• mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    No joke?

    This is THE single most powerful piece of knowledge you can acquire in your entire life, and the earlier you figure it out, the better.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    12 days ago

    A lot of my buys are aspirational, as in “if I buy this I’m going to make more music/work out more/draw more/cook more/etc.”. Usually I just end up on some streaming site eating unhealthy food … I could definitely do that cheaper.

  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    It won’t fix you, but it will distract you. Keep on distracting for a few years, and then you’re dead. That’s a win win I say.

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      12 days ago

      IME, a lot of the time it doesn’t even do a good job of distracting you. Aspirational purchases are an easy way to waste tons of money.

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    12 days ago

    I woke up this morning, my temperature high. “I’ll never buy nothing again,” I lied.

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    11 days ago

    Yeah but if you ordered it online you had that wonderful time between order and arrival in which you lived in a fantasy believing all your problems will be solved in a few days.

    Love those days

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      11 days ago

      Exactly! You need to have a clear idea of what the thing can do for you for you 😊

  • 𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.au
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    11 days ago

    This is why I buy nice secondhand things off Depop, surely the 3 parcels arriving today will be the thing to fix me.