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mrclownworld
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Filmmaker. Conspiracy empiricist. Father. #truthstr LARPing as a salty no-coiner for the rest of this cycle
Replying to Avatar HODL

A lot of people have heard my moped story but I don’t think I’ve ever told the story of my extremely cheap wedding lol 😂

I got married in 2016, at the time I was aggressively stacking sats and trying to be as frugal as possible.

So I convinced my fiancée to have the wedding in our backyard to save money.

Total cost was under $5,000 which included the dress and her ring (seriously). So how did I pull that off when weddings in America routinely cost 30-50k?

Here’s how…

1. Ring: Her ring is fake. More specifically it’s a moissanite which is a lab grown gemstone that looks like a diamond but isn’t a diamond. My wife was on board with this because it allowed her to get a much bigger stone than she otherwise would have and no one can tell the difference. Total cost: $1,200

2. Dress: When it came time to pick out the dress I didn’t want to interfere, so I just let her mom and sister go pick one out with her. She didn’t have a budget, but she was fully bought into my crazy money saving plan and found a dress she loved that only cost $500. That’s how you know you’re marrying the right girl. Total cost: $500

3. Venue: Free obviously because we did it in our backyard, but I did spend a little buying gifts for the neighbors because we were going to be making a lot of noise. Total cost: $200

4. Tables & chairs: We rented these, something to understand when it comes to rentals. When I called vendors for this wedding I didn’t tell any of them it was a wedding. I used the word “event” on the phone. This makes everything 30% cheaper. Total cost: $600

5. Decorations: we bought a nice metal arch to get married under for $300 and then we spent an additional $500 on lanterns, tablecloths, candles, fake flowers etc… I put them all up myself. Total cost: $800

6. Drinks: Instead of having a fancy bar with a bartender or whatever I went to Costco bought a bunch of wine and beer, threw it in a cooler and called it a day. Total cost: $500

7. Music: at this point in the thread you really think I’m hiring a fancy DJ for this shit? lol no we had a Bluetooth speaker. Total cost: $200

8. Food: instead of doing some BS catering company we got a taco cart guy. Taco cart guy is the shit, you should really have one of these at every event. Everyone loved this dude and said they were some of the best tacos they’ve ever had. Total cost: $500

9. Photo/video: Even though I was running a production company at this time we decided to skip the video altogether. Why? Because nobody ever watches it. Plus my business partner and crew members were going to be attending the wedding. The only thing you want is that one photo of you walking down the aisle that you’re going to hang in the house. So I hired a good photographer I knew in town to show up for 20 mins and take a few shots of the ceremony. Total cost: $400

Bringing the grand total for the backyard wedding to $4,900

The wedding was so out of the norm by modern standards, that my new father in law pulled me aside and suggested I was being too frugal and needed to loosen up a bit. I smiled and nodded politely and then continued right along my path. My wife was on board, I was on board. We had a vision for our future. No one was going to stop me, no matter how “well intentioned” A vision I’m happy to report we are living today.

You want different results than others? You gotta do different shit than they do. Be weird. People will judge you for it, but it won’t matter, because in the end you’ll win.

Today we look back fondly on our cheap wedding. 10/10 would recommend.

Ok we didn’t hit $5k but we did use a number of these hacks to keep things way, way down

It’s not enough to tax your survival efforts, we also need to tax you hiring yourself to conduct your survival efforts.

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https://x.com/leonarda_jonie/status/1794534130178572685 I’ve never listened to him once lol

If you have to once, listen to him say modern nukes don’t cause nuclear fallout and give the whole nuke hoax away

Me: There was a big write up about how the 2020 election was won by a coordinated effort between big tech, ngos, and paid protestors in a big media outlet, something like vanity fair. Do you know what it was?

ChatGPT: The article you're referring to was published in *TIME* magazine and detailed what the author, Molly Ball, described as a "shadow campaign" to "save" the 2020 election. This effort involved a coordinated effort among various entities, including big tech companies, NGOs, labor unions, and political operatives. The goal was to influence the election process to ensure a specific outcome, which the participants justified as necessary to protect democracy from what they saw as a potential subversion by former President Trump.

The article discusses how these groups worked to change voting systems and laws, promoted mail-in voting, and implemented extensive public-awareness campaigns. It also mentions how social media companies were pressured to take a harder stance against disinformation and to control the narrative surrounding the election. This coordinated effort was seen by those involved as fortifying the election rather than rigging it, believing that their actions were essential to ensure a fair outcome.

For a deeper dive into this topic, you can read the original *TIME* article [here](https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/)

It’s theoretically a legal coinjoin, just with a limited and relatively static group of other individuals you might have real world connections to

The Gospels open up with a census that the authorities are undertaking to assess just how much they can tax the people and we are now living under an endless, permanent census

Wake me up when I can have my family members buy Bitcoin on whatever KYC platform they want, then send it on-chain to be spliced into a lightning channel controlled by a Fedimint I run with a handful of relatives, and then they can swap between USD and BTC ecash balances as needed and spend via LN (preferably without KYC)

And then use that internet to surveil them and censor them and target them and drone strike them as needed

Hol up

That bird’s shirt says “Biithic”

“Bithicc” should be a zaps powered nostr client for pictures of big butts I don’t make the rules nostr:note12t5ztcwfjw3tn6tkpew5ju3rer88hyd3757hnj87c8l7ast72m7sxmcrzy

Who do I vote for to stop CIA drone bombings 🤔

If I were RFK I would make jokes about the worm being my “brain trust” and I’d laugh and laugh

Orange Man, unless Brandon or Brainworm outbids him, I guess

The culture war divide for the next decade (choose your fighter):

People who have Bitcoin and need cap gains removed, having kids

Vs

People who have student loan debt and need it forgiven, not having kids

Of course we know who wins in the long run 🤷‍♂️

I know my vote doesn’t really make a difference in who will become president but it will really piss off a lot of idiots when I tell them who I voted for, so it’s worth it 🤙