<p>*1. I’ve worked with colleagues who seem to love to brag about how often they replace furniture/cars/electronics/clothes…sometimes every 3 months and feel there’s something praiseworthy in participating in conspicuous consumption…even when they’re financially overextended. </p>
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<li>They tended to besiege me and other colleagues who aren’t as spendy for loans to bail them out of their frivolously self-inflicted financial messes quite shamelessly. Nos…even firmly and harshly delivered for an answer fails to deter them from their incessant request for a bailout. *</li>
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<p>These are the two parts that I don’t understand.</p>
<p>Are you saying that the SAME PEOPLE who brag about buying “this pricey thing” or “that pricey thing” on a regular basis are the SAME PEOPLE who are asking for bailouts on a regular basis?</p>
<p>If so, the next time they say, “Hey, I just bought X,” then why not retort, “Don’t open the box, save the receipt, and when you come next week and ask for money, go return that item.”</p>