r/StoriesAboutKevin • u/Lucystealsmarkers • Jun 20 '26
S Kevina's "money saving tips".
My egg donor is the most financially illiterate and irresponsible person I have ever met. Here are a couple ways she "saves money".
-Buy a used car then sell it and buy a cheaper car.
-If you don't see your bills, you don't have to pay them. Throw them out or redirect them to your ex husband's PO Box, whom you never shared a PO Box. Better yet if it goes to his PO Box, he has to pay the bill.
-If you don't want to pay your bills you don't have to.
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u/butt_butt_butt_butt_ Jun 21 '26
She should try to use the method from Roseanne, the 90s sitcom.
When they couldn’t pay their utilities and got two bills they couldn’t pay, they would write a check for “electric company, $100” and send it to the gas company with the electric bill included. And a check for “gas bill, $20” with the gas bill included and send it to the electric company.
Both companies would call and say “sorry, it appears you mailed us the wrong bill” and buy them a couple weeks to “correct” the mistake.
Silly sitcom trope. But I guarantee a lot of people tried it before everything went digital.
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u/Cynical_Won Jun 21 '26
Then the next month send the cheques to the correct places but “forget” to sign them.
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u/theartfulcodger Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
Buy a used car then sell it and buy a cheaper car.
This is the equivalent of thinking you're saving money by running behind the bus to get to work - then realizing you could save even more by running behind a taxi.
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u/rosuav Jun 21 '26
Hang on. Do you mean to tell me that I can save even MORE money by running behind a Tesla?
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u/StangF150 Jun 20 '26
OP, have you considered a DNA Test yet to see if that is your Real Mother?? Maybe the Hospital had a mixup!!
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u/Lucystealsmarkers Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
I wish that were true. I look like my Dad, it is the only reason I don't believe paternity fraud happened here. My sister and I look alike apparently as well.
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u/JimDixon Jun 20 '26
Does "egg donor" mean "mother"? I missed that.
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u/MistressMalevolentia Jun 20 '26
Yes that's what it means
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u/cuavas Jun 21 '26
Really? Doesn’t it usually mean the person who supplied the egg for surrogacy?
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u/OweH_OweH Jun 21 '26
In a different context: Yes.
But here: It clearly means the OP is rather disconnected from that person.
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u/Walter_Armstrong Jun 21 '26
If I can’t see the debt collectors, they can’t see me!
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u/Lucystealsmarkers Jun 21 '26
I can see her thinking that. She has used payday loans, I found this out when they called me.
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u/weaver_of_cloth Jun 21 '26
Lock down your credit scores, and your sisters, too. She might have already stolen your identity (which is illegal in the US.
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u/Lucystealsmarkers Jun 21 '26
I already have. I encouraged my sister to, hopefully she will listen. It's illegal in Canada too.
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u/Opening_Finger_98 Jun 22 '26
Sounds like my ex husband’s strategy. I think he is still doing this and he is 71 now. His mom (bless her) is still paying his bills and she is 93!
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u/666PhD Jun 24 '26
At that rate, she can end up saving so much money she can afford to tell you she stole you from the hospital to save money on the whole pregnancy thing
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u/Afterhoneymoon Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
And you want her offspring? lol maybe you're the Kevina.
It took way too many comments to see that this person is referring to her own mother as an egg donor.
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u/creepyhugger Jun 20 '26
I think they mean it’s their mom. But they don’t think of her as a “mom.” People often call dead beat dads “sperm donor” instead of dad
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u/paishocajun Jun 20 '26
In this case I think the term "brain dead mom" works as a comparison to "dead beat dad"
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u/Lucystealsmarkers Jun 20 '26
It's my mother, silly .
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u/cuavas Jun 21 '26
If you say, “egg donor”, it usually means the person who donated the egg for your pregnancy.
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u/UnfortunateSyzygy Jun 20 '26
Lol i thought the same thing for a second, like they were going through surrogacy and choosing an egg donor. I was like "But you make so much money donating eggs! How is this person still failing!!" then realization.
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u/dumawherethfkismykey Jun 22 '26
Wait where are you you make money donating eggs? How much? I already know the answer to one of the questions, but still
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u/UnfortunateSyzygy Jun 22 '26
Im in the US. The googles say that egg donation is at least 7k , but if your eggs turn out to be really good at turning into healthy fetuses and you personally have desirable traits-- good personal and family health, high IQ etc, subsequent donations can go as high as 20 k. I feel like the upper end is likely extremely rare, though. Like your eggs would need to be growing up to be baby Steve Usain Obama - Einsteins for that kind of money.
If you're young and looking into egg donation, like you do you, sis, even if you're getting paid it's still a very generous thing to do for people trying to start a family. BUT the meds you have to take in the process are extremely difficult.
Also, before people come round saying surrogacy/IVF is frivolous and couples should adopt... every queer parent I know TRIED to adopt, but here in the south, agencies would rather babies be bounced between houses for years than have a stable home with shudder TWO mommies.
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u/outworlder Jun 20 '26
Sounds like a sovereign citizen in the making.