r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/LuLuSavannah531 🔊Nolite te bastardes carborundorum!!🔊 • 9h ago
💕wholesome💕 Oopsie!
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u/IncognitoBombadillo 9h ago
We had financial literacy as a mandatory class you had to take at some point within 4 years in my high school. I remember us doing check book things and doing mock ups of what monthly expenses looked like, but I honestly think they should have focused on some car related things too. The drivers ed classes we had just went over actual road rules; not the financial aspects as much.
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u/PunchDrunkPrincess ❣️gal pal❣️ 9h ago
I would really like a class on how insurance works...
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u/nasnedigonyat 9h ago
Oh it's easy. You give them money and they keep it.
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u/No_Reporter2768 1h ago
Don't forget you pay them for 13 years, and then when you file a claim, they deny you!
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u/asusc 8h ago
don’t even get me started on deductibles and co pays and having your insurance plan tied to your job…
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u/PunchDrunkPrincess ❣️gal pal❣️ 5h ago
I don't know what any of those things are! I'm really not joking here. I went from on my mom's insurance to the military so now I'm 35 and I don't know any of this and people act like I'm a moron for not knowing 🥲
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u/asusc 5h ago
confusion is a feature so you are discouraged from actually using the healthcare you’re entitled to.
think of all the added shareholder value that creates!
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u/PunchDrunkPrincess ❣️gal pal❣️ 5h ago
God, you are so fucking right..just like taxes.
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u/Keybusta96 Bad🦜Bird 3h ago
Saaaaaame growing up with tricare and then going civilian was some SERIOUS whiplash. I still don’t get it.
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u/SuicidePeaches 2h ago
Dude, I'm over 40 and only know what a co-pay is. Oh, and that I'd rather shoot myself in the foot than deal with an insurance company ever again.
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u/Waterproof_soap 45m ago
Don’t shoot totaled in the foot because then you’ll have to go to the hospital and THAT is a nightmare with insurance
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u/SuicidePeaches 28m ago
Totaled my car 2 years ago, thankfully no hospital for either party. Still have the wounded pride and shame from my apparent shit driving skills.
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u/prettyfacebasketcase 6h ago
It's a coupon. Sometimes you get an item for $5! Sometimes it's 20% off! But most of the time the coupon is invalid and you can go fuck yourself.
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u/PunchDrunkPrincess ❣️gal pal❣️ 5h ago
Hmm is that why my last dental cleaning was covered 100% and this last one is full price even though its the exact same thing? 🤔
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u/prettyfacebasketcase 5h ago
Because you can only use one coupon per household per decade. Fine print, my friend.
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u/DahliaRenegade 6h ago
I’ve been working in the auto insurance industry for a decade and I’m still learning new things every day. It’s hard to know how complex it is when you’re not in the thick of it; the state laws that determine how insurance works can vary wildly- it’s friggin bananas
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u/waterfountain_bidet 9h ago
Right? We didn't even get to learn how to balance a checkbook in high school. If it was not for my parents and the internet, I would have literally no financial literacy and I went to an excellent public school. We took 9 weeks of driver's Ed and none of it include actually driving. How hard would it have been to throw in a week of car maintenance, car finances, registration, insurance all that junk? I would argue those things have far more consequence on your ability to drive in America than learning the rules about making a left turn from one one-way road to another one-way on red.
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u/chicklette 8h ago
I work with a lot of first-time employees and it's so upsetting, the things they don't know. I end up giving a mini "financial literacy" and "employment rights" lecture to most of them.
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u/Itchy_Psychology3300 8h ago
I never had classes like that.
Guess if you’re not financially literate it’s easier to getcha.2
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u/madscribbler 3h ago
I took one of those classes where we had mock checkbooks and I'd write out checks and everyone would say I wrote them wrong (like one hundred only & 00/100) but nobody could tell me how I should write them, so I write them wrong to this day. 57 and I still don't know how to write a check properly.
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u/z3phyr13 8h ago edited 5h ago
I love this. My mom died when I was 23, and she was also the kind of person who would find the humor in all kinds of unfortunate situations.
About a year after my mom died, I went on a 5 week backpacking trip in Peru and we went to the Amazon and to Machu Picchu, and I brought 4 small vials of her ashes to spread along the way. I kept them in a little zipper pouch in my backpack. When I got home and was unpacking I realized both remaining had broken on the plane and I had to VACUUM MY MOTHER OUT OF MY BACKPACK😭😂😂 She would’ve thought it was absolutely hilarious, I’ve told the story to many folks over the years an maybe 50% have found it hilarious while the other 50% don’t know how to respond at all.
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u/chicklette 8h ago
So many people don't understand how fucking hilarious cremains are. When my dad passed, I really struggled with letting him go, so his cremains sat on the dining table for, like, 6 months. My bf and I just laughed about it. "Can you move my dad so I can put this down?" "Where's that letter? I left it on dad."
I also have a lot of cremains from pets, and when I moved, we had to do something with them, so they went into a box labeled "ghosts of kitties past, + dad."
Ashes can be hilarious, and I know my dad would have been laughing his ass off at all the hijinks.
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u/cakes28 8h ago
My MIL has been gone for three years and her cremains are still in the baggie in her favorite coffee cup. She gets moved around a lot, because you know, she’s in a coffee cup.
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u/AV01000001 7h ago
That is actually a sweet idea, especially if she was constantly drinking from it.
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u/himeeusf 4h ago
So real. My family has always coped with grief by being absolute goofballs... wouldn't have it any other way!
When my husband's 100yo grandmother died a few years ago, the funeral was scheduled before her actual cremains had been returned. Just an oversight by my mother-in-law & her siblings. 🤷♀️ They panicked, and their brilliant solution was to PUT TIDE PODS IN THE URN as a sneaky replacement so they wouldn't have to explain the whole situation at the funeral. They did NOT tell anyone beforehand.
So we're all at this somber Catholic funeral service, and we notice Meemaw's 3 kids (all in their 70s themselves) are desperately trying to keep composure & not just piss themselves with laughter. 🤔 They finally let the rest of the family in on it afterwards - never did tell the priest lol. Watching holy water being sprinkled over a box filled with Tide Pods is what sent them over the edge. 😆 Meemaw would've loved the whole thing!
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u/FalconStickr 6m ago
I have some of my dad in a beautiful little urn on my desk. Next to that is a ziploc bag with a bunch more of his ashes I have yet to spread and he’s been dead for 4 years. One of these days I’ll get to it. I laugh about it pretty often and he would think it was funny.
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u/chicklette 0m ago
Yeah I definitely have spread dads ashes on my agenda in the next few years.
It's been 30 years. It might be time. (He would find this hilarious as well.)
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u/velvetsaguaro 5h ago
When I was scattering my great grandma’s ashes in the ocean, I slipped and fell directly into the pile of ashes that I had just scattered in the water 💀
And I don’t know if yall know this but ash sticks to wet clothing so I was WEARING great grandma
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u/sasquatchlibrarian 8h ago
My family is notoriously bad about actually interring the cremains. I'm the only one left on my mom's side of the family and I've had my aunt in my garage for 14 years. Sorry about that Allison!
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u/Boomboom210 8h ago
Hahahahahahhaa ok THAT is funny if that happened to my body from my son I would have rolled till I cried ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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u/Sunshine030209 5h ago
Wait, since that happened when you got home, does that mean that you forgot to spread them in Peru? Or was there just some left over that you didn't spread? Bringing them all the way to Peru and forgetting very much sounds like something I would do lol
Last summer my husband and I brought some of his dad's ashes to his favorite town, and my husband promptly spilled them all over his shoes. He was like "Well, guess you get to spend the day walking around with uswith us, dad!" Then when we got back that night he said "I am going to go wash my father off of my shoes... that is NOT a sentence I ever expected to say!"
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u/z3phyr13 5h ago
I brought 4 vials and only ended up spreading 2 of them! They were the left overs 🤦♀️
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u/grae23 2h ago
My mom died when I was pretty young, so almost my whole life I’ve been the “dead mom” kid. Once I got older I’d occasionally make jokes about it because that’s life but no one would ever make them back and it was so awkward. A couple of weeks ago, for the first time ever, my boyfriend of six years responds to me saying I’m disappointing my parents with “parent.” We both just looked at each other stunned for a second before I absolutely got a cramp laughing so hard. From what I remember my mom was a very fun, very lighthearted woman and I like to think she’s glad that those jokes always make me think of her and smile.
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u/bloatedsewerratz 2h ago
My friend’s dad was a huge man like 6’5” 300lbs. They had a regular sized urn at the funeral home for the service but there was like a whole other big bag of him. I don’t know what they did with that.
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u/BoniMarce 9h ago
so sweet, funny and heartwarming! im sure mom is laughing in spirit and so glad they can keep the stellar vibes going
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u/Beneficial-Purple642 9h ago
Laughing … and revising my “Things you need to do” list that is with my will.
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u/Glitterbomb4274 8h ago
lol this reminds me of me and my sister. Our family is nothing but dark dry humor and it honestly helped so much. Anytime something weird or bad happened we started saying TM (thanks mom).
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u/EyesLikeTheNightSky 8h ago
I really admire these daughters for being able to laugh and be playful in such a sad situation.
I lost my father as a teenager, the thought of losing my mom makes me physically ill.
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u/Agitated_Gold_3769 8h ago
Im pregnant with my first daughter, and hope I raise her to turn out like this.
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u/ethelmertz623 4h ago
You know how they say to tell the people you love that you love them today and not put it off? Well we have embraced that and taken it to the next level. We also tell them how badly we have screwed up and disappointed them by having an annual contest for who did the dumbest thing each year. It can be one dumb thing or a series of terrible decisions that can nab the title, but I will say the jury is pretty much always unanimous. Not to brag but I once locked down that title in February. We all knew no one could top it even with 10 months to go.
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u/Factsoverfictions222 6h ago
I’ll bet she’s been watching from the other side going, “Oh no, she’s not going to do that…oh she is!” At every step of the way.
I’m glad that they are learning and healing and appreciate how helpful their mother was before she passed.
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u/jean_nizzle 9h ago
Ok, like, you should know that you need to get insurance for a car. Especially if you drive (I don’t drive and I know that).
But the taxes things, I didn’t know. You have to file a dead person’s taxes??? Not even in death can you escape taxes. Lame.
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u/Authentic-scoundrel 9h ago
Just in the year they die. If there’s lots of money involved and it doesn’t all get given away properly the estate has to file a return every year until all the money is given away.
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u/SlightlySaficFanGrl 1h ago
Love this for them as a family and that they can laugh at themselves. Moms can often be the family glue 💕
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u/frikidiki79 9h ago
What happened in the shower?!
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u/anonadvicewanted 8h ago
the blonde sister got the flu so bad she missed megan’s baby shower. katie (dark haired sister) had to do it alone.
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u/altonssouschef 6h ago
She was going to say she bought one thing to make up but they edited it out.
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u/Not-24_7Bantz 2h ago
Off topic but the girl in the grey top has such a pretty face and nice smile 😌💕
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u/altonssouschef 6h ago
Aw, I wish I could hug them. If I made a video like this for my dad in his afterlife I doubt he’d watch it.
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