greenmangostudio

Throw away TIFU by gambling away my family’s savings and I don’t know how I’m going to tell my wife and I just want to not go home  So i 54m and some of my guy friends decided to go to Vegas for a week i had a budget of  3,000 to spend gambling but i have 2 college colleges tuitions to pay for and me and my wife are a little bit behind on where we want to be for retirement. I quickly spent the money i had budgeted for vagus but I still had 4 days in vagus so I decided to up my budget and made some bad bets and lost an additional 10 grand I freaked out because I have just thrown away 13k so I decided to go into my sons college fund to win it back before any one noticed and I lost almost all of it about 30k at this point I was desperate to win it back before his next semester so I took from his sister and I won it back after a couple of good bets so I thought I could keep going and lost it all again plus more and kids college fund our empty and are saving retirement is gone i don’t want...

Obligatory didn't happen today but a few years ago. When I was 19 I got a job working for a company that held after school and summer clubs. When interviewing for the job I made sure to let my boss know that due to being in part time education, I would be an hour late every other Monday and Thursday on alternating weeks. I was working 3-6, Monday through Thursday. She said this was fine as long as I logged my hours properly at the end of the month for my payslip. For some general context, I had two coworkers, who I will call Mallissa and James, both were early to mid 20s. Mallissa had also just been hired so James was our "manager" while at work. There were also a couple teachers from the school who would sometimes help run the club, but on no real schedule. Part of the job was showing up 10-15 minutes to set up the tables and note the register for the day so you could sign kids off as they came in. James and I were the ones to do this as Mallissa got a job working as...

So, on Tuesday, my dad (67) was in the bathroom. I heard his phone ringing, and glanced at it - see, I thought it was a legit call as the phone is set to block calls from non-verified / unknown numbers. It got through, but sometimes spam gets through. The caller ID said it was verified - and the number was from the medical centre in town..So I think “Oh crap. I better take this and hand it to him” so I answer the phone for him so I can say I can put him on. …What was on the other side was an obvious deepfake promoting someone's election run. It isn't even a person on the other side, so I don't get the fun of putting the phone under a metal bowl and banging the bowl with a spoon. However, that was all it took to apparently get my dad’s phone number put onto a database of “A real person answered this number - Spam them". Because within a few hours, my dad's phone got another call from the same number and it was more political canvassing. He hangs up and then anot...

This happened today and I've learned my lesson! This also probably isn't as serious as some other fuck ups, and the only consequences were to myself. Hopefully I'll be able to laugh about this later, but right now, I'm definitely frustrated. I was updating my budget tracker, looking through my recent purchases, when I noticed one that I was pretty sure I didn't actually make. I had come across this before, but brushed it off. Turns out that was a mistake. 💀 Today however, my brain finally rang an alarm bell. I had purchased, in May of this year, a plushie Artemis 2 mascot from this website called GetVanoir. They had repeatedly been charging me $29.99 on a monthly basis. Now, you can probably see where this is going. I did some investigating today, as my friend had also purchased one, and asked her to see if she'd recently come across any charges. She said she had and that they'd been charging her for a membership. She'd had to cancel it via thei...

I started smoking about a year ago because I was stressed out and, honestly, thought it looked cool. But after this, I might’ve been scared straight. I genuinely almost killed everybody. So, I got home and lit a cigarette, but I didn’t finish it because I got distracted thinking about playing Red Dead Online. I hopped on for about 30 minutes, yada yada, went downstairs and talked to my gramma about politics and whatnot. Everything was still fine. Eventually, I put on some music, threw on my headphones, and went out back to smoke another cigarette because I’m a fiend. I had a full, proper smoke session, put the cigarette out in the ashtray, and headed back inside. As I walked past the family room window on my way upstairs, I caught the tiniest glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye. A wisp. A little flicker. The smallest hint of a flame. It’s like someone was telling me “LOOK! LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE!” And I knew. I ran outside, and both of our recycling bins were up in fl...

So I am 15, I have a problem with substances tbh. I recently finally got un grounded after being grounded for around 6 months or smth. I was grounded because I was smoking weed so much, I could never pass a drug test and I was always sleeping in class and just high all the time. I am doing a lot better now, i still smoke weed often, not all day everyday, but still everyday. I have been using other people's pee to pass my drug tests, as I have been getting good grades, and keeping up with my responsibilities. Until a few weeks ago I decided to try benadryl again. It was good like I remeberd, so I stole a bottle from my grandmas house. Which leads to me doing it a few times and ultimately taking 24 of the pills after school on Wednesday afternoon, and blacking out. I am genuinely so done with everything, I just was finally able to hangout, I had just ordered my e bike, it's coming in 6 days. I was going to be able to ride it to my friends houses, I was being trusted again. Then I...