Then you missed the $8,200 water heater. And that they needed a loan to buy all this stuff they didn’t need. And replacing a 2-year-old furnace.
I didn’t get to the part where (presumably, as they mention cooking with gas) they replace the stove, couldn’t take the poor financial choices and waste any more.
I assume these kinds of articles are rage bait for clicks.
Present a story (if it’s even true) of an outlandish situation as if it representative of something, but not outright saying it, leaving it to the reader to feel outrage, or schadenfreude, and then they send it to their friends to gawk at the idiocy, etc.
A common one is “we earn $300k per year but are only middle class and can’t afford to save for retirement”.
I didn’t get to the part where (presumably, as they mention cooking with gas) they replace the stove, couldn’t take the poor financial choices and waste any more.