• weew@lemmy.ca
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      10 hours ago

      Technically you’re using it to buy a house, so I guess that qualifies as spending it?

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        9 hours ago

        I actually did do that, the advantage of having rich grandparents. It’s amazing how once you get a bit of money the system just throws advantages at you. Capitalism really is broken.

        Because I was able to get together enough money to be able to buy a house and put down quite a lot in collateral, my mortgage repayments aren’t very much, considerably less than I was paying monthly in rent, even when you take into account that the rent included water bills.