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[–] emenl@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (5 children)

No debt but still have pile of unopened letters. It's a huge relief when I finally tackle them and realize it's mostly just junk mail. Only to find it was pile from last year and this year's pile was on the other side of the desk to be anxiously avoided until I have the willpower to do it again in a few months. Then I remember that's how I got badly in debt in the first place.

It gets easier. Then harder! Then I find sonething new to dive into and forget all about it again

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[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No extraordinary debts (just the normal ones on auto-pay) but the other day I inadvertently unearthed a speeding ticket from a traffic camera in a foreign country I traveled to four years ago.

I have no idea if I paid it, but now every time I see it I get filled with the dread that I'm somehow an international fugitive, and yet I'd still rather die in a foreign prison cell than call the number on the ticket and ask if it's been paid.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

The trick with those is, if you never acknowledge you received it in any way you don't have to pay and never get in trouble.

...Probably, I only have one data point.

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[–] kungen@feddit.nu 3 points 11 months ago

If you haven't gotten any reminders, they don't really care, and it may have even reached statues of limitations. And unless it's a real corrupt country, they'll just have you pay it if they "catch" you. Just throw it away.

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[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 2 points 11 months ago

What a surprisingly profound post.

That's how I feel about everything I learn through tough experiences and then try to incorporate and keep incorporated in my life.