You bought food?
In this economy?
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
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I’ve been practicing my talking points.
Oh you young people with your fancy ~~avocado~~ toast.
Y'all can afford toasters?
Thankfully the days are getting much hotter (no idea why???) so I can just leave bread by a window to get toast
Nobody talked about toasting the toast
I know this is a meme, but j do often find myself frustrated with how often my friends and family want to go out to eat.
I did some annual budget analysis and found my wife and I averaged almost $500/month on bars and restaurants in 2025 (also including takeout). I make over 2x the median household income in my area, but I still think it's extravagant and luxurious to constantly be going out to eat or drink, or to be ordering takeout. The same friends who are working multiple low-paying jobs and complaining about money are also the ones making plans that involve Ubering both ways to a bar to drink.
You can't budget your way out of poverty and we should absolutely try to fix the systemic issues we are faced with. Poor people deserve to have a good quality of life too. But also people need to review their consumption and ask if they really should be going out to eat 3x per week, or going on cruises every year.
going on cruises every year
Cruises every year?
Bruh I don't think I even ever had a real vacation since I came into existence.
The only plane ride I've been on was the one-way flight to immigrate to the US. Literally still haven't been on another plane ride ever since then.
The only boats I've been on was the free ferry to/from Staten Island (NY, USA)
That one time I went to Six Flags is only because relatives invited us (and presumably paid for it)
(I mean my parents are better off now than before, but still, busy and have no time... also now it feels wrong to talk about vacations as a (young) adult)
I know what you mean. When I was really young my parents took us to Florida to see our great-grandfather a couple times and that was the closest thing I had to vacation for a long time. The past couple years my wife and I have had a couple of long weekend trips to cities we can drive to in a couple hours, but nothing extravagant. Well, except flying out to Boston for a wedding, but I would have preferred to opt out of that.
Seems everyone I work with, my parents, my in-laws, friends, everyone goes on cruises. I honestly think I would hate it even if it were free. People dropping a few grand real casual just to binge drink for a week. I could do that for like $200.
Did you really need that food?
The human body can go weeks without food, just saying.
Soon the only option will be to subscribe to food, you also need to return any eaten food if you ever cancel your subscription.
DoorDash and instacart had payment options with Klara. It makes me so sad thinking people are buying food on credit.
They already have food subscriptions and they already come at a premium price because they're for rich people and rubes.
The green pills are made from people! Wake up!
But green is my favourite colour and tastes the best!
I just bought some fruit and was wondering whether it was economically judicious
U have bought food so that means you dont need a house.
How are those egg prices?
Unsaid here is that he had a private taxi deliver his food.
You sound like thats the problem. Fuck you.
It's not THE problem, but definitely a problem.
I guess I could have prefaced it by saying the west has rampant inflation and wage stagnation issues but I'm sure you can find it somewhere on the other comments and ignore mine instead of insinuating something that can help you fill your outrage meter.