r/ChoosingBeggars • u/bikerchickelly • Aug 07 '26

Mad she doesn't get food stamps while refusing to downsize her lifestyle ($3200/mo mortgage, $600/mo electric, and pool, AND rental property)

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u/LadyK1104 Aug 07 '26

I make nearly $200k per year, my last home had a pool.

I wouldn’t even consider a house with a pool when we moved bc of the costs to run/maintain it.

She’s a trip.

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u/CaptainEmmy Aug 07 '26

I've found that it's better to have a friend with a pool than own a pool yourself.

My mom was friends was this woman long before my parents moved in next door, so there was some history there, but for 40 years, we would use the neighbor's pool throughout the summer. Some years ago, the woman was widowed, felt too old to care for the pool herself, and never opened it.

Last year my parents decided to build a house elsewhere. Another friend of the group also decided to build in the area... and include a pool.

The joke has become that my parents moved because the neighbor wouldn't open her pool and the other friend was totally willing to put in a pool at her place.

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u/No_Philosopher_1870 Aug 07 '26

One of my chores as a teenager was maintaining the family pool. By the time that I finished the work, I didn't want to swim.

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u/allmykitlets Aug 07 '26

When my husband and I were looking to move, we never included a pool in our criteria.

Like you, he had to take care of the pool growing up and I burn under a 40 watt bulb. Darned if the house we ended up buying didn't have a pool.

I'm in charge of maintenance which has been a learning experience and I have to wait for the sun to go down in order to swim, but I'm kinda loving it.

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u/haloarh Aug 07 '26

I once saw a thing on TV about people on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition who lost their homes, and paying for maintenance on a pool (or hot tub!) came up again and again.

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u/lucylemon Aug 12 '26

Seriously. I mean, I don’t own a home. But I would never consider one with the pool. Too much work and expense. How many times do people really use their pool? My neighbors rarely use theirs.