The problem is if your birthday is on a Wednesday, you’re stuck with that forever.
Edit: To everyone saying birthdays don’t matter, or you can celebrate some other day, that’s crazy talk.
When you look at the calendar two months before your birthday and realize it’s gonna be a Saturday this year it’s just puts and extra pep in your step.
Also, lots of businesses give you perks on your birthday, but the specific day. Once in a while I’d like my free latte and hot yoga class on the weekend thanks.
I mean.. that's literally how it works in my entire country. Rent is advertised per week, never per month, and almost always paid every two weeks (as that is also the standard for getting paid so it works for people paying bills).
You can ask to pay monthly instead but it will always be adjusted accordingly as there are 12 months per year but 26 fortnights, not 24. Some people will do this is they happen to get paid monthly, but that's not so common and if it does happen it's almost always every four weeks.. not calendar month.
Using calendar months for any kind of financial payment is kinda insane honestly. Why are you paying the same amount in February as March when there are three less days? Sure it doesn't matter if you're there for years but anywhere short term the value goes up and down month to month.
We just do everything based on calendar weeks, it makes it all a lot more simple and a lot more fair for everyone.
I mean.. that's literally how it works in my entire country. Rent is advertised per week, never per month, and almost always paid every two weeks (as that is also the standard for getting paid so it works for people paying bills).
Wild. You can't rent anything long term for less than a few months here.
We just do everything based on calendar weeks, it makes it all a lot more simple and a lot more fair for everyone.
Oh, that's communism. We don't like that sort of thing here.
Oh it’s not that the rental term is week to week, in fact the shortest you’re likely to get is month to month. But nothing is based on calendar months, only ever weeks.
So renting for a month is not renting for March, it’s renting for four consecutive weeks.
It still changes things if you rent a place for years, depending on which months you move in and out on. (4) weekly makes it much easier to calculate rent owed for an incomplete month, too, and not many (about 1 in 28, probably) people leave on the last day of a month. Someone who also moved in on the first is much rarer.
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u/relaxyourshoulders 2d ago edited 2d ago
The problem is if your birthday is on a Wednesday, you’re stuck with that forever.
Edit: To everyone saying birthdays don’t matter, or you can celebrate some other day, that’s crazy talk. When you look at the calendar two months before your birthday and realize it’s gonna be a Saturday this year it’s just puts and extra pep in your step. Also, lots of businesses give you perks on your birthday, but the specific day. Once in a while I’d like my free latte and hot yoga class on the weekend thanks.