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- Paid $800 Interest On $2,000 Purchase And Ruined Friend’s Credit Score
- Loaned $5,000 To Friends To Make Music Demo; They Spent It On Guitars.
- Didn’t Buy House for $18,000. Now It’s Worth $160,000.
- Lost $1200 In A Card Game
- After Paying $39,000 To Debt Consolidation Company, She’s Left With $45,000 Debt.
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Tag Archives: how the other half lives
Food from Dumpsters Healthier, Tastier than McDonalds.
Ever since reading Travels with Lisbeth, the memoir by Lars Eighner, an obese college professor who spent three homeless years eating from Dumpsters, Recharger has understood that the poor are fatter. They also have more diabetes, according to a new … Continue reading
Capitalist Miracle! Poor People Can Buy $27,000 Handbags!
For a mere $27,700, the 20% of New Yorkers who, says the Current Population Survey (CPS) live below the poverty line, can buy a black crocodile Fendi “B bag”—the world’s most expensive handbag. Sure, the official poverty rate for a … Continue reading