Last year someone gave me a pair of Sennheiser headphones—dead ass gave them to me. I was ballin’. I got to be a homeless person with an iPhone 12 and a pair of Sennheisers. And then my idiot friend set off a series of unfortunate events that resulted in the loss of my headphones, along with everything else I owned at the time.

So last month when this very sweet devout Christian saw a comment of mine about being a homeless drug addict, and sent me $300. I bought a new pair of Sennheisers on Mercari. I’m pretty sure it was the same model even.

I finally got around to checking my mail and—the headphones are fucked off. They won’t pair or fucking anything.

I had to fight the screaming urge to slam them on the ground.

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[–] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No joke, reach out to their customer support and see about getting them replaced. I got a pair that was defective (to replace a pair on warranty) and sent it back and got a working one.

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    New rule: you don't get to fucking police someone's spending habits if you haven't fucking given them any money.

    Nor if you have, for that matter. Fuck off with that moralism. Even having been homeless yourself does not give you the right to tell people how to live, you sanctimonious fucking pricks.

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    wait you're on here every few days asking for money but you recently dropped $300 on headphones??

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  • [–] [S] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even if I hadn’t dude, that money wasn’t going to last long. Between survival-related supplies, laundry, food, my Spotify subscription, and your mom’s OnlyFans, it goes quick.

    I may be about to become more self sufficient soon though.

    Also, without my chapo friends sending me money I’d be extremely depressed and malnourished, and I’d just keep going downhill.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yes. Someone gave them the money. Specifically gave them the money to buy new headphones.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    heard this once in either a book or sermon but it's always stuck with me as I undo my own bootstrap brainworms

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    i've read plenty of different sacred texts in my life and not one says "give alms but only if you can get a full accounting of how it was spent"

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    slightly unrelated but I had to listen to my coworker complain about a homeless person he saw who was on his smartphone and smoking a cigarette yesterday. It wasn't enough to be homeless, you had to be a monk and a saint to garner his sympathy.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (42 children)

    I'm sure you've never splurged on anything before. Being unhoused comes with the added burden of people expecting financial perfection from you. But responses like yours are literal cruelty.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (38 children)

    $300 is now like 2 weeks of groceries, and about 15% of the cheapest monthly rent in my area.

    I'd argue the psychological benefit of being able to listen to music properly outweighs that. This person doesn't need financial advice, they need levels of support that simply aren't fucking available in this country to those who have no money already.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Ah rip. I hate Mercari. I tried to buy off there before for nice headphones and also got scammed but at least in this case the order fell thru and I got a refund. Only thing that confuses me, $300 for hd450bt? Those are like $180 new? Maybe Canada?

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    [–] [S] 13 points 2 years ago

    Addendum: I fully charged them and they’re still fucking off.

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