Comments on: Make America “IOU” Free Again! https://eliteedgemoney.com/make-america-iou-free-again/ Money | Minimalism | Mohawks Tue, 09 Apr 2019 09:51:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: J. Money https://eliteedgemoney.com/make-america-iou-free-again/#comment-263411 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:14:36 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=49131#comment-263411 In reply to Debbie.

You know it!!

I’m gonna have to steal that – “No more wallet WOES for me. For now on, only wallet WOAH’S”

]]> By: Debbie https://eliteedgemoney.com/make-america-iou-free-again/#comment-263341 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:14:23 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=49131#comment-263341 WOE is me. This old post struck a bad nerve. OUCH!
1) loaned family member $1000. She paid back $100.
2) loaned old boyfriend $1000. He paid back na dah.
3) loaned co-worker $50. She quit & moved. Paid back na dah.
4) loaned friend $300. She paid back $50.
Friend was going to pay back $50 a month. After 6 months I emailed asking the status. I finally received a check for $50 with a note somehow blaming me saying “here’s $50. Our grocery $$. Now we don’t eat this week”. I never emailed/heard from her again. 10 year friendship gone.
Hubby’s best friend asked to borrow $8000 last year. Hubby told him “friends and $$ don’t mix”. He knew we were flush with cash as we’d just sold our home & were temporarily renting. He sold his motorcycle for $5000 & moved overseas!
No more wallet WOES for me. For now on, only wallet WOAH’S! Better to gift the $$ unless you get a promissory note & even then some don’t pay back what they borrowed. When they ask what’s in your wallet, I tell them “dust”.
Thanx for the archives. A lot of interesting old posts.

]]> By: J. Money https://eliteedgemoney.com/make-america-iou-free-again/#comment-240693 Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:57:35 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=49131#comment-240693 In reply to ZJ Thorne.

Oh man, I can’t even imagine :( Really appreciate you stopping by and sharing – most of us have no idea about this stuff.

]]> By: ZJ Thorne https://eliteedgemoney.com/make-america-iou-free-again/#comment-240586 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:55:55 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=49131#comment-240586 I somehow missed the page! I’m not shocked that more LGBT folks have ended a relationship over money. Our community, as a whole, is more economically insecure. We are more likely to be un/underemployed. There is also a lot of substance abuse in segments of our community that leads to even bigger money issues. My girlfriend’s uncle was in town recently and was so surprised at the number of AA/NA meetings that were focused on the LGBT community. We explained to him why that was; he found places he felt welcome, but had not realized that the LGBT community was such a big part of the AA/NA community. This is partially from the number of LGBT teenagers who are kicked out of their homes for their sexuality and gender identity and also from the untreated mental suffering inflicted by some dangerous homophobia.

]]> By: J. Money https://eliteedgemoney.com/make-america-iou-free-again/#comment-240557 Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:23:36 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=49131#comment-240557 In reply to Free to Pursue.

Yeah – finding out through someone else or even by accident is the worst :(

]]> By: J. Money https://eliteedgemoney.com/make-america-iou-free-again/#comment-240556 Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:20:22 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=49131#comment-240556 In reply to EL.

Amen to that! We owe our lives to them – literally!

]]> By: Free to Pursue https://eliteedgemoney.com/make-america-iou-free-again/#comment-240306 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:00:19 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=49131#comment-240306 “It’s not so much the money part itself that would kill me, it’s all the LYING and then repeated broken promises over time.”

Absolutely! And that goes for any vice. It’s so much more damaging when a partner finds out by accident too. Better fess up and deal with it when it’s a molehill and not a mountain…

And unfortunately, the guilt and the shame can lead to the person who did wrong to make some pretty awful decisions for their life and for that of others that can have dire and permanent consequences. The movie “Maxed Out” is a good reminder of that.

]]> By: Avery Breyer https://eliteedgemoney.com/make-america-iou-free-again/#comment-240304 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 17:25:46 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=49131#comment-240304 Ack! Lying to one’s partner about spending is so bad – it’s a recipe for disaster, fights, unhappiness… how depressing!

Hmmm, on the bright side, at least 74% haven’t lied to their partners about their spending, right?

re: Millennials feel more secure about their retirement (20 percent) versus those aged 35-54 (12 percent

I wonder if this is because retirement seems soooo far away to Millennials, and this makes them feel like they have plenty of time to save up compared to the older age group.

]]> By: EL https://eliteedgemoney.com/make-america-iou-free-again/#comment-240301 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:43:12 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=49131#comment-240301 Hey so far not owed anything. I do owe my parents as they raised me so many years, and that can never be fully paid back, thanks MnD. Stats are fun to read, and it helps people feel good or bad depending on where you fall on the stat line. Good luck PF readers.

]]> By: Joe https://eliteedgemoney.com/make-america-iou-free-again/#comment-240300 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:30:04 +0000 https://staging.eliteedgemoney.com/?p=49131#comment-240300 It surprised me too. I don’t owe or lend any money to friends. I guess we are all doing well financially so we don’t need to lean on each other that much. I prefer to gift if they really need it.
I agree with you about the Millenial data. They don’t worry about it much because they are too busy having fun.

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