Hence, you didn't have a supermodel 20 years your junior sending you love letters all day.
"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
Whats your weekly budget?
- Thread starter cola
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"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
marmel75
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She's sending your wallet love letters, not you...let's get it straight and call a spade a spade. If you lost your job and had no more money, how long do you think it would be before she'd dump your ass? I'd give it a week max.
That's the issue you can't comprehend. Spending money has ZERO to do with their interest level in you, personally. If you can't get the same woman without spending all that money then she isn't worth it. I'd much rather have a chick that is into me for me, than into me for my money. If I need a young supermodel chick I can go hire an escort...it'll cost me a lot less in the long run.
Dust 2 Dust
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By looking at your budget I'd say you're wasting at least 250 dollars a month.
A cell phone should not cost more than 50-75 dollars a month max.
175 is way too much for car insurance. Cut your bill in half by going to partial coverage or shop around for a lower rate.
Quit Vaping. Your paying 40 bucks a month to huff poison into your body, not good man.
A cell phone should not cost more than 50-75 dollars a month max.
175 is way too much for car insurance. Cut your bill in half by going to partial coverage or shop around for a lower rate.
Quit Vaping. Your paying 40 bucks a month to huff poison into your body, not good man.
El Payaso
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You are bleeding too much money. $180 for cell phone bill every month is absolutely ridiculous. It's absurd. Especially if you're the only person on the plan. You need to get it down to at least $50. That will give your an additional $150 every month.
Cut out the personal cert. That's $200.
I would cut out WWE. You can watch it free online. That's $210.
Finally, you should shop around to see if you can get a lower insurance rate.
Put this extra $210 + an additional $500 from your second bi weekly check in a savings account, 401k or Roth IRA. That's about $700 every month. That's a good chunk of monthly savings out of $2,600.
Do this every month. You're still young. The earlier you start saving or investing, the better off you will be in the long run. Cut out too much eating out. Buy stuff from the grocery store, cook some meals that can last you a week or two.
It's not about how much you earn. It's about how well you can manage what you have.
Cut out the personal cert. That's $200.
I would cut out WWE. You can watch it free online. That's $210.
Finally, you should shop around to see if you can get a lower insurance rate.
Put this extra $210 + an additional $500 from your second bi weekly check in a savings account, 401k or Roth IRA. That's about $700 every month. That's a good chunk of monthly savings out of $2,600.
Do this every month. You're still young. The earlier you start saving or investing, the better off you will be in the long run. Cut out too much eating out. Buy stuff from the grocery store, cook some meals that can last you a week or two.
It's not about how much you earn. It's about how well you can manage what you have.
Just wanted to be clear the personal trainers cert is a certification that i currently have(nasm) .. the payment is the remaining balance on the initial cost of the cert so i need to pay that.
Anyone can tell me how to get out of sprints contract without the early termination fees?
Anyone can tell me how to get out of sprints contract without the early termination fees?
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
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I don't think you can, so you should calculate which is the greater loss and proceed from there.
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How long do you have left on the contract?
marmel75
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Well, it might make sense to break the contract depending on if it saves you money. Calculate what the monthly cost to break the contract is, and then add that to your new cell phone plan. If that adds up to less than your normal monthly payment with Sprint, it still makes sense to just break the contract and pay the termination fees
22 months or so.
About 22 months. The cost of the phone is looped in the bill. So canceling would be about 600$(cost of phone) plus 375ish early termination fee..
Thats about 90$ a month for the next year to pay off the contract + 50$ a month to go prepaid + 200$ for a cheap phone..
Car insurance is tough to get cheaper. I have one of the top 3 worst zip codes in the country for auto claims. My zipcode is a big part of the reason i won't get a car payment. Insurance will be astronomical until i move
El Payaso
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So you will end up paying almost $4,000 by the end of your contract. That's a lot for one phone.
"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Here's my weekly budget:
$200 cell phone, water, electric, direct tv, internet, etc
$45 weed
$50 groceries
$60 gas
$8 lottery
$50 - $80 hitting bars/partying (not every week)
$50 lunches during work
Some monthly expenses:
$10 wwe network
$10 netflix
I want to add that my home is paid for and so are both of my cars. So, I have no car or mortgage payments.
I also eat dinner at my parents house 4 days a week, so that's why I only spend $50 on groceries.
$200 cell phone, water, electric, direct tv, internet, etc
$45 weed
$50 groceries
$60 gas
$8 lottery
$50 - $80 hitting bars/partying (not every week)
$50 lunches during work
Some monthly expenses:
$10 wwe network
$10 netflix
I want to add that my home is paid for and so are both of my cars. So, I have no car or mortgage payments.
I also eat dinner at my parents house 4 days a week, so that's why I only spend $50 on groceries.
mrgoodstuff
Master Don Juan
Smart man, did the paid off home plan and now don't have to worry about it.
Some of those numbers look monthly to me.
Yea, I play the same 4 rows of numbers every drawing. There is 2 drawings a week. I won 2 grand on it in 2014. I'm hoping for the jack pot next time...
In 1986, age 16, 30 years ago this summer, I won the Mass Daily Number Lottery First 3/Last 3 Any order 4 times in 7 days, and 5 times in 30 days (at 1/137 odds each, 100 to 1 payoff), and then quit forever. I'm actually ahead on the lottery lifetime.
"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
How much did you win? I had 5 out of 6 numbers a couple years ago. It was only 2 grand