Someone Asked, “What Was Normal 20-30 Years Ago, But Is Considered A Luxury Now?” And Here Are 50 Of The Best Answers

Honestly just create a second throwaway email - it’s free, you can still use it for verification tasks, and it keeps your actual email off so many lists

Thanks, Yahoo, for taking every single crappy subscription and keep my Gmail account crisp.

Have you tried Duck Duck Go email? It’s great for this kind of thing, and free!

You do know that it doesn't have to be your email address? Anyone at work that's annoyed you recently? 😏

I have multiple "thisismyspammailaddress@provider.com" mail addresses for all the nonsense... 10/10 would recommend.

Signing up for EVERY single f****** website, so much easier when you could just go online and you're ready....

I refuse to provide such stuff

Junk email addys for the win, bay'be.

I have a throwaway email address that I use specifically for those "Gimme your email" forms. I never look at it. Checkmate.

Sorry but even expensive brands like Patagonia take no responsibility for who is making their clothes. They ask very high prices and claim to be honest made but even their clothes are made by slaves in China.

Sometimes it's hard to tell at a glance whether the shirt (or whatever item of clothing) is made of cheap material. You can't base it on price because I've bought $7 shirts that lasted better than $30 ones. Annoyingly to the eye and the touch, both shirts look about the same quality. It's only after you start washing them that it becomes obvious :(

Clothes in the 80s and 90s weren't expensive to buy. They weren't dirt cheap but they were still affordable.

It's not only about the materials. Even super expensive brands (looking at you, high end Italian brands) cut corners when it comes to labour, so they can shove their fine materials because there's no way l pay thousands for something made by someone earning a very modest salary in the best of cases.

And go outside big cities where vintage is ridiculously overpriced, to find true bargains on older clothing made with better fabrics, at thrift shops, yard sales, and estate sales. Hell, I’ve found some online resellers are more like yard sales than vintage stores. Like closet clean outs more than investment selling. I’ve bought Ferragamo shoes, new in box, for $25 to $35, and a perfect condition Coach briefcase for $40, because someone just wanted them out of the house to make room for new stuff, or to reduce packing when moving, or after a relative passes and their house needs to be cleared out.

I actually think it's the other way around. I buy cheap stuff BECAUSE it lasts. I've bought $50 shoes that didn't even last a year, and yet I've bought $20 shoes that regularly last 3-4 years.

Failing that, do as I do and buy at charity / thrift shops. I have a splendid wardrobe with a huge amount of variety that encompasses only natural cloths, including silk and mohair, all sourced through charity shops. I haven't bought any new clothes - apart from undercrackers and socks - for over 20 years. I have 6 pairs of shoes sourced the same way, one of my pairs of brogues is over 35 years old and still waterproof and comfortable and a pair of 1960's slip ons in tan leather are almost like slippers !!!

Yes. Unfortunately the self-esteem of many people is based on fashion. They assume that matching the looks of the rich and/or famous, makes them belong - even if the clothing is just a cheap copy

True, yet in the 80 we did buy cheap clothes too. It is not that we did buy the expensive stuff back that and the cheap stuff now. C&A clothes held way longer than they do now. The quality overall was just better. A 20-dollar shirt would hold longer back then than a 50-dollar shirt will do now. Companies nowadays built/make things poorly on purpose, so it falls apart faster, so we buy more often.

Wait, Helderder. Where? I would pay anything for jeans the way jeans were made in the 90s- more denim than stretch. What company sells it? What is the name of a company that sells basics - t-shirts, shorts, summer dresses - that had high quality material and ethical labor policy? I'm in the USA. THANKS.

I bought mens shorts and a mens shirt yesterday at an putlet store. I am so in love. Good length shorts and sturdy material. It wont work for everything due to bust and bum but these pieces are great.

That is a valid point. Yet, if companies would make better quality, we wouldn't have to throw it away after 3 times wearing it. I have had shirts having holes in them after only being in the washer (following washing instructions) once - not have been in the dryer.

Those Indian reps speak fluent English, and very clearly by their regions standards. what you mean is someone who speaks your accent and dialect. As someone who worked in a call center, it sucks knowing you speak the same language and the only reason you can't get something across is your accent

In Spanish we get the super sweet, soft spoken Colombians who PROFUSELY thank you for every word you mutter, so l honestly prefer it. European Spanish can be harsh 😂

I love talking to Brian from India, what are you talking about?

Indian service reps actually speak very fluent English. They just talk faster than I can listen. Deep south US reps are the hardest to understand.

At least they try. I'm only fluent in english.

It's not that I have a problem with people from India taking the call. I just have a very difficult time understanding them. Makes the call frustrating when you have to continually ask someone to repeat what they said.

It's true though! I speak slowly and enunciate my words properly and they still don't understand what I mean. Infuriating!!

Yes! I do tech support for 7 years or so now and I spoke with pretty much whole States, UK, France, Finland, Japan and Netherlands in English with no problem. Then there are Indians... I don't care that much about the accent or how fast they talk, but how much 80% of them do not understand anything. It was an Indian guy, who complanied that his Outlook is not working and the problem was that electricity was off. How stupid can someone be? And we are not talking about some Indian from street, we are talking about network service guy.

Ah, this - I have lost count of the times I've been asked if the person calling can speak to 'Huge Cocksin' (see my name and figure it out). So of course I used to initially play along, especially if I put it on speaker until it got tedious, which it did very quickly .... Nowadays I just say f**k off and hang up.

Phillipino. All I can say

Or Mexican/south american

Ohhh this is SO true - they should have to go to speech school to learn how to lose (or at least lessen) that accent!

I have to admit , this drives me bananas!! And then I feel guilty as if it's bigoted to want to understand the person that I am talking with.

I think I had the reverse situation happen to me once. I had a guy with no distinguishable accent (to me, as I'm Canadian), and the guy was named Raj. Spoke perfect English.

Comcast chatbox is bad too. They keep overcharging me. The chatbox keeps telling me i can view my bill online.

The person is a man who calls you to change the company that offers TV, phone network and Wi-Fi because they have the most convenient and cheapest plan for you. This is a person who is alive and you have to get rid of them away as soon as you hear their voice.

Uuuummm,let me think about this one.

Are there really areas in NZ where it’s truly unsafe to walk around during the day?

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Yeah things have definitely changed. A shoebox shithole of a place in the middle of nowhere is half a million. Sounds like you were in South Auckland. I remember a whole town was bought by an investor who put the price up x10 the original price and started the price hike.