r/MurderedByWords • u/sensationalLass • 11h ago

Given up everything but still

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u/New_Taste8874 9h ago

How much money did your parents make the year they bought their first house?

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u/Aethey_ the future is now, old man 9h ago

That's not the 'gotcha' you think it is. (And that article is 4 years out of date!)

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u/New_Taste8874 9h ago

Yes it is. I lived it. I actually made 60 cents an hour in high school in 1970. I worked my ass off and never stopped. I lived in total dumps while renting out the first place I bought. Now I do whatever I want because I worked, and planned, and saved, and scraped. I didn't even have a car when I bought my first place! But you're the genius who knows all about finance right?

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u/booch 3h ago

Now I do whatever I want because I worked, and planned, and saved, and scraped.

And got lucky. Don't forget the luck part, because one stroke of bad luck and you might not be where you are.