The Next Chapter (Seven)

Did you ever see that movie where that married couple buys a condo from their family estate that seems like a good price at the time and the wife is seven months pregnant and the husband finds a job with 100 percent commission and the place turns out to be too expensive for them so they find a renter and move in with their dad in order to save some money but they rack up a bunch of credit card debt and she goes back to school and then they find themselves in this blackhole of money troubles that seems to have no end and he loses his job and they have another kid and are still living with their parents so they stop paying bills and then decide to file bankruptcy?

Well, that's because the movie hasn't been made yet, but I think it would make a riveting story.  Don't you?  Oh, and that's our story, by the way.  We're Rob and Meg, also known as 'The Broke Folk.'  Right now we are two seemingly well-educated and smart people, both coming from middle-class families who are currently traversing the American economic landscape with about four dollars in the bank at any given time.  And during this road trip, the gas light is perpetually on.  Oh, and that is not a cute metaphor, by the way...it is on in our van right now and I have five bucks to fill her up.

The truth is we're tired of being embarrassed by our money woes and find that the more people we 'out' ourselves to, the more people we find are in similarly embarrassing financial situations.  Our mission is to be as candid as possible about our financial journey, past, present, and future, in hopes of making people laugh and feel better about their situations.  Bankruptcy still has this stigma of shame in our society, when really it shouldn't, because money does not define the individual.  Yeah, yeah, we've made dumb choices.  But there should always be an opportunity for redemption.   Perhaps we have our own cathartic motivations for doing this...but we also need to laugh or we'll go crazy.

And on that note...here are some classic "Yo mama's so poor' " jokes that we found from here:


Yo mama's so poor, when I rang the doorbell she leaned out the window and said "DING!"

Yo mama's so poor, when I saw her kicking a can down the street, I asked her what she was doing, she said "Moving."

Yo mama's so poor, I came over for dinner and she read me recipes.

Yo mama's so poor, she watches TV on an Etch-A-Sketch.

Yo mama's so poor, she eats cereal with a fork to save milk.

That's it from us for now!
Rob and Meg

p.s.  We'll hopefully be posting our crazy stories twice a week, so expect more soon!