#money tag

[whentherewerebicycles]

ok tutoring was good and i got a bunch of work done in the late morning/early afternoon to make up for the unplanned nap. might do a little bit more tonight but i think it's also ok to have a relaxed week while most of the team is out of town, esp since we are about to dive into a very NOT relaxed two months. i release myself from guilt.

i did go to the dentist and receive the depressing news that I need about $250 in fillings done, plus they want me to get retainers/night guards for another $400. i said no to the retainer (can't afford it and my teeth aren't bothering me) but should probably say yes at some point down the line because they're like the third dentist to tell me i need it and i feel like they can't all be swindling me lol. i also had to pay off the $380 bill this week from the fetal echocardiogram which honestly just makes my blood boil because no one told me that it was going to be that expensive - it was just presented to me as the thing i had to do next because they couldn't get a couple views of the heart in the cheaper ultrasound, and no one was like oh btw this procedure costs $15k and even with good insurance you are going to have to pay a big chunk of money for it. i also have been calling every home daycare in the area and cannot find anyone providing infant care for under $1950/month which is just like. jesus! how do people DO this! i can aggressively pare back my day to day living expenses but the stuff i can't pare back is like, housing, childcare, and medical expenses, and i can already tell i'm just going to be drowning for the next five years. am very lucky to have a family who can act as a safety net so i know that i will never be in danger of losing my housing or not being able to buy food or whatever, but i am certainly probably going to dig myself into a very bad credit card debt hole and that sucks. but also just for my own sanity i think i have to choose not to stress about money - i will have many years to dig myself out of the debt hole and i will pick up as much tutoring & other work as i can and we will be fine. i did spiral pretty intensely at the dentist's today thinking oh my god what if this kid needs BRACES but you know what. we will deal with that when his adult teeth come in lol. it's years down the road. life is long and it will all be okay and it just sucks that it's so expensive to be a person, even a person with a stable job & good health insurance.

#money tag #bleh #it will be fine #i also looked at apartments to see if i can find anything smaller but #my place is a very good deal #and unless i downsize to a one bedroom moving will cost a lot without saving me much

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

#spilled ink #warm up #“why did u tag it warm up” bc i wrote it off the cuff while drinkin coffee lol #btw the 30 dollar buy in for the dog walking is bc they pay the organizer a small pittance so she can #run fb ads and stuff and like she does put in a lot of work i don't mind paying her #but that's exactly what im fucking talking about like. #ppl can't afford to volunteer their time anymore and we all understand it!!! everything costs money for everyone! #like we didn't have to use to say ''do you mind paying me back for the stuff we ate'' #we used to be able to afford to feed our friends once in a while!!!

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

#yes i want things to be free like ??? that is not a weird desire #'but but it costs money to keep up' ok and? how is that my problem #the government has plenty of murder dollars they could reallocate a few to make internet services universal if they wanted #also these companies were perfectly capable of supporting themselves before the internet got drowned with ads so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #edit: muting notifs on this post bc new additions have kind of petered out #so no one feel bad about adding something someone else has said‚ it is not bothering me im just trying to keep my #notifs page cleanish lol #also since i saw some people are being redirected to read my tags: firstly hiiiiii this is a special secret message for you:3 #secondly i have learned since making this that the reason they were able to support themselves previously was because #of investors bankrolling everything #and theyre now finally realizing that theyre never going to actually make a profit and arent as willing to invest #however thats just a minor correction and doesnt change my overall point #once again. so many murder dollars #so thats why im just adding it here in the tags rather than making an actual correction #anyways . love yall 💕 #origibberish #bigger gibbers

[arttuff]

i redrew an old anim i did of some guys taking a post-patrol nap

dickie is gonna get in trouble for wearing boots on the antique chaise lounge. no one tell alfred

#dc comics #batfamily #dick grayson #damian wayne #nightwing #robin #batfam #batman #dc #don't tag as ship plz #i ran out of money for toonboom so i animated this in photoshop <3 worst mistake of my life #going to be looking into alternate FREE programs and see what happens #redraw #animation

[road2love]

something I haven't seen people mention about The Hunger Games trilogy and movies is how it genuinely revolutionized the Minecraft server scene

#Minecraft #<- ancient tag i plan to dust off #at some point almost all servers had their own thg minigame. so crazy #EYE spent money. on some servers. to get hunger games boosts. so i could be better than other people

[sweeter-innocence-fics]

hey guys, I'm trying to scrape together some extra cash this month so if you wanted to give me a tip on ko-fi I would love you forever.

I may or may not be setting up commissions as well, we'll see.

Other than that, here's my update order for the next few fics I'm writing (excluding My Sweetest Downfall, which posts every Monday):

Steve Harrington x reader Summer Camp AU

Learn to Love Again (ongoing Pietro Maximoff x reader series)

Tangerine (Bullet Train) x reader soulmate AU

Butch Deloria x lone wanderer first kiss prompts

#money tag

[mipexch]

having a lot of fun with the new lethal company enemy. i want a bracken to mistake a masked for a normal employee & get scared

#lethal company #never tagged for this before #bracken #masked #? #any ways lc is very fun. give zeekerss your money

[jerich0two]

Heard he was part of the mob in his prime...

Bonus monochrome newspapery version!

Maybe -- just maybe! -- this is my version of Overlord Angel.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin art #angel dust #angel hazbin hotel #he wasn't 1940s enough for me #but at least the pinstripes are relevant now! #someone tell this guy theres no point pulling off a heist if your money bag has a hole in it #jeri's art tag for convenience purposes #had a lot of fun with this one! ty to my friend for introducing me to all these cool new brushes #yeah thats a stock newspaper background. it was so hard to find one that wasnt AI

[aropride]

#text #gun tw #noticed a new symptom 👍 #unfortunately i havent been to a doctor in years and im kind of terrified ❤️ #also money + insurance + getting a ride are all problems :/ #health tag #peer reviewed banger

[beebfreeb]

computer love it when you GAY SEX them. do this forever please.

Oooh you wanna look at my pinned post so baddd. Please.

#funny talking tag #I need money to buy food and other things also.

[whentherewerebicycles]

also tutoring clients are starting to pick up!! I still cannot tell how many hours I’m going to be able to secure before baby arrives so I may not be able to squirrel away as much as I want to. I had high hopes of working a TON and saving up enough to pay for the first six months of infant care when I go back to work. but if I can consistently manage even 10 hours a month I can keep myself solvent when daycare expenses kick in and if I can get up to 15-20/month I can give myself a little bit of a cushion in case of major unplanned bills.

#money tag

[l3viat8an]

*MC and Solomon are being interviewed about their relationship*

Solomon: I’m definitely the one that’s in charge in the relationship.

MC:*rolling their eyes* Solo, stand up.

Solomon:*stands up*

MC: Sit down.

Solomon:*sits down*

MC: Look at me.

Solomon:*grinning like a fool, and turning to look at MC*

MC: Good boy~

Solomon:*blushing and clearing his throat* As I was saying, watch this! My star, could you please go fetch my spell book?

MC: Of course.

Solomon: See, MC would do anything for me!

Mephisto:*regretting the whole interview*…..this was pointless.

#and now for another dumb post jsjsjsj #surprise it’s queue! #ro’s dumb stuff tag! #obey me solomon #obey me mc #obey me mephistopheles #money me rad newspaper #om! #obey me incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #obey me crack #obey me shitpost #obey me shenanigans #om! solomon #om! mc #om! mephistopheles

[kagoutiss]

pelican town, ‘72

#stardew valley #stardew valley spoilers #sdv #sdv spoilers #grandpa #mister qi #mr. qi #idk how dates work in stardew universe im just bullshittin #i love qi’s huge fucking eyebrows you dont notice them at first but theyre there #(gives our collective grandpa a ponytail) i think he had one. whatever #’why isnt mister qi blue’ my hc is he is blue from long-term iridium supplementation #and was originally just a regular person #but also it’s nice to see ur fav be like a normal human color #if u read tag essays tho consider this: #qi discovers secret to immortality (consuming iridium in a specific manner) #wants to share discovery with his farmer (player’s grandpa) and in that way. they will have all the time in the world to build #a perfect farming/business empire whose legacy will last forever and ever and theyll be 2gether forever #but it turns out. like a lot of normal people would. his farmer does not want to live forever #and obv he doesn’t #in an attempt to try not to ever lose the thing that means more to him than anything else in the world. qi inadvertantly ensures he will #because his farmer is dead. and he’s going to live forever #but. it’s kind of ok. because he has infinite money and was able to figure out how to talk to his dead bf #and now YOU help them fulfill their joint goal of making the farm’s legacy last forever #smile. heart #sobbing

[jazzyjesse]

working at a grocery store has only made me even angrier about inflation and how food, water, and shelter isnt free

like just looking at groceries (not water or shelter) i see just a few bags (maybe around 5 or so) of food costing over $125 USD regularly. I've seen orders upwards of $600. and sure those have been bigger orders but no food should cost that much.

my coworkers and i shouldn't be complaining about the price of food when we get employee discounts.

a single bag of food for myself (usually containing some small pizzas, crackers, milk, and cereal) regularly costs between $50-60. minimum wage in my state is 15/HR. thats about four hours of work for one bag of food

a coworker who works on the front end of our store prides herself on being able to catch theives. everyone says how good she is at it. and sometimes it makes sense, sometimes people are just stealing to steal. but how do you ever know?

when the card reader we take outside is broken we are supposed to have the customers come inside to pay for their groceries if they're paying with EBT. there's a woman who's a regular who has a few small children and when she comes to pick up groceries they're usually asleep in the car.

am i supposed to make her choose between leaving her children alone in the car or waking them up and taking them inside?

four hours of work for one bag of groceries. is this not also theft?

four hours of work. let that sink in. four hours for one small bag of groceries.

we aren't supposed to accept tips but if we don't accept tips then how else are we supposed to afford our groceries?

i haven't seen a single person stealing food. you cannot steal whats already stolen.

although im no longer a christian, the teachings of my childhood have stuck with me, and in the bible it says "When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you."

society has reaped right up the the very edge and beyond of its fields, so it's up to us to reap what we can

four hours of work for one bag of food

#kitty talks #idk what to tag this as #im just so fucking mad #no one can afford to eat anymore #all of our money is going towards constant genocides #food should be free #water should be free #shelter should be free #i dont even know if this post is coherent im just *angry* #no one should have to beg for basic necessities #there's a poem in this somewhere #theres a poem in the woman with the few months old baby who had to come in to take stuff off her order #because WIC didnt cover it all

[asuuree]

needed to get my take on a human loop design out here...

a design sketch under cut!

#in stars and time #in stars and time spoilers #isat spoilers #act 6 spoilers #isat loop #isat siffrin #might change some things later idk #i just designed them based on how i would design one of my own ocs :))) #hello to the one person reading these tags: sorry for my handwriting... #i wanna make a comic about them wearing the hat too #my next isat drawing will probably feature the gang or your money back (you didnt pay anything...) #my art

[1alchemistart]

returns after 2 months with art from a completely different fandom

Greetings. hows it goin KLSDFKLSD

ive been going through it (a bit o' burnout with a dash of my health going ough augh oogh) but hewwo ill make a bit of an effort to post more again owo

#totk #totk spoilers #loz totk #tears of the kingdom #link totk #zelda totk #zelink #ganon #ganondorf #ganon totk #link zelda #botw #legend of zelda #my art #ok i have reached the rambling side of the tags OK SO #TUMBLR THE TAGGING WORKS DIFFERENTLY AGAIN NOW? SDFKLSDKL #how many updates are they gonna make to the post editor goddamn #also before you ask no i dont have botw totk nor a switch #for i dont have the money for all that #so i am admiring the game from afar and living vicariously through playthroughs #also wow for every tag i add the DRAFT SAVED thingy pops up JKDKL thank u tumblr