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Resident realizes that their small balcony can be profitable by turning it into a small garden where they plant vegetables and make $300 a month: 'Small-scale niche produce can sell really well locally if you build a community around it'

María Cetra

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Job deducts $37 per month from an employee's paycheck for meals, even though the employee brings his lunch every day: 'I'm still at the point where $37 a month actually matters.'

Emmy Pratt

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Granddaughter inherits more money than the other grandchildren, so his uncle asks her to give up some of her money to her cousins: ‘I told him that it would not be happening’

María Cetra

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Brother-in-law tries to “flex” promotion by insisting on paying for family breakfast, only to immediately complain about the bill: 'It's the 2nd most expensive thing on the breakfast menu'

Melissa Knudson

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17-year-old friend gets invited to an 18-year-old’s birthday party at a restaurant and leaves without paying, only to realize that everyone else did, she apologized: ‘She said: “Everyone else paid for their meals, but I paid for yours”.

María Cetra

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Friend lends car to long-time friend, and he gets an $85 fine, after the car owner asks for the money back, he hits back with a $22 request for the gas tank he filled: ‘I never ONCE asked him to put gas in that car’

María Cetra

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Landlord refuses to fix the appliances in the rented house, so renter sells them off to get his deposit back, and he wasted money: 'I still came out ahead because I pocketed about the same as our deposit'

María Cetra

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Parents spend $30k of daughter's tuition money on kitchen renovation after she takes a year off from school: 'She thought we were bluffing'

JR Atkinson

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Friend agrees to dog sit for 2 weeks for $500, friend sends her $170 and then ghosts her ahead of her wedding: 'She could afford to pay you - she just chose not to'

JR Atkinson

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Boss offers employee their job back after firing them, employee refuses when they discover the pay is lower: ‘I was making [more] when I started five years ago’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Company refuses to reimburse employee for business travel expenses, claiming they didn't follow policy, leading employee to spend double on the next trip: ‘They paid up’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Sibling finds out that dad took brother out of his will without telling him, while he is still making plans, counting on receiving that money: ‘I feel uncomfortable knowing this and saying nothing.’

María Cetra

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Mom asks boyfriend to pay for her son's sports fees, despite her having $50K in savings, and him only having a couple of thousand dollars: 'I contribute more than she does for our shared expenses.'

Emmy Pratt

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Boyfriend gets tired of girlfriend's family taking advantage of him and his money, using him to buy things like food for the girlfriend's 27-year-old sister: 'I’ve also been using the (very real) excuse that my bank has been flagging my purchases'

María Cetra

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Father chooses to leave his son out of his will for no specific reason, without telling him, asks his sibling not to say anything: ‘I feel uncomfortable knowing this’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Struggling sister-in-law chastises brother for suggesting she sell her $60k engagement ring: 'Our family has given them over $150,000 combined to help keep them afloat'

JR Atkinson

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