DCUM archetypes I'm very, very tired of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason the whining about making 300k+ is annoying is because it's not an actual problem- you make more than 90% of the people in America, and you're still in the top % in this region as well. You're saving money. You're helping your parents. You live in school districts that are good. But somehow, that's a problem? Because... you don't feel rich? You don't drive a Mercedes? It's VERY HARD to sympathize with this, and the way some people write about their situation does not make it any easier.

Yes, but why get worked up? Just ignore them.

OP can't ignore them because OP wants to be them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH is so lazy that he will eat a candy bar and leave the rapper out (on the floor, table, entertainment unit, wherever) instead of throwing it in the trash. The same goes for everything he touches. I've found all sorts of unsafe items laying around the house: small blue tooth headsets, the plastic bag that the daily newspaper comes in, old batteries that he's removed from the remote and just left laying around, loose change, finger nail clippers, the metal hooks that the dry cleaners use to keep your clothes attached to the hanger...I think you get the point. I got so tired of always rushing over to my infant to stop him from choking on one of these objects that DH carelessly leaves lying around. I also got tired of asking DH to not leave these items around. So I told him. If there is anything that I find on the floor or in the babies reach that does not belong there and is a choking hazard it's getting thrown in the trash. I was serious.

Fast forward...the other day I went to lay down in the bed (we co sleep with our baby) and there was a double A battery laying in the bed! Seriously, a battery, in the bed. I was so pissed. I picked it up and threw it away. Turns out that the TV remote had died and he was planning to use that as the replacement battery for the remote. He asked me if I had seen the battery. I said oh the one that was on the bed. Yes I threw it away.

Take actions ladies. Let's get our points across!

You couldn't have just put it in a drawer? How wasteful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's all relative. Do people that make $250,000 sometimes feel like they are just getting by? Yes. Do most of us realIze this is a first world problem? Yes. We have not lost perspective, we realize we are lucky, but we still post about our problems because they are OUR problems and that is what these forums are about. You are welcome to share your issues whether you make $25,000 a year or $250,000. The real assholes re the people that think money solves all problems so they resent those that make more than they do. It doesn't. And we know it as well as you do, so stop criticizing because we feel scared from time to time the same way that you feel scared from time to time. Or, as Jay Z said, mo money mo problems.

I'm out.

+1000000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason the whining about making 300k+ is annoying is because it's not an actual problem- you make more than 90% of the people in America, and you're still in the top % in this region as well. You're saving money. You're helping your parents. You live in school districts that are good. But somehow, that's a problem? Because... you don't feel rich? You don't drive a Mercedes? It's VERY HARD to sympathize with this, and the way some people write about their situation does not make it any easier.

Yes, but why get worked up? Just ignore them.

OP can't ignore them because OP wants to be them.

I am OP.

I am going to buy a house in this area soon, with cash.

That is all I'm going to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason the whining about making 300k+ is annoying is because it's not an actual problem- you make more than 90% of the people in America, and you're still in the top % in this region as well. You're saving money. You're helping your parents. You live in school districts that are good. But somehow, that's a problem? Because... you don't feel rich? You don't drive a Mercedes? It's VERY HARD to sympathize with this, and the way some people write about their situation does not make it any easier.

Yes, but why get worked up? Just ignore them.

OP can't ignore them because OP wants to be them.

I am OP.

I am going to buy a house in this area soon, with cash.

That is all I'm going to say.

Cool OP! See, nobody likes a downer.

[Anonymous]

I'm OK with the $350,000 posters. But I'm sick of self-proclaimed 1 percenters who are pretending to be in a panic about where to stash their assets and when to realize their income. I don't believe half of them are actually 1 percenters anyway, they're just bitter, middle class Romney supporters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm OK with the $350,000 posters. But I'm sick of self-proclaimed 1 percenters who are pretending to be in a panic about where to stash their assets and when to realize their income. I don't believe half of them are actually 1 percenters anyway, they're just bitter, middle class Romney supporters.

"Realize their income"? Please, tell us more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OK with the $350,000 posters. But I'm sick of self-proclaimed 1 percenters who are pretending to be in a panic about where to stash their assets and when to realize their income. I don't believe half of them are actually 1 percenters anyway, they're just bitter, middle class Romney supporters.

"Realize their income"? Please, tell us more.

http://www.tax-questions.net/income-tax-questions/what-does-it-mean-to-realize-income.html

You're welcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OK with the $350,000 posters. But I'm sick of self-proclaimed 1 percenters who are pretending to be in a panic about where to stash their assets and when to realize their income. I don't believe half of them are actually 1 percenters anyway, they're just bitter, middle class Romney supporters.

"Realize their income"? Please, tell us more.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_realized_income_unrealized_income

If you were a 1 percenter, you'd know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OK with the $350,000 posters. But I'm sick of self-proclaimed 1 percenters who are pretending to be in a panic about where to stash their assets and when to realize their income. I don't believe half of them are actually 1 percenters anyway, they're just bitter, middle class Romney supporters.

"Realize their income"? Please, tell us more.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_realized_income_unrealized_income

If you were a 1 percenter, you'd know this.

Read the link. Definitely not directed at the 1%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DW likes to take her shoes off when she gets home. The problem is that she leaves them in the middle of the kitchen floor, where I have to step over them all night long, until she puts them on the next morning. We have a shoe rack right by the door into the house, but she does not use it for some reason. Can I just tell her I'll start throwing her shoes in the garbage when she leaves them in the middle of the floor?

Would you all agree that's an appropriate approach?

No, do what I do to DH's shoes, who must be your DW's long lost twin brother. Kick them to the side of the kitchen where no one will trip over them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DW likes to take her shoes off when she gets home. The problem is that she leaves them in the middle of the kitchen floor, where I have to step over them all night long, until she puts them on the next morning. We have a shoe rack right by the door into the house, but she does not use it for some reason. Can I just tell her I'll start throwing her shoes in the garbage when she leaves them in the middle of the floor?

Would you all agree that's an appropriate approach?

You could put them somewhere, anywhere, but preferably somewhere she won't easily find them. Then when she says "Honey, did you see my shoes?" You can say "What shoes?" Then when she said "the ones in the kitchen" you can say "Who would leave their shoes in the kitchen? There's a shoe rack for shoes. I bet nobody who puts their shoes in the shoe rack loses their shoes."

After a few times she might catch on. Do I sound like I speak from experience? Because I speak from experience.

That doesn't sound effective, because she'll say, "Why are you being a passive aggressive dickhead?".

And it's not passive aggressive to leave your shoes in the middle of the kitchen for your maid/spouse to pick up after you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OK with the $350,000 posters. But I'm sick of self-proclaimed 1 percenters who are pretending to be in a panic about where to stash their assets and when to realize their income. I don't believe half of them are actually 1 percenters anyway, they're just bitter, middle class Romney supporters.

"Realize their income"? Please, tell us more.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_realized_income_unrealized_income

If you were a 1 percenter, you'd know this.

I have never heard of someone "realizing their income" as you put it. One can have realized income or unrealized income. I think that is why the PP said " Please tell us more."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DW likes to take her shoes off when she gets home. The problem is that she leaves them in the middle of the kitchen floor, where I have to step over them all night long, until she puts them on the next morning. We have a shoe rack right by the door into the house, but she does not use it for some reason. Can I just tell her I'll start throwing her shoes in the garbage when she leaves them in the middle of the floor?

Would you all agree that's an appropriate approach?

You could put them somewhere, anywhere, but preferably somewhere she won't easily find them. Then when she says "Honey, did you see my shoes?" You can say "What shoes?" Then when she said "the ones in the kitchen" you can say "Who would leave their shoes in the kitchen? There's a shoe rack for shoes. I bet nobody who puts their shoes in the shoe rack loses their shoes."

After a few times she might catch on. Do I sound like I speak from experience? Because I speak from experience.

That doesn't sound effective, because she'll say, "Why are you being a passive aggressive dickhead?".

And it's not passive aggressive to leave your shoes in the middle of the kitchen for your maid/spouse to pick up after you?

After many years of observation, I think my DH is just being lazy, not passive- aggressive. He doesn't care if he has to step over his shoes. It bothers me so I move them. Other things bother him more so he acts on them first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
After many years of observation, I think my DH is just being lazy, not passive- aggressive. He doesn't care if he has to step over his shoes. It bothers me so I move them. Other things bother him more so he acts on them first.

Ok, but adults shouldn't do that. Adults should just put their shoes on the shoe rack. It's not hard. It's like 10 extra seconds out of his day.

This shoe rack thing drives me nuts, personally. For months, the second dh walked through the door, I had to yell "Don't forget to put your shoes in the closet please please please!" until he finally got the message. Baby steps. We are almost there.