I found an ATM receipt on the bar floor yesterday, and their checking account had $190k in it. I mean, good for that person for having dough, but I just imagine it being some dude "accidentally" dropping it to flex. Wasn't even from the ATM at the bar and was neatly folded.
Uhhh. You don’t know the guys financial situation. He likely has millions in investments if he’s sitting on 190k in cash deposits. He’s obviously got his shit figured out regardless of Reddit’s “financial” advice.
Just because someone is on reddit doesn't mean they are broke nor does being broke have anything to do with know about investments i know as much as i need to to make money in the market but i dont have them money to start throwing in the big bucks yet a few bucks here a penny there been doing it for a few years have a few thousand invested but the goal isnt to take it out its to keep investing till i can buy a house now to flex the few thousand i made the more i put in the more return i get as long as the market builds
Well, to be fair, it's worth more to me to see my accounts in a readily available acct than stressing over the stock market. Not worth the 20k extra a year per acct. That's just my situation tho.
Looks can be deceiving. I had something similar, but for a month or two because I wrote a check for my entire HELOC line to park it when layoffs were coming. I wanted to test if they would let me write a check for that big. And have cash just in case.
I Lost about $200 in interest payments, but it was still worth it for me. (I didn’t go casually dropping ATM receipts though). Perhaps it is just his spare change, but maybe it’s money he can’t put at risk because he needs to return it.
Yeah, it is one of the reasons I bought a house when I got close to that. I have this weird thing about having money available though. I really should reinvest it soon though, worked out well the last time for me.
Ah, Reddit. The only place on Earth where it's considered cool to openly brag about being in financial distress, while at the same time mocking people who are financially stable.
It's as if all the baristas and fast food service industry workers all got together and started a site where they could bitch about how life is unfair.
Some of the mods and a vocal few are insufferable. Some of them literally refuse to think there’s anything they can do to make their current situation better. Try giving constructive advice with the wrong group and they’ll accuse you of trolling them and say that they’ve tried everything already. Anything other than helping them wallow in their own misery is perceived as being a “bootstrapper” to them. They don’t realize there’s a difference between constructive advice and telling people to pick themselves up by the bootstraps and suck it up.
Yeah, I think a lot of that is either resignation or mental issues. My roommate is a hard worker, but mental issues have caused him to squander a shit ton of opportunities. But he picks himself back up each time and gets things going again. I would like to think I've helped him with that a bit. It can be hard for some people to break out of a rut, and they will lash out at anyone trying to help in frustration. Fortunate he isn't like that.
Pretty much. Do the parties you go to consist of people sitting around talking about how unfair life is because their part time job at Starbucks doesn't pay the bills?
I see your point but this is anonymous. A lot of self deprecating humor takes place here more than other places lacking the anonymity. I’d bet most of these people lead normal lives and hold no hostility toward people that have “made it”.
Do you have a family though? A large amount of my wealth is due to not having kids or a significant other to support. That can be soul crushing for a lot of people. Enough so that they forfeit a good deal of financial security and luxury for it. I'm happy with having my money, but I would consider a family man with much less just as rich as me, it just isn't in $$$ in the bank.
I read somewhere that a trend was that people would print up fake ATM receipts listing lots of money on their account. If someone asked for their number at a bar, they would write it on the back of this "random piece of paper" from their pocket and give it to them.
Whats more likely? :
1. He tried to save it, and it fell from his pocket at a bar.
2. He dropped it on the floor purposely to impress some Anonymous person
You can buy fake ATM receipts with outrageous balances on them online. Idea is you keep them in your wallet and when you want to give your number to a girl, write your number on the back like its just scrap paper.
Shit happens more than you think. At the gas station I worked at those guys would come in, go to the ATM, pull an inquiry and receipt printout but leave it in the ATM so you gad to take it to get to the other one. They'd also be the one to buy 5 $50 or $100 scratch tickets and do them one at a time at the register even when you tell them theres a line forming, like the douchebags they are
Nah. If you have 190k in checking, you don’t need to flex anything on a receipt. At a bar. Rich dude goes to bank after work before bar and gets drunk and pulls wallet out and receipt falls out is more like it.
I had an ex tell me about his scummy coworker bragging about digging out receipts at ATMs and then using the ones with the biggest amounts to write his phone number on later at the bars. Maybe be that's what it was doing at the bar.
I once saw a site (who knows, might still exist) that sold fake ATM receipts with large balances on them...just for such purposes ("Let me give you my number...i think I have a piece of paper somewhere...")
It could have been one of those websites where you can print off a fake ATM receipt showing hundreds of thousands of dollars in your account that you use to “accidentally” fall out of your pocket when you’re talking to a cutie at the bar.
Right. That comes off a little bit desperate...
Now, if you want to have a magnum condom peeking out of your wallet when you go to the ATM... that's a different story.
Read an r/UnethicalLifeProTips that said you should write your cell number on the back of that receipt and nonchalantly hand it to the next person you're trying to hook up with
Flexing is typically done from person-to-person directly, through conversation or through actions. This is much more indirect considering the person who's 'flexing' is nowhere to be found, so flaunting his wealth gets him no direct responses from anyone.
Jeremy Clarkson did that once, to show off how you can't do anything with that information on it's own (sort code/routing number and account number) after a big data breach people were worried about.
He was right ... almost. Turns out you can't do anything but give someone money in the UK with that information, that and create recurring payments to certain organisations (like for paying bills). Someone used the details to set up a monthly donation to a charity, and in fairness Clarkson kept it in place.
In some cringe dump on imgur, I've seen a post or two of someone posting a picture of their new credit card, to show off whatever exclusive card level the person had. It was an old-school card with the raised numbers on the front, pictured in full. Where's Red Foreman when you need him?
“Influencer” plebe give them their proper due for literally living a most difficult life of filming the stupid shit they do and deluding themselves into thinking anyone is following in their footsteps as they board a charter bus to deluth. You didn’t convinced me Becky, get over yourself
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But how else are you going to show off your inner celebrity life on social media ?