i live at home and through some calculations just figured out i spent just under 7k in the last 3 months. lol.

I'm addicted to restaurants, what can i say?

anyone else have a spending problem?

I hear ya, I spend all my money on porn

Whenever I see a cool bobblehead or laser pointer, I buy it.

FYP

...lightweight.

When I was supporting myself playing cards, my I was incredibly responsible and patient when it came to my bankroll -- play the right limits, reinvest in yourself, move up when you can but not if you don't have to, take the occasional shot but don't gamble too high too often, stake the right players and reach good agreements, etc.

But when that money went from PartyPoker to my bank account, it was totally expendable. I was the exact opposite, totally irresponsible. Don't want to clean the house? Pay your roommate 50 bucks a week so you never ever have to pick up after yourself! Pissed that 3 Tigers games aren't on TV this year? Order the deluxe baseball package! There's a cute girl you've never met eating with you and some of your friends? Dinner's on me! Wow, that Chad Johnson Fathead is awesome. SHIP IT! Wasted at 3AM with a friend, and someone (details hazy) suggests going to Vegas? Book a flight for 8AM, drive drunk to the airport, forget to bring more than 1200 between you, no credit cards, and have no hotel reservation on a Friday night, and no return flight for 7 nights!

My bankroll was holy, but money was a means for me to get whatever the fuck I wanted, when I wanted it. I wasn't even irrationally impulsive. I just didn't care.


Wang

I think this is the area in which we differ most. I'm unbelievably cheap. I make good money, but for whatever reason, I live below the poverty line. I live in a fairly nice place, but that's it. I go way out of my way to buy everything on sale off the internet, I won't pay to drink at a bar, if I eat out it's fastfood, and if I eat in, I bought it at the poor people discount place.

Case-n-point: I used to be a vegetarian, 'til I figured out how to make sloppy joes for less than $0.20 a piece.

I've always despised being cheap, but I've never lived opulently or extravagantly by ANY respect. I've always lived in shitholes, driven junkers, and still hack away on a computer from 2001. I don't really own any nice things -- no nice clothing, no fancy shoes, no season tickets -- and I basically have nothing to show for whatever money I've earned in my lifetime. I never spent my money on THINGS, I just spent it on lots of stuff; there's a difference there, but it's hard for me to define. Having money around meant that I had freedom, the ability to pretty much do what I wanted without really thinking about it. I just never wanted to do anything all that nice, or HAVE anything all that nice. I didn't make it a habit to eat at nice restaurants, unless there was occasion for it. I always bargain shopped at the supermarket, but didn't just buy Ramen Noodles to save 4 dollars a day.

That kind of thing. For what it's worth, I'm pretty much stone broke now, but I don't even care.


Wang

There's something comforting about knowing you have the money to buy or do something if you need to, versus having the thing itself. I can't take being broke. The stress would kill me.

I'm not sure if this really belongs here but whatever. Past few months I've been makin' fruit smoothies at home. I make 'em with low fat low sugar vanilla yogurts. cheap. work well. just put 1 in. 4oz btw. after you blend it all up you can't taste the difference anyway.

my fav. yogurt of course. break up a banana. cut the ends off and chop up 8-10 strawberries. blend till smooth. add 1/2 cup crushed ice. blend again. bam.

yummy. cheap. And, not quite on topic of the thread.

It's stressful when there are contingencies you haven't planned for, but apart from that it's fine. I need very little for survival and maintenance. I like having enough money to gamble comfortably so that I can find more money when the opportunities arise. I like having a few bucks stashed away so I can be lazy for a few weeks. I'd like to have more in case something happens to me health-wise, but I'm young and invincible, so no worries there. Honestly, car problems are the fucking WORST.

Wang

If you earn less than $7k in 3 months, then you have a spending problem.

If you earn, say, $30,000 in 3 months then you don't have a spending problem.

It's all relative... spending $7k means nothing on it's own, it depends on your entire financial situation.

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To be fair, the Chad Johnson Fathead IS awesome.

Ocho Cinco, baby.

i didn't make 30k, but i did make almost 17k.


brag post. but you asked for it.

I am not quite like wang yet because i would never spend $ until i'm broke. I have a lot more $ to my name and would not spend the 7k if i couldn't. BUT, i just thought that it was amazing that people who live alone can survive on 15k per year and i on that pace spend 28k a year living AT HOME. I still think i should spend less but i'm not going to because I like to enjoy life and get whatever makes me happy, but not crazy expensive.

yes I am in kind of the same pickle
I am recently out on my own instead of living with someone else
I can handle money really well but ive been having this problem of just boredom which causes me to go out with no thought of what the cost is


and what the hell is a Chad Johnson Fathead?
im guessing hes some kind of sports icon

Plays baseball for the Reds, accused of using steroids.

you made 17k in 3 months, and live at home.

Are you 17?

No, but I'm willing to bet he's a Jew.


Sorry, sorry, that was really inappropriate. I should've said "I'm willing to bet he's Jewish."


Wang

My wife makes them almost like that, but instead of yogurt she uses fat free icecream. Very very good.

FTR, I spend more than I make, and my wife makes more than me.

I'm 19 and I am Jewish.

you got a problem with that?

the reason i live at home is cuz i'm saving up $ to buy a mercedez benz and still go up in stakes. if i move out, i will not b able to buy a mercedez benz/live comfortably/play the stakes i want to play.

good to see you have your priorities straight.

luv-navy

What. A. Shocker.

No, of course I don't have a problem with that. If it makes you feel any better, I look very, very Jewish, and I have to disgustedly and firmly correct people that make that assumption all the time.


Wang

I believe the correct term is "Jewey"; also acceptable: "Jewesque".

Zach, I've got a topic in the LHE thread with your turbo LHE-oriented name right on it. I don't see a response. I expect you to at least give it a shot. It's titled something like "Calculating Bluff Equity and Breakeven Points" or something similarly asinine. It's a good question, and as a moderator and StratForum BigWig, I think you have an obligation to post.

Wang


PS- Yup. Jewey.

That's funny. I get this all the time as well.

My favorite 'Mike is Jewey' episode: I'm at my girlfriend's parents' house on Easter Sunday of this year. Her brother-in-law, who I've known since my gf and I started dating 4 years ago, is a gigantic retard, as you'll soon see. He sits down next to me as we're about to dig into brunch and queries, "So Mike, what does your family do on Easter, you know, since you're Jewish?" I reply incredulously, "I am?" I then start chuckling because it's clear he commands less than a sliver of knowledge of Judaism, but he then goes a bit deeper into 'I used to huff gasoline' territory by saying, "I always assumed you were Jewish since you're from Buffalo Grove." I'm not from Buffalo Grove.

Here's my favorite:

My freshman year of college, I wanted to sit down and talk to a professor about something. He told me to come to Office Hours on whatever day, and I told him I couldn't that day. "Oops, I totally forgot. That's Yom Kippur. If you're not in your discussion section, just do the reading and let your Graduate Student Instructor know."

I... got to take a LOT of Yom Kippur's off from class.

There's a huge contradiction here. I've even bolded it for your future reference.

Don't you mean you're leaching off of your parents so that you can use your income to buy a Mercedes?
I hope you are at least paying them rent.
man up

well, "hope" is the wrong word. It's not like I have a vested interrest in your family dynamics.

So, let me do a little mental math...


Carry the seven...

You've never spent any money on either of these items, because there is no such thing as a "cool" bobblehead or laser pointer. Nice.

i only buy beer and gas

so yeah....im in debt


jk tho...thats all i buy

I spend to much money on weed and delievery food.

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