You Know you're REALLY a grownup...

[binaryalchemist]

When you think "Tax Refund" and feel guilty about keeping about five bucks so you can maybe get a cheeseburger--and the rest is pre-earmarked for BILLS.

I spent a very unpleasant afternoon writing checks. After rent--I rent from my friend so I pay half of my rent twice a month--I spent virtually my ENTIRE PAYCHECK on medical bills, perscriptions and paying towards balances on cards long since cut up. I did completely pay off one anesthesiologist and the pathologist who unbeknownst to me checked me for intestinal cancer when they apparently biopsied me during surgery last October.

Yeppers---no laptop, even if I start a kitty. I need a kitty to pay some travel expenses for Confluence and AWA. Damn it--I can't work any harder or live much closer to the bone. I had unplanned vet bills for Meep and unplanned medical bills for me...and not a lot of sales commissions.

What makes me really goddamned furious is that I work with and know people who are single and claiming brothers or sisters or friend's kids as dependents and getting huge refunds--and getting away with it. I sometimes get 400.00 or so--they are getting a couple of GRAND. And they don't get caught, either....no justice, eh?

Comments

[mayracs.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean, I only get back arround 500 - 700 bucks and that goes to bills too :/

[amethyst_koneko]

Feh. Story of my life. :P Seems like every time I get a dime there's a bill collector standing there with their hand out to take it. >.< I'd love to know how these people get these huge refunds. I just know if I tried half of what they do, I'd get arrested so fast it'd make your head spin! :P

[driftwoodwings.livejournal.com]

What makes me really goddamned furious is that I work with and know people who are single and claiming brothers or sisters or friend's kids as dependents and getting huge refunds--and getting away with it. I sometimes get 400.00 or so--they are getting a couple of GRAND. And they don't get caught, either....no justice, eh?
This pisses me off to no end. I got just under 100 total (this is state and fed together). I feel your rage.

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Overhaul of the medical insurance system would be real nice right about now, wouldn't it? (Especially when they make you pay for procedures you didn't know about - that's just not right.)

[eve_n_furter]

Yeah, freeloaders are a nuisance, especially when they seem to get away with it. I get irritated too, but one of the real perks for me with being an adult is to be responsible and pay for myself as far as I can. I kind of dismiss the freeloaders as not really grown up, and I think some of them must have very low self esteem because of it. (Don't want to be like the totally insensitive ones either.) Maybe I'm rationalizing, but when I think of it this way, my annoyance with people like that turn into self respect. Your roomie's son seems like a prime example. We are not like that and we're proud of it!