Why buy designer clothes for children? They don’t understand what it is in order to appreciate it and they grow so fast, they’ll have outgrown them in a few months/weeks. Get them something they’ll actually need!

Fancy, over the top weddings are nice, but the point of weddings is to display your love to you partner, and it shouldn’t cost thousands to do that!

Yeah, I don't get expensive weddings. Finances are often the biggest point of tension for couples, why start a new chapter of your lives together with a giant bill? My husband and I spent $800, got married on a cliffside in Muir Woods, overlooking the Pacific, while whales screamed their whale-songs and then we (and our whopping 10 guests) celebrated and camped together afterwards! We both grew up dirt poor so doing things on the cheap come naturally.

Mine, 32 years ago was my parent's back yard. I wore a $39 dress from Penneys.

Putting more into the wedding than into the marriage is not good.

As we sat in the waiting room, the couple before us came out of the judge's chambers looking radiant. The couple after us was a remarkable couple. The groom was a Native American man in dress military uniform. The bride was a gorgeous Native American woman, dressed in stunning Native American garments. They were such a striking pair that we could barely avoid staring at them. The other couples were a big part of what made that day unforgettable for us, and it didn't cost a dime. We're still going strong after 25 years... The wedding does not make the marriage.

I paid $26(marriage license and blood tests) for my wedding. We went to the justice of the peace, and we just celebrated our 30th anniversary in May. My sister paid $20,000 and she was divorced 2 years later. The secret to a long marriage? You both have to be determined to make it work and you have to realize people make mistakes and you have to be willing to forgive those mistakes. Marry your best friend, because lust fades, a life partner isn't just about the bedroom.

I went into £20000 worth of debt back in the early 2000s for my wedding, ended up getting my house repossessed, we divorced, but that was mutual....

Invest in your marriage, not your wedding!

Spent $550 on our wedding, mostly for cheap champagne and a registered Justice of the Peace. Our 44th wedding anniversary is coming up.

If the couple both want that, I don't necessarily see an issue. Where I do see a problem is when people are pressured into having big weddings. I'd have rather just had a small wedding (ideally two of us) but both our families made it clear that was going to cause a big fight. Weddings should be what the people marrying want.

It's not the wedding, but the marriage that counts.

In my culture, if somebody invites you to a wedding, you need to gift them money, equal to the money they spend per person, if they invite you to an expensive location, you need to give quite a lot of money to cover their expenses.

I agree with not going into debt with buying expensive over the top 17 tower cake that doesn't even taste good, or buying a private jet you can't afford bla bla bla... BUT sometimes (especially with Asian parents of if you have a large family) you will have soooooo many relatives it's just inevitable. So crowd funding isn't something to be ashamed of that time

My wedding cost around $2000 all up, it was about us and what we wanted not the guests. Friends wedding the week after cost $25000. We are together they are not.

My parents paid for my wedding, so I got to make very few decisions. I'm sure it wasn't very expensive. My dress was, what would be considered these days, plain and beautiful. No lace or jewels or beads or anything. Just a very basic dress. The only added feature was straps to keep it up (it was strapless, but my mom threw a fit because she was hoping I would get married in a synagogue).

Ouch. That’s got to hurt

This is why I plan on buying a house first, if I ever find ‘the one’ or somebody close enough

If you can't afford a big wedding, have a smaller wedding. You don't want to start a marriage with debt.

I'm not opposed to grand weddings as a whole, but I agree, some people get so crazy & desperate to have this "wedding flex," that it becomes all about that and their Insta brag rather than the union of 2 people who love each other. I've been to way too many weddings over the last few years where 90% of the guests were just so done with the whole thing after enduring all the forced weird Tik Tok things, impractical & unsanitary food displays from Pinterest, the bridzilla winging because her gifts weren't "expensive enough" or they didn't get the money they wanted to go on some lavish trip that they expected everyone else to pay for 🙄

There's a indirect correlation between the cost and amount of guests invited to a wedding. The more you spend the less it lasts.

All my cousins did it right. They got engaged and started saving up for the wedding. All 4 of them had lovely big (not too over the top but with all those little details) weddings around 1 year later.

You forgot the newest iPhone every year.

True! I remember all of the random, small things me and my siblings did in summer vacation like going to the park or pool more than any big thing years later

What tf is a stbxh?

Why? Maybe they like the trailer park.

Having six kids while being unemployed, not intending to work at all in your life. Living on financial aid. Complaining that financial aid is too low. Cursing the state organisation providing financial aid on social media.

I had a friend who had borrowed money from me, I thought she was in deep s**t at the end of the month, that it was to pay for food for her children. But no, it was for a new tattoo. Fortunately, she refunded me. We're not friends anymore, not because of that, but it didn't weigh in his favor.

Instead of a smart fella, he's a fart smella.

Hmm, at least the bike one the bike is around $30k. That still leaves around $87k. Doesn't say what sort of Dodge Charger so can't really tell how much the other brother is aiming to spend. But if he's got himself back into a place and set some money aside, maybe that's not a terrible thing either. Get a car he loves, keep working til he dies. If he's enjoying himself and happy...

I don't get how people have a desire to get used to a new phone every year. I just upgraded my Samsung phone. The new one is more fragile, and took me a while to get used to. Just like my old one. It's a pain the a**e. I'm keeping this new one for as long as I can.

He won't be paying that for too long 💀

I wear a $9 belt and I have a really good job...

*than FFS!

Had a heck of a week at work. Project falling apart. Massive hours. Was hungry and to tired to cook. Went to a food cart near me. $10 burrito, $5 for a hotdog. I went back home and had cereal for dinner. I just couldnt justify the cost.

They got a bad name in Europe some decennia ago, lots of shady things were going on with homes in mainly Spain. But what is CPA?

There is absolutely no reason for a refrigerator to need an internet connection!

I reuse until the water starts to taste funny.

Firstly, this is why you get insurance. Even if you're the best driver ever and will never have an accident it doesn't mean someone won't smash into you. Secondly, you should be factoring insurance and basic maintenance into the costs. And most fancy cars cost way more than people expect. Even things like tyres cost double, triple or more than a "regular" car. My first car was second hand when I got it, and I drove it for roughly 20 years. In the end it was so worn out I sold it to a wrecker (it as 25ish years old by that point). Unless something drastic happens my current car will be the same.

That's just flat out dumb.

Agree with the commenters. It's not so much poor financial decisions as decisions made out of desperation (usually) and people don't think about what happens next when they are desperate to put food on the table today, or fix the truck they need to get to work.

I worry for the safety of such cars in neighbourhoods like that

Bragging on what a good deal you got is much more fun

Like beanie babies ? LOL

I'm proud to say I've never used a food delivery service

In all fairness, a TV is a MUCH cheaper purchase than a car

"I will gladly pay you Wednesday for a hamburger today"

I don't immediately judge someone with a Starbucks cup. It might be a once every few months treat, or they were desperate for coffee and there were no other options handy. But yeah, if they were getting it frequently? I would.

Depends. If you're only spending a few dollars here and there then it's as harmless as buying that coffee at Starbucks everyone likes to talk about. It still going to be gone by the end of the day. If your spending hundreds every month, then it's a problem.

How was it worth it if you didn't win?!?! :/