How To Deal With A Moocher

We all have irresponsible people in our lives who need us to help them out of situations they got themselves in, but some have turned this behavior into a lifestyle. How many times have you been asked to give someone a ride? How many times have you been asked to pay for your friends’ drinks or club entry? How many times have you been inconvenienced by helping someone out only to later regret it? Well I am going to show you how to elude and escape the tricks of the losers and users in your life.

STEP ONE: IDENTIFICATION

The first step is identifying the type of mooch you have encountered. It doesn’t matter how much money someone makes, if they are irresponsible, they will find a way to need help. If you say no the first time, the moocher asking again is unlikely because moochers hate rejection. A moocher will say everything they can to try to make you feel bad for them before they hit you with their request. Some moochers just need small favors and some need big favors but moochers always need something.

STEP TWO: RELATIONSHIP

Charity starts at home, so the first people to hit your pockets are usually the ones closest to you. Do you want to have a relationship with someone who is using you? Are you religious and feel obligated to be victimized your entire life for rumored eternal gratification? Do you surround yourself with unfortunate people to feel better about yourself? Nobody is perfect and we have all been at low points in life before but we prevailed. Something in you or about you pushed you passed failure and into success. Meanwhile the failures and sob stories feel like you owe them somehow. Moochers often use family ties or past incidents to try to make you feel obligated, be prepared for the psychological warfare.

STEP THREE: TECHNIQUES

Moochers hate to be asked for anything. When my mom asks to borrow my car I tell her to fill the tank, suddenly she doesn’t need the car anymore. The goal of a moocher is to get and never give. Once you realize this it becomes very easy to deflect them. If you are a nice person and don’t like confrontation just lie, great lies can’t be verified without rudeness being exuded. People can’t ask about your money without being rude, then you can use that rudeness as a reason to end the conversation. The more intimate the relationship is, the more facts they have about you so try to keep intimacy with moochers to a minimum.

STEP FOUR: BLOCKED NUMBERS

God bless the iphone with the blocked caller feature. Use it and use it well, once you block someone all their calls will go straight to voicemail and you won’t have to lie anymore. We are so nice to people and never tell them how we feel, another technique is to be brutally honest. Most people live in a glass house and cannot deal with honesty. Tell them how you really feel and most likely they will be so offended they will punish you by no longer asking you for anything.

Keep your money and your mileage to yourself and instead being a good friend, be the successful and happy enemy. Thank me later