needs v wants and I live a simpler life.
Concerts.
In the 90s youd go to the record store that had a ticket kiosk. Tickets were 10 to 20 dollars, youd get a printed ticket.
Now it just sucks. Venues add fees, ticketmaster fees double the price, printing fees, sometimes you cant even get the digital ticket until the day of and hope nithing goes wrong.
It all just sucks now.
I go down to my local dive bar and watch some local guys play rock and blues…for tips.
McDonalds. It used to at least be cheap. Now it’s both expensive and still tastes bad.
Subscriptions 🏴☠️
Any streaming service.
It’s not even about the money specifically, if that’s what it actually cost or if it was going to a good place. It’s the greed of constantly trying to find that line on how hard they can squeeze and at what price point people will keep taking it.
The main thing I’ve stopped buying is the lies.
DNC excuses.
Steaks
Kids wanted 5 guys, wife + 2 kids.
2 hot dogs, 1 burger and 3 orders of fries and drinks, (i skipped a fucking burger because I saw the price) $70
Never even considered going back.
Though Mytical kitchen just did a price check per ingredients and while they’re expensive AF, they’re not screwing you as bad as mcdonalds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zOmh9F4xcs
edit: fixed a typo, but i’m going to leave the monstrosity of a line one for everyone’s enjoyment
I have a small garden for a hobby and mental health. I spent $30 on 2 bags of fucking DIRT yesterday. What am I doing? Dirt was $30!?!? I guess I can’t even afford dirt anymore. 😭
When someone says something is dirt cheap, I’ll remember this and temper my expectations haha
Money doesn’t grow on trees, but trees grow in money. - Abraham Lincoln
Those 15~25kg bags from the garden centre are an order of magnitude more expensive than loose dirt from a transport or earthworks depot.
im very fond of succulents, but i just dont have the time to research all of them. not the “ornamentals” you see in peoples front yards.
Having a few small succulents on a desk is underrated. I have a half height bookshelf thing up against the big window where my computer desk is and I have a whole row of plants there to get sunlight. Cactus, pothos, succulents, little flowers and random plants I am rooting to eventually plant, just whatever.
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You’re not paying for the dirt, you’re paying for the weight of the dirt. Transportation is expensive now.
I knew that, but I wasn’t really thinking of it that way, good point. It’s heavy and bulky, so yeah, makes sense.
I’ve not stopped but heavily worked to cut fast food out of my daily meal plan. The cost of most burgers out there I can buy buns, ingredients, and meat to cook myself to how I like it. It’ll be juicier, thicker, and tastier as well.
Canned beans. I love some bean medley but at $3 a can… guess I can’t even have beans.
Fast food is hilariously overpriced. You pay about as much for a sit down meal at a restaurant for some crappy burgers. I remember the days when they had a true dollar menu. Now they just call it a “value menu” or whatever.
Used to be able to get two double cheeseburgers for $2 at burger king. Add fries and a drink and you were sitting at about $8 after tax. That same order today will run you about $19 before taxes. I’m not even that old, this all happened within the last two decades or so - prices literally more than doubling and all the while the quality getting worse and portion size getting smaller and smaller.
It’s probably better for my health that I can’t stomach the idea of paying that much for greasy unhealthy food, so it’s an occasional treat to let me have that nostalgic taste.
Burger King is the worst offender of Restaurantitus.
They forgot they are fast food, so now try to sell 10 dollar burgers and other ridiculous shit at sitdown prices.
McDonalds is the worst offender for just plain price gouging. Their 99 cent menu doesnt exist anymore, all the shit that WAS on the 99 cent menu is now like 4-5 bucks.
Which is what a fucking bigmac used to cost, and we’d groan about the big mac being 5 dollars.
I got lunch for my mom and myself at Five Guys the other day. Two burgers, one order of fries, two fountain drinks, $44. I wouldn’t even have minded the price if it had been, y’know, fantastic food, but it was just mid. Burgers were bland, fries were limp and greasy – so greasy that the bottom of the bag broke open when I got it home – and even the drinks were watery. For $44!
I tried Taco Bell yesterday for the first time in years. At least it was “only” $11 for a mexican pizza, two tacos and a large drink. Unfortunately it was utterly disgusting, everything tasted like stale wheat flour which was weird because I don’t think the food actually had wheat flour in it anywhere.
44$ wow. one of my bros order delivery a burger place, the 18$ was expensive, but it was good for its cost.
Never eat out without a coupon!
i was about to try a new shake shack that opened last year at a mall, because i never had it, noped, overpriced for what is. also a new “tea shop” opened, people were still flooding to it. thier lowest cost “Tea” was like 7$ minimum(im guessing because its near a convention center/ the income of that area.)
Shakeshack is mcdonalds with hipster branding, it’s extremely overrated, people just pay for the excuse to get an extremely unhealthy milkshake with their burger.
I have never understood the appeal of a teashop. You mean the same atmosphere as most coffeeshops, without the coffee? what
like milk tea/boba, yea the one i was describing was a “tea shop” im guessing its popular enough.
I used to be almost addicted to beef jerky, especially the smaller store types where it’s made semi-local…until it got to be 29.99 per pound. I love the stuff but will never like it THAT much
i always though beef jerky was always expensive, i never bought it. doesnt matter the brand. maybe if you buy storebrand ones like from wf. but rarer ones likey turkey, salmon, venison, wagyu.
Beef Jerky is so good man. And its actually stupidly easy to make at home… The problem is the beef, more specifically the cost and amount of the beef.
It takes like 3+ pounds of beef to make one pound of jerky, Which is why it was always pricy, but with beef prices what they are now… i’m surprised anyone can afford to make jerky, much less buy it.
Can you just buy dehydrated beef so you’re not paying for all that water weight?
Yes, thats called jerky.
Genius! Buy dehydrated beef, dunk it in some water to hydrate it back into normal beef, then make it into beef jerky! Big beef hates this one simple trick!
Somewhere along the chain, someone has to buy it and then dehydrated it. You can’t grow a dehydrated cow. Also, dehydrated beef is jerky…
Why not make it?
Practically everything. My phone, garbage, insurance, food, gas, electric, internet, cable . . . everything went up seemingly at the same time. There are a lot of products and businesses I just outright boycott based upon GOP reasons. I pretty much eliminate grocery stores in the summer and buy from local farms. I partition my trash into small bags and deposit them in trash cans and eliminated my garbage pick up. I compost all scraps. Started a vegetable garden. Grow my own cannabis. Switched to USMobile for $10 a month unlimited. Torrent everything. Cut cable. I used to eat out about three times a week and that is now zero. Overall, I am eating better and even lost about 15 pounds. I discovered bin stores. I find myself buying more stuff that I don’t need but want. I found a $500 Garmin watch on dollar day. The only wrong with it was it was missing the band so I found one that fit and got that for a buck. On $3 day last week I found a pair of ar6 walkie talkies sealed. On $12 day I found a 32" TV and leaf blower, both sealed. I can’t see myself ever paying full price again, shopping in a store or even online.
eating out is insanely expensive, dont know how people are so addicted to it. easily 50-100/day, if one were to actually eat out often, and i dont know someone who does this. i dont know which insurance, but different insurance have convoluted costs. i just hope i dont need to go the ER/ urgent, or get any kind of surgery. dental costs is something else though, although if you are willing to travel internationally for it, it doest reduce the cost significantly.
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