Hard drives. I have a movie hobby and that takes a lot of storage and well, storage now is 3-5 times more expensive than not two years ago and I can’t afford it anymore.
But on the flip side, people can now finally nudify my daughter, so that is totally worth it!
Fuck everything about AI.
McDonalds. It used to at least be cheap. Now it’s both expensive and still tastes bad.
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.
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.
The main thing I’ve stopped buying is the lies.
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. 😭
Subscriptions 🏴☠️
DNC excuses.
It’s been more than 10 years it feels like since you could just buy a raspberry pi for a little side project.
Now you better have a good use for it, since it’s a good chunk of money.
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.
The Chinese buffet. 8.95 for lunch 12.95 dinner. Now 20 bucks at minimum.
Korean karaoke. 20 bucks an hour now 50 an hour or whatever they make up at the time.
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.
Canned beans. I love some bean medley but at $3 a can… guess I can’t even have beans.
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
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
