Jay IDK Quotes

I am infamously bad at asking for money.

I watched my own father, he went bankrupt and had problems with the IRS. He was living beyond his means, and I guess I was doing the same thing and not even realizing it.

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

At a lot of college graduations, you'll hear people say, 'Follow your passions,' and that is important, but no one talks about the stress of not having enough money, the issues of debt, and the issues of work stress.

I'm bad with money.

Whenever I did have a lot of money, I got in trouble.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

I'm always worried about my money for some reason.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

The world does not need another credit card.

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'