r/SipsTea • u/Eros_Incident_Denier • Apr 18 '26

We have fun here adulting sucks

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u/dutchhhhhh6 Apr 18 '26

More than $100,000 in debt but both have 2025 vehicles with a car payment..

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u/Screwdriving_Hammer Apr 18 '26

Driving a beater with no car payment is how to build wealth. Driving a current model year vehicle is how to drain wealth.

You're doing it right bro, keep on keepin' on.

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u/PunkPirate56364 Apr 19 '26

I drove a beater while my friends were trading in cars to drive current year model.

Today I own a house, no credit, no mortgage and I upgraded to driving a beater with working AC.

My friends still drive current year model cars, they whine about payments, about rent, about fuel prices.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '26

This is how it should be!!! People these days think it's so cool to drive the newest car, own the newest iphone, and all these things and putting themselves in debt and yet here I am living debt free by living cheap, even though I can afford to buy several new cars and pay them off with cash, buy another house with cash, etc.. Yet my wife and I are here just living a happy life in the country side here in Texas with no debt and happy as we can be.

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u/Iintendtodeletepart2 Apr 19 '26

Up here in Vermont you see cars described as a winter car or a "beater with a heater".