Two tires on my car blew out. Luckily, my wife has a car and since new tires, on the cheap end, would cost me nearly 300 dollars, I just used my wife’s car for work. No big deal. My dad asks me “why don’t you just get 4 new tires?” I said “I can only afford one tire at a time right now…” he said “see that’s the problem, they all wear at different speeds. And they’re cheap tires so they wear out faster. Just get the good tires.”
Yeah, no shit.
Then I got a lecture about having an “oh shit” fund for stuff just like this. I was honest and said “I’m having trouble buying groceries for my family right now, I can’t really afford to put money aside. There is no money to put aside.”
If I had money to put aside I would. It’s so god damn frustrating to be told to just save money if you don’t have any. I work two jobs. One 40 hours a week and one 32 hours a week. Thanks for the sage advice.