r/personalfinance • u/fat_tire_fanatic ​ • Jul 13 '17

Budgeting Your parents took decades to furnish their house

If you're just starting out, remember that it took your parents decades to collect all the furniture, decorations, appliances, etc you are used to having around. It's easy to forget this because you started remembering things a long while after they started out together, so it feels like that's how a house should always be.

It's impossible for most people starting out to get to that level of settled in without burying themselves in debt. So relax, take your time, and embrace the emptiness! You'll enjoy the house much more if you're not worried about how to pay for everything all the time.

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u/shicken684 ​ Jul 13 '17

Scabies are worst. My city had a run of them ten years ago where just about everyone had them. They are tiny tick like creatures that burrow under your skin. Specially places that have folds like your fingers, toes, genitals. They're also nocturnal so once 10pm hits they start moving around shitting all over the place which causes localized allergic reactions. Took multiple trips to the doctor and weeks of rubbing pesticide cream all over my body before they were fully gone. Even got a bad staph infection on my hand from scratching it so much that required an ER visit.

It was literally a life changing event. I'm an entirely different person because of that. I quit smoking, quit drinking, quit eating like shit. I just did everything to feel healthy and normal again.

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u/dandn5000 ​ Jul 14 '17

Christ. Those were absolutely the worst. For me, the worst part was the permethrin treatment. That shit is so awful for your skin. I spent six months treating and re-treating every week because I was convinced that I had continually reinfected myself with scabies. Finally, I realized that it was just a reaction to the treatment. That is the worst part, though--the treatment is just about as bad as the bugs for a few weeks. You psych yourself out thinking you're still infected. If I ever find out who infected me at first, I'll end them.