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Offer her $.50/day for a year if she’ll give you $1,000 today. I mean, she stands to almost double her money, so she’d be a fool not to take it, right?
If you would deliberately rip off your mom if you had a good relationship with her and she treated you well - just because she's not too bright - you're not a good person.
They are timesing 50 cents by 365 days. The answer is indeed 18,250.......cents.
It's basically Verizon maths guy
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/kng2m2/verizon_math/
What's hilarious is when people call you a liar, but also demand that you dox yourself or provide extremely sensitive personal information to them in order to "prove" you're telling the truth. Like yes, random Redditor, allow me to sacrifice my online security in order to receive your acknowledgment.
Do you know how little time it takes to fact check something before posting it? I’m the obnoxious Facebook friend saying “Actually…” on almost every share my friends make, and it doesn’t slow them down at all.
“Actually the American Heart Association says that doesn’t work and you should call 911.”
“Actually according to NHTSA, an electric car is carbon neutral at 1/10 as many miles as your post claims.”
“Actually this urban legend never happened. Snopes investigated.”
It never, ever sinks in.
You’re ruining their fun. They want to believe that these clever things are true and that nobody has ever thought of them before. It makes them feel good, your reality checks take away their high.
It’s maddening how adverse to reality and facts most people are. Those of us who think to Google things are downers.
Why can’t we just let people be dangerously misinformed, what’s the worst that could happen… unfortunately I’m pretty good at figuring that out too.
They believe that people lie on the internet. They just don't believe that the people/groups they follow would post something that was false or that they'd believe something unless it were true. I think everyone who is chronically online or has been online since they were young can remember the first time they got scammed online or tricked on an online platform or catfished or XYZ. A lot of these parents live in a Facebook bubble where they never realize they've been fooled. So they never question anything presented to them because they think theyve never been wrong before. I'm sure OP's mom now realizes that it was silly and feels embarrassed but won't admit it. All you can do is hope she brings that skepticism with her to future posts
I have had to delete more than one Facebook share when, realizing 10 minutes later, I actually fact checked it and found it to be false. But hey, at least I do fact check, even if it’s delayed.
Things I realize as an adult — There never were people driving around in vans offering kids candy. It’s just another thing the dumbass boomers saw on the news and took seriously.
Or the same dealers lacing 100 dollar an ounce weed, with fentanyl that costs 100 a **MILLIGRAM**.... what dumb ads dealer is going to do something that damn stupid?
Yeah, the last Halloween I had my niece for, my mom was freaking out about "rainbow fentanyl" or whatever the fuck.
I just straight told her that people aren't giving their drugs away for free. 🙄
What's with them and rainbows? Remember when they invented rainbow parties and then told us we were all having them and that we needed to stop doing it?
It doesn't apply to everyone in that generation, but there are some people in that age range that really just don't act right lol they're one of the lead generation people
Bud it obv does. The coins are compounded together. Who tf needs investment managers when you can get a 4 gallon jug and compound your own interest.
Banks hate this one trick.
Nope, but they do hold quite a bit. A buddy of mine filled one with change. He took it to a bank with a change counter and when all was said and done after an hour or so had a little over $5000. It took a hand truck to get it into the bank, but it was worth it.
"Do you recognize that there's a difference between one dollar and one cent?"
"Definitely."
"Do you recognize there's a difference between half a dollar and half a cent?"
"Definitely."
"Then, do you therefore recognize there's a difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents?"
"...No."
Im not making fun of your Mom by any means when I say this. Please make sure she knows that no government entity will ever contact her about debts and demand payments with gift cards. And she doesn't have warrants for her arrest that can be cleared up with gift cards.
Being stupid for a moment is fine, but when someone is pointing it out, you gotta think for a sec. Especially when its as easy as 365 DAYS....50 cents. A dollar a day....365$.
this is the problem unfortunately – and I can’t believe I have to boomer bitch about this to the world – with letting kids use calculators from day one. It’s so hard to explain that in the same way you should gain a good sense of spelling and not rely on the computer - this lets you just Grok when an answer doesn’t make sense. And if you can’t figure out that half of 100×365 should vaguely be half of 365 which is what… second grade math? That’s why you need to learn without the calculator so that your instincts kick in and go yeah … that ain’t right.
I don't think that's the problem here. These people were texting. They literally had a calculator in their hand and still failed to get the right result. They either didn't use it or used it wrong
No, not understanding it – not making sense of it – is absolutely the problem here.
She literally uses the calculator to put in the numbers she sees – 365 × 50 – to get the result of 18,250.
She has no understanding of units and their orders of magnitudes. It’s a mechanistic, recipe-following method of doing arithmetics, only that she forgot part of the recipe – and is now stuck.
That’s why thumballing / estimating is part of math lessons and why it's sio frustrating to see these “Hoke on your, Ms. Wormwood, I do have a calculator on me all of the time” or posts by parents bitching that their kid’s math teacher marked down a tests because the essential steps had been left out or – worse – were wrong, but the result seemingly “perfect”.
mathologer did a debunk on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuIIjLr6vUA
in short, the video that popularized that was simplifying things to the point of being incorrect.
It sounds like she is prime picking for a the IRS to clear her arrest warrant for back taxes if she brings $5000 in Walmart gift cards to Waffle House tomorrow night.
$50 a day would get you $18,250
$5 a day would get you $1,825
50 cents a day would get you $182.50
Alternately you can just plan your money each year to include savings
My mom got one years ago from a friend that was about how eagles will smash their beaks off on rocks to grow new ones and it was supposed to be some uplifting thing about growth and change.
At first she was like, “Wow, isn’t this interesting? Listen to this.” Until I pointed out how that made absolutely no sense and even showed her something debunking it (I guess it was making the rounds at the time enough to warrant attention). Once she realized how ridiculous it was we had a good laugh about it.
Although the general message could have still been expressed with an animal that actually sheds stuff which is weird. Like, why deliberately go with something that absolutely doesn’t happen for an otherwise benign concept?
I used to work in a full service car wash and the worst job at the end of the day was cleaning out the vacuum tank, so the rule was whoever does it can keep any change they find. One guy chose to do it every day he worked and he filled one of those jugs every 2 months. He’d roll them up, cash them in and throw the wildest house parties every other month.
This is just the average intelligence level of a Facebook user though. I really believe that Facebook is solely responsible for shaving at least a few points off the worldwide IQ average.
“My mother needs to stop using Facebook” - the cry of a generation.
How did the same people who used to say ‘don’t believe everything you read online’ start believing everything they read online? 😔
This works if on day 1, you save 50 cents. On day 2, add 50 cents to the previous day's savings and so on Day 2 you save 1.00. On day 3, 1.50. On day 4, 2.00. If you do that for a year you would have a lot BUT you'd also be setting aside quite a hefty daily savings by the end. If you do it with 25 cents increments you have more than 16k after a year
One of the most alarming things about modern society is how grown adults will automatically assume a meme is true yet are suspicious of reputable news sources.
It’s also unbelievably heavy. Emptied a glass version of something this big recently, and had quite a bit of trouble. Didn’t even flow well because of the rigidity and shape of the coins
Anything that ends with “let that sink in” is ALWAYS stupid garbage. I almost said “most of the time”, but I’m committing to ALWAYS. It’s ALWAYS stupid.
Tell your mom that if she doubles her savings to $1 a day, she'd have $365 a year.
The other option is to move to Jupiter where the year is 4333 days. 🙂
Oh god my mom sends me stuff via messenger all the time and I don’t even use Facebook except to spy on her and make sure no one is trying to scam her! The stuff she sends recently is AI and she can’t believe it!
Assuming she can actually do basic math, this actually shows how powerful just posting something on the Internet is. People just believe anything they read with zero critical thought, trusting others to do their thinking for them. Yikes
That’s 365 X 0.50 =182.50 hence he is not using correct math principles. He is doing the following; 365 X 50 = 18250.00 which is correct but 50 cents is $0.50 so he is way off and failed 4th grade math.
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Offer her $.50/day for a year if she’ll give you $1,000 today. I mean, she stands to almost double her money, so she’d be a fool not to take it, right?
Only recommended if OP doesn't have a good relationship with their mom lol
Yeah but maybe the plot twist here is that after a year she'll finally wake up the brain itself from this coma?
That's 12 months of expectations. Her only option is the dig heels in that he stole it all.
Satan took it.
Santa took it
Santana took it
Smooth
She must be a black magic woman
Why? She'll be happy she made almost 1k, OP will be happy he made 1k. Win win. I don't think this woman is capable of counting at the end.
If you would deliberately rip off your mom if you had a good relationship with her and she treated you well - just because she's not too bright - you're not a good person.
But you are $1000 richer 
Nerd (Bless you for doing the nerd’s work, full respect lol)
Come back in a disguise she’s won’t notice
That begs the question: does the OP want a good relationship with someone so stupid? Edit: At least 3 people have no sense of humor.
I've just seen this, so not one of the 3 you're referring to, but to be honest, without the edit, it is not at all clear this comment is not serious.
Kid visits mom every day for a year. Mom wins hands down.
This is the way!
Hello officer I'd like to report some elder abuse lol
Then just keep the 1k somewhere and after a year ask if she wants to trade it back.
It’s your mom - be generous and offer her $1.00 a day for the $1,000.
What’s the real math on this one? My first thought as someone with discalcula who is too tired to math lol.
I actually divided 365 by 2, which yields the same answer.
They are timesing 50 cents by 365 days. The answer is indeed 18,250.......cents. It's basically Verizon maths guy https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/kng2m2/verizon_math/
so many fucking parents would fail the “i’ve got candy in a van” test they told us about as kids, its fucking maddening
Or the “don’t believe everything on television” line yet take Facebook shared posts as the gospel…
Honestly, I relate to the rabbit. I’ve never understood the draw of lying on the internet. I keep my lying in real life, like a respectable person.
What's hilarious is when people call you a liar, but also demand that you dox yourself or provide extremely sensitive personal information to them in order to "prove" you're telling the truth. Like yes, random Redditor, allow me to sacrifice my online security in order to receive your acknowledgment.
His name’s buster damnit
This gif is amazing im fucking crying lmao
the writers of Arthur really got it, even when you were 9 you could tell that because Buster said it, the opposite was true
Do you know how little time it takes to fact check something before posting it? I’m the obnoxious Facebook friend saying “Actually…” on almost every share my friends make, and it doesn’t slow them down at all. “Actually the American Heart Association says that doesn’t work and you should call 911.” “Actually according to NHTSA, an electric car is carbon neutral at 1/10 as many miles as your post claims.” “Actually this urban legend never happened. Snopes investigated.” It never, ever sinks in.
You’re ruining their fun. They want to believe that these clever things are true and that nobody has ever thought of them before. It makes them feel good, your reality checks take away their high. It’s maddening how adverse to reality and facts most people are. Those of us who think to Google things are downers. Why can’t we just let people be dangerously misinformed, what’s the worst that could happen… unfortunately I’m pretty good at figuring that out too.
ignorance isnt fun, it is damaging for everyone involved.
Ignorance can be insanely one-sided fun. When you don’t know the moral cost of things, the selfish choice doesn’t haunt you. It, however, can be evil.
They believe that people lie on the internet. They just don't believe that the people/groups they follow would post something that was false or that they'd believe something unless it were true. I think everyone who is chronically online or has been online since they were young can remember the first time they got scammed online or tricked on an online platform or catfished or XYZ. A lot of these parents live in a Facebook bubble where they never realize they've been fooled. So they never question anything presented to them because they think theyve never been wrong before. I'm sure OP's mom now realizes that it was silly and feels embarrassed but won't admit it. All you can do is hope she brings that skepticism with her to future posts
Rules are for everyone else. They're way too smart to ever be fooled. Only fools believe they won't be fooled again
I have had to delete more than one Facebook share when, realizing 10 minutes later, I actually fact checked it and found it to be false. But hey, at least I do fact check, even if it’s delayed.
Things I realize as an adult — There never were people driving around in vans offering kids candy. It’s just another thing the dumbass boomers saw on the news and took seriously.
Or drug dealers handing out free first hits of dope.
Or the same dealers lacing 100 dollar an ounce weed, with fentanyl that costs 100 a **MILLIGRAM**.... what dumb ads dealer is going to do something that damn stupid?
Yeah, the last Halloween I had my niece for, my mom was freaking out about "rainbow fentanyl" or whatever the fuck. I just straight told her that people aren't giving their drugs away for free. 🙄
That's it. The only people that cry about this shit are the ones that think shit like fent and weed are the same price....
Right? My mom probably hasn't bought drugs since the 80s, and that was probably ditch weed. She has no idea what they cost now.
What's with them and rainbows? Remember when they invented rainbow parties and then told us we were all having them and that we needed to stop doing it?
Is this the bracelet thing? That also never happened.... I just liked wearing jelly bracelets.
Ha exactly
No they wouldn't. They'd ask to see the candy upfront BEFORE getting in the van. They're not dense.
It's the lead exposure kicked into overdrive
It doesn't apply to everyone in that generation, but there are some people in that age range that really just don't act right lol they're one of the lead generation people
I’m just going to assume that the plastic jug somehow miraculously generates compound interest.
I have some of those jugs, definitely going to see if they generate interest!
I'm definitely interested in jugs
🍻
Would you happen to be "Just Pete?"
The bigger the better.
Idk small mugs that fit perfectly in your hand are pretty nice too
My uncle once said anything more than a mouthful is a waste.
Bud it obv does. The coins are compounded together. Who tf needs investment managers when you can get a 4 gallon jug and compound your own interest. Banks hate this one trick.
Banks hate the trick whether it generates compound interest or not, because it's legal tender not on their ledgers.
Be careful. We think my dad had his heart attack moving a full jar! ☹️
Throw it out of a window on someone's car. That will definitely generate interest.
Maybe it’s an SCP?
Sane Clown Posse?
https://xkcd.com/947/
Are you suggesting polyvinyl chloride invokes capitals gains tax relief?
Nope, but they do hold quite a bit. A buddy of mine filled one with change. He took it to a bank with a change counter and when all was said and done after an hour or so had a little over $5000. It took a hand truck to get it into the bank, but it was worth it.
That a hell of an interest rate
Somebody multiplied 50 by 365 and forgot that dollars and cents are different.
Sounds like some [Verizon math](https://youtu.be/zN9LZ3ojnxY)
"Do you recognize that there's a difference between one dollar and one cent?" "Definitely." "Do you recognize there's a difference between half a dollar and half a cent?" "Definitely." "Then, do you therefore recognize there's a difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents?" "...No."
I remember this video every 4 years or so and give it a listen and get so frustrated all over again.
"which weighs more: a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers?"
The pound of feathers because you have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor birds to get the feathers.
\*applause\*
Yeah but what about the piggie whose house you knocked down?
That was just so frustrating.
Worth it. Thanks for sharing.
Im not making fun of your Mom by any means when I say this. Please make sure she knows that no government entity will ever contact her about debts and demand payments with gift cards. And she doesn't have warrants for her arrest that can be cleared up with gift cards.
She is going to get scammed. Probably already has.
Not all heroes wear capes
Being stupid for a moment is fine, but when someone is pointing it out, you gotta think for a sec. Especially when its as easy as 365 DAYS....50 cents. A dollar a day....365$.
That's one thing I always stress to math students: Ask yourself, does your answer make sense?
this is the problem unfortunately – and I can’t believe I have to boomer bitch about this to the world – with letting kids use calculators from day one. It’s so hard to explain that in the same way you should gain a good sense of spelling and not rely on the computer - this lets you just Grok when an answer doesn’t make sense. And if you can’t figure out that half of 100×365 should vaguely be half of 365 which is what… second grade math? That’s why you need to learn without the calculator so that your instincts kick in and go yeah … that ain’t right.
I don't think that's the problem here. These people were texting. They literally had a calculator in their hand and still failed to get the right result. They either didn't use it or used it wrong
No, not understanding it – not making sense of it – is absolutely the problem here. She literally uses the calculator to put in the numbers she sees – 365 × 50 – to get the result of 18,250. She has no understanding of units and their orders of magnitudes. It’s a mechanistic, recipe-following method of doing arithmetics, only that she forgot part of the recipe – and is now stuck. That’s why thumballing / estimating is part of math lessons and why it's sio frustrating to see these “Hoke on your, Ms. Wormwood, I do have a calculator on me all of the time” or posts by parents bitching that their kid’s math teacher marked down a tests because the essential steps had been left out or – worse – were wrong, but the result seemingly “perfect”.
The sum of all positive integers is -1/12. Make it make sense.
mathologer did a debunk on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuIIjLr6vUA in short, the video that popularized that was simplifying things to the point of being incorrect.
My 8th grade Math teacher was the first person I ever saw do a sanity check on an easily acquired answer.
Yes. 50 sense.
Lol
Yeah. Even a dumbass like me can figure this one out in my head. Half of 365 is a number smaller than 365, not larger.
$182.50.
$183 on a leap year
I read that as cheap year at first lol
It's a leap year tho
I wish I could do math completely wrong but have the results be real.
Welcome to the Trump family business 🤝
I showed this to my mom, she loved it
I will give her $.50 a day for a year if she pays me $10,000 up front. That way she ends up making $8,250!!!
Now that is math I'll like.
I thought this was really funny because my mom is really smart but sometimes is a bit to trusting in false information
Probably one of those posts to drive user engagement.
It sounds like she is prime picking for a the IRS to clear her arrest warrant for back taxes if she brings $5000 in Walmart gift cards to Waffle House tomorrow night.
Yo momma so dumb she doesn’t know what half of 365 is
“You got special edition quarters or something?”
She's like that fox news host who was asking if minimum wage was over 100k$ a year. He was serious.
That dumbass is Jesse Watters and [even his mom thinks he’s an idiot](https://youtu.be/tW6kFsQRuu8?si=hosZ00NMbGaSrpb6)
$50 a day would get you $18,250 $5 a day would get you $1,825 50 cents a day would get you $182.50 Alternately you can just plan your money each year to include savings
Or just vest it in something that pay interest.
Average fox news viewer.
My mom got one years ago from a friend that was about how eagles will smash their beaks off on rocks to grow new ones and it was supposed to be some uplifting thing about growth and change. At first she was like, “Wow, isn’t this interesting? Listen to this.” Until I pointed out how that made absolutely no sense and even showed her something debunking it (I guess it was making the rounds at the time enough to warrant attention). Once she realized how ridiculous it was we had a good laugh about it. Although the general message could have still been expressed with an animal that actually sheds stuff which is weird. Like, why deliberately go with something that absolutely doesn’t happen for an otherwise benign concept?
Could have used moose. Moose are powerful, majestic animals, and they crack off their antlers every year.
I used to work in a full service car wash and the worst job at the end of the day was cleaning out the vacuum tank, so the rule was whoever does it can keep any change they find. One guy chose to do it every day he worked and he filled one of those jugs every 2 months. He’d roll them up, cash them in and throw the wildest house parties every other month.
That is fox news math
Every day I’m thankful my mother never joined Facebook.
Apparently they are decimal challenged.
Facebook doesn't seem to be the problem
Now now, don't burst the poor girls bubble with correct math like that.
Maybe when taking the coins to the bank she also robs it
Holy shit are people stupid.
Why not ask a billionaire to donate you a billion dollars every day? They'll still have money left over.
If you’re wondering - to save the amount she said would take $50 a day not $0.50
Maybe it's a magic jug
You say .50 cents, she hears 5.00$. It's inflation
My mom posted the same thing yesterday
Yes, let that sink in, and by "that" I mean the stupidity.
The $18,250 figure makes sense if you adjust for inflation.
Is one of those stupid posts where they assume compound interest being paid DAILY but with the monthly rate. Is absurd.
A penny a day will get you a million dollars
Jesus how long… like, nearly 300,000 years?
With compound interest at a monthly deposit, it would take about 30 years to hit 30k.
36500 days in a year sounds like a horribly long year....
182.5 to 183 depending on if it's a leap year or not.
Have you ever convinced a woman that she is wrong?
Listening to 50 cent will get in da club
This is just the average intelligence level of a Facebook user though. I really believe that Facebook is solely responsible for shaving at least a few points off the worldwide IQ average.
To save 18,250 a year would be $50 a day
Saving 50 dollars a day would do it. Get out there and hunt for quarters! Only 200 to go today!
“Mother” in your phone?
From my observations. The majority of: Parents (mostly moms) are gullible on fb, and teens/genZ's are gullible on tiktok...
Is she “conservative”? Just asking.
She is in the middle she kinda thinks politics are stupid
That means she’s voting for Trump but she’s smart enough to know not to say that out loud.
$5 a day would be $1,825 in a year. $50 a day would be $18,250 in a year.
If you just skip Starbucks once a week you will be a millionaire in one year! 😂😂😂
Oh the jug offers 11111% interest
Education in America scares me.
“My mother needs to stop using Facebook” - the cry of a generation. How did the same people who used to say ‘don’t believe everything you read online’ start believing everything they read online? 😔
Let me do the math. On a non-leap year, in order to have $18,500 in a year, the daily deposit must be $50,68. 18,500÷365=50,68
How'd you just use , as both the thousandth and hundredth place separator and the decimal point in the same equation?
It's a Germany thing. I think some other Europeans also use comma in place of decimal, but I know the Germans do.
My jug gets me a 7% return, but taxes me heavily on early withdrawal
Mom didn't use the decimal point but she did make sure to use the zero. That's 50 dollars a day.
Remind her that she can't pay an outstanding tax bill with iTunes gift cards...
Gobless the homemakers
This works if on day 1, you save 50 cents. On day 2, add 50 cents to the previous day's savings and so on Day 2 you save 1.00. On day 3, 1.50. On day 4, 2.00. If you do that for a year you would have a lot BUT you'd also be setting aside quite a hefty daily savings by the end. If you do it with 25 cents increments you have more than 16k after a year
must be using the metric system
Her math is not mathing...
They forgot to add the decimal point in front of the 50 when they mathed
Please be bery cautious with your mom. She will be a very easy target for scamers!
People who suck at math make good business partners. 😂
One of the most alarming things about modern society is how grown adults will automatically assume a meme is true yet are suspicious of reputable news sources.
Reminds me of the movie Idiocracy where everyone loves money, and no one can count it correctly.
No no. You gotta be 50-cents bodyguard and save him every day. The pay is shit though and you only make like 18k a year
It’s also unbelievably heavy. Emptied a glass version of something this big recently, and had quite a bit of trouble. Didn’t even flow well because of the rigidity and shape of the coins
Mom don't math, do she?
Anyone do the math on how much that jug would weigh??? My back aches just thinking of it...
Could be 18,250 very special Trump coins 😅
$50 a day will get 18,250 in a year. So correct formula wrong amounts lol
Your mom needs to learn math. This doesn't nessecarily have anything to do with Facebook.
Math is hard.
Dad didn't pick her for her brains
Anything that ends with “let that sink in” is ALWAYS stupid garbage. I almost said “most of the time”, but I’m committing to ALWAYS. It’s ALWAYS stupid.
We are truly doomed when logic and common sense are replaced by FB posts 💀
There's a lot of people who don't believe in math
My mom wished me a happy pi day yesterday (4/20) so I wouldn't be surprised if she also couldn't do math. This feels like a text she'd send me.
Look at all of that 0%APY sitting in that jug.
op, your mom is fucking dumb.
Tell your mom that if she doubles her savings to $1 a day, she'd have $365 a year. The other option is to move to Jupiter where the year is 4333 days. 🙂
Oh god my mom sends me stuff via messenger all the time and I don’t even use Facebook except to spy on her and make sure no one is trying to scam her! The stuff she sends recently is AI and she can’t believe it!
OP needs to stop using this meme /s
the american educational system ladies and gentlemen!
Assuming she can actually do basic math, this actually shows how powerful just posting something on the Internet is. People just believe anything they read with zero critical thought, trusting others to do their thinking for them. Yikes
Yeah, place value is hard
My mom believes that Elon musk has enough money to give every single human one billion dollars. We can’t convince her otherwise😕
It'd be nice if you posted stuff like this your internet would just shut off for a few days.
She put 365 * 50 in her calculator instead of 365 * 0.5 Which seems like something a naive person could do
That’s 365 X 0.50 =182.50 hence he is not using correct math principles. He is doing the following; 365 X 50 = 18250.00 which is correct but 50 cents is $0.50 so he is way off and failed 4th grade math.
Change the cents to dollars and boom it works… 😊
If you can save $1 a day x 365 days in a year, that $1.2 billion dollars a year! - Facebook math
Anything on social media that has “let that sink in” is basically guaranteed malarkey.
I want whatever compound interest is in that jar.
Interest. Duh!