My wife works for a settlement agency. In short, they're a group of lawyers who close loans.

Friday night, she came home real late from a closing where the couple had some credit card debt, auto loan, mortgage. All together, they were refinancing their house, & consolidating their debt.

Get this. $80,000. dollars in credit card debt. Eighty thousand dollars. I dont think I've spent that much money in my life. These were average people. Holy shit.

I was just standing there beside myself with awe when I heard this.

my step dad was around 118k in credit card debt(more than his yearly salary before tax), tried to divorce out of it, but he got stuck with it as he should have, it was his anyway