People Reveal The Moments They Realized Helping Others Is So Overrated

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    Font - archangelmlg 2 months ago I posted a futon on marketplace and the first person that hit me up gave me a sob story about needing something for their kid to sleep on. I was only asking $20 for it but they asked if they could get it for free. My wife and I agreed to give it away, so I took it to our meeting spot at Home Depot. 2 days later this guy had the futon posted in marketplace asking $50. My wife and I Facebook stalked him and his wife and everytime they posted it, we would hijack the
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    Font - LifeIsSweetSoAmI 2 months ago 3 Was donating baby/toddler clothes to a mom in need through one of those Facebook donating pages. She didn't have a car, I did so I drove 30 minutes away to deliver the stuff all for free. Got in a bad accident less than 5 blocks from her house. So I texted her to see if she could come get what she was able to because my car was totaled. She wouldn't walk the 4 blocks then reported me to the group and got me kicked out for "not following through". I ended up
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    Smile - superwhovianlock 2 months ago I stood by my best friend when she cried to me about her husband cheating. And he definitely was cheating. They stayed married and said they work through it. Six months later she was f :king my husband behind my back.
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    Font - mynameissarah 2 months ago 7 I'm a teacher. A parent of a former student contacted me in an emergency situation, couldn't afford to pay bills, and needed help. She was super helpful to me in my first year teaching, so I asked friends and family to help out and raised her about $2,000. Never again. She has contacted me every few weeks since then, always with a new reason why she needs more money (and when I offer food and clothing resources, she refuses it). It has placed me in such an awk
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    Font - AjaxkidRN 2 months ago · edited 2 months ago I have neighbors across the road who we extended ourselves to to help out because they had young kids and seemed to be struggling. Well, they were really starting to take advantage to the point where we couldn't walk out of our house without them literally yelling for us because they needed a phone, a ladder, money, someone to drive them somewhere, diapers, our Wi-Fi password, our wood, etc. etc. This started happening everyday and multiple tim
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    Font - AjaxkidRN 2 months ago Oh, we had family like that. We had enough money to get by growing up, but my uncle (who had a well-paying job) would always hit my dad up for money. Several times, he had the nerve to drop by for "a loan" whilst driving a brand new car! He would give all his money to the church. When my dad finally told him he should probably pay his electric bill before giving his money to some greedy pastor, my uncle called my dad a heathen. Dad punched him flat.
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    Font - Danman500 2 months ago A "friend" of mine borrowed a game off me once. About month later I remembered an asked for it. he told me he couldn't give it back because he gave it to his younger brother for his birthday ... would have asked for money but i knew it would have been difficult and the way I saw it, was easier to just lose him as a friend. His friendship was worth less than the value of a cheap game
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    Font - TheBrontosaurus 2 months ago I used to volunteer for an organization which helped women get jobs. They'd send baby sitters to women's homes so they could go to job interviews. It was totally fine if these moms did a quick essential errand, like grocery shopping, after their interview. I watched one woman's kids five times and assumed she just had bad luck in her interviews but she always came back with a fresh manicure. I learned she'd been blowing off the interviews the organization had
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    Rectangle - twomangocats 2 months ago I had a coworker in tears once telling me she had nothing to feed her kids for dinner, no laundry soap to wash their clothes, etc etc. I fell for it, gave her money to buy the kids food and brought her some laundry stuff from home. The next day she shows up to work with two Redbulls and a breakfast sandwich from a drive thru coffee stand with her nails done. Never again.
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    Smile - FireandIceT 2 months ago S & 2 More Had a newish neighbor ask if he could borrow our lawn mower...sure. Well more or less every week he would come and get it out of our garage, use it to cut his grass, put it away without cleaning it or adding gas. In the fall we "mentioned" it was a good time to get deals on a new mower. He never talked to us again.
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    Font - KairiZero 2 months ago After working free of charge as a freelance graphics guy to build my portfolio up, and having a client basically make the most minor of adjustments, and constant revisions - four posters which should have taken me a day tops reall..ended up taking 3 months. And when they wanted poster x4, I wanted money - ghosted. Lesson. Learnt.
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    Organism - FakeCraig 2 months ago I used to help people plan their trips to Japan. It was very hard to get started on my own so I offered weeks of free consulting to a few people in exchange for a review at the end of their trip. I made their itineraries, wrote a tailored culture guide for each, booked their hotels / restaurants, gave them recommendations, etc. Only one person out of 8 actually wrote a review.
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    Font - iBelieveInSpace 2 months ago When I had a truck during college. EVERYONE suddenly wanted me to help move them. Most were cool and gave me money or ordered pizza (unprompted btw). One time however some dude I barely knew needed some help. I show up, and nothing is packed in his apartment. He had a giant fish tank and lived on the 3rd floor with no elevator. It was a f. cking nightmare and I never got a dime nor food or even some beers. I never talked to him after that.

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