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WCDT Strips 3821-3825 (3-7 September 2018)

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traroth:
Yeah, banks ARE boring. I take a book with me to every place where I know there will be a waiting room, like physicians, banks, barbers... Wait, didn't those guys have some book-related job? I hope they at least like books...

dutchrvl:

--- Quote from: dreed on 05 Sep 2018, 19:05 ---Marten attitude to money is so alien to me.  Iiving from paycheck to paycheck when one has kids, medical expenses is one thing.

But marten is sharing rent with 3 other people, doesn't gamble doesn't travel, so lack of savings is just weird to me.

I do know 30 year old in real life who are exactly like that. So wrong...

--- End quote ---

You are right, and in fact that is the thing that probably should worry Marten and Clair the most. Right now they are co-inhabiting a (small-ish I think?) apartment and sharing the rent among at least 3 people (don't know if Bubbles pays rent as well).
It's kinda surprising that he doesn't seem to have been able to save anything, especially since supposedly he also made it work before Claire moved in and started paying part of the rent.

Thrillho:
He spends half his time hanging out at a coffee house. An independent one is likely to cost more than a chain. I doubt he is laid well, and a coffee a day seems like a small spend but adds up. Add to that his overall arrested development and I'm not at all surprised, because the exact same behaviour has repeatedly made me broke.

dutchrvl:

--- Quote from: Thrillho on 06 Sep 2018, 05:14 ---He spends half his time hanging out at a coffee house. An independent one is likely to cost more than a chain. I doubt he is laid well, and a coffee a day seems like a small spend but adds up. Add to that his overall arrested development and I'm not at all surprised, because the exact same behaviour has repeatedly made me broke.

--- End quote ---

I really hope he is laid well  :-P :-D

Anyway, wasn't it previously implied (or maybe explicitly stated) that he was getting his coffees on the house at CoD?

Edit: agree with your statement in general though. As someone who always had to pay for everything himself (including tuitions), I got really annoyed by a fellow grad student who complained that we got paid so little that we would never be able to save anything, while holding a $5 venti frappucino from Starbucks..... (note: our grad stipend was $2100 in Chicago in 2007, which is by no means low)

Thrillho:
God I hate my phone's autocorrect.

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