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aether @aetherchaos.bsky.social · 6h

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aether @aetherchaos.bsky.social · 3d

idk where I was going with this, I've gotten way too yappy as I've gotten older. I'm very lucky to have enough money to spend on things I like now. Definitely not everyone else is; even more so these days.

This whole chat also reminds me that I hope there are "Going Home" centers in the future.

aether @aetherchaos.bsky.social · 3d

There's not really much happiness in this world to start off with.
It doesn't look like there's much of a future.
Like most people, I work a job I don't enjoy.
And who would want to have a family in this economy?
So might as well live until I die.

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aether @aetherchaos.bsky.social · 3d

That was a bit of a wake up call.

I still had savings, retirement, etc, but I started spending money more often.

I didn't want to end up like that.

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aether @aetherchaos.bsky.social · 3d

My step-grandfather during this time passed away. He was really stingy with money. We'd sweat in the summer. Cheap as cheap could be. He retired and had a stroke soon after.

All the money he saved for so many years, went into his rehab, and then his nursing home. And then he passed away.

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aether @aetherchaos.bsky.social · 3d

The minimalist living in my 20s. All I needed was my computer.
Once, I ate almost nothing but ramen for a month to get something I wanted.
Buying things on clearance if I needed something (unless I couldn't.)

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aether @aetherchaos.bsky.social · 3d

I woke up.
I do waste money.
The things that I could never dream of having as a kid, I can now.
I don't have to wear dollar store or ill fitting clothes.
I can eat more than one meal a day.
I don't have to worry about cold water in winter cause the gas was shut off cause I can't pay.

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aether @aetherchaos.bsky.social · 3d

Did they put them in my purse somehow as they walked past?
Was it the guy I helped with something earlier?
Were they in my house?
There was another piece of paper with the tickets,
"It must be nice to have so much money to waste."

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aether @aetherchaos.bsky.social · 3d

I started panicking and digging my stuff out of my purse to find my credit cards to put a hold on them.
In my purse were the betting tickets with someone else's name on it.
This person somehow had physical access to my stuff at some point.

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aether @aetherchaos.bsky.social · 3d

I had a bad dream.
Someone bought thousands of dollars of some kinda betting ticket with my card.
I was at some kinda place with food, games, claw machines.
As I was playing a machine, an employee came up and asked about the betting tickets.
No, I don't buy those.

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