Money comes and goes, and when you consider the fact that more than half, or 58%, of all Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck, saving becomes as important as ever. This usually starts with cutting down on unnecessary spending.
To find out what people can do without, Redditor u/gejiw94601 made a post on r/AskReddit earlier this month, asking everyone, "What's the biggest waste of money?" Since then, it has received over 2.6k comments, prompting a discussion on our budgeting, spending habits, and everything inbetween. Here are some of the most popular answers to their question.
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Weddings.
Crazy expensive day. Guaranteed at least one relative will kick up a stink. Massive pressure to be The Happiest Day of Your Life. Everything doubles in cost if you say its for a wedding (dress, suit, cake, venue)
Just do the quick registry office paperwork, have a surpise party and run away for a long honeymoon with the money you saved.
They should change this to "elaborately expensive weddings"... not all weddings are expensive. You don't have to buy into the wedding package either, there are ways around not paying double.
I agree! There’s nothing wrong with wanting to have a nice party with your friends to celebrate something important to you. They just don’t need to involve helicopters and life-sized bride-shaped cakes, is all.
Load More Replies...Well if u can afford a one mil wedding then why not. I myself love a lavish wedding although mine was very simple. No debt involved.
I agree with you. Start building your nest together and skip all the hoopla of a one day event.
Load More Replies...one of my family members rented a picnic area in the redwood forest, and got married there. Then she and her husband kayaked down the river as their first thing together. Then they came back and we all had sandwiches! It was a very nice week. We all stayed in a BnB, and we all explored around the area, as we have never been to California before. it was amazing
Massive waste of time and money, all for the sake of upholding tradition. Marriage means nothing when divorce is an option.
I dare say the majority of people entering marriage initially don’t _consider_ it an option at the time.
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Buying ridiculously expensive clothes to flex.
People who are really rich don't dress like it. Designer clothes usually aren't the best quality anyway.
Used to give the kids $100 each for XMAS, then take them shopping at the mall day after XMAS. Amazing case studies...one daughter comes out of a store with a shirt, and has $60 remaining. Other one comes struggling down the walkway laden with bags and still has $40.
Load More Replies...If I'm buying expensive, it's usually from a brand I really like like Banned Alternative bcs they do really nice clothes (I SWEAR TO GOD IF ANYONE DOWNVOTES ME FOR NAMING A BRAND-)
Fashion is one of the most wasteful industries there is when it comes to environmental impact. People wear clothes so little before they get thrown away. It's a massive problem that's being ignored.
How easily we get manipulated! Relates not only to fashion, but to all sort of influences.
Load More Replies...I dont care about fashion, and never will. it's a waste of money and is pretty boring. I prefer to express myself intellectually than with accessories.
Lol…okay. You don’t have to sh*t on people who do express themselves through fashion. We all have our own way of expressing ourselves. It doesn’t mean they’re boring. If fashion is important to somebody and makes them feel good, it isn’t a waste of money to them. There isn’t anything wrong with that unless they make it like their entire personality and judge people who don’t care as much.
Load More Replies...The worst is when things have huge labels on them. No, I'm not going to pay you a ton of money just to advertise your company for you.
Super high-end designer couture just looks stupid anywho.... I'll take my Value Village/Goodwill finds and look sensible
Those that are donated to house of worships, for pastors to buy private jets & catholic priest to play dress up
Just give to the needy yourself. I feel like they donate more because of the religion and less because they actually care.
My faith (Islam) teaches us to care for the less fortunate. The mosque provides shelter, food, and support for those in need for free. During Ramadan (the month of fasting), everyone can enjoy a free meal at dawn and dusk. So, when we donate to the mosque, we know it will make a difference.
Better yet, do research. Smaller congregations generally need it. Mega churches generally do NOT.
Very true. My current church and my previous one couldn't even afford a full time minister. We had a part time one plus lay preachers every second week. Plus, often there are two offerings, one for the church (minister, building upkeep etc) and one for wider charities. No obligation to donate to either, and if you do a regular donation it is placed in an envelope so it is anonymous, so less chance of guilt tripping for the size of donation.
Load More Replies...Just like the air that is wasted on bigots who hate on others for their faith.
And the air that is wasted on bigots who hate on others for their lack of belief.
Load More Replies...most houses of worship do not have rich pastors, or private jets. Most struggle to meet their bills. Yes there are some that abuse the money like those mega churches, but most are not like that. One of my local house of worship barely meets their monthly bills, and has free coffee and cookies in the basement all day every day for anyone to get.
Catholic priests take vows of poverty so they aren't buying jets and things
Depends on the denomination. No church I've been in has done this.
Did you read last month (5/23) that the LDS church has socked away over $150 BILLION dollars?
Load More Replies...Easier for a camel hair rope to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to make it to heaven.
I feel for smaller, local churches it's fine. But the big Mega-Churches are out of the question.
NFT artwork.
But you won't own the "soul" of the image... the mystical blockchain.
Load More Replies...LIKE IT'S A JPEG IMAGE WHY WOULD YOU SPEND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON IT💀💀💀
Some people have so much money and need to rub it in the faces of people who don't by spending it on absolutely idiotic and frivolous things like an image of a cartoon monkey smoking a joint. Weirdest flex if you ask me.
Load More Replies...I mean if idiot rich people are stupid enough to fall for it then that's entirely on them...
Load More Replies...After having read what an NFT is, I still don't understand what an NFT is. The more technology we have, the more overly-complicated we make our lives. Is that progress????
yep. There's no point to paying for an online artwork which may disappear as soon as its website goes down. The blockchain only keeps a record of where the artwork is stored, it does not store the artwork itself. Moreover, your average person can't tell whether a screenshot is the original bored ape or whatever because they are bitwise identical copies anyway. So who cares which is "the original"?
War...what is it good for.......?
Absolutely nothing... now i can't get Rush Hour out of my head :D
Such a simplistic view. What about wars of independence/revolution? Those people should just be subjugated for eternity to avoid war? What about ww2? Hitler should just have been allowed to do what he wanted because "war bad"?
Well WW1 brought us women's vote, WW2 brought desegregation, etc. Not to mention most modern Computers, GPS, Internet, etc, all started as military development. War is horrible and destructive, but there have been side effects for the better. Oh wars have stopped many horrible dictators like Hitler.
Keeping China and Russia away so they don't rape and murder and plunder?
Cigarettes. $13+ for a pack of cancer
Addiction is no joke. I hope the price prevents people from starting smoking and encourages those who can quit to do so. Can we talk about vapes?
They're bad too. It feels like they're marketed to younger people like me with all their flavours and colours! It's best to just not smoke anything, imho
Load More Replies...Or even better in NZ where I think you’re unable to purchase if you were born past a certain year
Load More Replies...I enjoy smoking (don’t vote me down, someone had to speak for the other side), yes I’ve been smoking since I was 15, and until I was 18, I lived with 10 sets of “parents”. Only one of those didn’t smoke. Everyone I knew who was around me in those years, be they actual parent, guardian, children’ home staff member, parents of friend, all I saw were smokers. So of course I ended up a smoker. I’m nowhere near as bad as I used to be, my first cig of the day is usually between 2 and 5pm? Plus a pack can last me around 4 days. I would like to give up, but until the Government can convince me me where they will find the £25b from to replace the loss of cigarette tax I’ll carry on.
The government is spending that money on healthcare. Probably a damn good chunk for smoking related issues.
Load More Replies...Eh.. If you don't smoke, you don't understand just how addicting it is, though... :/
My mother is a smoker and buys native cigarettes Which are $25 a carton which contains 12 packs of 20 smokes each pack.
Around that time, a gallon of gas cost a quarter. But they aren't close in price any more.
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Giving your money to the Catholic Church. You’ve got to be f*****g kidding me.
I'm not in accord with this. I have plenty to say against my late priest as he didn't have time for his seminarists, but he always donated everything he could to the poors. Everyone who need something and went to his door got whatever he had, to the point that the local Charitas had a discussion with him because often he was tricked by conmen. The same Charitas help a lot of people, often people that didn't want any help to maintain the appearance, so they are helped in secret. A falling tree makes more noise than an entire growing forest
I would rather be tricked in an occasional con than fail to help those who needed help.
Load More Replies...The Catholic church has paid my rent, gas, electric and given me cash and toiletries for Christmas and Thanksgiving as well as diapers and baby clothes. Catholic churches have a St Vincent de Paul Society where the money goes for the poor and they do actually help people. They tell you at the beginning of the collection what the money goes to
Yeah, smaller scale churches do actual good. Its the big megachurches you got to watch out for.
Load More Replies...The Catholic Church is the largest non-governmental provider of education and medical services in the world.
Maybe, but if 'Medecins sans Frontiers' had a headquarters that was absolutely dripping with gold bling and priceless renaissance art, people would think twice before donating...
Load More Replies...Politics and religion.... nothing more corrupt than the catholic church
Well, you can make a lot of mistakes - and worse - in two thousand years. But on a per year basis, I think some American evangelical churches are right up there with the Catholic Church. You don't hear Pope Francis telling his flock that God wants Trump to be president.
Load More Replies...It is for God, who "created " everything you see, but somehow forgot to create money for himself.
ANY church, in fact! They're so wealthy they don't deserve to be tax-exempt.
Religion gives dead people more say over how we live today than the people who are alive now.
Donating to rich twitch streamers. I’ll probably never understand why people do it.
Like donating to Trump for court cases. Why, he's a fricking billionaire isn't he? Have him pay for his own lawyers.
Or evangelists so they can buy a second jet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGOEt1PCWio
Load More Replies...Well, we give money to professionally athletes which is pretty similar. I mean, am I paying to watch someone play a video game (which I can do, but not very well), or am I paying someone to play football (which I can do but not very well)?
It's the value of entertainment. People want to see something and are willing to pay for it.
Load More Replies...You would probably pay for concert for you favourite interpret... even they are in radio for free and even they are rich? :D Or? People are entertained by different things.
but the service is free, you can watch anytime anywhere. No one asked you to pay
Load More Replies...i just started a twitch stream 2 months ago. just me playing WOW and talking to get things off my chest or just wondering aloud. 8 followers so far!!
no fr like they're just playing a video game like why do they deserve it????💀
Gambling for sure
My husband and I fairly often bet. But only with each other, and only with kisses. One of us wins, but the other doesn't lose. :o)
The annoying thing is that anything where you could legally improve your odds (like card counting) are banned at casinos. I used to play a lot of blackjack and over the years was consistently just a little in front. Right up til they changed the blackjack "shoe" so instead of being 7 (I think) decks all shuffled together that you played most of the way through it became a single deck each hand. So it made the game entirely random. No chance of betting low for part of the shoe then raising your bets towards the end. Stopped playing at that point because skill and strategy pretty much stopped being helpful.
Load More Replies...It's so how ironic that governments warn about the problems of gambling, then make it legal anyway. Now we even have sports betting.
I'm ok with gambling in general. But I despise the prevalence of advertising for sports betting. We now see football games where the commentators throw to a guy who works for the betting company who gives his "opinion" on the game. And the games and advertising is at prime time while kids are watching. I'd be ok banning that sort of advertising, or at least pushing it back til after the watershed.
Load More Replies...I am very into scratch off tickets personally. I recently won $500.00 on a $20.00 ticket, so it just fuels my desire to keep buying more to hit the jackpot. I am a responsible gambler though and only spend what I earn from winning. And darn if I don't always win something lol if I lost more I would be able to stop.
Even theme and water parks know when to close. Casinos are open 24/7, ready to take your money (rent, food, utilities, etc.) You may win a little, but you stand to lose a lot more.
There are a lot of people that literally make a living off of just gambling. They have to report their income and everything. So if it can be a full time job that the government wants a cut of I promise it's not a waste of money. Government only wastes money after it's stolen it from everyone else.
The government wasted money on someone's education anyway.
Load More Replies...Idk I have a family member who is a professional poker player and he does pretty well for himself.
Donating to politicians.
In the US, before Citizens United made corporations people and allowed them free reign to donate everywhere, it did matter where people donated their money. There have been some amazing grassroots campaigns funded mostly by actual citizens.
Depends on the politician. There really are some who won't take donations from corporations or PACS.
If you don't donate to the politician that you want to win they are more likely to lose. It is literally a way of supporting the ideas and concepts that you want to see in your government. Are you f*****g stupid.
OK but thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling that money is free speech and corporations are people, huge bags of money are going into campaigns. And decent People can't really afford to run unless they get big money.
Load More Replies...It depends on what the people making the donations get in return. Not all donations come with no strings attached ;)
Donating to politicians is exactly why this country is a s**t-hole today.
On the other hand, if I can deduct the $$ from my income tax (which goes to the party in power who have no clue about fiscal management) to give to the party I'd prefer to see in power ....
If they can't afford to finance their own campaigns, they should just go home & forget about it!
Buying pro-grade stuff you don't need is wasted money. My dad once told me to not spend excessive money on tools at first. Buy them for dirt cheap, learn which tools you really need, and when they break, replace them with quality ones.
I think it depends on a tool? Can't see how you're going to get hurt because of a cheap screwdriver
Load More Replies...You get what you pay for, why in the hell would you want to buy something over n over if it keeps breaking ? Pay the extra & get a good or great tool. I am a diesel mechanic and it pays off in the end when you pay for a good tool or set of tools.
That makes sense when you’re established and know what you need and how to do things. Buying some basic tools when you first move out of your parents’ house makes sense, then get better quality ones when you figure out what you use most & really need. Unless you’re lucky & are given hand me downs of all the essentials. Grandpa’s ratchet set isn’t fancy, but it does the job and still holding together.
Load More Replies...When I started work at a Aston Martin / Ferrari / Maserati dealership there was an expectation that you’d invest in high quality tools, I expanded my tool chest and bought tools that were nicer to use and that had better tolerances, by the time I left I had amassed a small fortunes worth of tools. They had served me well and I held onto them for a couple of years, once I knew I was never going to work with them for my living then I reverted to my ‘cheap’ tools, kept a few of the most important ones and sold the rest to a young mechanic who was starting out. High end tools are worth it if you use them in the right environment, they are nicer to use, they are reliable, they tend to be easier to handle but that’s only an issue if you are working with them a lot. I’d recommend for home mechanics that whilst expensive may satisfy your need to own shiny stuff it’s better to buy products with lifetime warranties that are cheaper than Fap-On or similar. Always buy an extra 10mm socket 😜
I thought it was just me who can't find the 10mm they just used ....
Load More Replies...Adam Savage, on his YouTube channel, "Tested" is always talking about this. The rest of his stuff is really good, too.
There is a difference between inexpensive no brand tools and cheap tools. When you buy a tool, buy as good quality as you can. Not top of the line. Not name brand. Just a comfortable, quality tool. Cheap is bad design mass produced by unhappy people working in a horrible company. They are always uncomfortable, abrasive, awkward, the wrong size, wrong fit, wrong angle, and takes more out of you to use properly than it should.
Lucky for me, when I was at peak tool-buying age, Sears was the main place to do it. I have a Craftsman chest full of Craftsman tools that I bought as needed. But I also have stuff from Walmart and Harbor Freight that hasn't let me down yet
Funny I always have lived by, if you need it, research the best quality and bang for your buck. Buying something once that you need is cheaper than buying something twice. (or more than twice)
Coronations and monarchies in general.
Aussie here. Bring on a republic. Monarchies are outdated and irrelevant
Heyyyy we got the best woman to be our crownprinsess from you! In Denmark it is working. We have an excellent talentet intelligent Queen- and her son, his tasmanian wife and their children. 💪💪💪💪They rock our country. Would not be without them... But I do think we are lucky...
Load More Replies...100% as a Welsh person, paying taxes and contributing to these people, it is awesome to watch a man wearing a crown that probably costs more than my street while we have a cost of living crises going on.
I don’t mind them keeping a monarchy around for ceremonial purposes, but we really need to strip back their power and pay.
The actual legislative power is minimal. The British monachy only has soft power - they can influence in the UK, but no more so really than, say, David Attenborough. Their real power is in representing the country abroad. Foreign monarchies who have real power - as in the Middle East - have more respect for our royal family than for politicians. Politicians from all over the world feel honoured by meeting the royal family, even if they don't want a monarchy in their own country. It's flattering to them, and a good way of establishing warm relations with the UK.
Load More Replies...Time to cut that s**t out. The royal family can support the royal family without the need to use taxpayer money.
I fücking hate that there's still monarchy in Britain. And that we have to pay for their palaces to be cleaned. Like, they have zillions and some ppl are struggling!
The thing that amuses me most is that somehow you think that changing the head of state from a monarch to a president is somehow going to automatically make those things better for the common man. News flash, in a republic we spent the exact same amount on the presidential palace and assorted government offices, plus we have to pay for a new election every four or five years... You only get to have a coronation every few decades, so I bet in the long run you get a better deal out of it.
Load More Replies...It's so outdated and frankly kind or embarrassing, especially when people are homeless and people living paycheck to paycheck and don't have enough food to put on the table.
Debatable. While I am opposed in principle (they are unethical anachronisms), I do believe that the british monarchy in particular is a LARGE part of the attraction for tourists going to the UK. I doubt as many people would be interested in Buck House if it didn't have odd guards in big black hats and red jackets stomping around it, and these two above inside it. It's a reminder of a long-gone period of history. Living history if you will. Appreciate that this guy above can trace his ancestors back 1000 years. That being said, we'd appreciate it if he'd return the diamonds he loaned.
I know there are reasons people like the monarchy but I simply can’t hear anyone out when they are riding on the wealth they stripped from my people’s homeland. I’m so over it.
Diamond rings.
buy lab created diamonds, pennies on the dollar, and just as sparkly
I have a diamond tester, and my moissonite shows up as a diamond (10 hardness level).
Load More Replies...Agreed. The DeBeers family and ALROSA sell over 50% of the world's diamonds. They can intentionally cause a shortage (and raise the price). They have also supported legislation that prevent artificial diamonds from being sold by jewelers. These can be made much cheaper.
So true. Here, they don’t even have resale value and you never know if it is real or not. Waste of money really
Lab made diamonds are cheaper and look like the real thing as well as not being "blood diamonds", IE mined in areas of conflict.
About as arbitrary as FIAT currency, gold, crypto, tulips. Time is the currency we should be concerned about.
Twitter verification.
For only 8 USD you can affect the stock market with fake tweets. I think it's absolutely horrible but that seems like an extremely cheap way to advance your supervillain career.
I'm taking notes on how not to be shïtty rn
Load More Replies...Musk's 44 billion could have done so much good. Instead, we have this.
He only put up about 12 billion, the another 10 were loans against his Tesla stock, the rest came from various banks who own a share now.
Load More Replies...Fuyck Twitter and Musk, and get your brainwashed for free by just watching Fox News
Cryptocurrency.
It is fake money and only has value so long as people believe in it. It has become a way to scam people out of money. Incidentally values have dropped from about $3 trillion to about $1 trillion. So someone other than investors is getting rich. Also does not have the regulations of stocks.
What is pathetic is that is exactly the description of a "Dollar". It is not on the Gold Standard, hasn't been that for decades. We all accept that this worthless paper has value and we buy or sell goods and services with it despite it being completely fiat money.
Load More Replies...Like the new one “circle”. Matches up dollar for dollar. How about I just keep using dollars and cut the b******t.
And when all the computers get fried from a solar storm, how do you access something that's not real?
I remember everyone, even my teachers, was trying to encourage everyone to buy stocks and invest in crypto.
Considering the US government is the largest holder of Crypto (and one of the largest spenders of Crypto, and not just the CIA), there might be something there. But the especially the CIA heavily used it to pay people off
I'm a Boomer and I just don't get it. I've tried to get it but I just don't get it. A virtual currency?seems to me it needs to be real doesn't it?
Celebrity meet and greets.
I have a friend who is not very well off financially, and is complaining about money to me once a week. Yet she always seems to have money to pay for a celebrity meet and greet at least twice a year. Some of them are only a couple hundred dollars, but some can get really expensive, really fast. For what? A picture next to a famous person? They neither know you, nor do they care about you.
Soft disagree on this one; sometimes an actor or singer's work is incredibly meaningful to someone, and meeting them is similarly meaningful. Definitely shouldn't be paying to meet them if it's causing you financial strain though.
I think that's the point though, it's not the meet up that's the waste of money, it's the fact they're not well off and they're still spending that money.
Load More Replies...Having done a number of these, I can say that it really depends on the celebrity. Some will really take some time and interact with you and some won't. That can also depend on who's running the meet and greet. Sometimes the handlers will give you a few minutes and sometimes they'll give you a few seconds. I've only had one celebrity meet and greet that didn't really feel like it was worth it and that was because of the handlers.
Perhaps you don’t care, but not everyone is the same as you. I’ve been to many conventions and met a bunch of actors, for me these were fun events, with lots of great memories. To meet someone like George Takei or Carrie Fisher are moments I cherish. You don’t have to agree, but try to respect other people.
I've had fun at these kind of event, meeting actors. I limit how much I'm willing to pay though. It would have been cool to go to Celebration this year and have Denis Lawson sign my programme for Anything Goes, but I'm not paying over £100 in entrance fees plus £80 for an autograph, when I saw him at a smaller event two years back and paid a total of £55. He had more free time at the smaller event too, so we had a nice chat.
Load More Replies...I’d give my left kidney to see Rammstein in performance but that’s because their music got me through two of my most depressed years. But I wouldn’t do it if I was in poor financial shape.
if you sold your kidney you wouldn't be in a poor financial place for a little bit 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Load More Replies...I like it when you just get to meet and chat with someone after a gig. This is me with Thijs Van Leer of Focus! Me-Thijs-6...7-jpeg.jpg
You pay for that? That seems to be a celebrity money grab. People really pay for that?
To be fair though some of the celebs were probably shortchanged on the movies they were in. So making some money talking to fans and doing autographs keeps them going. I'd have no qualms paying for an autograph from an actor from a cult/indie movie rather than someone like Robert Downey Jr who is rolling in cash.
Load More Replies...Astrology.
Read mine this morning, and it said: Why are you reading this when you know it's utter bollocks?
astrology is just the goofiest thing on earth. ppl are always like "oops sorry I'm a libra UwU" like, that's not an excuse to punch people💀💀💀
Imposter!! We're known for our sarcastic natures. You're not one of us. Go back to your Virgos and Geminis. (Or at least that's what I'd write if I believed in astrology.)
Load More Replies...mine is a hobby too! i know a lot about astrology, and i love it. but like i said i dont say anything if someone i know doesnt like it, and nor do i spend money either
Load More Replies...All my closest friends are Gemini. The funny thing is that they are nothing alike.
Load More Replies...Overdraft fees. Like, the bank should know better than anybody that I have no money. So what are you trying to take?
And some banks charge an extra $5-$10 everyday your account is in the negative. This is why I switched to a credit union. The overdraft for mine is $12, but they won't let you get into the negative to begin with and sometimes they'll forgive the overdraft.
I have heard this many times, and I am sure it is true in most cases, but I had a switched from my bank to a local credit union, and it was way worse than my bank was. I ended up switching back after a couple months,
Load More Replies...There are more poor people, than rich...so that's where you make your money...by punishing them for being poor.
Banks love to charge fees, but give us very meager interest rates on our savings. Credit unions do a little better
I was nearly bankrupted the by bank fees. I had forgotten to cancel a utility payment when changing suppliers. This put me a few pence overdrawn until the bank charged me £30! Then a couple of charity payments bounced and I got charged £30 each time. Then the payment requests were automatically re-sent which cost another £30 per failed payment. Then all my standing orders and direct debits went down like a row of dominos. I had to go into the bank and beg for a loan to pay for their fees! Fortunately I can cry on command…
I went to a bank to withdraw the remaining money from an account and close it. Somehow the person forgot to close the account and then racked up crazy fees for not having any money in it, which they also reported to credit agencies. Fortunately I had the receipts, security camera, and withdrawn money to prove it. It started with a W.
If it's WF I totally agree. Scammers (set up accounts w/o customers' approvals etc...)
Load More Replies...Many banks will deliberately process withdrawals before deposits to ensure that overdrafts happen, even if you should have had enough money.
Also paying to use your debit card at another bank. I've heard this is illegal in the UK. I'd like that, please.
Third-party delivery i.e. DoorDash/Uber Eats/GrubHub
The fees + tips are exorbantly high, and a normally affordable fast food meal becomes the price of a sit-down restaurant meal or more.
This is from first hand experience lol
You have the option to spend time to get the food yourself, or spend money to have someone else get it for you. So it depends on whether you value your time more or less than your money
I can't afford to pay $50 for a Big Mac and fries to save twenty minutes. And wouldn't if I could.
Load More Replies...And on average the driver's are rude pieces of shít. The number of times I've asked one of them, "how may I help you?" and how they just grunt and shove their phone screen in my face....🤬 Or they'd get indignant when they'd show up immediately after an order was placed and it's not ready yet, "Come on, I have other deliveries I can be doing!" And then trying to demand 20% tips for delivering people cold, smashed food?! Eat a díck!
They're mostly losers who can't hold a real job.
Load More Replies...When it took 3 hours for a delivery to arrive which we tracked on the app (He parked up mid journey) and then found most of our order was missing (he and his passenger had eaten it) we put in a complaint, got our money back and never use the apps again
Money isn't the point. By requesting delivery and tipping well, you are making a difference for someone who needs the money, and you are building a positive relationship with the restaurant and will always get good food within a reasonable amount of time.
Load More Replies...A great.but as others have said sometimes you are in a place where it is the best safest affordable op.
Somehow my comment from a different thread appeared here. So weird.
Load More Replies...AND - I refuse to tip PRIOR to receiving a service. Are you f*cking kidding me? I'll go get my own pizza.
The food in my neighborhood just sucks and all the delicious food is way too far away to pick up and eat before it gets cold/soggy/mushy. So I am paying for the ability to eat the food I like and I pay for that experience. And yes, I tip the drivers extra, extra generously. Because I know they are not doing that job for exercise and fresh air, they are doing so because they need every penny they can get. If they got paid properly I wouldn't have to, but they don't.
Playing the lottery.
For a couple bucks you can daydream about what you would do if you won the lottery. It is cheap hope you can get occasionally.
I buy $30 of scratch offs for my birthday, every year, one big splurge. And I also buy the mega millions or powerball when it becomes big enough to say "oh what the heck", I know I wont win, but the daydreams are fun
Load More Replies...I play because someone has to win it, it is not financially excessive for me, and I don't really have any other vices, but it is nice to dream about winning it, and if you ain't playing that dream definitely won't come true.
Playing the lottery is just as useful as any religion but better because occasionally the lottery may give something back to you. Religion is about taking your money and controlling your life.... I've NEVER seen a scratcher ticket try to terrify ANYONE with make believe stories.
The nearest lottery to me has a 1 in 49 million chance in winning the jackpot. Sure, someone will win, or the jackpot will roll over to the following week, but the chances of winning are so incredibly low. If instead I put £1 in my piggy bank each lottery day, I know I'll have over £100 at the end of the year.
I just have one ticket per draw. It is well worth it for the daydreams about how I'd spend it all.
Expected to see this. The comment by Helena explains what a lottery ticket is, but the wilfully ignorant just repeat this over and over.
Load More Replies...People often say they play because they enjoy daydreaming about what they would do if they won. Can't you daydream for free?
There is a difference when the day dream is about something possible, no matter how unlikely
Load More Replies...Starbucks - bahhhh
A newspaper here did I test to find out how much actual coffee was in drinks from Costa, Starbucks, pret etc (this is UK) and it turns out that Starbucks has nearly half the amount of coffee than the second least. Google it. I hate Starbucks.
Well I never thought anybody would pay $6 for a cup of coffee. I thought well they're not gonna last.... obviously. I'm not a marketing or business expert.
You can get a small elec grinder on amazon for about 13 bucks and then get whole beans from the supermarket. No fancy maker needed either - dump in boiling water and turn heat to simmer for 5 min, stirring once. Let grounds settle and pour into cup - cowboy coffee. The best!
They were the only ones to filter their water, so their coffee tasted better than the others. That's how it started. I still have Starbucks beans at home, because I like them a lot and haven't found anything better.
Have you actually looked at who you're a local roasters? Are? You might find that you get. Fresh? Or coffee which tastes better from somebody local. That's not a big chain
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Unnecessary plastic surgery
Some people struggle with body image and feel like they need to, and while it is a waste of money, you can't really get mad at them.
Depends on what you mean by unnecessary. Even if something is done purely for cosmetic/aesthetic reasons, the mental health and psychological benefits could make it more than worth it
Have you seen the guy who is the black alien project? That poor guy badly needs help
Load More Replies...It isn't a waste of money if it improves one's self-esteem and overall outlook on their life.
This is better than any religion. At least the person gets to enjoy their money as they see fit as opposed to giving money towards a man who won't get a real job but spends his weeks contriving up stories (or his own interpretation of older fairy tales) that will keep him a terrified and captive audience.
If it's for reconstruction after accidents or certain diseases, or to help with old scars the people feel insecure about, I get it. But some people really do go too far
Like getting your lips filled until they look like sausages. I mean it looks horrible, and im not saying big NATURAL lips are ugly, just overfilled lips look bad.
Load More Replies...You can do whatever you want with your money...it's yours. The only problem I have is when it's people who don't actually have the money to keep doing this. People who are putting it on credit cards to pay for this 'lifestyle' they're trying to sell. Plastic surgery, home goods, huge houses, mortgages you can't afford.... I don't care if you want to buy 2000 tutus and dance around in them. Live however you want... but live within your means.
Gold Food, or more accurately food that are covered in something called gold leaf. In my eyes, food are worth buying if they provide a great amount of nutrition for considerably good prices. After all, you probably avoid paying 50 million dollars just to buy a few molecules that are useless to your health and needs
And then there's gold leaf food, sure the food looks fancy but at the cost of ludicrous amount of money! And with the gold having no usable nutrients at all, it just not worth it to buy such expensive food for relatively small amount of nutrients
For instance, Industry Kitchen(hopefully that's the name of the place) at NYC serves a pizza with a gold leaf covering for a whopping price of $2000. While at my home country which is Indonesia, Domino's serves an American Classic Cheeseburger Pizza(idk that's a thing) which is the most expensive pizza I could find on the website costs around $7 which is just baffling to me
An entire gold leaf (8x8cm or 10x10cm) costs around 1 euro/1 dollar. The small part used to decorate a cake, a pastry or whatever in a dish costs only a few cents. You are definitely not paying for the gold added. And stop with the b******t about nutrition, it’s purely a cheap (yes cheap) decoration, it’s not about feeding you. Then if you’re stupid enough to buy a $2000 pizza you’re a moron, it’s not about the gold leaf.
Woah, food with gold leaf *AND* gold leaf food? Slow down there Shakespeare
The murder and death that occurs in the gold mining industry is horrific. To the just eat it? No.
Certain brandies/alcohols have gold leaf floating in them.
The environmental impact of gold mining is appalling. To throw that away on frivolities is obscene.
iPhones.
After getting an iPod back in 2006 I decided I'd never spend a buck on anything made by Apple. No Android device has ever failed me.
Yh, even though they're not 'cool' or 'trendy' the Nokia I'm using right now can survive my butterfingers
Load More Replies...My iPhone 6 is still going strong and I bought that in 2015. My son has it now, I got an iPhone Xs 4 years ago. It still works well and does everything I need it to.
eh i think "tech wars" are pointless. does it really matter what device you have?💀
They are only a waste if you update your phone every year or two. Apple supports older models for several years and even then the phone is ok to use for app updates for another year or two after that. My previous phone was an iphone 6 plus that I bought new in 2014 and I was able to update all my apps until 2019. Even now in 2023 the phone itself and some apps are still working even though the apps can no longer be updated. But thats a good 5+ years of support and use which is pretty good value imo.
I hate iphones. I hade one and it sucked so i sent it back. Im an Android girl thru and thru
I do as well. Have a 6S Plus that still works better than my 2 year old Kindle Fire. That's over 7 years. Apple makes great devices and you get updates for years as long as your device can handle it.
Load More Replies...I have iphone and as someone who stood by android for nine years, I'll never go back to android. After five androids that gave me an error with my Gmail that I needed when I started college I ditched android. Never had an issue with my Gmail on apple.
I bounce between iphone and android devices regularly, and they are no different, I have had cheap phones and expensive phones, and if you get similar spec you can't tell the difference. It is brain washing and marketing that gets people to stick with a brand.
I greatly prefer Android's interface. But otherwise, there's no difference.
Load More Replies...Yeah but… I like how easy they are to use and androids confuse me. I don’t mind admitting they’ve dumbed it down for people like me. 🙂
I was forced to use an ipad at a job a few years ago. Absolute garbage.
Cod points or any other online game currency bs. Yeah its cool at first but meh after you realize you spent $20 for basically nothing.
Ugh. I feel for this recently. And am not proud to admit it. A stupid mobile game no less. But the chests were so tempting. And it made my character stronger. Sigh.... I spent about 200$... :( lol
I once accidentally spent my entire rent on a mobile game (it was several transactions over a few weeks... but same thing... i got pulled in by the shiny upgrades to my character). Once I saw my bank statement, and realized how dangerous it was (financially), i deleted the game.
Load More Replies...But I love CP :( (cod points). All jokes aside, microtransactions as a whole are a huge waste of money.
I took a *big* double take at that first sentence lmao
Load More Replies...In moderation? If this is your downtime, what you do to have fun, something that makes you happy, no judgment... There are countless - landfill stuffing, liver destroying, marriage, wrecking - other ways to destroy our lives. Game on my fellow nerds!
im not proud to admit i spent 100s of dollars on a specific online game...💀
Ehhh... yes and no. I play Warframe, and sometimes I'll buy cosmetic items; it's a hobby, and I like to like what I'm looking at. (The game is 3rd person, so you can see your character and their cosmetics at all times)
hehe..i dont remember how much money i spent on robux but i kinda dont regret it but sure is waste of money..
Bottled water.
Go to anywhere in central America, most anywhere in SE Asia, Flint Michigan.....drink the water from the faucet and then come back the next day (as your guts bubble and you struggle not to shít yourself) and mention how useless bottled water is.
Why won't they DO something about that horrid water situation in Flint Michigan?!
Load More Replies...I just did a huge project on this. Bottled water costs about 2000x tap. It is COMPLETELY necessary if you don't have access to clean water, though.
generally speaking this is true, but there are plenty of places where you cant drink tap water for various reasons, and bottled water has its uses in some situations, like camping, emergency supplies, car trips etc.
Move near a town like mine. We have a well in the centre of town, the spring feeds the well, the water is free. Go there, fill as many buckets, bottles, handbags as you can, drive away with your free supply of water, chill it at home in your fridge and you’ve got a result! Me? I drink our tap water, it’s as safe as a pint of milk and very good value for money. PS the free water is at St Ann’s Well, Buxton, Derbyshire. Don’t buy the Nestlé bottled stuff eh?
I've gone to plenty of places where I might have ended up in a hospital if I'd drunk tap water, but I live in the US so I almost never drink bottled water
you're expecting me to drink the pîss that comes out of my tap? some places do not have potable tap water
I live in an area prone to cyclones. Having a stash of bottles water is necessary because we could be without running water for a week if a big cyclone hits.
My girls live in an area where the tap water is WATER BOY amazing but they think its awful and buy bottled! I just got back from visiting them and filled the empty water bottles with their tap and brought it home!! Its cold and delicious and I gulp a ton when I brush my teeth. Yay me!
Pod style coffee makers
There is a reusable pod option where you put your own coffee in reusable pods. I briefly considered that until I realized I typically make more than one cup at a time so I would just make my small 4 cup pot and be done with it.
Load More Replies...I must respectfully disagree. For years I used an automatic drip coffeemaker. It was incredibly inconvenient, having to deal with flimsy paper filters and messy coffee grounds. Even when I owned a four-cup machine, I would drink maybe a cup-and-a-half, then dump the rest. I felt that something was missing from my daily brew. Then one day at my sister's house, I decided to give her Keurig machine a try. Fill the reservoir with filtered water, pop in a pod, brew the coffee, pop out the pod; what could be easier? I also discovered that a pod machine is multipurpose. Instant hot water for hot cocoa, tea, whatever requires it. You can also sample many different types of coffee without investing in a full pot or pound.
this! my spouse and i used to save the extra coffee as cold coffee, but it was never the same as fresh brewed. we would purchase a bag of coffee for our old fashioned drip coffee maker every 10 days or so. now with our keurig we buy a bag once every month, it really adds up! so we swing for the much better quality coffee, support a local business that supports green coffee initiatives, and we use a reusable pod for every cup of coffee. :3
Load More Replies...I have a machine, but I bought it off eBay, and I never buy Nespresso pods, I get compostable pods from Grind. It’s a damn fine cup of coffee every morning.
Well you csn buy reusable pods. Instead of having to buy coffee filters . Wash and rinse my reusable pod. And i don't waste as much coffee.
My French press makes two cups at a time, absolutely delicious, uses coffee grounds (which are wonderful for some of my plants) and the cost of a cup of brew is about 7 cents (compared to ~40 cents for even the cheapest pod).
Fireworks, i love them, but it's like 50$ per second for the good ones.
Traumatize and terrify your pets, the war veterans in your community, and all the wildlife nearby for just $50/second!!!
Went there for the Falla. The 2020 edition :'-( so I endep up not having the full fire show, but still... firecrackers were... pretty amazing :D BOOM !
Load More Replies...This should be higher. Not only a waste of money, but it kills. Burns down people's home, causes birds to fall from trees with heart attacks, terrifies pets and wild animals where many get into accidents trying to escape, retraumatizes veterans with PTSD, terrifies lots of people. And then there are all the people injured by it, all the pollution. I could keep going. That s**t is AWFUL and it should be forbidden. It's NOT worth all the hurt. People who like fireworks have no empathy. How can you enjoy something knowing how much pain and hurt and death it causes? You can't unless you just don't care about any of that.
Go to an organised display (UK has lots on 5th Nov, so I guess the US would have them on 4th July) Fraction of the cost for memorable displays. However, have you ever seen some of the drone displays (Edinburgh hogmanay to name but one) ?Superb and far less damaging to the environment and pets.
Like for good ones to shoot off yourself? We have a free show here every year either on the 4th or the weekend before..
We Iove to go somewhere and see a professional display ....what we don't love Is the fact that our neighbors set them off right in front of our house for no particular occasions....And we have to fix the damage and clean up the mess.
Any dating apps subscription - like find out who liked you now for only a billion dollars!
A friend of mine paid on Tinder to see who liked him. That's how he met his now wife.
That's actually how I met my husband! But I think it was on a promo so I never had to pay 😂
I met my wife on eHarmony and married her 17 years ago. Money well spent.
I was about to reply this (March.com, 15 years ago, only paid for one month, bargain) but I think they are talking about the premium features on free apps specifically.
Load More Replies...I don't agree. Unless you both match each other you can't talk. Some platforms won't let you talk at all if you haven't paid. My suggestion is always to just accept it and pay. It's cheaper than a bar, and you can then immeidately message the people you like with cute pickup lines instead of waiting and hoping they like your photos.
I don't bother with those (anymore). Tried a few free ones years ago & got nothing but losers.
Tipping.
Then that would cut into their profits, and they aren't about to do that. They will spend their money to advocate and buy politicians to make sure tipping stays.
Load More Replies...Mandatory/Automatic tipping yes, but tipping someone for performing good service at your own discretion is not a waste of money imo.
Automatic tipping is nuts - the people who need the tips should be paid a decent wage in the first place. But otherwise, tipping someone for great service is a way of showing appreciation... how is that a waste of money?
What also makes me annoyed is when you go to curbside pick up and they still put a tip portion on the receipt.. It is like why? Do people really need a tip to walk out a door to give you a bag of food? :/
& now we're supposed to tip at least 15% to pick up our own orders & drive them home ourselves! I will not, I'm already being charged a service fee for service I don't receive. Just say'in.
I don't feel expected to. I feel it's some preposterous offer they're making that everyone should just ignore. Just because a company puts a line there for a tip doesn't mean you have to. No service, no tip. That's my motto.
Load More Replies...i mean its fine if they were nice but if they were a jerk, yeah they're getting nothing💀
Credit Card interest
Yeah, it's stupid to pay interest if you have the cash to pay the whole bill at once. But a business charging someone a monthly fee for using money that isn't theirs is pretty legit. And if you can't repay what you borrowed...you shouldn't have borrowed money in the first place.
The financial planner at the bank yesterday was asking why I didn't use credit cards... uhhh Why would I pay EXTRA tomorrow for something I can afford today?
There is no extra pay if balance is cleared at the due date
Load More Replies...Or private student loan interest, my daughter is being dinged 13% !
She should have used her high school education to READ the contract she agreed to and do the MATH of just a few months of interest before taking the loan so she can get an idea of how much she'd actually be paying. Or, if you actually cared, you couldn't warned your daughter that private loans are always a bad idea. She CHOSE to enter into that insane interest rate but she shouldn't be held accountable?
Load More Replies...well obviously but if you can't afford something and you DO need it NOW, you have no choice. E.g. I had to pay a hospital bill for my partner and had no cash. BUT I could afford it on my card.
Many places of business- especially restaurants- now charge a "processing" fee on credit card purchases. This is the 3% fee the bank charges the business that they are now passing on to you. In essence, you are now paying an interest fee at purchase (to the business, not the card) even if you pay off the balance every month.
You don't know what you're talking about. A restaurant charging the customer the fee for credit card use is 100% a practice every business should have. Why should the restaurant pay a fee totaling 3% for each table they feed? The restaurant shouldn't have to pay a fee for allowing their guests the privilege of using electronic currency rather than cold hard cash.
Load More Replies...So called beauty products, makeup, expensive clothes and purses, most things marketed towards women.
Sorry but I love my lippies. I don't do it for anyone else but me because it makes me feel good. Also I do like dressing up and expensive can be relative when you're looking for something that fits and is gonna last. I definitely can't imagine spending thousands on shoes but the difference between shoes that last 10 years and those that last under 2 is often a hundred bucks.
I don't wear makeup but, I do spend my money on quality yet affordable skin care.
I only use a few products: a cheap bar of soap, 2€ deodorant, 1€ toothpaste and a 3 € Cologne that last a year. No dry skin, no body odors, clean teeth
I only pay for an eensy bit, when I want to look like the grim reaper lol
Settlements to pay victims of police brutality and civil rights violations added to the paid vacations given to the the police while they pretend to investigate eachother and allow eachother to continue to work and brutalized innocent people, and violate people's civil rights. Police budgets continue to be increased and so do lawsuit Settlements paid by that taxpayers over and over again because the police face no repercussions.
Pay all abuse settlements from the police pension funds - you will quickly see the abuses stop. But their unions are more corrupt than the worst mafiosa.
Recent story from Oz where a 95 year old granny who used a walking frame for mobility was *tasered* by a policeman in a nursing home. Of course he was suspended on full pay
I'd like to think and I may be delusional that that is slowly changing not quickly enough but there have been several recent cases where police officers were not only charged, but tried and found guilty and sentenced for what they've done. It's not enough there's more to go but I have hope that it will change ....it has to change.
And a whole bunch of bad apples is just a stupid, smelly, rotten mess so they should all be thrown out (or smashed, like a bad apple, turned into sauce, and eaten by the people).
Load More Replies...Forcing the community to use their tax dollars to cover the àss of the local Murder Force...er...Police Force when they do what they were hired to do, "protect and serve" the rich.
I understand being suspended with pay during an investigation. False accusations are a possibility and no one should lose their income over something like that. That being said I think the person in question should be required to pay that money back in the event the investigation came back as guilty
Buying cheap [stuff] you have to replace.
If you mean stuff as depicted like toothpaste, no, cheap is ok. If you mean cheap stuff that you will need for a long time, like shoes, then yes, it is a waste.
The required classes most colleges make you take the first year. I was forced to take Finite math. I never use it. It doesn’t make any sense to have general required courses when you already know what you want to study. And if they actually care the classes would be about living like an adult-especially since usually it is the first time young adults are on their own.
A lot of nursing majors were pissed they had to take an "unnecessary" Native American history and culture class at my college. The largest minority population in my state is Native people. They will literally be working with and treating them. College students are not always great at being aware of what classes will be useful. Although I do kind of agree with finite math. If it's not a prerequisite for other math classes students need it really makes more sense to have practical math. Like stuff related to calculating home and auto loans, banking, budget, retirement stuff or whatever.
Omg not again.. You really missed the point of learning. Even if “finite math” or anything else is not crucial to your career, it shaped your mind. It taught you something. That’s the point. Educational institutions are not about teaching you to “live like an adult”
Finite math doesn’t really teach you anything though if you’ve been through basic math classes in middle school. Source, I had it senior year of high school. Although my teacher was poor so it might have been that.
Load More Replies...General education requirements (the classes all students have to take) are carefully thought out, debated, and continuously questioned by the whole faculty. They aren't arbitrary requirements designed to siphon money from students. Each department has to show why their classes will truly contribute to the well-rounded education of a graduate, and they have to argue that to professors in completely different fields. It's one of the few things universities do well, in my opinion.
College was, and still should be, intended to be continuing education, not just job training. Modern business practices have turned it into expensive vocational training with two years of nonsense to pad out your tuition costs. The intent of college wasn't originally to get you a job, it was to make you smarter. Now it still doesn't get you a job and it just makes you poorer - the smarter part is arguable.
A lot of colleges require their students to have a well rounded education and learn about a little of everything, not just solely focus on their major. My university required that. We had to take a class in every "field": English, History, Philosophy, Math, Science, etc. Often your classes could count as the field class. I majored in Zoology and my Animal Ethics class which was required for my major doubled as my Ethics requirement.
I don't even know what the hell finite math is - and I am so ok with that.
Writing helped to define what the 2 types of research papers there are: Science Research and Reporting and whatever persons needed an opening paragraph and supporting the talking points, written in an archaic fashion that no one will read anyway
Finite math is chosen for the math requirement in colleges not because it's the most relevant math course they offer - just the easiest. Be glad they don't start you out on Differential Equations - the most interesting class I never took.
In England, they're thinking of forcing everyone to do higher math in college and I'm like: NOPE! DONT YOU DARE!
Lawn care companies. Paying someone money to make your yard toxic to children, birds, dogs and other animals because you want your grass to look like green wall to wall carpet…meanwhile, all your yard does is burn fossil fuels (mower) and deplete the soil. Make it make sense.
a wildflower meadow with native plants is so beautiful and so much better for birds and bees
Load More Replies...I agree lawns are stupid but this post is equally stupid. Someone cutting your grass or blowing leaves around doesn't turn your yard into a toxic dump. Stfu!
My Lawn is Awesome, cut it about once, maybe twice a month during growing season to keep it neat-ish, full of wild flowers, moss, insects and other things that people deem undesirable in lawns. Its a vibrant, healthy oasis of life. Best thing is when its sunny, the moss makes the softest, springy underlay for a blanket.
I love seeing a lawn with daisies and dandelions so pretty.
Load More Replies...Oh you are so very very wrong. We just had a dust storm where I am that led to the deaths of eight people. all because there wasn't any grass to keep the dust from blowing over a highway. Lawn care literally saves millions upon millions of lives. Without it we can't grow food.
Dust storms aren't because a lawn doesn't exist. 🤦🏾♀️ Vegetation that is natural to the surrounding environment will hold down dust and, generally, require less water to maintain. But idk... that's just science, is all.
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Load More Replies...Not exactly. If you like a patch of lawn for the kids to run on or the dogs to play on, you need to maintain it, and paying someone to do it is less work. If you want to make a meadow, all very well, but then anticipate ticks, fleas, and kids not willing to go play outside.
There are other options aside from tick infested meadow grasses and resource sucking lawn.
Load More Replies...Brand new cars
Problem here is subscription. Used to be when you bought a car, you bought a car.
Debatable. I have always bought old cars. However in 2017 I bought a new one and when it came time to sell last year, they were short of stock of that model so they paid me back what I paid for it originally. Obviously inflation reduces it, but effectively I didn't make a substantial loss on it.
real. i'll take a saturn over a new car any day. (if you don't know what I'm talking about look up "saturn cars")
I love the fact that so many people can get brand new cars due to lease and low finance deals. It means I have a much greater choice of affordable second hand cars after someone else has paid for most of the depreciation....
Gift wrapping paper, ribbons etc
technically correct, but i think it's worth it just to see the expression on the recipient's face when they unwrap the gift. sometimes joy, sometimes disappointment... still worth it :D
True but an old brown bag and maybe some markers... Voila
Load More Replies...One time I wrapped a friends present in two different boxes and 7 layers of paper. And it was absolutely hilarious seeing his reaction.
Tradition for me is wrapping everyone's gifts in the full color Sunday comics- colorful, kids love it andost adults can see the whimsical factor of it. Secretly, it's because I grew up so poor, some holidays, the comic insert /was/ the present.
yep. I only do the giftwrap paper, no cards, no ribbons, because it's a waste.
Use old newspapers. Makes for interesting "patterns". especially if you have a person staring at you while unwrapping XD
Old newspapers are getting pretty hard to come by unfortunately.
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organic and "clean" products. a big freaking marketing joke. Paying for a feeling basically
You're paying for a lack of pesticides and other sprays which may (or may not) damage your health
Wrong. They still use pesticides, they just don't use the ones regulated by your govt. AND the government doesn't have a program dedicated to making sure these "organic" farmers are actually doing what they say, zero regulations! And then there's the products labeled organic that come from China where that's not even a real thing; just a few rich Chinese men slapping that label onto their products cuz they know you're stupid enough to buy that item SOLELY cuz of that word (and ego and self disillusionment). Anyone can slap the word organic on their product, genuinely.
Load More Replies...there are rules and regulations for organic products related to what kind of pesticides and other treatments the crops get, and what kind of feed animals are fed. that is what you are paying for, the special treatment of what you end up eating. That said, I've found the quality difference between organic and not organic to be marginal, so for that alone its probably not worth spending the extra money.
"Rules and regulations" that are maintained by nobody. 🤣
Load More Replies...Studies have shown that there is little difference between the 2 different types, organic and regular, to justify the cost. In fact, organic food should cost less because natural methods are used instead of artificial methods
I used to buy organic fruit until a green fruit wasp jumped out of the peach I took a bite out of and almost gave me a hearr attack!
I'd rather stroke my ego based on my knowledge and capabilities not whether or not I can throw my money at a company because they use certain words that give me a bóner and a weird sense of superiority.
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Rent.
you can always live in a box. were the people who came up with this list on drugs? Not everyone can afford a house and rent is the only option in that case
Some of us would rather pay the extra cost to have someone else be responsible for all the problems that come with owning a house. Which is why I rent. To me, it's hardly a waste of money. It's a convenience fee! :)
Load More Replies...And maybe some people don´t like to settle down too much. If you rent and want to move for some reason, you just tell your landlord and skedaddle. If you own a house you have to go trough all the hassle of finding out what to do with it: Sell it, rent it out, etc. and all the bills that come with owing a house
Ok half of these complaints seem like they’re just from bitter broke people.
But I wanna get my nails and hair done, I wanna go out for cocktails every weekend, I wanna drive a brand new car and brag to others about my iphone, and eat "organic" food...and have a litter of children...and someone else should be responsible to help me pay for all this! 🤣
Load More Replies...This one pisses me off SO MUCH! I'm so tired of being responsible enough to afford $1800 rent but not responsible enough for a $1200 mortgage
Rent is a flat rate. Being able to pay a rent rate equal or higher than a mortgage doesn't mean tou can afford a house. Taxes, utilities (generally higher cuz houses are usually larger than an apartment), paying for anything that breaks, insurance, blah blah blah. Just cuz you have the means to pay a higher rent rate doesn't mean you can successfully own a whole home.
Load More Replies...Again debatable. I personally have owned about 4 houses, and sold them for profit. HOWEVER the profits were diminishing over time as the world economy tanked. Now I rent. Mostly because I like the flexibility to just up and leave without a huge pile of legal paperwork. The cost is effectively the same per month. It depends on whether you anticipate making a profit on the sale. If you buy a place needing a bit of work in a good area for a low price, and you can fix it up for a low price, by all means, then buy, because you will sell at a profit. BUT if you think about the profit you make over 20 years sitting in one place, relative to the money you could get from say stocks and shares... it's not worth the stress. Especially if the neighbourhood becomes a slum and you get financially trapped (can't sell because the offer prices are lower than the purchase price). Whereas renting, just walk away.
Especially when the monthly rent is more than a monthly mortgage. It annoys me when you prove you can pay £600 per month in rent but banks won't trust you to pay £400 per month on a mortgage
Not how an economically stable housing system works.
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Alcohol
totally not a waste of money. It helps shy people get over their inhibitions so as to socialise easier.
well if you need to be intoxicated by having ingested an organic solvent just to function in today's society, there really is something that needs to be taken up for reconsideration. Alcohol has so many bad sideeffects that it really shouldn't be considered anyone's go to solution just to function in any context.
Load More Replies...I kinda of agree, alcohol is really expensive for what it is. And it costs tax money in terms of health programs for treating people with alcohol addiction and related health issues. That said, in moderation its fine for for when you're out and just want to have fun.
Highly subjective. Our societal constrictions push many of us to places where we need to unwind rapidly, alcohol (speaking from experience), is an end of day relaxation time. After the toxicity of corporate life. I'll kick one, then I'll need to kick the other.
Not all alcohol... alkohol to get drunk... useless... but I can't get drunk. I get severe migraine. But to share a good beer from one of the many microbreweries in denmark- heaven...
Shoes. I don’t understand why people spend so much money on them.
This needs to specify whether it's the super expensive fancy/collectible shoes or just shoes in general... coz the latter are kind of essential in most scenarios
Yeah good quality shoes to support your foot are more expensive. I just wish designers who think that women should be in those ridiculous stilettos, which only support the podiatrists... need to be fired.
Load More Replies...Because sometimes your feet pay the price (pun intended) with cheaper brands...
I work in a hospital - 90% of staff I see are wearing trainers, usually New balance Adidas etc. if you're on your feet for a long shift you need comfort
Load More Replies...because my feet are huge and there are only expensive ones that are comfortable for me
My cousins son is in the same predicament. He's 20 and wears a size 16. He was in a men's size 12 by the time he was 13 years old. I always feel so bad he can't just go to a store and buy shoes as they don't carry sizes that big always have to order them. Which means no trying them on first.
Load More Replies...If you buy cheap shoes they fall apart soon. Buy decent handmade leather shoes and they will last. I have a pair of doc martens that I got in the late 1990s. Still perfectly fine 25 years later. Admittedly I do not wear them every day, but maybe every week.
The good old days.....todays DM are c**p and definetely not worth the money. I' ll give Solovair a try, at least they are still made in England
Load More Replies...You're right, I'll save the money and buy the shoes that allow electrician through the soles.
Depends. If they're safety shoes required for a job...those can be $$$$.
Don’t but the unecessarily expensive ones that cost 3 billion dollars then. Just buy those that aren’t super cheap and have good quality
i could get cheaper shoes for sure, but my screwed up feet demand better
Insurance!
are you insane? NO. Insurance is what I buy before food. If you crash your car, or your laptop is stolen, you are ROYALLY SCREWED without insurance. You won't be able to get to work in many countries, nor would you be able to do your work (if a knowledge-worker). So No. Absolutely you need it. In many countries you have mediocre healthcare offerings (I'm not talking about UK/EU). Meaning health insurance helps you get access to a better quality. Same for life insurance. If you have a family to support and no pension fund, you better have life insurance so that if you die, your family is not left destitute. This post is extremely irresponsible.
If your car was parked 1mm out of the insurance specified place, no payout. If your laptop is stolen from anywhere other than your home, no payout. If they do payout it is only a small percentage of it's value.
Load More Replies...Insurance seems a waste of cash until you need it, this is coming from someone who's car got written off by an uninsured driver.
Same thing happened to me. A woman ran a stop sign and totaled both of our vehicles. She had no insurance or license. Luckily I had uninsured motorist insurance. It does seem very wasteful until you need it lol
Load More Replies...I think the point is being missed here. Everyone has raised excellent arguments and offered real world examples of why insurance is a necessity. However, in a larger sense, insurance is just the sale of fear. It is predicated on the notion that something bad might happen in the future (or in the case of title insurance, may have happened in the past but is unknown), and if you pay a smaller fee per month, you won't have to pay an enormous fee in the event that the something bad actually does occur. I think that's what this person is trying to say.
I'd argue against this one. My sister and her fiance purchased a block of land. He was self-employed, and she worked part-time so the bank insisted on Mortgage insurance. My sister paid the first insurance payment after work and her finance was killed at work that same night. The insurance paid out the whole mortgage. Sure, the odds are against you ever needing it, but you just might, and you won't know until the awful moment is upon you.
Not all insurance! Some is life saving if you ever have a need for it.
I'm very happy to waste money on my insurance (all of them, both civil and health). It means that I'm covered but that i'm not using them, which is great! (and for the health insurance, as I'm not living in the states, I know that other people benefit for my good health, which is even better).
We don't really have health insurance. It is more like a Medical discount system - like Sams club...
Industrial-scale tourism. I can't fathom paying a small fortune to get stuffed into a giant aluminum tube with 300+ (rude) strangers for hours on end only to be harassed and groped by airport security at my destination. I'm not even talking about visiting some landmark with a battalion's worth of people jostling to take selfies. They say people should buy experiences, not things. Well I'd rather have a roof over my head in my old age than fond memories of bad wine from a tourist trap vineyard. Thanks but no thanks. I'll just wait for the invention of VR tours.
This sounds like someone who only ever went on an organised tour once in their life and thinks that all tourism is the same. Unfortunately, to get to most places, you do need to be stuck in an aluminium tube of farts for a few hours. But once you reach your destination there are so many things you can do to discover another country/city/etc while staying away from the crowds
It sounds like someone who doesn't like people generally, which is totally fine but that makes this a preference vs a true bit of observation.
Load More Replies...I don't agree with this at all. I'd rather have nothing as an old person and lots of memories of travels. Choose where to go wisely, go out of peak tourist season.
I'm totally okay with people having this attitude! Keep it up, please, seriously! I don't wanna be trapped in a plane or out exploring world heritage sites while having to hear someone like this bítch and moan the whole time. Stay home, enjoy your roof, and keep your narrow-mindedness away from my adventures!
I live for leaving the UK on holidays. I did live abroad and loved, now I am back, traveling and visiting other places is what motivates me more than anything.
Some people are sheep who will never step out of their comfort zones, but if you are not a sheep, there are so many things to discover. And from a different angle, just because a place is crowded does not mean it is not worth seeing. Who says you have to go with rigidly timed tours?
I don't agree with you, however, I don't fly bcs it bad for the environment and just prefer to stay in England! But other ppl don't and that's fine!
I'm honestly on board with this. People are totally fine paying 3 months of salary to spend a week in someone else's home, gawking at the life they live... Why is travel SO important? "You should see the way the rest of the world lives! It makes you a more well rounded person!!" blah blah blah lol. We have internet, now. You can see just about anywhere you can travel to. For free. No hassle.
I was on an organized trip to Ireland (from Chicago) a couple weeks ago. It was phenomenal and will probably be the only way I tour. Of course, it did take me five years to save up for it...
They're suuuuuuuppppperrrrrr expensive and usually have bad graphics.
Load More Replies...Personally I would put Jordans everyone is flexing them and why would you spend a lot of something on your feet
Timeshares. It starts out nice then the maintenance fees take over until you're paying more than what the week costs. And you're stuck for life paying unless you are able to get free of it.
You guys missed one: psychics. I feel really bad for people who pay a bunch of money to see a psychic. It is kind of the same as church. If you're emotionally vulnerable people will find a way to get money out of you..
Personally I would put Jordans everyone is flexing them and why would you spend a lot of something on your feet
Timeshares. It starts out nice then the maintenance fees take over until you're paying more than what the week costs. And you're stuck for life paying unless you are able to get free of it.
You guys missed one: psychics. I feel really bad for people who pay a bunch of money to see a psychic. It is kind of the same as church. If you're emotionally vulnerable people will find a way to get money out of you..

