titleknown:

1eleven:

gothvelma:

silencingthedrums:

eldritchsandwich:

but they complain when people from mexico try the whole moving somewhere else plan

Do you know how much goddamn money you have to save up to move you stupid fuckwagons

found it!

for those who don’t want to give it the clicks, there are 10 points. 

1. move to an affordable city. because moving is free, and if you’re working a minimum wage job, you can totally just find another full-time job out of nowhere in the place you move to.
   
2. find a place to live that costs 600 dollars a month, utilities included. because, like, fuck you if you’ve got kids, you have any sort of accessibility needs, or you can’t have roommates for whatever reason.
3. eliminate your commute! did i mention that the 600 dollar a month apartment also has to be within biking distance of work? because you’re selling your car and biking everywhere, since bikes are apparently free now, so you can budget for no money being spent on transport per year! because, like, fuck you if your cheap city is also one where it rains or snows, or if you ever need to move things around or anyone in the house who needs to get around, or if you can’t physically bike, or anything like that.
4. cancel your cable! instead, get internet and netflix! this should add up to just 400 bucks a year somehow.
5. don’t eat out, unless you have dinner with the boss. boy, this article sure has its finger on the pulse of how minimum-wage jobs work! buy food in bulk! on your bike! that’s how anything works! if you don’t eat meat and only eat vegetables while they’re in season, your food costs should go down to 75 dollars a month. because, you know, fuck you if you have any sort of dietary needs that aren’t fulfilled by ramen.
6. you don’t need to eat every day, but don’t skip health insurance
7. shop at the thrift store! that’s right, it’s time for those poors to stop buying all those hermes bags and chanel dresses! thrift stores in small towns are usually very well-stocked, and you can reasonably expect to buy all the clothes you need for 100 dollars a year! because it’s not like people living on minimum wage tend to have jobs that will ruin their clothes or anything
8. for fun, do free shit! take your ramen out and eat it in the park! watch DIY videos on youtube! (but, like, don’t practice the skills or anything, since that costs money.) take a hike! call an old friend, using the phone that this guide hasn’t budgeted for! play old board games, because those are totally what you’re paying to move to your new cheap city! 
9. invest all that sweet, sweet money you have left over, which you will, because you chose to have money, since that’s how anything works ever
10. invest in yourself! go to community college, for free! or make money on the side, by driving for uber on your bike, or selling the furniture we haven’t budgeted for you buying!

man i sure am sad that i chose to be broke and not follow these totally possible steps

im convinced these articles arent for poor people and never intended to be. Im pretty sure these articles are written for middleclass and rich people so they can assuage any guilt they might have “cant feel guilty for poor people if its their fault ya know.”

Reblogging because, speaking as a middle-class person, boy have I met the people @1eleven is talking about, and boy are the talking points in those articles so obnoxiously cited as “proof” by those people…