*Kakuzu going over the Akatsuki financial accounts*

Hidan: Damn, ‘Kuzu … are you still doing this shit? We were supposed to go out to eat an hour ago!

Kakuzu: Not now, brat. I need to finish balancing the checkbook first.

Hidan: Why don’t you ask me to help? I’m really fast at math!

Kakuzu: You are? Alright, what’s two hundred thousand times seventy-four?

Hidan: Forty-eight.

Kakuzu: What? That’s not even close to being right!

Hidan: But it was fast, wasn’t it?!

Kakuzu: 

Elon Musk is one of the richest people on the planet, and also one of the most bitter. you can tell by the way he runs twitter and just the way he lives his life in general.

he's got all the money in the world and could use it for anything one could possibly imagine: donate to charities, fund cancer research, feed the hungry.

instead he chooses to funnel it into space tourism, self-crashing cars, and crying because his wife left him for a trans woman and because someone called him cis.

it's like if you gave a bratty 5-year-old kid billions of dollars.

Charles Dickens was right - rich people are miserable fucks.

No money.

Me and recruiters.

The Notorious B.I.G. – Mo Money Mo Problems (1997)

MA$E 2023

BY TECHNODROME1 

Dear Mafalda. When time permits, do you know the date when Elizabeth and Armie separated? I vaguely remember sometime in July 2020? Thank you.

Hello, Anon:

Armie Hammer and Elizabeth Chambers announced their split in a joint statement on their individual Instagram accounts on Friday, July 10, 2020. The post has since been deleted.

Thanks for your question. 😊📆🤔

I may have just booked another trip to Iceland

If the crown fkkin fits

$/$/$

June 29, 1922 Krazy Kat by George Herriman: "Old King Coal"

[ID: Andy stands impatiently behind his wife Min as she unloads their groceries from a wicker basket on the kitchen counter. /end] Andy: Shopping, eh? I don't see how you can remember all that stuff. What do you do? Just walk into the grocery store and say, "Give me one of everything you have?" Our money must bother you.

[ID: Min puts her hands on her hips and calmly returns Andy's volley. He stands there listening, a cigar in his hand. /end] Min: I believe in laying in a store when you can buy it right. You always wait till the last minute. You don't buy anything till you just have to have it. You haven't even got your coal in yet. By the time you buy it, it will be so high, they'll be selling it by the pennyweight and delivering it with a couple of policemen.

[ID: Andy sits down in the other room to speak on a telephone handset on a table. /end] Andy: I'd like 20 tons of coal. Coal Seller: What size?

Andy: Well, if it's not asking too much, I'd like 2,000 pound tons.

Currency and price comparison between House Flipper 1 and 2

The change from using dollars in House Flipper 1 to using gold coins in House Flipper 2 has been a bit jarring for me, so I figured I'd throw some time into finding comparable items in both games and see if I could work out what a gold coin is worth in dollars. Spoilers / tl;dr: there's no logical comparison, the gold coin currency is essentially meaningless, and overall price values have changed drastically on items in the second game even if you just compare their general value.

Le maths, using items with the same or extremely similar models and rounding to the nearest half gold piece:

HF1 White paint (medium) $13.74 / (large) $25.24 -- HF2 (one size) 112g

HF1 Elegant light switch $14.02 -- HF2 Olivia light switch 7g

HF1 Kuba sofa $785.39 -- HF2 Garland sofa 927g

HF1 Hanging short Diamond Lamp $29.45 -- HF2 Mimas ceiling light 643g

Using a medium bucket of white paint, 1 dollar = 8 gold Using a large bucket of white paint, 1 dollar = 4.5 gold

Using the light switch, 1 dollar = 0.5 gold

Using the sofa, 1 dollar = 1 gold

Using the lamp, 1 dollar = 22 gold

Conclusion: As stated in the spoilers, there appears to be no real price correlation between games, and no logical dollar value for gold coins. The white paint comparison is particularly "meh" because it's difficult to compare how much paint is contained in the HF2 bucket, and I'd mostly thrown it into the test data because it's something that exists in both games and is easy to find in the menu… and also because when I started HF2 I felt like paint was super expensive since there seemed to be no good way to understand what a gold coin was worth. Now that I can see it laid out amongst the general comparisons here, it is a little bit spendy if not counting items that have skyrocketed in price with the second game (that lamp, ouch).

MO GOALLLL

Being an adult means being real with yourself about your finances.

A huge pain point in my marriage has been money (which is totally common in relationships). We bought an old house and have had to replace literally everything except the dishwasher, dryer and most of the plumbing. We had to have half the house rewired before we moved in because it only had 1 owner and had cloth wiring. The plumbing is galvanized steel and some of it was connected to copper (big no no: there's a chemical reaction that happens and causes leaks). We recently had to have our entire kitchen drain replaced for this and the plumber wouldn't reinstall the dishwasher until we had it checked for mold, another $600 on top of the $4000+ we already paid for the drain. We had mold behind some wood paneling that obviously couldn't be seen on inspection. New roof, furnace, AC. Our drain tile system was put in backwards and had to be replaced. There was a huge flood last summer and we had 8" of water in our basement.

Needless to say, it's been stressful and we haven't even been here 2 years. And expensive.

I have always been terrible with money. I never saw good spending habits growing up, so I've always had the mindset of "I can buy it now with my credit card. It's fine." I know, that's not fine. But that's what I've always done. Some of it was definitely out of survival during my post graduating during a recession life, but I never really stopped when I started making decent money.

Anyway, during the pandemic, I found this bank called Simple that has the envelope budgeting system built right in. It was fantastic! I paid down my debts, I brought up my credit score. I was able to refinance my car loan to nearly a 10% lower rate. It was fantastic. Then, it shut down.

There was another bank that was similar to it called Envel. Basically the same concept. And it continued to work for me, but like Simple, they shut down.

I finally moved to Ally because they have these new "spending buckets." They sounded exactly like what I had with Simple and Envel. Except they weren't. Simple and Envel would distribute your money every time you got paid and put the right amount in each "envelope." Ally just puts the money in like a day or 2 before the due date you put on the bucket. This is not helpful. Yes, I could go through and distribute my money, but I don't always remember to do it. So... I didn't really do it.

Things got out of control again. I'm not saving anything. I buying shit that I don't need to be buying. We have things that are coming due with the house (the AC is the big one). It's not good. And my spouse is really stressed about it. And I'm just really embarrassed.

So I'm filling out a chart with my credit cards and their balances, interest rates and minimum payments in addition to a personal budget worksheet and meeting with my financial advisor soon. Yes, I have one of those. A friend sung his praises on Facebook, so I thought it might be helpful. And it was. I mean, he did get me to buy a bunch of life insurance, but I can meet with him whenever to look over things. I also love that he's about my age and while he's a straight cis white guy, he works with people and couples of all types (the friend who mentioned on FB him is a lesbian and married). We met with him before we decided to buy the house to see if we could swing it.

I did find a budgeting app made by a former Simple user which is basically the same as the bank, so I think that's going to work, but I really need to just sit down with someone who's not going to judge me and take a look at everything so I can get things back on track. It's really hard to admit defeat. It's really embarrassing to not be able to tell your spouse that your personal finances are in trouble and you don't know what to do. But I'm gonna talk to Brett and he's going to help me figure it out. And it's gonna be ok.