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re: Mom of LSU football player is a dorm room interior designer
Posted on 8/10/26 at 2:36 pm to Cliff Booth
Posted on 8/10/26 at 2:36 pm to Cliff Booth
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I may very well give my kids the same advice. It's a realist take, but isn't this kind of sad? That it takes into your 30s to "lay a foundation" capable of supporting a family.
We waited until our 30s and we live comfortably, provide for the kids, etc. However, if I had been comfortable getting started 10 years earlier, my kids would know their grandmother. I would have a better chance of getting to see grandkids of my own.
None of this is natural. Its not the way we were meant to live.
Lastly, do people spend recklessly? Sure. But medical bills and insurance, even for healthy children, is fricking astronomical and that cannot be denied.
My point exactly!
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Posted on 8/10/26 at 2:36 pm to hawgfaninc
Why not use the $20K and invest it in an index fund at a 10% nominal average annual return or roughly 7% to 8% adjusted for inflation, in 30 years the daughter would have roughly $348,988 as a graduation gift?
This is just a stupid waste of money.
This is just a stupid waste of money.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 2:42 pm to hawgfaninc
lol @ the mom with her trashy back tat. Looks like a great backdrop for her daughter’s Only Fans.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 2:44 pm to Bacon84
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Having cell phones is a small luxury. Having 3, or more in a family is a bigger luxury.
2 cars= luxury.
More clothes than you need?- luxury.
Multiple TVs in a single home? Luxury
Internet in your home -luxury
iPhones/tablets/laptop computers, streaming services, -luxury
Travel ball/sports/etc- luxury.
The majority of these things you list as luxuries are necessary to be employed and get ahead in life. You can't work a GOOD job without Clothes, internet, a phone, or a car.
A 65 inch HDTV is like $300 so I don't think that is sinking anyone. The only thing you listed that is an actual luxury is travel sports which the majority of people don't participate in.
At the end of the day, its bills like Housing, Insurance, Utilities, and Groceries that sink people. Not TVs and luxury cars. If you are going into debt over BMWs and $1200 TVs then yes, you are an idiot. Most people aren't struggling because of those things.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 2:46 pm to hawgfaninc
Looks like a room for my 13 year old daughter.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 2:49 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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Buying a TV in the 80s was the equivalent of like 2-3 months of rent. Buying a TV today is the equivalent of about 5 days of rent. Go one down this list. Internet in your home, cable TV, landlines, etc etc. Basically any electronic technology is absolutely dirt cheap compared to what it was 40-50 years ago. Whatever effect that has on an individuals personal finances pales in comparison to the effect that insurance, rent/mortgage/education/healthcare/utilities etc have.
Really? Internet is cheaper now than it was 40-50 years ago!?… how much was Internet on 1976?
Rent is more expensive, yes….
How many kids in the 70s shared a room, versus today? Middle class children routinely shared rooms, wore hand me downs, etc.
Again, standard of living, and expectations, have skyrocketed.
So maybe, rent is more expensive, in part because the standards are higher?
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fact that so many people cannot grasp this concept should be studied and analyzed to find out what it is in the human psyche that does not allow them to comprehend and retain this information.
I fully comprehend what you’re saying. What I can’t comprehend is how some people don’t understand the effect of their personal choices.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 2:53 pm to hawgfaninc
dorm room culture is completely out of control.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 3:11 pm to hawgfaninc
I look at it and just think of all the cheap crap that will be worth zero and likely filling a landfill in a year, but to each their own. Not my cup of tea, and if that stuff ran to 20K, then the margin on it is insane. But if you think about it, probally three or four people spending at least half a day to wait in line, get stuff into the room, put everything together, hang stuff, etc. I could see where the woman running it has a pretty high overhead on labor alone. I would love to see a bill of what one of these really costs on the consumer end and what the business cleared on it.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 3:13 pm to Bacon84
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How many kids in the 70s shared a room, versus today?
It's not much different.
If fact, in a 2022 survey, about 70% of 2+ child households have siblings sharing a room at the time of the survey.
In a 2021 survey, only 65% of respondents that grew up in the 70s (i.e. were aged 55-64 at the time of the survey) said that they had at one point shared a room with a sibling.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 3:24 pm to jbgleason
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Can you imagine ending up married to this chick and having to tell her you can’t swing a 2 week IG Worthy summer vacation to Tulum because you didn’t get your bonus? This is how divorces happen.
That chick isn’t going to be happy with Tulum.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 3:31 pm to hawgfaninc
who is the LSU football player?
Posted on 8/10/26 at 3:34 pm to HarryHoudini
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So vote for people who want the govt dictating every aspect of our lives? Yeah that’ll solve everything.
It’s sarcasm.
But it’s really dumb, and does make their peers wonder about things like income inequality and wealth redistribution I’m sure. I’m not really signing up for the Mamdani plan.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 3:38 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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Wealthy people still exist. The complaint is that the middle class is dying, not that no one has any money anywhere. There is quickly becoming only 2 classes: The wealthy and the poor. The American dream where you can work a normal 9-5 and get to a point where you don't want for money is all but gone. Once upon a time, a blue collar factory worker could own a house, a car, and support a family of 4 without his wife working. The "middle class" now has both parents working full time and are still pay check to pay check with little to no ability to save for the future.
We just need to give the “job creators” more tax breaks!!!
Posted on 8/10/26 at 3:39 pm to hipstersquid195
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Where are college kids getting $20,000 for this? When I was in college, I could barely afford ramen.
Tiger Plaza is all I could afford when I went back to LSU after the Army.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 3:59 pm to jbgleason
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Can you imagine ending up married to this chick and having to tell her you can’t swing a 2 week IG Worthy summer vacation to Tulum because you didn’t get your bonus? This is how divorces happen.
Can you imagine being her dad and having to pay for her wedding?
Posted on 8/10/26 at 4:03 pm to hawgfaninc
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Mom of LSU football player is a dorm room interior designer
i taped a britney spears poster above my kirby smith bed and called it a wrap.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 4:05 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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That is just an opinion. It’s not Starbucks keeping people down. The cost of everything is significantly higher than it was just a decade ago. Gas, utilities, insurance, rent/housing, cars, groceries, etc. The only way to be a middle
Honestly it’s not.
If you buy stuff you cannot afford and go into debt that is on you. End of story.
Every generation has excuses.
This post was edited on 8/10/26 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 8/10/26 at 4:18 pm to hawgfaninc
1,4,2,3
This post was edited on 8/10/26 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 8/10/26 at 4:24 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
You are pretty much defining Socialism.
Posted on 8/10/26 at 4:48 pm to hawgfaninc
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She charges $20,000
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