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PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. While I would be closer to homelessness

Reply to leighbythesea2 (Original post)

Thu Feb 20, 2025, 09:58 PM

Feb 2025

than billionaire-dom, I am considerably more than three bad months from homelessness.

I have been relatively poor much of my life, and have learned to live on remarkably little. Like not ever having a car payment (paid for my first car with a $100 loan from my credit union back in 1968, and I've never had another car payment since. As a for instance.

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Most of us at 3 bad months away from homeless, &... [View all] leighbythesea2 Feb 2025 OP

I'm one Social Security cut away from being homeless. Cartoonist Feb 2025 #1

Medicare is leighbythesea2 Feb 2025 #4

While I would be closer to homelessness PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2025 #2

You must be a helluva mechanic. nt babylonsister Feb 2025 #3

Uhhh, I'm not any kind of a car mechanic. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2025 #6

Ha! babylonsister Feb 2025 #8

I like the no car payment strategy leighbythesea2 Feb 2025 #5

We went from poverty to being a moral failure to.. Yavin4 Feb 2025 #7