Comments on: Good Humanitarian or Personal Finance D-Bag?

By: Financial bondage

Financial bondage — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:17:41 +0000

they should charge according to income? someone making $50k a year pays more than the person making $20k? I dunno. Just a thought. Of course people could lie and abuse that policy easy. lol

By: MoneyMateKate

MoneyMateKate — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:58:04 +0000

Yeah, Long Island – you don’t pay that ridiculous city tax! Back when I was a salaried employee on a pathetic $39K a year, it was painful giving up that $1K/yr. For that, I want free museums for citydwellers! Waaahhhh!

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:48:30 +0000

Hey hey hey, who ya calling a Tourist? Long Islander here! Lived in Bayside till I was 8, brother is FDNY, parents still own a home in Bayside and in Astoria on Steinway….how about them street creds? LOL

That aside, we talked about going back and paying less the next time since we would be in there shorter. I liked the Nat History Museum MUCH BETTER! but we already did that together, and I thought art would be more romantic since it was V-Day

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:41:26 +0000

Fair, and that is basically what we ran with!

By: MoneyMateKate

MoneyMateKate — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:39:07 +0000

Here’s my thing – I pay a fortune to live in Manhattan. Heck, those of us who live in the 5 boroughs pay a city tax on our incomes on top of the hideous rents and jacked-up grocery prices for food that’s nearly expired. Now, I don’t know for sure how many, or even if, my tax dollars go to the MMA, but I feel the least the city owes me is cheap museum entry. I’m only good for about 1 hour anyway, museums make me sleepy.

However, for you tourists who are there maybe once in a lifetime for 4 hours at a clip – that’s $5 an hour each for world-class entertainment. So it was a good and fair thing that you and your wife did. If you had planned a shorter visit, then less would have been fine. But that’s just my opinion.

Having said all that, I rarely go because of the discomfort in “underpaying”. Seriously, if it wasn’t for that, I’d probably hit the Museum of Natural History 5-8x a year (it works the same way as the Met) – not enough to justify the price of becoming a “Friend”. I was back when it was $45/year though.

By: Matt Jabs

Matt Jabs — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:24:04 +0000

If you have it to give, give it… if not, then don’t.

By: David @ MBA briefs

David @ MBA briefs — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:49:06 +0000

I’m a little late weighing in on this one but if you spent 4 hours that’s only $10 bucks an hour or $5 bucks an hour each, which sounds like cheap entertainment to me. About the same price per hour as going to movies.

By: Mrs. Money

Mrs. Money — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:23:59 +0000

You are so funny!! I agree- I wold feel like a chump too. Call and complain.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:24:43 +0000

I kind of agree with you which is probably why I ended up paying the full $40.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:23:52 +0000

I have mixed feelings – I feel like it was the right thing, but it angered me that I felt like the only chump paying full recommended price