People that make you shake your head

[Roger S.]

How many people do you know that just make you shake your head at their financial predicament?   I mean, hey, I came late in life to financial sanity and the decision to invest and retire early, and made lots of stupid decisions early, but I'm in my mid 50's now and have people my age that are just pitiful.

A friend of ours posted on Facebook that her husbands wallet was stolen and they don't know how they are going to survive till payday because it had almost a hundred dollars in it and now they can't buy gas to get to work.

100 bucks is a disaster?   I've got more than that in my change jar, not to mention the thousand bucks or so in rolled up change in the gun safe from getting bored a few times a year and counting that jar.

I feel sorry for people like this.   A few of my renters are in such positions that a flat tire is a crisis.  So sad.