blog post 13: let's launder some money

The amount of money Walt launders is mind-boggling. Eventually Skylar rents a storage unit because she doesn't know what to do anymore. At first Saul agrees to launder Walt’s money for a fee. Walt declines at first because of his greed. He then has the money transferred to Walt Jr.'s charity account so that the money isn't coming from strangers and Walt Jr. can keep his site.

The car wash ultimately becomes the final decision for laundering the money. They scare the previous owner (Walt's old jerk of a boss) into selling. This is just another instance where the Whites are scaring others for their own personal gain.

But in the end they have more money to deal with than they can and eventually lose it all… The fact that Skylar at one point was putting it in spacebags and putting it down under the floorboard is crazy. This shows that Walt went to far. His original plan was only to get the money he needed, but then let his pride overcome his rational mind. Skylar even asks him to stop because she can’t launder any more money. He replies to her with anger that he refuses to sell out again, referring to when he let others buy him out of his company Grey Matter. I believe this is often what causes people not to be able to leave the drug lifestyle. They make a lot of money in a short amount of time. It becomes an addiction.