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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They bought the $4.7M farm within the last month (they’d previously been renting it). Why are they asking us regular folk for money again?[/quote]

Is that really true? That's actually kind of infuriating to be asking for donations if that's true.  Ugh. [/quote]
DP  That's what is being reported on TMZ
https://www.tmz.com/2026/02/13/james-van-der-beek-purchased-texas-ranch-before-dying/[/quote]

The ranch is a massive 36 acres with a 5,149-square-foot main house that features 5 bedrooms and three bathrooms. There's also cabins and a pool on the ranch, plus sweeping views of the Pedernales River.

Ffs. People dumb enough to donate, whatever.

Until he got sick, why wasn't he churning out Hallmark Channel movies? He would have made bank and his widow wouldn't have needed to grift. As it was, he barely worked for 20 years and she didn't work at all. And now people are paying her millions to live a lavish lifestyle? Okay.[/quote]

Exactly.  There’s no reason why he and his wife couldn’t get normal jobs and live in a normal sized house like the majority of the US.  He had a better start than most people.[/quote]

Get a normal job……like you? Is that what’s bothering you so much?[/quote]

NP: do you think it is wise planning to have no income and no plan for income with 6 kids and an unemployed spouse?[/quote]

[b]Well, he wasn’t educated and probably didn’t have a normal upbringing[/b].

But yes, most adults should realize that it’s wise to live below your means while socking away money in case life throws you a curveball.

If someone offered me $4M for a house, I’d probably tap $1M and invest the rest.

And as someone with a stressful white collar job with relentless hours, I’m fairly annoyed when a family launches a Go Fund Me or begs more stable relatives for money when the sole provider dies AND the SAHM wants to continue being a SAHM. It’s one thing to ask for help to cover a transition back to the workforce; it’s quite another story when the person never envisions working (ever).

I know women who simply got divorced and had the same expectation of never working. I’m still baffled by women in their 50s and 60s who tell people they are SAHMs…when their kids launched many, many years ago.

It’s obviously sad, but he knew he was sick for a while. If Tori Spelling can downsize to a small place with her brood, then surely anyone can.

And where are the grandparents? [/quote]
Define normal upbringing. James' father was an executive in the telephone industry, and mom was a dancer and gymnastic teacher. He graduated from Cheshire Academy a college prep private school in Connecticut. The current tuition, room and board is over $69. His alma mater is Drew University, a small Methodist affiliated university. I would not say he was uneducated. [/quote]
My spouse and my kid both graduated from Drew so I know that Van Der Beek did not - he left when he got the Dawson’s Creek job and never went back. They were all unknown teens so they got sh!tty contracts, the show didn’t last more than five seasons so they didn’t have the opportunity to sign new more lucrative contracts, and apparently they have never received residuals from that show. In a just world Sony Pictures Studios would have covered the costs of his treatment as a thank you for making them the tens of millions the show has made and no one would be in this predicament. I never watched the show but have always thought JVDB seemed like a decent guy (some Drew bias here admittedly) but it seems they made some really poor choices along the way and the GFM is really tacky (as are almost all GFMs IMO.) [/quote]

He had plenty of negotiating power for his leading role in Friday night lights I’m sure. He was a heart throb in the late 90s/ early 2000s. And as many people pointed out he came from a UMC household in Connecticut and went to a private prep school for high school. He was not without education , family, or opportunity. I have much more sympathy for the young athletes who make a few million right out of college and become broke within 5 years due to greedy family members and zero financial literacy or education (thanks, NCAA football culture). Or for young actors like Selena Gomez or Britney Spears who came from nothing and were exploited as minors. [/quote]

Pretty sure he was not in Friday Night Lights. [/quote]

You’re totally right I meant varsity blues! Sorry [/quote]

Apparently he didn’t make much money off of that contract either.  [/quote]

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