Posted on 12/01/2011 11:56:19 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
A New York woman is being scrutinized and praised after people learned that she used a dating website to obtain $1,200 a month in free meals.
According to Business Insider, 23-year-old Jessica Sporty was deep in debt. Sporty had difficulties living on her $45,000 annual salary after spending nearly $1,500 a month in rent, paying her credit card bill, and buying food.
So she hatched up a plan and signed up with the popular online dating site Match.com so she could quickly go on five dates a week. Sporty even maintained a spreadsheet with detailed information on each of her dates, limiting each guy to a maximum of five.
Dates took Sporty to high-end New York restaurants, and one of her dates even bought her a $200 bottle of champagne.
“Before I barely had enough money to pay for food,” said Sporty. “After using Match.com I found I wasn’t going into debt anymore.”
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As of today, Sporty is no longer on the dating website as she is currently in a relationship and most likely freeloading off her new beau.
“It was exhausting,” she said. “I needed my sleep and I was done playing the game.”
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Thanks for the prayers. We have a property settlement that everyone can live with. FIL gives up a bit-o-cash, and a pickup truck, but keeps all else that’s his. If there were a dog involved I could write a C&W song about it. Aren’t you thankful there isn’t one? LOL!
Sadly, stress cast a cloud over the win; FIL collapsed prior to the hearing, and wound up hospitalized with a pulse rate in the 28-32bpm range and perilously low blood pressure. Got it fixed, and he’s recovering, but it’s more drama than anyone needed in a single day.
Glad you made it! Too bad about the dog, though. What about a shotgun?
Don't forget Mama, and the train, and it has to be raining.
Good morning! It looks like Vlad may have chicken pox. This could be a disaster, or not a big problem: I can’t remember who’s had the vaccine! Most of them, I think.
It just makes you want to give up on the whole day already.
Well, yeah. But I’ll hang around as long as you will let me.
I keep feeling as though I’ve forgotten something though.
My son had chicken pox on his eyelids and in his mouth, and all he wanted to eat was cream of tomato soup and crackers!
I had to cover him in oatmeal ointment and dress him in one of his dad’s T-shirts as anything else hurt him so much.
LOL! Talk about memories!
Your marbles?
Unnngh.
If it’s still spreading tomorrow, I’ll take him to the doctor to have it verified, and also find out who else is going to get it.
Good luck, Mom. If I were closer, I’d help.
I know!
We’ll just hang loose and wait a while. They’ve been outside a lot, so it could be some kind of bites or a rash from the woods.
LOL.
The Undead Thread comes in and either completely hijacks the thread, especially in the case of a zotted troll, or we discuss various things and touch on the thread subject now and then.
This month when it came time to do the thread change, we didn’t have a very good selection to choose from.
So I asked if this thread could be donated.
And here we are.
The item from Scandinavia has arrived. You can wrap it when you get home.
What if it protests at being wrapped?
Then it may need to be rapped with more force.
Rapped as in smote rather than rapped as in horrible music.
Though Rap just may make the item comply ‘or else’.
Oh my! Goodness sakes!
Prayers for your FIL’s health. Stress sucks.
Since I have no idea what the Item is, I won’t offer an opinion ... but in its present package, it isn’t doing anything unseemly.
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