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Credit card bill came.

  • SportsAndLady
    Commander of Awesome;1153048 wrote:He didn't say that, any other fails you'd like to get off your chest tonight?
    He didn't?

    Edit: ah fuck that was mega douche MB..my bad
  • j_crazy
    No but its close to 2.
  • Commander of Awesome
    SportsAndLady;1153053 wrote:He didn't?
    Nope sure didn't.
  • SportsAndLady
    See my edit
  • Manhattan Buckeye
    gut;1152961 wrote:It cost you $12k to ship your dog overseas?!? I'd have rowed it across the Atlantic myself for half that. :laugh:
    Depends on size of dog/destination, and how much quarantine is required. Our dog isn't a Great Dane or St. Bernard, but he's big enough (54 lbs) that he needed the largest crate, and he had 3 flights - Washington Dulles to JFK, JFK to Amsterdam with a two night stay at Amsterdam's Royal Dutch pet hotel for check-up and then another flight from Amsterdam to Singapore, with a 10 day stay in quarantine. If someone has a toy poodle or other small dog you can probably do it for $5-6,0000, but for a larger dog the cost expand quite a bit. There are so many people involved - Airlines, dog exporter, dog importer, vet (for shots), quarantine, transfer at both ends, dog hotel, Department of Agriculture, etc...it is one bill after the other. Fortunately we got a lot of it back.

    Dog sitting is expensive too - J Crazy isn't embellishing. We're in the U.S. now for two weeks - it is costing us about US$1,600 for a dog sitter - that we aren't getting back.
  • Cat Food Flambe'
    Personal - $19,000 or so, twice during the year both Darby Diva and Son Of Cat Food were in college We put theTRB on the plastic for ease of payment and the airline miles - I had already raided the 529 for the cash to pay the bill.

    Business - Mid $50K on the company Amex card for a company conference - hotel rooms, meeting room, and breakfast/lunch catering for several days for three dozen people. ( We paid cash for the hookers, though.)

    A couple of years ago, I got the bill at local restaurant on one of those old-fashioned ticket books and I found the Amex Black card belonging to a very well known local car dealer down in the card pouch. Apparently the owner had left in down in the pouch when they signed the credit slip. Wonder how much dealin' I could have done with THAT if I had had the nerve? :p
  • hoops23
    I wipe my ass with Bentleys.
  • sleeper
    I pay someone money to pay my credit cards. I haven't a clue.
  • ernest_t_bass
    sleeper;1153088 wrote:I pay someone money to pay my credit cards. I haven't a clue.

    Lol'd
  • wghfan
    No credit cards, and no loans. Everything is paid with straight cash, or I use a check card.
  • THE4RINGZ
    No credit for me, I pay cash or use my debit card.
  • j_crazy
    My boss claims to have had a 40k corporate bill on a recruiting trip he took to state college. Seems excessive. My corporate card hasn't had more than 10k on it ever.
  • I Wear Pants
    j_crazy;1153046 wrote:We were living in a hotel for 6 weeks and my wife works. So it was like 75 a day for both for 24 days. Wasn't like a 1 day for 2k thing.
    That's still more than I get paid. Can I watch your dogs please?
  • justincredible
    WebFire;1152971 wrote:Someday I'll pretend to have enough money to start a thread on OC about paying off my $17k credit card bill.
    Knowing what j_crazy does, he's got the money.
  • justincredible
    Our largest bill was in the $10k range. We just used the card to get the cash back and then paid it off immediately. I refuse to carry a balance.
  • Manhattan Buckeye
    j_crazy;1153124 wrote:My boss claims to have had a 40k corporate bill on a recruiting trip he took to state college. Seems excessive. My corporate card hasn't had more than 10k on it ever.
    I can't imagine a bill that big - the most we had "all business related" was in August '11 when my wife was in Aussie for 3 weeks, it was no where close to 40 large - either your boss is doing the models and bottles thing to an exponential manner, or he's lying about it.
  • I Wear Pants
    Manhattan Buckeye;1153150 wrote:I can't imagine a bill that big - the most we had "all business related" was in August '11 when my wife was in Aussie for 3 weeks, it was no where close to 40 large - either your boss is doing the models and bottles thing to an exponential manner, or he's lying about it.
    If you aren't buying loads of hookers and blow what's the point of business trips?
  • j_crazy
    It was state college so I wonder if he went the second mile. I'd never ask him that to his face.
  • gut
    Manhattan Buckeye;1153071 wrote: - it is costing us about US$1,600 for a dog sitter - that we aren't getting back.
    $800/wk for a dogsitter?


    I'd do it for free (would love to have a dog, can't because of travel). But heck I can do that on the side. I'll take it to the park and pick-up women.
  • I Wear Pants
    j_crazy what we're getting at is...can we have your dog?
  • Manhattan Buckeye
    gut;1153155 wrote:$800/wk for a dogsitter?


    I'd do it for free (would love to have a dog, can't because of travel). But heck I can do that on the side. I'll take it to the park and pick-up women.
    It isn't just dog sitting - they stay overnight every night and hang out in the apartment in case there's an emergency. I'm not a fascist about it, if they want to go home or somewhere else for lunch or whatever that's ok - but if I text or e-mail them we'd like to get a response within an hour or two and if we want them to text us a picture of the dog, they should do so within a reasonable time. When you're away for weeks at a time and it isn't possible to get back quickly the costs add up. The only other options are boarding (not an option outside the U.S., Americans are unusually attached to their pets) or a full-time maid, which runs $600/month and no privacy.
  • gerb131
    Talk about disposable income.
  • gut
    Manhattan Buckeye;1153168 wrote:It isn't just dog sitting - they stay overnight every night and hang out in the apartment in case there's an emergency.
    So what you're really saying is....$800/wk PLUS room & board? That's an even better deal :laugh:
  • gut
    gerb131;1153169 wrote:Talk about disposable income.
    For that kind of money, that dog better sh.it $100 bills.
  • Manhattan Buckeye
    gut;1153174 wrote:So what you're really saying is....$800/wk PLUS room & board? That's an even better deal :laugh:
    It would surprise you. Filipino maids immigrate for US$450-600/month working six days a week, no vacation other than a mandatory flight back to Manila every other year (cheap - about US$150), and live in what we call the "bomb shelter", it's a government mandated closet that is about 4 feet by 9 feet and doesn't have to be air conditioned. There's a waitlist in the Philippines to even sign up for it - almost all of their money goes back to support their respective families. My American midwest conscience wouldn't let me put another human through that, even if its much better that what they would ever earn back in their homelands.

    The Europeans and the Chinese? Well.....