Honeysuckle isn't making a bad statement with her video, it's a valid question in a world that is slowly becoming too expensive to live in. Are these little, expensive things worth it? That's for you to decide, like she did for herself and kindly showed us her thoughts in the process. Stop taking offense where there is none to be taken. She's not calling you stupid for spending your money on what you want to or ignoring that we live in a hungry capitalist machine. Her videos in and of themselves are a distraction from how crazy and chaotic life can be. Just enjoy it!
Unless you're buying this stuff daily - it's not keeping you poor or from buying a house. BUT I treat myself by making my little luxuries at home. The stuff that is really good is easy to make - or grow. That said, my monthly house payment is about half of the monthly rent on a 1 bedroom apartment in my area. So I can afford the fancy espresso maker that makes all my favorite drinks and I can put in a garden because I have a yard. The problem is not that people want a treat, everyone does, it's that all their treat money goes into rent because they can't get a house loan because of the huge down payments they're expected to save up.
Wages have stayed relatively stagnant in the past decade while housing prices have skyrocketed. Ironically this makes luxury goods/lifestyle cheaper than saving up for an ever increasing down payment + monthly on a mortgage
This is a tired argument of "if they'd stop buying avocado toast they could buy a house!" If you had a $20 avocado toast everyday for an entire year, that's only just under $7000, nowhere NEAR a downpayment for a new home. There's a LOT more leading to people to being unable to afford a home - wages kept low, properties being bought up low with high rents or jacked up housing costs. It's almost NEVER because Billy decided to treat himself to a $7 coffee once a week
I completely agree. Our generation might have great things and privileges, but we've screwed over when it comes to homes and rent. When our parents were in their thirties they could literally just save up for a few years and buy a house. We barely have a chance to save up and if we do, it doesn't matter because rent and house prices will keep going up and up, and our wages will barely change.
Those are all true and factors that lead to our generations not being able to afford housing but at the same time $7000 is $7000 that you can still pocket to work towards your goal. Cutting make little luxuries and finding cheaper alternatives save you a lot of money in the future.
@@moreof.alyssa I was exaggerating with the example, because literally nobody who is struggling to be able to afford a house is out there having $20 avocado toast everyday for the entire year. They might treat themselves to a coffee now and then, but that's in no way going to help them afford a new house. So many people are struggling to make ends meet because of low, stagnant wages and pure greed from companies making record profits at the excuse of "inflation" (look at the articles where companies got caught doing this). There's also shrinkflation which gives you SMALLER versions of the same products yet charging you the same price if not more. We need affordable housing but that's not happening. It's FAR less "avocado toast purchases" and more super low wages/corporate greed
Yes, seven dollar latte once a week, how about every day like I do! She’s just stating a point across as far as spending too much out on expensive even bougie types of food. That would include any type of eating out and that could be more then once a day and eating out every day. because of the high cost and inflation. So what she was stating can result in not being able to afford something like a mortgage. Next! 😅
Kindly, I disagree. Unless you are eating out every meal, getting coffee everyday, shopping at places like Erewhon regularly, and doing all of this all day, every day for an entire year, then no. It doesn’t make much of a difference in the long run if you treat yourself to a $7 coffee once a week as a treat. We are screwed over by low wages, high costs and corporate greed which includes things such as wage theft which is 50 BILLION DOLLARS each YEAR that companies have held back from their workers
My go to special luxuries. Different types of cheese, infused olive oil, and vinegar from a shop in Bellingham. A coffee every once in a while. But I've recently fallen in love with cooking and making meals ahead of schedule and really putting my freezer to good use. Shopping on sale, and making more from scratch, and learning how to make my special coffees from home is really helping with my saving for a house.
Given that property companies funded by millionaires and billionaires are buying up properties in some hot housing markets to drive up prices (and either keeping them off the market, renting them, or turning them into Airbnbs), no I don't think it's the small luxuries that are the problem. Add to that decades of stagnated wages & "trickle down" economics that has never worked, Republican de-regulation to prevent price-gouging (the real cause of current-day "inflation"- hint, if it were real inflation corporations wouldn't be posting record profits... it's just pure & simple price-gouging), and high levels of personal debt for things like medical care due to lack of universal healthcare and it becomes more and more obvious that the real problem is the late stage capitalism, as well as a high need for more cooperate regulation and robust governmental social wellbeing programs.
I always enjoy your videos, your kind hearted spirit and the way you laugh makes me smile even when I’m at my darkest, Tysm honeysuckle for being so amazing.
I use to work at sweetgreen. I can confirm that people really love their salads. I know people who buy their entire office salads on the daily. The standards have gone down a bit as I've heard from some excowkers that some dressings aren't made in house anymore which is sad. I use to love making drinks and every dressing from scratch
I totally agree, buying from markets is more like luxury, but it helps the everyday farmer while not being very expensive and providing you with fresh produce and a good experience, ♥♥
I can appreciate quality food and the cost of it, but Erewhon is just a joke! Im 55 yo and grew up on avocado toast. i LOL when people are paying $20 for an aesthetic plated version of it.
The organic produces in Erewhon are very good. But price is not justified. Btw, there is a reason non of the celeb smoothies have nutrition label, mostly because these super healthy drinks are 500+ calories minimum average with 40+ grams of sugar.
I asked for calories and nutrition info and they said it’s not available. lol I can’t even imagine how much cals / sugar is in one of these. It’s a dessert!
I've recently been getting my meat and produce delivered to me from a local farm. Even our farmer's market is expensive but if you have the time, you can drive anywhere where I live and buy your food directly from a farm. 2 dozen eggs for $2 is a bargain. They're also no more than one day old, but usually you can buy eggs that still feel warm to the touch because they're freshly hatched. I live in the "fruit belt" of the Niagara Region 🇨🇦 and the numbers of farmers selling from roadside stands is staggering. I am only getting my farm produce and meat delivered because I have to save for car repairs. I spent $77 for my last box and I froze green beans, corn, cabbage (I had to Google if it could be frozen 😂) made apple sauce and I still have 2 heads of lettuce, one head of cabbage (for cabbage rolls) and 2 cucumbers that I have been pickling. I got plums, pears, a massive watermelon, peaches and grapes too. On top of that I got ground beef, ground pork, a pork roast, sausages, amarinated rack of pork ribs for $35! There's enough to last me over 2 weeks. I find it funny that young people think practically invented avocado toast; I remember my family eating that in the 60's, but I never could get over the texture of avocado. Charcuterie boards have always been part of my parent's dinner parties and I know my paternal g'ma was creating them for her guests. Sometimes it seems like everything "new" really isn't; it's just new *_again_* 😂 If I had the opportunity to buy Hailey Bieber's smoothie, I might consider it. Might, and I'd be sharing it with someone. It really looks luscious. Sea moss and algae were all things my Mom grew up having to eat during the depression; they lived by the Atlantic ocean and the ocean was feeding everyone. My Mom said that eating sea urchin was repulsive but only because they had access to them and it was free. Lobsters were also not considered to be anything special, it was something that my uncle caught. He had to pay for a license if I remember the story right, he was a lobsterman part-time.
Rosanna Pansino did a video where she got the nutrition information on their smoothies (by having to call corporate?!) and yea... no matter how much "healthy" stuff they pack in them, they're still high in sugar, probably to help cover up the healthy flavor.. and also don't tell you the nutrition info up front which is sketchy... at least fast food places list all of that on their websites..
right⁉️ i watched Rosanna’s video and i was left shocked and speechless. the amount of sugar and calories these contain are unimaginable, not to mention how secretive they were about giving away the nutritional info.
please release a video of you demonstrating this " *underconsumptioncore* " trend! would love to know so i don't become homeless with these luxuries i can't afford
Many many factors but wages don't match the costs of living anymore! My parents (born 1935,1939) worked full time, rented an apartment, took holidays, owned a car and had fun before they bought a brand new house in 1964. They were able to save enough money to do that while paying rent and all other expenses. My mom was a SAHM until I was a teenager, and she went back to work because she wanted to, not because she had to. That world is gone, so I say enjoy your small luxuries because most of us will never own a home!
I like this video because it not judging. Always curious about this store. She obviously having fun and we get to join her on it. As long as people are not going into debt why not have a little fun.
I enjoyed this video idea! It's interesting how we like to spend on these things even though most of them are objectively not worth it. I think it's fine if you're doing it a couple times a month, but if it's a 5 times a week thing then it realllly adds up. As for coffee, I don't even care much for it, but I'm willing to pay $5 if it means I can stay in the cafe and focus on my work for hours. Sometimes you just gotta change your environment to regain your focus, especially if you work from home like me, and you're home a lot. Anyways, even if we stopped spending any money on these little luxuries we still won't be able to afford a house 😂 so might as well treat ourselves once a week.
I’ll literally take a hunk of one of the over 365 types of cheese 🧀 from France 🇫🇷 (which are NOT overpriced!) and call it my girl dinner. Allons enfants de la patrie… merci pour ce vidéo ! 10:12
My neighbor gets Starbucks delivered to her house every morning. I mean, c’mon, they’re already expensive sugar and caffeine calorie bombs and she can’t go get them? It’s a 7 minute walk from where we live. 🤷🏻♀️ 2:25
I don't understand what purpose it served to bring up the fact that Gen Z and Millenials are struggling to afford to purchase homes. The implication seems to be "these generations can't become homeowners because they are spending their money on these small luxuries," which is a gross oversimplification of a major issue young people are facing in the US. This should have just been a fun video about trying expensive/overpriced food, so why bring up the fact that a large portion of two generations can't afford to buy homes?
@11:30, I'll take that cheese plate. Pansies are very edible (and, admittedly, one of my favorite) flowers, and while I'm probably the most-straight testosterone-laden dude on this side of Paradise, I would actually spend the $35 or whatever on that plate. A guilty pleasure, but charcuterie rocks!
Happy to live in Germany. Mom just turned 90. We went to dinner and payed roughly 130€ for 4. My brother and his wife payed 100$ for 2, lately. (OK, USA) That is, why they hardly go out, having dinner at restaurants, over there, these days. We don't need that "fancy stuff". I'm here 'cause I love cooking. Just showed my sister-in-law how I make mayonaise. With these endless options, if you just learn to master one simple recipe. I do look for things on sale. Very much. Prices per lbs (kg, here). With open eyes, just this can save u so much money! To be able to afford some king crab for turn-of-the-year. (King crab: some 140$/Lb, here in Germany). That is, what I call luxury! And I was able to buy that for my mom and me twice in a few years. I take pride in knowing the prices of things. Capers in brine: from 9,85€/kg to 66,33€/kg.WHAT? Sadly: true! Just my 2 cents Haha!
Tell her! People aren't poor because they bought an expensive smoothie. The average person is poor because we live in a society where the wealth is hoarded at the top and this influencer is like guys, it's the smoothies. 🙄 It's giving let's blame the victims and not the perpetrators.
Did I tho? This video was meant to be a conversation starter, not an accusation - I mentioned several times in the video that “we” including myself, buy these treats for the experience or for comfort. Some items - like a $20 smoothie def isn’t worth it and I’d rather spend on a MEAL, but you spend your $$ however you want! I’m not here to tell you how to spend your money and never once did in the video.
Capitalism means you get the choice to spend your funds on whatever you wish. Companies will crumble if we decide not to support them. I think people forget that socialism is where the rich/government makes all the decisions for people and capitalism is where the people have the power. That being said, yeah our government is ruining the value of our dollar and harming us.
@@honeysucklepersonally I thought this video was a good way to start a conversation about all this and I also didn’t hear you tell anyone how to spend their money… I couldn’t believe $20 for a salad 🙈 in most of the UK £20 would get you close to two good size meals. I enjoyed the video x
I feel like a lot of people don't even like it but still drink it. I started drinking it a long time ago before it was trendy and cool 😂 and people told me it tastes like dirt. Now suddenly they all love matcha lattes.
Those prices all seem average for Australia. A boost juice is around $10 and that’s a basic thing here, not fancy at all. Fancy coffee for $7? Bargain!
If I go for salads, I might do Chipotle or Moe’s for a Mexican Flavor, while for barbecue in my salads I could do Shane’s Rib Shack (for pulled pork in salad) or Jim ‘N’ Nic’s (if I want BBQ brisket). Otherwise for salad, I might occasionally do one from the menu if I’m with my friends (I might get a seafood salad, like I did in May on a “guy trip” with a good friend).
It's times like these that I'm glad my mom taught me the ways of bargin shopping and how to cook. $20 for avocado toast. Oof. Very excited to dive into your cookbook The recipes all look delicious especially the Gochujang Bok Choy with Shitake Mushrooms. Yummy!!!
I´m a mom from germany with 2 little kids. I am paying 612€ (678$) for my 2yo to go to daycare and once my second girl will be old enough i will have to pay 424€ (470$) for her to go to daycare. A total of 1036€ (1148$) to be abel to go to work. This is no special daycare, it´s the only daycare that had a spot left for my kids. My salary after taxes is about 1.300€. Long story short my husband is a doctor and I´m working as mutch as I can and we are still not able to efford to buy a home. I like the video verry much but it is unnecessary to seek reasons as to why somebody wants to treat themselfes.
I dont even want to RENT a house because I dont want to have the responsibility of mowing the lawn. 😂 Much less owning a home and dealing with broken appliances and having to replace the roof after grapefruit size hail. I will gladly live in an apartment.
I know it's so awful here in my area (Ontario). How is anyone supposed to afford a 'starter' home which is like 700k+?? My town has no houses for under that price, even the two bedroom houses are ridiculously priced, and there are no one bedroom homes. There aren't any apartments or townhomes at all either. The down payments are insane and what doesn't help is that the mortgage pricing can literally just increase with inflation every few years?? That's not even an option in the US state I grew up in, the mortgage is locked in from the start, so it helps a lot of people who would otherwise be practically homeless. My cousin in Iowa complains about the pricing for housing there but she has no idea how much worse it is here. I have no hope of owning a house basically ever if I remain here.
I was rocking with you until you pulled out the $38 dollar candle and $30 cheese plate. I'll buy a lunch for $20-$25 or a bougie drink for $7, but there's no candle in the world worth $38 dollars, and I can make a cheese plate at home.
This entire video will be watched in the future in lessons about how the humans were cheerleading themselves at every step to the end of civilization and ultimately their extinction, amongst other things.
I do not even need to watch the video to determine nothing that Erewhon would be worth its luxury price. I also know that these high ticket luxury items aren’t keeping people from buying a house. Could cutting back help you save for a house? Sure. Is it the only thing holding someone back from affording to buy? Absolutely not. High rate of inflation, high(er) mortgage rates, increased real estate prices, wages not keeping up with inflation, high cost of rent making it harder to save….those are just a few things that are truly make it hard to own.
wait 20$ for a salad? Well, better buy the indigence and make salad, dressing and bread for the hole week for the same money. Sorry, I'm more of a "we have all that at home for less"-girl. Dinning out is a once a month treat, not something I would do for every meal of the day.
My husband is "tight-arse core" while I'm more "sometimes-splurges core". I do refuse to drink $20 smoothies and my waffle maker is as good as any cafe.
What's the difference between a $30 cocktail versus a $20 smoothie? Most people upset about the prices don't bat an eye if its something like booze😅 either way it's a treat right?
for twenty dollars you can save money buy frozen fruit make your own plus that left over change can be used for something else I also buy frozen avocado another great video since i started doing this have a lot of money in my piggy bank
I’m not smart enough and rich enough to get the education and experience I need to make more than $30,000 a year. I was not smart enough in school to figure out how to get grades higher than a B. Also when I was in school it was said that schools graded on a bell curve. I still have no idea how the bell curve grading works.
It's confusing, and I actually had to Google this myself. I believe the 'grading on a curve thing' means that the scores are assigned relative to the top grade. Here's an explanation from a Reddit post, by a professor, "the most common modern-day meaning is that scores are assigned relative to the performance of the top-performing student, so if your score is 95% as good as the best score you get an A, 85% as good gets you a B, and so on -- even if the best student only got half the answers right. This system can only increase student scores, so students like it, but it does mean that one student with a perfect score can "blow the curve", so nobody else gets a grade boost."
The title of this video 😂😂 i mean yeah its true.. but you are probably rich 😳 .. i feel oddly triggered getting called poor like that. I still love your channel though ❤️ 😂😊
These strike me as an impulsive way to make yourself feel better. I approve of the farmstand purchase but everything else seemed silly to me. I also think wanting treats and needing novelty is a way of hanging onto childhood. And let's be real. The people who consume these things regularly are also charging up a storm, going on splurge vacations and telling themselves they'll never pay off their student loans or be able to buy a house so what does it matter. It does seem to be a viable part of the LA/South Cal economy so it's not unproductive. I would ask myself where's the science in Haley Bieber's smoothie and why am I putting money into her pocket? Late stage capitalism is a lazy excuse for self-indulgence and selfishness. It was given to me as an excuse not to recycle because the big polluters are corporate.
Is underconsumption-core something you could demonstrate in a video? I find the way you present your perspectives on skills, concepts, and trends to be easily digestible.
You first $100k is harder than your next 100K and your first million is harder than your second million. It takes money to make money. Just how capitalism works. Do with it what you want.
Not a single thing on this video was going to make me spend $20 on any of of it because she is right, you can make a lot of it at home for much less. I get a treat once in a while, but micro transactions for immediate gratification are the fastest way to stay in debt- most people charge these not taking them out of their actual living income-- meaning your spending beyond your means. It might take you three years of saving your micro transactions to get a house payment-- but if you were just charging them to begin with, you wont get money back anyway. Its going to return to you in the sense your card balances are dropping. There is a much deeper problem if your "treat yo' self" comes at the behest of money you spend that you dont actually have and just promise to pay later. Maybe one day its doorsash, the next its Starbucks, the next day its the candy bar at the gas station-- businesses thrive on this and keep charging what they chatge because people are willing to pay itm
Three years? LOLOL No, brah. If it were that easy, we'd all be homeowners already. In this economy, it's going to take most of us way, way, way more than three years to ever save enough to buy a home. Meanwhile, big companies keep buying up as many properties as they can to jack up the prices on rent AND sales. As individuals who weren't born into wealth, we can't compete without some kind of very lucky break -- the kind that doesn't come along every three years.
Three years.. how, exactly? Average income in my area is 50k CAD for a single person. The average STARTER home is like 700k CAD on average. The mortgages can change every fiveish years and almost always go up disproportionately to inflation. The downpayment is also always 10-15% of the total cost, if not more, so that's like 70-100k right there, out of pocket. That all screws people over hard. I'm not even in a high cost of living area or a city, just a small town not far from one. Please, explain to me how even living at home with one's parents, the average person would possibly be able to save up for a house in three years. Especially because the average person in the city near me does not live at home, but has to rent an apartment, which is roughly 2k CAD average a month, for one that isn't even decent (there aren't apartments in my town or those would be my example). There goes half the income. Add utilities because they're not included, and groceries. A car payment too because you literally cannot get around this area without one, and insurance rates are skyrocketing and you literally cannot legally drive without car insurance here. Even a sedan is expensive as heck. What are you even left with at the end? I don't think it's even possible to save up without living at home with your parents. If you spend literally nothing and you make average wage in my area, it will still take literally 14 years for you to save up to buy the house in full. With two incomes, that's still 7 years. Sorry for the rant. But you seem to think everywhere is whatever cheap fantasy place you live in.
If I cut out a $20 little treat a week, that's 1400 a year. So in 30 years, I'll have enough for a down payment on a house 😂 Talking about little luxuries is fun and all. Deciding whether they're "worth it" or not would be a good video. But tying it back to the housing crisis was tone deaf
No, because we always get the comments from the older generations - if we didn’t buy x or x all the time, we’d be able to buy a house by now. You never got that from your parents? My point was - buying these little splurges might add up, but with the rising cost and inflation, I don’t think it makes a difference. So let us enjoy our little luxuries… but as far as testing them, I felt like some of them weren’t “worth” it for the hefty price tag.
you repeated so many times the "this is stopping you from buying a house" after saying you dont know if thats actually right, you are just making people feel guilty without hard facts
I’m a happy medium… I try to save on food by taking my leftover for lunch, making chia puddings the night before and even making myself a matcha at home. Sometimes if I feel like it I will treat myself to a matcha and a cookie. 🤍
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You're right, Erewhon is ONLY a status thing. No one needs to pays that price to be healthy. And superfood is not a thing lol, it doesn't exist.
Uncle Roger and the “Jolly” food guys did a bit on Erewhon, and Uncle Roger got some items to make “egg fried quinoa.”
@@theodorehsu5023, I saw that episode. Longtime subscriber…
Superfoods do exist
@@theodorehsu5023 This is such a not on brand recipe for Uncle Roger haha.
@@Jaelle3 Would like to see Uncle Roger and Cousin Young to do a "Malaysian/Vietnamese" special about cooking and how each views the other's cuisine.
Honeysuckle isn't making a bad statement with her video, it's a valid question in a world that is slowly becoming too expensive to live in.
Are these little, expensive things worth it?
That's for you to decide, like she did for herself and kindly showed us her thoughts in the process.
Stop taking offense where there is none to be taken. She's not calling you stupid for spending your money on what you want to or ignoring that we live in a hungry capitalist machine.
Her videos in and of themselves are a distraction from how crazy and chaotic life can be. Just enjoy it!
I appreciate this!! Thank you!!
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Unless you're buying this stuff daily - it's not keeping you poor or from buying a house. BUT I treat myself by making my little luxuries at home. The stuff that is really good is easy to make - or grow. That said, my monthly house payment is about half of the monthly rent on a 1 bedroom apartment in my area. So I can afford the fancy espresso maker that makes all my favorite drinks and I can put in a garden because I have a yard. The problem is not that people want a treat, everyone does, it's that all their treat money goes into rent because they can't get a house loan because of the huge down payments they're expected to save up.
Rent should not be half your monthly salary 😂
Wages have stayed relatively stagnant in the past decade while housing prices have skyrocketed. Ironically this makes luxury goods/lifestyle cheaper than saving up for an ever increasing down payment + monthly on a mortgage
I have zero desire to buy any of these items. And the high house prices and low wages won’t change that
This is a tired argument of "if they'd stop buying avocado toast they could buy a house!" If you had a $20 avocado toast everyday for an entire year, that's only just under $7000, nowhere NEAR a downpayment for a new home. There's a LOT more leading to people to being unable to afford a home - wages kept low, properties being bought up low with high rents or jacked up housing costs. It's almost NEVER because Billy decided to treat himself to a $7 coffee once a week
I completely agree. Our generation might have great things and privileges, but we've screwed over when it comes to homes and rent. When our parents were in their thirties they could literally just save up for a few years and buy a house. We barely have a chance to save up and if we do, it doesn't matter because rent and house prices will keep going up and up, and our wages will barely change.
Those are all true and factors that lead to our generations not being able to afford housing but at the same time $7000 is $7000 that you can still pocket to work towards your goal. Cutting make little luxuries and finding cheaper alternatives save you a lot of money in the future.
@@moreof.alyssa I was exaggerating with the example, because literally nobody who is struggling to be able to afford a house is out there having $20 avocado toast everyday for the entire year. They might treat themselves to a coffee now and then, but that's in no way going to help them afford a new house. So many people are struggling to make ends meet because of low, stagnant wages and pure greed from companies making record profits at the excuse of "inflation" (look at the articles where companies got caught doing this). There's also shrinkflation which gives you SMALLER versions of the same products yet charging you the same price if not more. We need affordable housing but that's not happening. It's FAR less "avocado toast purchases" and more super low wages/corporate greed
Yes, seven dollar latte once a week, how about every day like I do! She’s just stating a point across as far as spending too much out on expensive even bougie types of food. That would include any type of eating out and that could be more then once a day and eating out every day. because of the high cost and inflation. So what she was stating can result in not being able to afford something like a mortgage. Next! 😅
Kindly, I disagree. Unless you are eating out every meal, getting coffee everyday, shopping at places like Erewhon regularly, and doing all of this all day, every day for an entire year, then no. It doesn’t make much of a difference in the long run if you treat yourself to a $7 coffee once a week as a treat. We are screwed over by low wages, high costs and corporate greed which includes things such as wage theft which is 50 BILLION DOLLARS each YEAR that companies have held back from their workers
My go to special luxuries. Different types of cheese, infused olive oil, and vinegar from a shop in Bellingham. A coffee every once in a while. But I've recently fallen in love with cooking and making meals ahead of schedule and really putting my freezer to good use. Shopping on sale, and making more from scratch, and learning how to make my special coffees from home is really helping with my saving for a house.
I don’t even have one of those fancy grocery stores near me but damn I can’t imagine spending that much on a smoothie or avocado toast.
Given that property companies funded by millionaires and billionaires are buying up properties in some hot housing markets to drive up prices (and either keeping them off the market, renting them, or turning them into Airbnbs), no I don't think it's the small luxuries that are the problem. Add to that decades of stagnated wages & "trickle down" economics that has never worked, Republican de-regulation to prevent price-gouging (the real cause of current-day "inflation"- hint, if it were real inflation corporations wouldn't be posting record profits... it's just pure & simple price-gouging), and high levels of personal debt for things like medical care due to lack of universal healthcare and it becomes more and more obvious that the real problem is the late stage capitalism, as well as a high need for more cooperate regulation and robust governmental social wellbeing programs.
Private equity!!! Sucks
You can get a petite bouquet from Trader Joe’s for 3.99 lol
20 bucks? That doesn't sound so bad **remembers how much that would cost in the currency of my country** oh. Oh nevermind
I always enjoy your videos, your kind hearted spirit and the way you laugh makes me smile even when I’m at my darkest, Tysm honeysuckle for being so amazing.
Sending you so much love! 💗✨
I use to work at sweetgreen. I can confirm that people really love their salads. I know people who buy their entire office salads on the daily. The standards have gone down a bit as I've heard from some excowkers that some dressings aren't made in house anymore which is sad. I use to love making drinks and every dressing from scratch
I totally agree, buying from markets is more like luxury, but it helps the everyday farmer while not being very expensive and providing you with fresh produce and a good experience, ♥♥
Dont touch overpriced food, still broke as heck 😂
Seriously. I like this channel, but the framing for this video is insulting.
I can appreciate quality food and the cost of it, but Erewhon is just a joke! Im 55 yo and grew up on avocado toast. i LOL when people are paying $20 for an aesthetic plated version of it.
You need to make a replica of it in your kitchen for us
Of which one?
@@honeysuckle All of them!
Yes! I second that! 😄
I always enjoy your videos , but I’ve really enjoyed the newer format and ideas of your videos! Great job, being on UA-cam is not easy!
Thank you!! We’re evolving and trying to push out of our comfort zone. Thanks for the feedback! I’m so happy you’re enjoying the videos! 😊
The organic produces in Erewhon are very good. But price is not justified.
Btw, there is a reason non of the celeb smoothies have nutrition label, mostly because these super healthy drinks are 500+ calories minimum average with 40+ grams of sugar.
I asked for calories and nutrition info and they said it’s not available. lol I can’t even imagine how much cals / sugar is in one of these. It’s a dessert!
I've recently been getting my meat and produce delivered to me from a local farm. Even our farmer's market is expensive but if you have the time, you can drive anywhere where I live and buy your food directly from a farm. 2 dozen eggs for $2 is a bargain. They're also no more than one day old, but usually you can buy eggs that still feel warm to the touch because they're freshly hatched. I live in the "fruit belt" of the Niagara Region 🇨🇦 and the numbers of farmers selling from roadside stands is staggering. I am only getting my farm produce and meat delivered because I have to save for car repairs. I spent $77 for my last box and I froze green beans, corn, cabbage (I had to Google if it could be frozen 😂) made apple sauce and I still have 2 heads of lettuce, one head of cabbage (for cabbage rolls) and 2 cucumbers that I have been pickling. I got plums, pears, a massive watermelon, peaches and grapes too. On top of that I got ground beef, ground pork, a pork roast, sausages, amarinated rack of pork ribs for $35! There's enough to last me over 2 weeks.
I find it funny that young people think practically invented avocado toast; I remember my family eating that in the 60's, but I never could get over the texture of avocado. Charcuterie boards have always been part of my parent's dinner parties and I know my paternal g'ma was creating them for her guests. Sometimes it seems like everything "new" really isn't; it's just new *_again_* 😂
If I had the opportunity to buy Hailey Bieber's smoothie, I might consider it. Might, and I'd be sharing it with someone. It really looks luscious. Sea moss and algae were all things my Mom grew up having to eat during the depression; they lived by the Atlantic ocean and the ocean was feeding everyone. My Mom said that eating sea urchin was repulsive but only because they had access to them and it was free. Lobsters were also not considered to be anything special, it was something that my uncle caught. He had to pay for a license if I remember the story right, he was a lobsterman part-time.
I like going to farmers market because their produce are all seasonal and locally sourced!!
Ooh the matcha dessert looks really intriguing!
That smoothie has like 60 grams of sugar. Thats not healthy
Rosanna Pansino did a video where she got the nutrition information on their smoothies (by having to call corporate?!) and yea... no matter how much "healthy" stuff they pack in them, they're still high in sugar, probably to help cover up the healthy flavor.. and also don't tell you the nutrition info up front which is sketchy... at least fast food places list all of that on their websites..
Well it's banana and strawberry so ya there is a lot of sugar? Fruits are carbohydrates specifically fructose.
right⁉️ i watched Rosanna’s video and i was left shocked and speechless. the amount of sugar and calories these contain are unimaginable, not to mention how secretive they were about giving away the nutritional info.
Love to watch your videos always 😊
please release a video of you demonstrating this " *underconsumptioncore* " trend!
would love to know so i don't become homeless with these luxuries i can't afford
Loved this video!
The striped zucchini is zebra zucchini. My mom grows these in her garden.
Many many factors but wages don't match the costs of living anymore! My parents (born 1935,1939) worked full time, rented an apartment, took holidays, owned a car and had fun before they bought a brand new house in 1964. They were able to save enough money to do that while paying rent and all other expenses. My mom was a SAHM until I was a teenager, and she went back to work because she wanted to, not because she had to. That world is gone, so I say enjoy your small luxuries because most of us will never own a home!
I like this video because it not judging. Always curious about this store. She obviously having fun and we get to join her on it. As long as people are not going into debt why not have a little fun.
$20?!? Feeling so poor while watching this hahaha but omg love the vid
I enjoyed this video idea! It's interesting how we like to spend on these things even though most of them are objectively not worth it. I think it's fine if you're doing it a couple times a month, but if it's a 5 times a week thing then it realllly adds up. As for coffee, I don't even care much for it, but I'm willing to pay $5 if it means I can stay in the cafe and focus on my work for hours. Sometimes you just gotta change your environment to regain your focus, especially if you work from home like me, and you're home a lot.
Anyways, even if we stopped spending any money on these little luxuries we still won't be able to afford a house 😂 so might as well treat ourselves once a week.
I feel the same way!!
I’ll literally take a hunk of one of the over 365 types of cheese 🧀 from France 🇫🇷 (which are NOT overpriced!) and call it my girl dinner. Allons enfants de la patrie… merci pour ce vidéo ! 10:12
I liked the video style ❤❤❤
My neighbor gets Starbucks delivered to her house every morning. I mean, c’mon, they’re already expensive sugar and caffeine calorie bombs and she can’t go get them? It’s a 7 minute walk from where we live. 🤷🏻♀️ 2:25
Note: Kombucha does have alcohol in it. Not much, but it does have alcohol.
And the worst thing is - we've become inured to these prices that it doesn't even sound that expensive.
Next time could you also put the location on the video? I'd love to check out that farm stand! Thanks!
The smoothie has 80g of sugar which could arguably negate any health benefits. 80g of sugar in anything is not healthy.
I don't understand what purpose it served to bring up the fact that Gen Z and Millenials are struggling to afford to purchase homes. The implication seems to be "these generations can't become homeowners because they are spending their money on these small luxuries," which is a gross oversimplification of a major issue young people are facing in the US.
This should have just been a fun video about trying expensive/overpriced food, so why bring up the fact that a large portion of two generations can't afford to buy homes?
You sound very hurt 😢
@@tamarap1123hoe, quit selling your body.
Don't forget those $20 items were without a tip, so actually much more expensive
@11:30, I'll take that cheese plate. Pansies are very edible (and, admittedly, one of my favorite) flowers, and while I'm probably the most-straight testosterone-laden dude on this side of Paradise, I would actually spend the $35 or whatever on that plate. A guilty pleasure, but charcuterie rocks!
7:50 oh boy you dont know me do you? Day drinking is supposed to be a norm
Happy to live in Germany. Mom just turned 90. We went to dinner and payed roughly 130€ for 4. My brother and his wife payed 100$ for 2, lately. (OK, USA) That is, why they hardly go out, having
dinner at restaurants, over there, these days.
We don't need that "fancy stuff". I'm here 'cause I love cooking. Just showed my sister-in-law how I make mayonaise. With these endless options, if you just learn to master one simple recipe.
I do look for things on sale. Very much. Prices per lbs (kg, here). With open eyes, just this can save u so much money! To be able to afford some king crab for turn-of-the-year.
(King crab: some 140$/Lb, here in Germany). That is, what I call luxury! And I was able to buy that for my mom and me twice in a few years.
I take pride in knowing the prices of things. Capers in brine: from 9,85€/kg to 66,33€/kg.WHAT? Sadly: true!
Just my 2 cents Haha!
"little luxuries" aren't "keeping us poor," late stage capitalism is
Tell her! People aren't poor because they bought an expensive smoothie. The average person is poor because we live in a society where the wealth is hoarded at the top and this influencer is like guys, it's the smoothies. 🙄 It's giving let's blame the victims and not the perpetrators.
Did I tho? This video was meant to be a conversation starter, not an accusation - I mentioned several times in the video that “we” including myself, buy these treats for the experience or for comfort. Some items - like a $20 smoothie def isn’t worth it and I’d rather spend on a MEAL, but you spend your $$ however you want! I’m not here to tell you how to spend your money and never once did in the video.
@@honeysuckle Do you title the videos yourself?
Capitalism means you get the choice to spend your funds on whatever you wish. Companies will crumble if we decide not to support them. I think people forget that socialism is where the rich/government makes all the decisions for people and capitalism is where the people have the power. That being said, yeah our government is ruining the value of our dollar and harming us.
@@honeysucklepersonally I thought this video was a good way to start a conversation about all this and I also didn’t hear you tell anyone how to spend their money… I couldn’t believe $20 for a salad 🙈 in most of the UK £20 would get you close to two good size meals.
I enjoyed the video x
Am I the only person alive who hates matcha? I tried organic, bio, etc brands, it tastes terrible.
I feel like a lot of people don't even like it but still drink it. I started drinking it a long time ago before it was trendy and cool 😂 and people told me it tastes like dirt. Now suddenly they all love matcha lattes.
@@EmanDeMoan To me it tastes like lawn clippings but to each their own☺️
Those prices all seem average for Australia. A boost juice is around $10 and that’s a basic thing here, not fancy at all. Fancy coffee for $7? Bargain!
Tjese are US, not Aussie dollars, which would total 10.25..
If I go for salads, I might do Chipotle or Moe’s for a Mexican Flavor, while for barbecue in my salads I could do Shane’s Rib Shack (for pulled pork in salad) or Jim ‘N’ Nic’s (if I want BBQ brisket). Otherwise for salad, I might occasionally do one from the menu if I’m with my friends (I might get a seafood salad, like I did in May on a “guy trip” with a good friend).
It's times like these that I'm glad my mom taught me the ways of bargin shopping and how to cook. $20 for avocado toast. Oof. Very excited to dive into your cookbook The recipes all look delicious especially the Gochujang Bok Choy with Shitake Mushrooms. Yummy!!!
I´m a mom from germany with 2 little kids. I am paying 612€ (678$) for my 2yo to go to daycare and once my second girl will be old enough i will have to pay 424€ (470$) for her to go to daycare. A total of 1036€ (1148$) to be abel to go to work. This is no special daycare, it´s the only daycare that had a spot left for my kids. My salary after taxes is about 1.300€. Long story short my husband is a doctor and I´m working as mutch as I can and we are still not able to efford to buy a home.
I like the video verry much but it is unnecessary to seek reasons as to why somebody wants to treat themselfes.
I dont even want to RENT a house because I dont want to have the responsibility of mowing the lawn. 😂 Much less owning a home and dealing with broken appliances and having to replace the roof after grapefruit size hail. I will gladly live in an apartment.
What is the name of the cafe that you had your luxury coffees at?
$20 USD is almost $30 AUD. Ain't no way I'm paying that much for a drink or toast!
I was just watching a video of yours and then a second later a notification tells me you made a new video lol
Yay!! Which video were u watching?
@@honeysuckle the president one i forgot the name sorry i did not respond lol
Your necklace is so cute. Would you mind sharing where it is from?
The floral is edible nastrium
Idk how it is in the states but in Canada where I am rn a house is unnafordable whether you buy 20$ "indulgences" once in a while or not lol
I know it's so awful here in my area (Ontario). How is anyone supposed to afford a 'starter' home which is like 700k+?? My town has no houses for under that price, even the two bedroom houses are ridiculously priced, and there are no one bedroom homes. There aren't any apartments or townhomes at all either. The down payments are insane and what doesn't help is that the mortgage pricing can literally just increase with inflation every few years?? That's not even an option in the US state I grew up in, the mortgage is locked in from the start, so it helps a lot of people who would otherwise be practically homeless. My cousin in Iowa complains about the pricing for housing there but she has no idea how much worse it is here. I have no hope of owning a house basically ever if I remain here.
I was rocking with you until you pulled out the $38 dollar candle and $30 cheese plate. I'll buy a lunch for $20-$25 or a bougie drink for $7, but there's no candle in the world worth $38 dollars, and I can make a cheese plate at home.
This entire video will be watched in the future in lessons about how the humans were cheerleading themselves at every step to the end of civilization and ultimately their extinction, amongst other things.
I do not even need to watch the video to determine nothing that Erewhon would be worth its luxury price.
I also know that these high ticket luxury items aren’t keeping people from buying a house. Could cutting back help you save for a house? Sure. Is it the only thing holding someone back from affording to buy? Absolutely not.
High rate of inflation, high(er) mortgage rates, increased real estate prices, wages not keeping up with inflation, high cost of rent making it harder to save….those are just a few things that are truly make it hard to own.
Let’s see you make some of the Hailey Bieber‘s smoothies and food items !
4:07 these are not squashes 😭 these are zucchinis
Zucchinis are a type of squash, I believe
Summer squash aka Zucchini!
Anyone know where the farmers market happens?
We visited the Ecology Center in San Juan Cap :)
@@honeysuckle thank you for responding 🤗💕
wait 20$ for a salad? Well, better buy the indigence and make salad, dressing and bread for the hole week for the same money. Sorry, I'm more of a "we have all that at home for less"-girl. Dinning out is a once a month treat, not something I would do for every meal of the day.
where can I watch your podcast?
A video on underconsumption would be interesting!
I love that dress very cute 🥰 on you 🎉
My husband is "tight-arse core" while I'm more "sometimes-splurges core". I do refuse to drink $20 smoothies and my waffle maker is as good as any cafe.
What's the difference between a $30 cocktail versus a $20 smoothie? Most people upset about the prices don't bat an eye if its something like booze😅 either way it's a treat right?
Damn I’m glad I don’t live in LA
Peak satire!
for twenty dollars you can save money buy frozen fruit make your own plus that left over change can be used for something else I also buy frozen avocado another great video since i started doing this have a lot of money in my piggy bank
Pass I'll stick with my Tropical smoothie
I would maybe spend money on that girl dinner and fancy coffee.. but it's definitely not a frequent thing. lol
I’m not smart enough and rich enough to get the education and experience I need to make more than $30,000 a year. I was not smart enough in school to figure out how to get grades higher than a B. Also when I was in school it was said that schools graded on a bell curve. I still have no idea how the bell curve grading works.
It's confusing, and I actually had to Google this myself. I believe the 'grading on a curve thing' means that the scores are assigned relative to the top grade. Here's an explanation from a Reddit post, by a professor, "the most common modern-day meaning is that scores are assigned relative to the performance of the top-performing student, so if your score is 95% as good as the best score you get an A, 85% as good gets you a B, and so on -- even if the best student only got half the answers right. This system can only increase student scores, so students like it, but it does mean that one student with a perfect score can "blow the curve", so nobody else gets a grade boost."
The title of this video 😂😂 i mean yeah its true.. but you are probably rich 😳 .. i feel oddly triggered getting called poor like that.
I still love your channel though ❤️ 😂😊
You spent a fortune the salad looked good though
I am underconsumption - core
ur book is the best i love it keep it up i will buy it more thank u
These strike me as an impulsive way to make yourself feel better. I approve of the farmstand purchase but everything else seemed silly to me. I also think wanting treats and needing novelty is a way of hanging onto childhood. And let's be real. The people who consume these things regularly are also charging up a storm, going on splurge vacations and telling themselves they'll never pay off their student loans or be able to buy a house so what does it matter. It does seem to be a viable part of the LA/South Cal economy so it's not unproductive. I would ask myself where's the science in Haley Bieber's smoothie and why am I putting money into her pocket? Late stage capitalism is a lazy excuse for
self-indulgence and selfishness. It was given to me as an excuse not to recycle because the big polluters are corporate.
I need the little luxuries or " treat yo self " treats or nothing will bring me joy
For sure!! We definitely need to treat ourselves!!
Is underconsumption-core something you could demonstrate in a video? I find the way you present your perspectives on skills, concepts, and trends to be easily digestible.
You first $100k is harder than your next 100K and your first million is harder than your second million. It takes money to make money. Just how capitalism works. Do with it what you want.
Not a single thing on this video was going to make me spend $20 on any of of it because she is right, you can make a lot of it at home for much less. I get a treat once in a while, but micro transactions for immediate gratification are the fastest way to stay in debt- most people charge these not taking them out of their actual living income-- meaning your spending beyond your means. It might take you three years of saving your micro transactions to get a house payment-- but if you were just charging them to begin with, you wont get money back anyway. Its going to return to you in the sense your card balances are dropping. There is a much deeper problem if your "treat yo' self" comes at the behest of money you spend that you dont actually have and just promise to pay later.
Maybe one day its doorsash, the next its Starbucks, the next day its the candy bar at the gas station-- businesses thrive on this and keep charging what they chatge because people are willing to pay itm
Three years? LOLOL No, brah. If it were that easy, we'd all be homeowners already. In this economy, it's going to take most of us way, way, way more than three years to ever save enough to buy a home. Meanwhile, big companies keep buying up as many properties as they can to jack up the prices on rent AND sales. As individuals who weren't born into wealth, we can't compete without some kind of very lucky break -- the kind that doesn't come along every three years.
Three years.. how, exactly? Average income in my area is 50k CAD for a single person. The average STARTER home is like 700k CAD on average. The mortgages can change every fiveish years and almost always go up disproportionately to inflation. The downpayment is also always 10-15% of the total cost, if not more, so that's like 70-100k right there, out of pocket. That all screws people over hard. I'm not even in a high cost of living area or a city, just a small town not far from one. Please, explain to me how even living at home with one's parents, the average person would possibly be able to save up for a house in three years.
Especially because the average person in the city near me does not live at home, but has to rent an apartment, which is roughly 2k CAD average a month, for one that isn't even decent (there aren't apartments in my town or those would be my example). There goes half the income. Add utilities because they're not included, and groceries. A car payment too because you literally cannot get around this area without one, and insurance rates are skyrocketing and you literally cannot legally drive without car insurance here. Even a sedan is expensive as heck. What are you even left with at the end? I don't think it's even possible to save up without living at home with your parents. If you spend literally nothing and you make average wage in my area, it will still take literally 14 years for you to save up to buy the house in full. With two incomes, that's still 7 years. Sorry for the rant. But you seem to think everywhere is whatever cheap fantasy place you live in.
I want to see under-consumption core.
Girl wtf is this title?? I’m not watching this at all to find out.
20$? Thats a common price to buy that kind of food in malaysia🤣
If I cut out a $20 little treat a week, that's 1400 a year. So in 30 years, I'll have enough for a down payment on a house 😂 Talking about little luxuries is fun and all. Deciding whether they're "worth it" or not would be a good video. But tying it back to the housing crisis was tone deaf
No, because we always get the comments from the older generations - if we didn’t buy x or x all the time, we’d be able to buy a house by now. You never got that from your parents?
My point was - buying these little splurges might add up, but with the rising cost and inflation, I don’t think it makes a difference. So let us enjoy our little luxuries… but as far as testing them, I felt like some of them weren’t “worth” it for the hefty price tag.
@honeysuckle No, I have heard that. I guess I just missed the sarcasm in the video itself. I appreciate the clarification tho 😊
nno hate to anyone but macha taste like grass wih dirt no mater how expensive I try
I wish i can afford erehwon
you repeated so many times the "this is stopping you from buying a house" after saying you dont know if thats actually right, you are just making people feel guilty without hard facts
I'm a little bit confused with this video but okay i guess it's you trying expensive trendy items part 2 idk
Yay
I know you’re being a bit ironic, but I really appreciate the point you make. We are the generation of small luxuries. Let us have our avocados!
10th comment.. anyways, kewl
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I’m a happy medium… I try to save on food by taking my leftover for lunch, making chia puddings the night before and even making myself a matcha at home. Sometimes if I feel like it I will treat myself to a matcha and a cookie. 🤍