I didnt have much to begin with only lost about 12k, I have nothing anyway. My mother lost roughly 100k in her retirement fund from all this crashing. My grandmother even more. How much have you lost in Trump’s Tantrum Tariffs game?

  • Snot Flickerman
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    7 days ago

    I lost everything long before this, sadly. Didn’t even have money to start rebuilding before the tariffs nonsense.

    It all feels insurmountable. Like it was going to be hard to build it all back, but now, with the tariffs? Just feels pointless.

    The number of times I cry because it took me until I was nearly forty to own a bed of my own, and to just be a few years past forty and back down to basically nothing and sleeping on a 15+ year old mattress that isn’t even mine that hurts my back every night is too damn high.

    I never had much, all told it was all worth maybe $2000, but it’s all gone now. It all feels so petty but it was mine, the few things I had were mine, and I took good care of them. It feels like a joke that it could have all been replaced for so cheap yet I have had no options because of my cancer.

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      You’re supposed to rotate mattresses every 3-to-6 months to even out their wear. Alternatively, you can just move the pillow to the other side to not deal with rotation. But given the age of that mattress, it’d almost certainly be healthier to sleep on your back on the floor. Can you get an air mattress? Even that’d be better than nothing.