[ SECRET POST #4690 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4690 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/QL4Plan.png

[morieris]

Right...it's common sense.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, anyone spending so much money on decorating their rented apartment that they're short on rent long enough to be evicted isn't going to get any sympathy from me. When you're poor, you *know* - pay the bills first.

[(Anonymous)]

But it appears that's not why she was evicted, at least from her perspective. It's about theft of IP and the Lisa Frank hotel. She tried to pay her rent and the landlord refused to cash the check.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3i46rgB-lP/

[(Anonymous)]

Because she was late with her rent. Again.

[(Anonymous)]

A landlord is not obligated to take your late rent payment just because they've taken past late rent payments. Maybe the landlord just got sick of being constantly paid late.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't even understand this situation. I've always heard that your landlord has to take you to eviction court to evict you and you can actually fight it. And if you try to pay back rent and your landlord refuses to cash even a partial payment, that can actually help you in eviction court. I just feel like we aren't getting the whole story here. And the Lisa Frank copyright whatever should be a completely separate matter.

[(Anonymous)]

From what I've heard, apparently her landlord actually went to court to evict her about a year ago and won because she never showed. Her husband claims it's a 'weird legal error' that the case still shows up online, which seems pretty fishy to me. More like they finally got the actual eviction notice and she's trying to get sympathy and cash from her followers to hide that she's actually being evicted because she won't pay her damn rent.

[(Anonymous)]

On the one hand, we must be careful with "If you're poor you shouldn't have nice things because you need to save your money" because often the gulf between what one is earning and what it takes to be financially stable, or to be able to move to an apartment that isn't a shit hole, or be able to afford to buy a place, or be able to afford to have a reliable car, etc. is so wide that it cannot be bridged by even the most extreme scrimping and saving, and thus the result of extreme scrimping and saving is to make no improvement in one's general living conditions while simultaneously making one miserable. It's okay to have some variation in your diet even if it means not always buying the very cheapest things at the grocery store. It's okay to occasionally buy yourself chocolate and a bouquet of flowers. It's okay to watch TV or socialize instead of spending all of your waking free time throwing yourself at side hustles that probably don't even earn you much.*

On the other hand, that may not be what is going on here, since even if you strip away the magical fairy unicorn wonderland that does not look like the shit hole apartment of someone who should be forgiven for their small indulgences because foregoing those won't improve things. Also, I had heard the eviction process has been going on for a couple of years now and the late rent may be a chronic issue. So, the magical fairy unicorn wonderland stuff may not be the sole problem (i.e. not enough to bridge the gap between paying all of the bills and not paying all of them), but it may have been pat of a general problem of not living within their means. If you seriously can't pay rent, then you need to start cutting back in multiple places or else move somewhere cheaper. Easier said than done, especially if you live in a place where rents are high all over, but that's a major social and economic issue and magical fairy unicorn wonderland isn't a valid argument for why it's okay not to pay your bills mostly on time.

*And while we're at it, could we not with the "Everyone needs a side hustle!" crap? I can't argue with Multiple Income Streams (tm) being a good idea (although it's kind of useless if losing the largest stream - i.e. your job - still puts you onto shaky financial ground because the other streams don't pay enough and can't readily be scaled up even if you have more free time for them now because you are unemployed) but "Everyone needs a side hustle!" just normalizes people having to work more than full time just to get by, which in turn normalizes paying people less than a living wage and employing them on a part time or contractor basis so you don't have to pay them benefits and they are left to piece together a living out of multiple jobs.

[(Anonymous)]

It actually makes me angry. I skimp big time on anything I don't absolutely need because my (and any fucking rational person's) priorities are: roof over head, food on table, lights on. Once those things are covered, then we start moving down the list to internet, phone bill, car insurance, stuff that's still "necessary" but I could technically live without. Magical fairy unicorn explosion shit is so far down the list that it's not even factored into my thought process.

I would love to spruce my place up. I would love to surround myself in things that make me happy and make my living space charming. I can't afford to do that. So I don't. And someone splurging on all this unnecessary garbage and then turning around and crying at people that they can't afford their necessities just pisses me off, because what makes them so much more special that they "deserve" to have every sweet little thing that their hearts desire while the rest of us just have to get by?

Like, get fucked. For real. Sell off all your ponies and cute shit and pay your fucking rent next time.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I live in a house (in CA) and I can't afford to make it look nice. Due to a pay raise I can just barely afford to decorate my 5 month old's nursery. We only live in a house and pay that kind of rent for the 3 year old to have space to play. Eat cheap, with the occasional (BUDGETED) treat. Stay at home or go the park for activities - or, if your city or county has it, publicly funded activities. Buy second-hand clothes or go straight to the clearance rack (I do this all the time) IF you need clothes.

I honestly think people who say this is impossible have never had to live on a budget. Hubby and I ate gluten free for 200 a month at our poorest. It was not tasty. We were budgeting how much cheese our salads could have. It was somewhat healthy. But it was POSSIBLE.

And we were, and are, quite happy with our lives, to boot.

*sigh*

[(Anonymous)]

+2

All of this, like ffs!

[(Anonymous)]

There are those who live in another world, and there are those who understand you can only visit so long before the world they actually exist in collapses.

[(Anonymous)]

So philosophical, I love it.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for this, OP, I was wondering if I was the only person who was side-eying this whole mess after she fessed up to being chronically late on rent.

[(Anonymous)]

Could it be that most of the things are DIY or cheap?

[(Anonymous)]

No, she's just a fucking idiot.

[haikitteh]

I'm assuming this is a social media star, in which case it's possible she felt by investing in her physical space it would pay off in whatever way social media people make money. Do they get ad revenue like on youtube? I really don't know.