Owning a home is a money pit.
If someone tells you otherwise, they’re lying to you.
I’ve lost track of how much I’ve invested in my yard, AC system, air filters, plumbing repairs, water filtration, bidet filters, mold repair, painting, fence replacement, etc.
Be warned!
🚨 AUTO SHOP QUOTES WOMAN $1,200 FOR BRAKE JOB — THEN DELETES VIDEO AFTER BACKLASH
An auto shop tells a woman a “normal” brake job costs $800–$1,200.
No hesitation.
Like it’s completely normal.
After heavy pushback online… the video gets deleted.
Then this man responds... calling it “capitalistic well poisoning.”
• Brake pads? ~$120 total
• Labor? ~2 hours max
• Fair rate? $85–$130/hr
That puts a realistic total closer to:
➡️ $300–$400
“A good mechanic can do it in about an hour… but they still charge double.”
Same job.
Two completely different prices.
One video disappears.
How often does this happen without anyone catching it?
@LLBiggers It’s all complete bullshit in 1985. They told me where my school was in South Louisiana that about 2015 years later, it would be 4 foot of water in the front yard. There is zero change more than 40 years later.
Al Gore just said “none of the predictions from the past 20 years have been wrong from climate scientists.”
This inspired me to go back and watch the classic An Inconvenient Truth.
Upon rewatch it was worse than I remember!
@80s_channel I’m gonna punch my first grade teacher Mrs. Corn in the fucking face for sending that letter home to my parents and getting me the worst ass whipping in my life and here it is 44 years later I still don’t know what it was for
@LibOrNormal@baker_girlie I’ll take shit that never happened for $1000. Alex isn’t this the same bodybuilding motherfucker, who sits in his car and talks about how much he loves to suck cock
This Liberal says, "Yea, I look like a bum because I've been in jail."
"I got arrested at the No Kings Protest because some Trumpers wanted to talk some Shit."
He claims he got arrested because the Trumpers said he pulled a gun on them and now hes facing a felony.
Thoughts?
@SimpPolice911 Another fucking post by the same fucking couple who made a video not fucking long ago where he put the fucking house up for sale, blah blah blah blah blah clout fucking videos fuck these people
I am officially leaving X.
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The toxicity here is unbearable and MAGA is in shambles with $4.10 gas prices. We’ve done our job.
Seven months ago, her world collapsed in a single afternoon.
While her husband was in the other room, she picked up his Apple Watch on impulse. In seconds, she read messages no wife should ever see — intimate, disgusting exchanges with another woman.
The betrayal hit like a freight train. Twenty-four hours later, he and his parents walked out, leaving her alone with their two young daughters.
She went from happily married to suddenly single, heartbroken, and the sole provider for her girls — all in one brutal day.
The months that followed were devastating: divorce papers, sleepless nights, and the pain of losing the man she thought was her best friend and life partner.
But something has shifted.
For the first time in seven long months, she feels real hope. She looks at her daughters and sees a new beginning instead of just survival. She’s discovering a strength she never knew she had and building a life on her own terms.
This is her comeback story.
She’s proud of how far she’s come and excited for what’s next. The best chapters are still being written!
Yay for Apple Watches ⌚️
Ok you stupid motherfuckers this is how you know this is bullshit…when the waitress drops off the receipt and you apply the tip your don’t you get up and leave you would never get that hand written receipt back to even get a reply from the waitress @Mappy6984 stop posting this dumb shit
Well, I think all you motherfuckers are stupid. I graduated 96 with no college education in about 2001 I was breaking $100,000 a year and by 2010 I was breaking 200 and now I don’t get out of bed for less than 450k and I’m just some dumb cajun from Bayou country with zero college education I don’t feel sorry for none of these people
@middle_class_us In 1997 we were paying $380 rent while making $4.60 an hour. Every penny went to basic necessities. No clothing, no eating out, no vacations, no cable tv.
Older generations say “we all struggled.”
Yes.
But not like this.
You didn’t graduate into debt + no job security.
You didn’t compete with global labor + AI.
You didn’t pay modern rent on entry-level pay.
This isn’t the same struggle.
It’s a different game entirely.
I hear you. We old-timers do say ‘we all struggled,’ and you’re right—it’s not the exact same fight. You didn’t dodge breadlines with 25% of the country out of work in 1933, or watch your pa lose the farm to the bank when crop prices hit rock bottom and dust choked the fields. I came of age right as the bottom fell out after the ’1929 crash. Factories shuttered, banks folded, wages for those lucky enough to keep a job got slashed by 40% or more. No safety net—no unemployment checks, no food stamps, no student loan forgiveness.
You talk about graduating into debt with no job security? Try leaving school (most of us only made it through eighth grade or so; high school was a luxury) straight into a world where one in four adults had no work at all. Young folks like me competed with grown men for any scrap—shoveling coal, riding the rails as hobos, or joining the CCC planting trees just to eat. No ‘entry-level’ gigs with benefits; it was day labor at 35 cents an hour if you were lucky, and rent still came due. A room might run $15 a month in the city, but with no steady pay, families doubled up, sold everything, or ended up in Hoovervilles—shantytowns of cardboard and tin. We didn’t have ‘global labor’ on computers, but we had millions of immigrants and displaced Dust Bowl families flooding the same scarce jobs, driving wages even lower. And ‘AI’? Hell, the machines that did come—tractors, assembly lines—put farmhands and factory workers on the street by the thousands.
Modern rent eating up entry-level pay? In our day, housing was cheaper in raw dollars, sure—a decent home might go for $3,900 but when your whole family’s annual income cratered to $1,000 (or less), and prices for bread, milk, and meat didn’t drop fast enough, you still went hungry. Deflation made debts heavier; if you owed on a mortgage or store credit, it crushed you. No gig economy or remote work to pivot to. Suicide rates spiked, marriages got delayed, kids dropped out to help scrape by. We buried dreams daily.
But here’s the straight truth from a fella who lived it: struggle ain’t a contest with a scoreboard. Ours was raw, immediate—starvation staring you in the face, no college debt because college was for the rich few, but no degrees meant no ‘credentials’ either. Yours has different teeth: student loans that follow you for decades, automation and offshoring that make some skills obsolete overnight, rents and homes inflated by zoning, speculation, and policy choices that make ownership feel like a distant myth for many starters. Global competition? We felt echoes of it in cheap imports and farm surpluses, but nothing like today’s interconnected world. Job security? We had none—companies folded without warning.
The game is different. Technology, education access, and safety nets changed the board—more folks finish high school or college now, medicine keeps you alive longer, information flows faster for opportunities (or distractions). But human nature don’t: grit, adaptability, community, and not expecting the world to owe you a smooth path still matter. We clawed through the Depression, then built the postwar boom through sheer stubborn work, unions fighting for better wages, and government stepping in with New Deal programs. Many of us never got ‘rich,’ but we raised families, bought homes when prices eventually stabilized, and watched our kids do better.
Your generation faces real headwinds—debt burdens, wage stagnation in some sectors relative to costs, AI reshaping entire industries. I won’t sugarcoat that or play ‘my hardship was worse’ like some old coot. But don’t romanticize ours as pure grit without context, and don’t assume today’s is uniquely unwinnable. Every era’s ‘struggle’ tests different muscles: ours was endurance against collapse and scarcity; yours might be navigation through abundance mixed with inequality and rapid change. The comeback ain’t denying your point—it’s saying we adapted, Now, what’s your move?”