One time I saw a guy go through $500 and $20 scratch off lottery tickets.

He looked at the woman behind the counter and said, quote,

well, there goes the rip money. You guys love our react series.

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Without further do, Brian, here we go.

My cousin, Botacampper. When camping once and then decided camping wasn't for them.

Rather than selling it, they decided to just stop making the payments and let the bank come and get it, which eventually they did.

Yeah, so this is a common threat.

Oh man, I bought this thing, I don't want this thing anymore.

You know what?

If I don't want it, I'm just gonna stop paying for it and they'll come get it.

Brian, why might that may not have been the most advantageous strategy?

Well, when you make consumption decisions that are especially leveraged consumption decisions.

You're not only making a decision for something that's a hobby that this person didn't even at

least go field try and see if they liked doing this as a hobby before they went and

financially committed themselves.

You also screw up your credit.

Now it's probably going to impact the next time they need to buy a car, when they try to go refinance a house or buy a house.

Here's the best option. Go find a friend that has made a horrible financial decision to like buying an RV, bought a lake house, owns a boat,

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