Just back from shopping at an electronics store with a friend. This person frequently feigns poverty and would I buy him Starbucks. He frequently has a lot of cash in his wallet but when questioned he gets all defensive and once he got angry about it decided to lecture me saying that I didn’t know what that money was for!

Well! Today we went to an electronics store so he could get some over-the-ears Bluetooth headphones. After tax they were over $400. Bose brand. He said something about having to rob Peter to pay Paul with his bills but he really wants and “needs” them. He paid with his debit card as he was not approved immediately for the store’s credit card. This is the man that frequently complains about how much he owes the IRS and how much he “bleeds” when they take their automatic payment each month. (He came into some money some years ago and never paid taxes on it.). And now he said something recently about getting that same amount recently- about $250k. A total of half a million. I assume he plans on paying the taxes on it this time. In fact, he could pay off the IRS with the second part of the money.