Honest question about middle/upper middle monthly budgets: how are we accounting for drugs and alcohol?

Nobody’s sankey drawings accounts for intoxication. The reason I ask is because where I’m from on Long Island, the lines for dispensaries are out the door and around the block as long as they’re open. The soccer moms are regularly drinking a bottle a day, and none of it seems to be accounted for in budgets. A lot of people I know personally are spending between 1-2k a month, and I’m wondering if it’s just a bubble that I’m experiencing.

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u/Adventurous-Depth984 — 7 days ago

If Elon Musk’s net worth has fallen from its 1.4T peak after the IPO to the 900B range, does that make him both the richest man in history as well as history’s worst financial loser?

How did he choke 500 billion in two weeks?

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u/Adventurous-Depth984 — 8 days ago

Is there an available “fun” minivan?

Are there new, fast/aggressive, AWD minivans on the market? Something more akin to a big rally car for the squad instead of a sedate safety cage for the kids? Is there anything readily tunable?

A loooong time ago, a friend had an R500 4matic with only captains chairs in it. Is there anything in that vein nowadays?

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u/Adventurous-Depth984 — 15 days ago

Tips/advice/commiserate about being outed by mono friends for your “non-traditional relationship”

Was chatting with a close friend yesterday, when she said, “oh BTW earlier I was talking with (new friend to the group, who is apparently dissatisfied with her husband but that’s not relevant) and I was telling her about your non-traditional relationship. Maybe you have some advice for her?”

Now, I love close friend *DEARLY*, and I’m not willing to friend dump this person over this.

However, 1) this is not the first time. There was another time where I was present in the conversation when it was mentioned that I had multiple partners. And 2) at other points in my life, being in a poly relationship has unnecessarily flavored my interactions with other peers. I don’t hide anything, but what I choose to share from my personal life is at my discretion not hers, ya know?

Anyone else? Thoughts?

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u/Adventurous-Depth984 — 1 month ago

My neighbor directly across the street has a camera (it’s not a ring, or a nest, it’s a big, industrial looking setup). That monitors EVERYTHING.

The motion sensing area includes across the street, across my yard, and to my front stoop (maybe even further? SHEESH as I type this I’m just now realizing that my living room window is within that range). When I open my front door and step out, I can faintly hear the beep that his camera has kicked on.

He doesn’t speak a lick of English and is frankly a very strange acting person. I don’t want to confront him (wouldn’t know how to talk to him if I did).

But what the hell? Do I have any recourse? What would you do?

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u/Adventurous-Depth984 — 2 months ago