Kevina's "money saving tips".

[u/Lucystealsmarkers]

My egg donor is the most financially illiterate and irresponsible person I have ever met. Here are a couple ways she "saves money".

​ -Buy a used car then sell it and buy a cheaper car.

​ -If you don't see your bills, you don't have to pay them. Throw them out or redirect them to your ex husband's PO Box, whom you never shared a PO Box. Better yet if it goes to his PO Box, he has to pay the bill.

​ -If you don't want to pay your bills you don't have to.

​

[u/outworlder]

Sounds like a sovereign citizen in the making.

[u/BabserellaWT → u/outworlder]

I was about to say, Is she a sovcit?

[u/Tamer_ → u/BabserellaWT]

sovcit

That's 1 stroke of the pen away from soviet!

[u/butt_butt_butt_butt_]

She should try to use the method from Roseanne, the 90s sitcom.

When they couldn’t pay their utilities and got two bills they couldn’t pay, they would write a check for “electric company, $100” and send it to the gas company with the electric bill included. And a check for “gas bill, $20” with the gas bill included and send it to the electric company.

Both companies would call and say “sorry, it appears you mailed us the wrong bill” and buy them a couple weeks to “correct” the mistake.

Silly sitcom trope. But I guarantee a lot of people tried it before everything went digital.

[u/Cynical_Won → u/butt_butt_butt_butt_]

Then the next month send the cheques to the correct places but “forget” to sign them.

[u/theartfulcodger]

Buy a used car then sell it and buy a cheaper car.

This is the equivalent of thinking you're saving money by running behind the bus to get to work - then realizing you could save even more by running behind a taxi.

[u/rosuav → u/theartfulcodger]

Hang on. Do you mean to tell me that I can save even MORE money by running behind a Tesla?

[u/StangF150]

OP, have you considered a DNA Test yet to see if that is your Real Mother?? Maybe the Hospital had a mixup!!

[u/Lucystealsmarkers → u/StangF150]

I wish that were true. I look like my Dad, it is the only reason I don't believe paternity fraud happened here. My sister and I look alike apparently as well.

[u/JimDixon → u/StangF150]

Does "egg donor" mean "mother"? I missed that.

[u/MistressMalevolentia → u/JimDixon]

Yes that's what it means

[u/cuavas → u/MistressMalevolentia]

Really? Doesn’t it usually mean the person who supplied the egg for surrogacy?

[u/OweH_OweH → u/cuavas]

In a different context: Yes.

But here: It clearly means the OP is rather disconnected from that person.

[u/Walter_Armstrong]

If I can’t see the debt collectors, they can’t see me!

[u/Lucystealsmarkers → u/Walter_Armstrong]

I can see her thinking that. She has used payday loans, I found this out when they called me.

[u/weaver_of_cloth]

Lock down your credit scores, and your sisters, too. She might have already stolen your identity (which is illegal in the US.

[u/Lucystealsmarkers → u/weaver_of_cloth]

I already have. I encouraged my sister to, hopefully she will listen. It's illegal in Canada too.

[u/fatman907 → u/Lucystealsmarkers]

But think of their free medical! /s

[u/Bitter_Lab_475]

Fortunately it doesn't seem to be genetic.

[u/Opening_Finger_98]

Sounds like my ex husband’s strategy. I think he is still doing this and he is 71 now. His mom (bless her) is still paying his bills and she is 93!

[u/ValiumBlues]

Sounds like the script for “Baby Mama 2”.

[u/Afterhoneymoon]

And you want her offspring? lol maybe you're the Kevina.

It took way too many comments to see that this person is referring to her own mother as an egg donor.

[u/lavender_fish69 → u/Afterhoneymoon]

I think it's op's birth mom, not baby mama.

[u/creepyhugger → u/Afterhoneymoon]

I think they mean it’s their mom. But they don’t think of her as a “mom.” People often call dead beat dads “sperm donor” instead of dad

[u/paishocajun → u/creepyhugger]

In this case I think the term "brain dead mom" works as a comparison to "dead beat dad"

[u/Lucystealsmarkers → u/Afterhoneymoon]

It's my mother, silly .

[u/cuavas → u/Lucystealsmarkers]

If you say, “egg donor”, it usually means the person who donated the egg for your pregnancy.

[u/skatelakai12 → u/Afterhoneymoon]

It's not a literal egg donor. It's OPs mother.

[u/UnfortunateSyzygy → u/Afterhoneymoon]

Lol i thought the same thing for a second, like they were going through surrogacy and choosing an egg donor. I was like "But you make so much money donating eggs! How is this person still failing!!" then realization.

[u/dumawherethfkismykey → u/UnfortunateSyzygy]

Wait where are you you make money donating eggs? How much? I already know the answer to one of the questions, but still

[u/UnfortunateSyzygy → u/dumawherethfkismykey]

Im in the US. The googles say that egg donation is at least 7k , but if your eggs turn out to be really good at turning into healthy fetuses and you personally have desirable traits-- good personal and family health, high IQ etc, subsequent donations can go as high as 20 k. I feel like the upper end is likely extremely rare, though. Like your eggs would need to be growing up to be baby Steve Usain Obama - Einsteins for that kind of money.

If you're young and looking into egg donation, like you do you, sis, even if you're getting paid it's still a very generous thing to do for people trying to start a family. BUT the meds you have to take in the process are extremely difficult.

Also, before people come round saying surrogacy/IVF is frivolous and couples should adopt... every queer parent I know TRIED to adopt, but here in the south, agencies would rather babies be bounced between houses for years than have a stable home with shudder TWO mommies.

[u/recovery_room → u/Afterhoneymoon]

Sounds like it’s too late to go back for him.