Not on Facebook, but face to face, with new roommate:
55 years old, developed health issues, so had to sell her house and move in with relatives for support. Okay, I can understand that. But it didn't go well, so moved out of that city to come live near her adult son, but couldn't stay with him as he had too many stairs in his house. I get that too. So rented a room in my house (total stranger). Put all her stuff in old city in storage - don't know monthly price, but assume about $200/month. Gets here and has no job, but looking to work part-time from home doing computer work, Has to go on social assistance until she can find something. What? Didn't you just sell a house? Yes, but a low-value one. Okay, but you spent all the equity in a year, while hardly being able to leave the house (thinking this, didn't ask). Finds a job at minimum wage, last a few days, can't do it, so back on social assistance. Reports to me that she told the worker she doesn't know how she can make it work on such low pay (about $11.00/hour) because she had been making no less than $100K a year for THE LAST 15 YEARS! Holy crap, I think, what did you do with it all? Didn't ask, none of my business. Then I watch her habits - buys paper plates and uses 3 a day, eats supper out at least once a week, uses toilet paper like it's going out of style (it used to take me at least 2 weeks to go through 1 double roll, now it's one every 3 days), leaves the lights on in her room when she goes out for the evening, fills the bathtub more that half-way for a 2 minute bath, on her fourth toothpaste tube in 3 months, throwing it out when there's a good 3 days worth left, drives to another town 20 minutes away to buy chicken because it's organic, eats all organic food, paying $8.00 for 4 hamburger patties and buys dog toys and treats that she clearly cannot afford. Finally gets 2 part-time jobs that seem like they'll work out, but has to get an advance from one of them because she has no appropriate clothes, only athletic wear. WTF? At one point she says that she was having a hard time finding a room to rent and thought she might have to buy a condo in order to move here. WITH WHAT? You can't even afford work clothes! How anyone can live like this is beyond me. I expect she'll be working until she can't, because SS/OAS sure don't pay much. The more I see of her, the more I love myself for making all the right, although sometimes hard, decisions that have left me sitting very pretty in comparison. HOW can people be so dumb, even when they're smart?