Containment What will happen when Barb dies?

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Sc4rface said:
OK, you are the noted authority on this so as a newb I'd really appreciate if you could clarify to me, have I just been completely duped about how much he spends on games and toys and stuff?
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chris's spending habits aren't much different than the average young adult who lives paycheck to paycheck and buys too much dumb shit

cwcki exaggerates literally everything for comedic effect and because, in the distant past, chris read it and it rustled his jimmies
 
Marvin said:
Chris knows he has to have his tugboat last the month.
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Though he'll still bitch about how the second half of the month is a struggle for him and barb. He still feels like he's entitled to splurge the moment he gets a lump sum.

Ravenor said:
I think what is going to fuck him is when he has a expense he hasn't planned for, maybe the car has serious problems, the house has a massive water leak etc
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Exactly. Chris lives as though emergencies won't ever happen. It never occurs to him to sock any money away in case he has unplanned expenses. (Partially because he still thinks it's viable to scream at the internet and his gal pals for help when trouble does arise.)
 
Sc4rface said:
OK, you are the noted authority on this so as a newb I'd really appreciate if you could clarify to me, have I just been completely duped about how much he spends on games and toys and stuff?
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Heh, actually that's the thing, he spends shitloads of money on games and toys and stuff and yet still meets his monthly obligations.

But it's not constant though. He went on a big lego binge in winter/spring in the beginning of 2014 (or 2015? I can't remember). During that time, he spent thousands of dollars on legos. But he can't sustain that all year and he knows it. Basically, if Chris is pissing away a bunch of money all of a sudden, just remember that he can afford it. It might be that he's freed up some debt or maybe he's just easing up on other expenditures (less likely :tomgirl:), but regardless, he's making it work somehow.
Ravenor said:
I think what is going to fuck him is when he has a expense he hasn't planned for, maybe the car has serious problems, the house has a massive water leak etc, day to day he is fine and will probably better off in planning once Barbs not helping herself as you have indicated in the past, but it's the great big fat expense he hasn't ever planned for that's going to cock him up.
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Agreed. We've talked about this before in here. Chris' lack of liquidity could be a problem for him in the future. But to be fair, a lot of the big, surprise expenses people have to deal with are offset by things like car insurance or medicare. Long term I don't see Chris getting sunk by anything, so much as his debts gradually making his life shittier and shittier as the years go by.
Alec Benson Leary said:
Though he'll still bitch about how the second half of the month is a struggle for him and barb. He still feels like he's entitled to splurge the moment he gets a lump sum.
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Heh, I don't know, I'm not convinced that's a genuine expression of hardship and not just Chris bitching or passing Barb's bitching onto us. Like when Chris begs for more donations right after getting $1k, I don't see that as evidence that Chris blew the money (yet) or that he is desperately in need of money. I see that as Chris saying "hey, sweet, money! but y'know what's better than $1000? $1001! donate now!" (Substitute in cwcisms as appropriate)
 
Some people in the thread have mentioned that Barb may have arranged for somebody to take care of Chris once she passes away. I'm not so sure about that. Most veterans here probably have a pretty good idea of just how lazy Barb is. In my opinion, she probably hasn't arranged anything of the sort. She probably thinks that Chris can take care of himself. As we've established a bit ago, he is capable of that to an extent.

If this turns out to be the case and Chris really is left alone after her passing, then Chris may go through another metamorphosis as the last of the slightly sane people in his daily life disappear. Said changes may end up being that he goes even more insane and does something as crazy as any of his actions were back in the golden age. Either that, or he's simply just going to stop posting videos again.
 
Marvin said:
when Chris begs for more donations right after getting $1k, I don't see that as evidence that Chris blew the money or that he is desperately in need of money. I see that as Chris saying "hey, sweet, money! but y'know what's better than $1000? $1001! donate now!"
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Fair point. But I do see it as evidence that he puts no thought into what his income will look like in the future. He begs for more donations because he has no idea how lucky he was to get a donation in the first place.
 
Alec Benson Leary said:
Fair point. But I do see it as evidence that he puts no thought into what his income will look like in the future. He begs for more donations because he has no idea how lucky he was to get a donation in the first place.
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Oh yeah, I mean, look at how he's reacting to possibly getting $120k. He's reacting to it pretty much like he found $5 on the ground.

Maybe he's in disbelief or something, but I could definitely believe $120k just doesn't mean anything to him. Money is too abstract to him.
 
Marvin said:
Maybe he's in disbelief or something, but I could definitely believe $120k just doesn't mean anything to him. Money is too abstract to him.
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That's the thing that's always got me about how Chris understands money, he knows money is important and will spend money like it's going out of fashion when he thinks he can (not often), and has a rudimentary budget, but has no real idea how it works in sums larger than the tugboat / what he is used to handling. For example if I gave you $120k you'd have a good idea how to use it right, pay off debts, get better housing, transport, etc with maybe a little non essential spending once all that has been coverd. To Chris, he can't really conceptualise just what that amount of money could do for him in real hard and fast terms, to him it's just a bigger number.

While we all know that the $120k is never going to appear, I would like to know what OPL plans to do when he get's the money or if he's planned at all.
 
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Marvin said:
No, Chris knows he has to have his tugboat last the month. He makes purchases with that in mind. He pays his bills. And this is something he does now. That's not a hypothetical.
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Alright, I will bow to the greater knowledge of those with a more thorough knowledge of Chris than I, since admittedly most of what I do know is from the CWCki. I know that it says at one point Bob had to confiscate his tugboat and give him an allowance out of it while taking over paying Chris's credit card debt because Chris wasn't doing it, but even if that bit's accurate I do know that was quite a few years ago, so obviously I could just be mistaken on how things are (or are now). Forgive my Casual-ness.

Ravenor said:
While we all know that the $120k is never going to appear, I would like to know what OPL plans to do when he get's the money or if he's planned at all.
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GolgoXIII said:
When Barb does pass-on do you think any of his siblings will take him in?
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Nope never, Cole want's nothing to do with CWC, and his half siblings want nothing to do with Chris or Barb (or even bob when he was alive) the most that might happen is one of them shows at the funeral and call's Chris at Christmas etc just to make sure he's alive.
 
GolgoXIII said:
When Barb does pass-on do you think any of his siblings will take him in?
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Hell no. Bob's kids had so little contact that one of them had a daughter and didn't tell Bob. I think that's pretty solid evidence that they never wanted to see the Lumberjack ever again, let alone act as caretaker for his retarded son by the town bike.

Cole might have offered assistance at one time, but I think a combination of Chris being under Barb's spell and all the troll drama has meant that he too has decided that cutting off completely is the best course of action.

It's all academic in any case, because Chris wouldn't let them take him in. He'd insist they move to 14BLC.
 
Holdek said:
Maybe he will go live in a group home.
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Why would he? Or more specifically, what would motivate him to do so? While he certainly isn't mentally retarded, he wouldn't see the need to. The only reason he'd go to one is if someone made him go to one.
 
Holdek said:
Maybe he will go live in a group home.

Thoughts?
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He'd hate the shit about that. He has a bitter hatred of other mentally handicapped people. He also would probably assume he was being sent to a male group home. He'd kick and scream and make life difficult for everybody. Then they'd probably over medicate him like they did during the trial, then eventually he'd find an excuse to go off his meds and go crazy again like he is now.

Honestly best thing he can do after Barb dies is to dig a hole next to patty's dog house and mace himself to death in it.
 
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