Or refuse to buy
So many things. Eating out. Taking my car to work when i still had one (I take the motorcycle, so much cheaper on gas). Going to the movies. Any kind of vacation. Meat. Groceries that are not essential. I’m considering replacing my lawn with a dry garden because water. Many video games. A/C if I’m not seriously uncomfortable. PC upgrades. Phone upgrades. I’m sure forgetting many. It’s all essentials now.
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I was in NY and my friend is a real pizza nut and wanted me to try this super trendy pizza, Ceres. We went mid afternoon and avoided the 4 hour line. A 20" pie was $68 before tax.
Glad in back home where I can cry into my $5 Digorno when I need a night off.
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Red Baron is where it’s at.
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Bro it’s yummy af what are you talking about?
As a Dutchie, 20$ for pizza already sounds very expensive to me, 48$ is a crime xD over here it costs about 10-15€ which is almost the same in $
US Pizza is 3 times as thick as a normal pizza and 3000 calories.
it is a pizza, you get what you expect from it.
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Though in the Netherlands you are probably talking about a personal pizza, whereas if they are in the US, they are probably talking about a larger pizza that would feed at least two people.
Large pizza feeds my family of 4 in the US. 2 slices each is sufficient to make you feel full.
Used to be $8 when I was a kid. Now it’s around $20 for pickup for a plain pie.
RAM used to be so cheap they basically gave it away.
Everything
Any soft drink that’s not Arizona iced tea.
I haven’t checked lately, is the price still on the can, though?
Yes it is. Not as cheap as before (~$1.49 last I checked), but it’s still a good buy if one decides to eat out. Fast food’s profit margins on drinks are notorious, after all.
Pets ( vet was never cheap but was affordable) I’ve spent over 7k this year in vet bills for 2 cats and one dog.
Capitalism.
Skirt steak is getting pretty pricey these days
Husband says helium and gas when I was trying to get him to guess two things…
Ground beef used to cheap.
it make sense helium is pretty hard to capture(they also escape earths atmosphere), i think you get it from radioactive decay,and you cant really extract from the air cheaply. and there are only a few places in the world where helium has a reservce.
Everyone’s talking tech, but I’ll add car parts.
Everything from aftermarket parts to basic things like filters or even windhsield wipers.
$25/blade. If you have a 3-blade car, that’s $75.
Had to replace a battery. They used to be $100-125 for a good one. Nope. $200 for a mid grade replacement.
It wasn’t cheap, but they were affordable. Not so much anymore.
I refuse to purchase anything from Amazon. Bezos is not getting any of my money.
I feel like I should stop buying on eBay.
Actually, I kind of want to see a price fixing lawsuit against eBay now. They are explicitly telling sellers what price to list their items at, raising the prices of goods sold on eBay to the detriment of buyers so that they can get more money out of the commission fees.
The funny thing is my income has risen dramatically in the last few years, but I’m still approximately at the same level of purchasing power that I was six years ago.
If you had told me in 2012 I would be making low-mid six figures and still feel poor, I would have laughed at you.
I went on eBay for the first time in years the other cat looking for a few cookbooks. Holy fuck. No thanks. I’m not paying retail plus shipping on the cheapest USED book. Get the fuck out.
Where are you shopping these days? My area has a Walmart and a dollar general. Love the mega corps…
Did you try ThriftBooks by chance?
That’s where I got one of the ones I was looking for!
Glad to hear it!
I scored the $50 premium hardback of ‘World of Ice and Fire’ for $11 off TB earlier this year. It also has a really cool inscription on the inside cover from the previous owner. I love used books.
Yeah I have a couple I’m still watching over there because they’re still out of my price range (I’m broke lol) but we’ll see 🤞
I’m in the same boat with Amazon. Doubly irritating that sometimes I’ll buy an item from eBay and it’s just drop shipped Amazon shit. Also I can’t count the amount of times I’ve ordered something that is advertised as “fast 2-4 day shipping” and the seller immediately creates a label only for the status to sit at “label created” for 6 days.
Making low 5 figure £ and don’t really know what to spend it on. A lot of things people are listing I don’t buy not because I couldn’t afford it, but it doesn’t seem worth it.
I could probably afford most things listed in the comments here, but my main reaction to most of them is why would I want to? Doesn’t seem worth it to me.
Never learnt to drive because I couldn’t afford it. Now I probably could afford it. At a push even around £500/month exploitative loan used by multiple people I know, would only cause minor financial issues. But I don’t want it. My bike is doing fine.
Wtf do you spend money on when you are doing fine and happy as you are with £100s extra a month than you know what to do with, despite earning only a bit over minimum wage?
Only thing I can really think of is save it and eventually pay off the mortgage early then work part time.
If you’ve never used SlickDeals, I highly recommend it.
Is SlickDeals only North America? Or do they deliver worldwide?
Hi there!
SlickDeals isn’t actually a retailer, but a community for bargain hunters. Basically someone sees a good deal and posts about it, and the community sees these posts and upvotes the best deals, but the best thing about it is you can create an email alert to yourself and add keywords, so you get an email when someone posts a deal matching that keyword. If you have a regular shopping list you use or staple products you know you’ll need interminably, like toilet paper (or for me, crew neck t shirts) it’s a really great way to get around price gouging or find a good bulk purchase to stock up.
I’m guessing there’s a non US equivalent if it doesn’t work in your country, since price gouging’s happening everywhere, but I can’t say for sure what it might be.
I just bought some things on ebay to avoid Amazon. They dropshipped Amazon to me, individual packages and all, for nearly 100% markup. I don’t know how to avoid that and find “real” sellers dropshipping non-branded warehoused Chinese goods like the good old days.
aliexpress, get it from the source.
- sponsored posts are usually drop shippers
- free returns are usually drop shippers
- check reviews and search for amazon or usps or post office to see if anyone mentions how they ship
- be wary of sellers with tens of thousands of feedback
If you get drop shipped, report a problem say it’s damaged or whatever, and don’t let them send you the Amazon return - use the eBay generated label. Then they have to pay for it and returns absolutely destroy drop shippers. Then leave feedback saying they just drop ship from Amazon
Thanks for the actual tips. It feels like this will just kill my hobby/craft desires if I have to do all this vetting for basic shit to avoid Amazon but not pay extra for poor selection from the local store. I’ll see, I guess. I suppose I could just braid my own weeds instead of crafting big things. That’s still free and local, right?
You went to one giant corporation to avoid another giant corporation. Buy directly from sellers, ideally locally. Find their own actual websites. Ask word of mouth for recommendations.
That typically doesn’t work well for hobby and craft supplies. Limited selection at the physical stores, if there’s any at all, and there’s no individuals selling raw supplies.
This only works if you don’t live in the middle of fucking nowhere. Buying directly from a local seller for me means Walmart or Dollar General. After a 25-minute one-way drive, I can choose from a few more big chain stores. If I’m lucky, there’s a private business that sells what I need 9a-4p, Mon-Fri for 1.5x the price anywhere else IF it’s in stock.
Recently, I needed a network switch. Walmart didn’t have any in stock, but I could order ome online and have it in 5-7 business days and pay $15 for shipping. Best Buy said they could order one and have it for me in 7-10 business days, then I could make the 50-minute round trip to pick it up. There are no other stores within a two-hour drive that might even have one in stock. Amazon had it for $10 less than WM and BB and had free shipping in 2-3 days without Prime.
I needed a switch. I can’t build one. I can’t do my job without it. I can’t afford to wait for one to appear on Craigslist. I don’t want to support any of those companies; they’re all union busters and Trump donors. What’s a person to do in that situation?
newegg or something other than Amazon / Walmart. at least that’s what I try to do. find a company whose leadership is furthest away from being oligarchic shitheads (even if that’s what they aspire to be)
Newegg is just as bad as Amazon, or were the last time I bothered to try them to avoid Amazon. They burned all the good will they had with me over a decade ago.
Even if you live somewhere dense, there’s so many niche things, no brick and mortar place stocks it. For my own router, I had to find one recommended by forum users a decade ago for a specific disconnect issue within the Xbox One’s internal 360 emulator. BB and WM didn’t have the known-good options. In my recent case here, it was hobby stuff that my local craft store doesn’t have at all, despite carrying similar items. And I mean my classic example is I used to dabble in LEDs before everyone was just buying mains bulbs and 12v strips. The price of a single blue 5mm LED in the hobby electronic store was the same as 100 on ebay.
The funny thing is my income has risen dramatically in the last few years, but I’m still approximately at the same level of purchasing power that I was six years ago.
Fucking same. I basically doubled my salary a couple of years ago and it seems like I’m not getting anywhere…
Yep. Same boat, its insane.
I honestly do not know how anybody that is making less than $50,000 a year is even surviving right now.
With seven roommates I assume?
Subway
In fairness, the five dollar footlongs were not sustainable for them - corporate pushed it because they made money while the franchisees didn’t, but they didn’t care.
Am I the only one that even today wouldn’t be happy to spend £5 on a footlong?
Probably not, but they were wildly popular.
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probably because its just sugar and they charge more, plus being associated with the pedophile jared hasnt helped.
Brisket
Ardebg Alligator.
Had it in a bar on a night out, and was was phenomenal. It was expensive per shot, but I feel we cleaned them out.
It was really really goodWanted to buy it, was £150 a bottle. Way too much for a whisky.
Finally had some disposable income, £150 for a bottle between friends seemed alright… Now it’s £250.
Got to the point where a good memory, nice whisky and friends is worth £250… And its £400 per bottle.
Now it’s £500 per bottle, still not worth it.
So many good whiskies for less than £100.It’s not an “investment” whiskey at all. That’s the span of 15 years or so. Maybe 500% net over 15 years is a good investment, I don’t think so.
One of my mates got married recently, would’ve been a great opportunity to buy a bottle.
Kinda wish I had… but I also painted his house, helped with a TON of DIY stuff, and a bunch of wedding stuff.
The actual on-the-day-stuff was “just turn up” as far as I was concerned.One day, the price of Ardbeg Alligator will match disposable income and the occasion.
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Brisket
Fast food
Fast casual food
Applebee’s-tier restaurants
Japanese cars
Used cars, motorcycles, ATVs, boats
Camping
Skiing
Taxi rides
Corn mazes
Pumpkin patches
Escape rooms
Concerts
Bars/Clubs
Retro video games and consoles
Thrift stores
Storage units
Apartments in the bad part of town
Yeah the applebeees-tier really has a lot of fuckin nerve these days. Especially since it’s not like they’re paying their waitstaff much (or any?) more than they did in the late 90s.
There’s no more middle class :( can’t afford a house, can’t afford “affordable” entertainment, can’t afford shit
Go have some kids
Shitty life protip: can’t afford life as it is? Have some kids, that way you won’t be miserable alone!
Just send them down the mines to help earn rent
Finally someone gets it!
✅✅✅✅✅ yep!
