can’t tell anyone in my family because half of them (including my parents) will look at me like an ATM whose job it is to set myself on fire in order to keep them warm.

  • DougPiranha42@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Good job! It sucks to be poor but it can also be difficult to do just a little better than the rest of the family. They can think like “you always have it easy” and assume you can easily afford anything they can’t or don’t want to pay for.

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      22 days ago

      The reason why I was able to do this was that I live way beneath my means. My car has actually been “on loan” for two years now to my parents.