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Owing people money
I haven't done a rant in a long time. This wasn't the one I wanted to do, but as I'm very annoyed, here it is anyway:
Okay, we all have money problems sometimes, and if you never have, you can go elsewhere… or something… Anyway, no matter how many times I tell her, I just don’t think it get’s through Imouto’s head that owing money, even to friends, is BAD THING. I tell her that just by SHOWING she’s putting effort into paying someone back, five bucks here, fuck bucks there, it makes the person who lent the money out far more lenient to you and not generally angry. She just. Doesn’t. get it.
I know she has to pay a lot for gas [it’s 30-40 minutes to work and school from where she lives, and she’s in an SUV. PAIN.] and she needs to eat, pay tuition, blah blah blah. But every time she buys a book instead of paying me or Pan back, just annoys the hell outta me. I even told her she can BUY me books for payment. I put just ONE on hold that she could buy along with her own, and she didn’t get it, cus she only had enough for hers. ::frustrated growl::
I think the only way to get it through her head is to never let her borrow money EVEN IF IT’S FOR FOOD AND SHE’S STARVING or to borrow money from her and not give it back for a few months. It’s petty, I know, but sometimes you just have to know how the other person feels before you go ‘Wow, this is horrible.’ And have an epiphany/New Year’s Resolution. I could be on my death bed and I doubt I’d get it back any faster.
I can’t even understand being so horrible with money because I’ve always been a penny pinching bastard. I’ve loosened up over the years, but I still won’t spend money if I know I don’t have it or will DEEPLY regret it later. The only exception is con time, which I never seem to have the money saved up for like I want, but I don’t go horrendously into debt OR spend ALL of the money allotted to myself and have to borrow because I have to get something else and my mother called me AFTER I spend my money, which it what happened this year with Imouto and why she owes me 20 bucks and her mother owes me 10.
That was the last weekend in July. It’s September now. I’m tired of hearing ‘Next pay day’ only to find out she spent it all on some random thing/books/whatever else she doesn’t absolutely need. I don’t want to hear about whatever books you bought instead of paying me back or all the things you bought your godson that you’re ‘not sure’ if they need or not. Except for gas, food, and tuition, I don’t want to hear anything about your spending habits unless it involves a payment plan.
It’s sad that I can understand why friends/lovers/etc break over money because one party does whatever they want and the lender gets tired of getting stepped on and eventually SNAPS. Really, it’s a travesty. [/rant]
Okay, we all have money problems sometimes, and if you never have, you can go elsewhere… or something… Anyway, no matter how many times I tell her, I just don’t think it get’s through Imouto’s head that owing money, even to friends, is BAD THING. I tell her that just by SHOWING she’s putting effort into paying someone back, five bucks here, fuck bucks there, it makes the person who lent the money out far more lenient to you and not generally angry. She just. Doesn’t. get it.
I know she has to pay a lot for gas [it’s 30-40 minutes to work and school from where she lives, and she’s in an SUV. PAIN.] and she needs to eat, pay tuition, blah blah blah. But every time she buys a book instead of paying me or Pan back, just annoys the hell outta me. I even told her she can BUY me books for payment. I put just ONE on hold that she could buy along with her own, and she didn’t get it, cus she only had enough for hers. ::frustrated growl::
I think the only way to get it through her head is to never let her borrow money EVEN IF IT’S FOR FOOD AND SHE’S STARVING or to borrow money from her and not give it back for a few months. It’s petty, I know, but sometimes you just have to know how the other person feels before you go ‘Wow, this is horrible.’ And have an epiphany/New Year’s Resolution. I could be on my death bed and I doubt I’d get it back any faster.
I can’t even understand being so horrible with money because I’ve always been a penny pinching bastard. I’ve loosened up over the years, but I still won’t spend money if I know I don’t have it or will DEEPLY regret it later. The only exception is con time, which I never seem to have the money saved up for like I want, but I don’t go horrendously into debt OR spend ALL of the money allotted to myself and have to borrow because I have to get something else and my mother called me AFTER I spend my money, which it what happened this year with Imouto and why she owes me 20 bucks and her mother owes me 10.
That was the last weekend in July. It’s September now. I’m tired of hearing ‘Next pay day’ only to find out she spent it all on some random thing/books/whatever else she doesn’t absolutely need. I don’t want to hear about whatever books you bought instead of paying me back or all the things you bought your godson that you’re ‘not sure’ if they need or not. Except for gas, food, and tuition, I don’t want to hear anything about your spending habits unless it involves a payment plan.
It’s sad that I can understand why friends/lovers/etc break over money because one party does whatever they want and the lender gets tired of getting stepped on and eventually SNAPS. Really, it’s a travesty. [/rant]