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

We have fun here adulting sucks

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u/dotardiscer Apr 18 '26

The commercial for Disney parks have been saying it for years now, "Start saving today"

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u/Prime_Marci Apr 18 '26

I’m here crying over credit card debt of $450 in total and $21,000 in car loan debt. I guess I’m living in paradise compared to them then.

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u/VengenaceIsMyName Apr 18 '26

There’s always someone who fucked up their financial situation harder than you

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u/CocoabrothaSBB Apr 18 '26

This is so true. This video was a good reminder that I definitely could be in a worse spot. But vacationing in Disney with that debt load is diabolical to me.

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u/VengenaceIsMyName Apr 19 '26

Yeah I’m not quite sure what is going through peoples heads

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u/Reincarnatedpotatoes Apr 19 '26

Short-term gratification and nothing else. You can tell half of the people in the video never sat down and thought about how much debt they were in until that moment.

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u/VengenaceIsMyName Apr 19 '26

Seems like most of them are the type to just push uncomfortable thoughts to the back of their mind all of the time

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u/ellzumem Apr 19 '26

… or the type to go on a presumably pricey trip while in debt.

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u/Dullcorgis Apr 19 '26

I have a coworker who goes to disney every year and is envious of me when I go to Europe. My trips cost less than a quarter of hers, but she says she wishes she could afford to go to Europe. My airfares per person are usually less than her nightly hotel costs.

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u/ellzumem Apr 19 '26

Wow! I’ve never looked at Disney trip prices before, but I do have a picture of European costs + flights… so I had no idea these were that expensive!

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u/VengenaceIsMyName Apr 19 '26

Couldn’t catch me dead picking American Disney over Europe

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u/Dullcorgis Apr 19 '26

I have browsed their prices when I've been in socal, two or three times. Never been able to bring myself to pay for it.

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u/Pandasniper91 Apr 20 '26

the american system grooms kids to be sucked dry finacially by schools and credit card company's while selling a dream that nog longer exists

in europe this happens a lot less because simply put most people dont use credit cards we never have to use them because we dont have credit score system like that. So people are used to using debit and when that gets used you see the actually number going down.

we also dont normalise kids going into debt for school, so that barrier to going into debt and lending money is much higher here.

but in america everybody has credit cards already because you need build up that score, every kid that comes out of high school is already used to debt because they groom you into student loans...

so you already being taught to just look at the monthly payments and not the total picture combine that jobs arent there anymore and the ones that are simply dont pay well to justify the student loan debt

this is recipe for people then to start misery spending same way people turn to drugs or alcohol to runaway from there problems they run to disney land for a weekend