poise2

The birth mother was the roughest looking 36 year old of all time, too.

Even for the typical litigant on an episode of Judge Judy, it would be absurd to pay $1000 for a 10 year old fridge. Even worse when you figure that due to inflation $1000 in 2003 is about $1400 today.

Did anyone catch that the fridge/stove were bought in 2003/2004, but Judge Judy kept saying they were "27 and 26 years old." JJ always says how she's no good at math, but she's off by ten years in her figgerin' there 🤦‍♂️

This case made me so sad the first time I saw it that today I just fastforwarded through it, couldn't watch it again. That poor girl clearly did not have any kind of stable upbringing, bouncing around from house to house. Had no understanding of banks or credit because no one ever taught her. But is still trying to do the right thing for herself, going to community college and working as a nanny. But because of her horrible mom, her credit is destroyed to the point that she can't even get a bank account and has to use one of those scammy pre-paid cards with huge fees as her "bank," and that's how she ended up learning about the world of credit and financing. Terrible. I could not bear it to see her tearing up saying that she just wanted to live with her bio mom (like a normal young girl growing up) because she loved her and she couldn't understand why her mom didn't love her back. Meanwhile her absolute see-you-next-Tuesday of a mom sat there looking indignant that she didn't totally get away with using her daughter for identity theft and destroying her credit. It just made me so sad to see, the daughter really seemed to be trying to do the right things with her life despite her challenging upbringing, going to school as best she could and working, but was just stomped on without any reason or remorse by her mom. I really hope that young girl finds success and happiness in life and is able to get back on track despite the huge handicap of her mom.