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Sure, I mean if you're unemployed, what's the use for furniture or a bed? And it's inconceivable that you might remain unemployed for any extended duration or n

by pluma 7y ago

Sure, I mean if you're unemployed, what's the use for furniture or a bed? And it's inconceivable that you might remain unemployed for any extended duration or not have savings (or sufficiently affluent relatives) to fall back on. Pardon the sarcasm but I sincerely doubt you know what you're talking about if your biggest worry was moving/storing/selling your furniture.

drivingmenuts 7y ago
My biggest worry was trying to find a job followed by what do I do with all this stuff when I got evicted. By that point, I didn’t have savings left and no family to fall back on. I slept on an air mattress for the best part of a year in a borrowed room of a very kind (mostly) stranger. I got through it, but I do not want to ever be in a position again where I have to watch my stuff get given away because it’s old crappy stuff that can’t be sold for food money. By renting, I can have a few nice things and when I can’t, we’ll, too bad, but I need that money for something else, like food or medecine.
- pluma 7y ago
  Then your mistake is just thinking you'll end up in a financially better position by renting. Companies do things because they are profitable. Also, I don't see how "being unable to sell your stuff because it's crappy and old and having to give it away for free" is worse than "being unable to sell your stuff because it didn't belong to you in the first place and is taken away as soon as you lapse a payment". Except of course in the former case some other poor person might still get some use out of the old and crappy stuff and in the other case some company is taking the (relatively new) thing and likely just shredding it.
  - drivingmenuts 7y ago
    Honestly, at the time I was concerned with surviving the next weeks, rather than worrying if some poor person could have used it. From where I sat, merely being poor would have been an improvement. Renting means being potentially being able to ditch payments while you still have at least some money to survive on, if you can recognize that is a possibility. I’m skittish now. The moment the paycheck stops, for some reason beyond my control, I’m dropping everything unnecessary to survival and paring down to being able to live in a closet, if necessary.

by pluma 7y ago

drivingmenuts 7y ago

My biggest worry was trying to find a job followed by what do I do with all this stuff when I got evicted. By that point, I didn’t have savings left and no family to fall back on. I slept on an air mattress for the best part of a year in a borrowed room of a very kind (mostly) stranger. I got through it, but I do not want to ever be in a position again where I have to watch my stuff get given away because it’s old crappy stuff that can’t be sold for food money. By renting, I can have a few nice things and when I can’t, we’ll, too bad, but I need that money for something else, like food or medecine.

pluma 7y ago
Then your mistake is just thinking you'll end up in a financially better position by renting. Companies do things because they are profitable. Also, I don't see how "being unable to sell your stuff because it's crappy and old and having to give it away for free" is worse than "being unable to sell your stuff because it didn't belong to you in the first place and is taken away as soon as you lapse a payment". Except of course in the former case some other poor person might still get some use out of the old and crappy stuff and in the other case some company is taking the (relatively new) thing and likely just shredding it.
- drivingmenuts 7y ago
  Honestly, at the time I was concerned with surviving the next weeks, rather than worrying if some poor person could have used it. From where I sat, merely being poor would have been an improvement. Renting means being potentially being able to ditch payments while you still have at least some money to survive on, if you can recognize that is a possibility. I’m skittish now. The moment the paycheck stops, for some reason beyond my control, I’m dropping everything unnecessary to survival and paring down to being able to live in a closet, if necessary.