Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : Six years ago, my mother bought me a laptop for college. It wasn't a beast or anything but it could play simple games like csgo and dota. Those were basically the two main games I played with my friends. Well a year after getting it, my roommate at the time was drunk and tripped, knocked it off my desk and landed on it. Breaking the screen clean off the laptop and it would not turn on or connect to external displays.

Now, I still go to college full time and work part time at night and living pay check to pay check for my own needs. I have been using this terrible computer for 5 years now because I have no savings or emergency funds at all. Working in restaurants, I would steal food from work to eat. I make about 800 a month and rent alone is 450. With cell phone, car insurance, utilities, gas for my 30 min drive to work, etc, it gets pretty tight. So, I gave up on my laptop and asked a buddy of mine at walmart to grab me a marked down display model from the back. He came out with a 80 dollar gateway laptop that was made god knows when and I opened a walmart credit card to get it. This laptop cannot handle the software I use for my classes (it cant run basically any software other than word or google chrome. I bought shovel knight with a steam gift card I got for Christmas and the fps is so bad that I cant tell if my inputs actually do anything) and I frequently have to use other people's computers or drive to the library and pay for parking to take tests and complete assignments.

Every year my mom takes my tax refund to pay her back for the 20 dollars here, 20 there that she sends me to help pay a bill or get gas towards the end of the month.

Fast forward to now. My sweet mother decided to actually give me my refund this year which is 800 dollars. I thought this would be my only chance to get a new laptop since I never have any sort of savings whatsoever and I desperately need a new computer.

Enter my girlfriend. She makes 40k a year and blows her money left and right. Drops 60-80 dollars every other day eating out, 200 bucks on the weekend at bars, new phone every couple months, a lot of unnecessary purchases so she also, some how, lives pay check to pay check as well. Growing up with not much money, I try to help her budget her money to build some savings but she claims its her money and she can do what she wants with it. Fair enough.

We are looking at this apartment and they want a lot of money up front and she wants me to give her the 800 dollars to help offset the cost. She admitted that she can easily cover it with her next pay check but said that "its not fair" because she wants to get some tattoos with her next pay. I told her I can help split the monthly bills once we move in but I desperately need a new computer and I dont know when I will have the chance to get another one. I'm 23 (i missed a year of school due to financial issues. I have 9 months left) and she is 24 if that helps.