Goodwill used to be a place buy used, but cheaper clothes. Now they, as well as many other similar type stores, charge near brand new market prices. Remember - these there DONATED to them...
I’ve not really found anything worth the price at the thrift store in years… new at the end of the season with the huge discounts is usually where I do my shopping.
To the person saying you don't need a car if you can barely keep up with the payments. In America you NEED a car. This is not a want. If you want a hood paying job or a decent paying job 9 times out of 10, you have to drive to get there and back home. Without a car forget about paying rent.
People will bring up public transport, but at least where I live, this will usually double the traveling time, cost twice as much as the fuel, take away lots of flexibility and comfort, you're screwed if they're too late, you're screwed if they're too full, you're screwed if YOU are too late, you're screwed if they're on strike again, you can't carry much (such as groceries) with you, you might have a long travel time to just reach the train, or from the train to your actual destination. And if you don't live in a major city or you're not traveling to a major city, you might have only very infrequent trains or have to switch in between, which opens an entire new can of worms.
As someone who didn't drive until relatively late in life plenty of people get by without a car. It's inconvenient but unless you live in an extremely rural area it's not impossible.
Hello. non-American here. Could you guys comment on the healthcare prices there please . This video says they have gone up significantly in recent years.
I live in small town Alabama and we don't have public transportation. We have one bus service with a half dozen buses for the whole county, and they're for the elderly and you have to book it two weeks in advance. And by small town Alabama, the closest place I could work is a dollar general five miles away. Closer to ten miles before you get to actual town. So yeah, a car is a need. Not a want.
@@BenedictBonifacioI haven't had insurance since I was 16. I'm 33. I got sick in my twenties, and I owe somewhere in the $700,000 area between two different hospitals. I'm not paying it, because I can't afford to. But I get atleast one letter and a dozen calls every day. EVERY day.
Smart phones. Any phone over$300.00 is a waste to me. I would ban smartphones myself and go back to talk and text only again. As a Tuesday prepper, what is worth having is a landline. We will lose Internet and cell service when shit hits the fan but like in the old days, landlines still worked without power if I remember correctly.
The phone lines were independently powered by the phone company so as long as their generator keeps going, the phones still worked. I think we should've stopped at pagers myself. This species just isn't meant to live at the speed of light.
I disagree with you on the smart phones because they offer deals where you can trade in your old phone and upgrade to a new phone for free so long as you sign a two-year contract with them and your new smart phone is generally last longer than two years. The gap between a smart phone and a regular phone is just too great in my opinion to not be worth upgrade to a smart phone.
Fast food is definitely a stand-out. The point was that it was garbage food, but everyone would eat it when hungry, including picky kids, and it was cheap and fast. Still garbage everyone will eat, though the menus are reduced, but definitely no longer fast or cheap. 😑
All fast food. They really stuffed their heads up their own asses and forgot the point of fast food. It's not gourmet or fancy it's just basic cheap food to fill you up. Delivery has gotten out of hand as well with the upcharge on the apps and the ridiculous drivers thinking they deserve a tip as much or more than the cost of the meal
Just about everything is too expensive. Grocery shopping and eating at restaurants are a good example. Unless you're being super frugal with your money, there's a good chance you're spending a minimum of $200 at the grocery store(and that's for basic necessities). As for restaurants, depending on where you go to eat/how many people are coming with you and who's paying, you're probably spending 30-50 dollars just to eat out once. For the average American, we could budget our money constantly but we might not be able to afford the majority of basic necessities such as groceries and housing.
Tuna! Used to get a can of tuna for like 40 - 50 cents a can. Now that shit is like almost $3 a can for the big one and like $1.60 ish for the small can. Tuna and corn with mayo used to be a cheap struggle meal, but with tuna prices all crazy, now i don't think so anymore. 😂
When I was a kid you could get a 3 liter of Pepsi (Yes I say 3 liter,they used to have those.) for 99 cents. Probably 20 years ago. Now only 2 literally available at 3 times the price.
I clicked on this video just to comment... "oxtail". I been feening for it for months but its mad expensive my cousin came to town sunday and bought some and left it here. My broke ass cleaned the plate soon as she left lol
I say PC gaming. If you want to try the newest games you have to spend a fortune on a usable pc, and then another fortune to buy 60-80 dollar games, and then a third (optional) fortune for mictrotransactions if you dont want to spend all your time grinding battle passes/in-game currency. I know there are lots of older pcs and games still around, but you get what i am saying. Its only for people who have hundreds and thousands of dollars to spend on a PC and who knows how much more depending on what games they want. It might not sound very much to someone in the US, but a couple hundred dollars can be massive amounts of money in other parts of the world. I have a pc with 10 year old parts and i can only really dream of trying out anything made past 2018-20 even on lowest graphics. I dont have such disposable income so i am pretty much just screwed.
I came to comment about eating out, and I feel so vindicated that it was number 1 on the list and came up so frequently. I got massive sticker shock this year after not eating out for a few months. Prices have hit the roof and portions are shrinking. And that's just for the food, no drinks and / or icecream, without delivery charges (which are another matter entirely). Absolutely not worth it.
Any processed foods. The prices went up and the ingredient quality went down. If the prices went up and the ingredients were the same for the same quality, no problem but you now want more money for worse tasting products.
Getting anything for yourself these days is like risking necessities for the rest of the month or whatever. I swear to god even something small is just like "will this end up costing me toward the end of the month when I'll really need it?".
I suppose that streaming has gotten so bad that people have just about forgotten how cable TV made them do it in the first place. Also, at the second mention of cable TV (39:46), that was getting way too expensive before streaming took over due to increasing cost demand from content owners. The same issue is also causing streaming to become a cost bloat.
Streaming is still a good value. I can subscribe to multiple services for around 1/3rd of what I used to pay for basic cable. It's just that people want to watch everything they want for a few dollars a month. I wish that was the case too bit it's just not realistic.
Story 40 is from 23 year old recent graduate from ucla and is currently living in a 2 bedroom apartment with 3 other guys talking trash about the 26 year old conservative living with their parents
@@Cuma9 World Economic Forum. Look into agenda 21/30 for more information, I don't care if you don't believe me as I've prepared. The rest is down to you.
@@Cuma9world economic forum. A bunch of billionair weirdo billionair leaders meet in the Switzerland and decide the path the world economic future. The phrase you will own nothing and be happy comes from them
Bags of chips. It's 5$ nearly 6$ for a bag where I live for regular size bag. The price of the small bags are the same price of the bigger bags pre-covid.
Specialists for everything. I had my thyroid killed thirty years ago and except for one specialist, the best care was from my internist. Most of the specialists just knew everything and synthyroid was the god of treatment. I make a ton of reverse t3 so I don't convert t4 to enough usable free t3 so I don't do well on just synthyroud.
So food, hotels, housing, cars, vacations (including camping), and anything else fun or sociable. Thinking about saving up money and buying a fruit orchard in South America. What is happening right now.
I was getting into 3-gun in a rural area and it was $10 a box of 50 9mm and depending on what the RSO had for you then 150-200 rounds was enough with a $5 buy in, now its $20 bucks a box and $10-15 buy in.
In general, if I already pay the increased price, I accept it (often begrudgingly). The experience is still worth it. If I currently don't use the service, it is usually because I don't want it for free, let alone paying through the nose for it. Sometimes the experience is still worth it but too expensive, so I just save for that experience instead.
Candy in the checkout line. If it reaches $3 for a chocolate bar, I'll swear off candy for good. If food prices keep going up, we'll be on involuntary diets because it's too expensive to eat in general.
I visited Disneyland Paris with my wife and kid about 14 years ago. I was shocked at how willing people were to hold the bank account open with the attitude of here take what you want. This in a place that charged ridiculous prices for a buffet where my daughter (picky eater) couldn't find anything she was willing to eat except pasta with nothing on it. Its a money extraction machine. And having to queue for a coffee, to meet a Disney princess, or rides for an hour is not my idea of a good time. It sucked. The attitude of the park was already paid for staying there. Pay again or queue or leave your kid disappointed.
I just took my family (me, long-suffering 15 year old son, 7 year old daughter who actually wanted to go there after seeing commercials) to Great Wolf Lodge. The rooms were a reasonable price, but we drove into the parking lot and there are signs everywhere announcing an extra $15 a night parking charge, “Don’t worry, we’ll just add it to your bill!”. 🤨 We walk in, it’s 10:30 PM. Get the kids settled in the room, daughter is hungry. No worries, every hotel has some kind of drinks and snacks available 24/7 or close to it. Except this “all-inclusive resort” catering to families with young children DIDN’T. “The fast food place closed at 10… there’s a gas station across the street…”. Wow. 🤯 THEN, they had this “Magiquest” thing that sounded kind of like a scavenger hunt, which my daughter enjoys… but it was way too complicated for a young child, and, as my son pointed out, “By the time a kid would be old enough to do that, it wouldn’t feel magical for them anymore.”. Quite. Hate to think how much I spent on that. I got her the “Wolf Pass”, which had a number of other opportunities to get sucked into attractions for various “freebies”, only to end up upcharged. The most obvious one was swim goggles in the “gift shop”; basic, boring ones right next to a huge, gaudy display of fancy ones. Managed to steer the kid away from that, though, and the only time she got “extra” was a shirt for her “Build a Bear” wolf, which I still got a 20% discount on. Oh, and I paid an extra $5 in the arcade, but I still feel I got off light there. Maybe spent half of our “meal plan”, though. Overall, just felt nickeled and dimed and exploited. Won’t be going back; there’s a cheaper place closer by that, last we were there a couple years ago, wasn’t too “fee heavy”. 😑
Eating out is ironically now cheaper than cooking for some things. I challenge you to get 2000 calories for $10 these days, without compromising. Plus, consider labor cost for cooking. Wendys has $5 meals that give more than 2000 calories in 2 sets. If you like beef, great deal. Of course, this depends on COL level in your area. For me, $2.99 chicken on sale = terrible, but beef is $9.99 …on SALE. Pork is even $7.99 a pound.
Disney World for example it's a real Kingdom basically. Florida basically gave them power and the privilege of paying no taxes and all they have to do is keep Florida happy but end up it self in the foot like like you do if your dumbass with too much power.
Agreed on Honda, my family used to loyaly buy them, we've switched to Hyundai and Kia now. The one Hyundai is 6 years old now with 75,000 miles and hasn't given us any trouble yet.
To the person saying places kept their Covid prices because people are used to paying it... Welcome to Supply and Demand/Capitalism. Also even back then it was mostly an excuse. Most of the things that actually had to raise prices only needed to do so because Covid tanked their market and they needed to recoup the losses. But groceries? yeah try again on that one the only people who stopped buying were the restaurants and you recouped those losses in the first quarter.
Government passed a policy that is illegal to lie but is legal to mislead. Corporate lobby laws and we think stock market has our best interest for providing Americans a one way ticket to streets .
What isnt these days? 😂😂 That said - SUPPOSEDLY "free to play" games so over-run with micro transactions and "pay to play" "winners." Also, video games as a whole. Many computer games are locked in a system that requires the internet to open the game, even if the game was bought SPECIFICALLY for its "no online needed to play." HOW CAN I PLAY MY OFFLINE GAME IF I NEED THE NET TO GET THROUGH YOUR STUPID APP?!?
Video games. I stopped playing much video games because video games are costing 70 dollars now. How come all these things go up but our pay check doesnt catch up to this economic crisis
I'd love to live where there is public transportation so I could ditch my car. No buses here. It's an hour drive to the closest town with a bus system. This is Calif., U.S. public trans. Is archaic.
Why would ANYBODY think that an hour of commuting is worth it? Seriously, if a job is more than an hour away (one way!)? Yeah, not worth it! Half hour? Sure, I can do that! (Note: I don't live in a big city, I live in a small European (German!) town and while I'd love to live in a larger city, I couldn't afford a place there and I am certainly not commuting for an hour! I have a live and that doesn't happen in the car on the way to and from work! Hell, ideally? No commute at all, work from home (remote work!) - that even the likes of Google try to force people back into loud, crowded offices? I don't get it! Must be about control IMHO!
An hour of commuting is pretty normal even if your not commuting large distances. Most people whe live in a suburb probably have a commute around that length.
I'm an American and I visited the United Kingdom and I was absolutely amazed at how easy it was to get around without a car. In the United States, unless You're in a metro area like New York City, public transportation is subpar at best. Not to mention, if you decide to live in an area where there is more public transportation, you tend to be charged higher rental rates. Not going to lie. I'm debating moving somewhere in your neck of the woods because it's so much easier to get around and to live.
Ok, most of these are legit, but frankly paying for someone to take care of your nails and putting "extensions" on them (that also make typing on a keyboard a chore - I've seen my mother and she was supposedly teaching 10-finger-typing to her students (she was a teacher back then, retired now))...that is not what you should spend good money on, same for 1000000000 pairs of shoes, stupid purses, extensive make-up etc. (it's not like men really see all those things! I should know, I am one and the things I see on a woman are: Her over all shape, her boobs, her face, lips, eyes and if she's remotely in shape or not! I don't see expensive hairdoes, painted nails etc.)
Have you considered for a minute that women don't do these things for guys' enjoyment? If male attention was the main reason for any of it, no gay women would partake in fashion or haircare, and they certainly wouldn't bother working out.
1. Only in the US..... Everywhere else is OK. 2. Rich people don't want poor people on the slopes. 3. Corporations haré you and you still don't Wake up.
I'm not based in the US and came to comment specifically on eating out. Whether it's fast food or fine dining, skyrocketing prices + shrinking portions mean it's simply not worth it - one meal for my 3 person household derails the entire month's budget. And that's when I get the food. Delivery is a different monster altogether.
I saw several sources about the Disney hikes approx 6 months ago. They are not short term. It was done on purpose, allegedly:) They really want high income customers only going forward. I feel very sad for the children. They aren’t ever looking back either. I will never support them again. Easy to do as an adult. Fabulous thrift store with all the Disney movies I could ever want to watch for a $1/each. They might as well become a direct to video entity now. U have jaded your ride or die customer base. Please prepare your children & protect them from being marketed to. It’s sad u have to explain this kaka to a 4 yr old w/ big dreams in their ❤’s, but sooner the better unless u are & remain fully flu$hed. Glad I went a few times 20+ yrs ago. Wouldn’t ever trust them again if their tongues came notarized
All this video is doing is taking a subreddit, in this case it’s verbatim the title of the video, and putting every part of the thread through an a.i. generator in text to speech.
I don't understand this argument that physical media is somehow more cost effective than streaming. You don't want to pay $15 a month but you're ok with paying that or more for each individual piece of media? Makes no sense to me.
Buy a $15 physical piece of media and you never have to pay for that piece of media ever again unless it gets broken. Spend $105 on a collection of physical media and you can watch that collection whenever you want, wherever you want, no additional fees. Also you can break the nose of anybody who tries to take your movies away from you and you can mold your collection however you like with the stuff *you* want to watch. Spend $15 a month for a piece of media and you either keep paying every month just to have access to it whether you watch it or not, or you lose access to it. Hold a subscription until you've paid about $105? You had 7 months to watch that collection of media. After that you either keep paying for a collection that you won't watch 90% of or stop paying and lose access to everything and you might as well have thrown that money into a bonfire. Oh yeah and they might remove your favorite movie at any time and there's nothing you can do about it unless you sail the high seas and most of the collection available is low-tier slop that not even a pig will touch.
I dont want to hear about disney land. As a south efrican, I want to hear about fast food and groceries. Not some expensive fatansy land people afforded years ago.
Goodwill used to be a place buy used, but cheaper clothes. Now they, as well as many other similar type stores, charge near brand new market prices. Remember - these there DONATED to them...
And what doesn't sell gets thrown into a compacter.
Keep in mind Goodwill is called Goodwill industries for a reason😮
Absolutely sad they charge too much.
I’ve not really found anything worth the price at the thrift store in years… new at the end of the season with the huge discounts is usually where I do my shopping.
The religious thrift stores (associated with a church) in my area are still worth it
To the person saying you don't need a car if you can barely keep up with the payments. In America you NEED a car. This is not a want. If you want a hood paying job or a decent paying job 9 times out of 10, you have to drive to get there and back home. Without a car forget about paying rent.
People will bring up public transport, but at least where I live, this will usually double the traveling time, cost twice as much as the fuel, take away lots of flexibility and comfort, you're screwed if they're too late, you're screwed if they're too full, you're screwed if YOU are too late, you're screwed if they're on strike again, you can't carry much (such as groceries) with you, you might have a long travel time to just reach the train, or from the train to your actual destination. And if you don't live in a major city or you're not traveling to a major city, you might have only very infrequent trains or have to switch in between, which opens an entire new can of worms.
As someone who didn't drive until relatively late in life plenty of people get by without a car. It's inconvenient but unless you live in an extremely rural area it's not impossible.
Hello. non-American here. Could you guys comment on the healthcare prices there please . This video says they have gone up significantly in recent years.
I live in small town Alabama and we don't have public transportation. We have one bus service with a half dozen buses for the whole county, and they're for the elderly and you have to book it two weeks in advance. And by small town Alabama, the closest place I could work is a dollar general five miles away. Closer to ten miles before you get to actual town. So yeah, a car is a need. Not a want.
@@BenedictBonifacioI haven't had insurance since I was 16. I'm 33. I got sick in my twenties, and I owe somewhere in the $700,000 area between two different hospitals. I'm not paying it, because I can't afford to. But I get atleast one letter and a dozen calls every day. EVERY day.
video games. Love them but the subscription models,on top of microtransactions and nonstop expensive dlcs makes me enjoy sailing the high seas
Sailing the high seas 😂 Yeah same
upgrading Graphics cards. they dont sell Mid range stuff for the average consumer and they sabotage most GPU's with poor vram numbers.
Games are no longer games too. They are cosmetic storefronts with attached barebones gameplay loop driven by investors demanding every drop of revenue
There's still games being made that aren't filled with that junk. AC6, Elden Ring, Satisfactory, and many others.
Started playing cards and chess a lot more. Haven't bought anything video game related for over two years now. Gin rummy and spades are my go to. 😅
Smart phones. Any phone over$300.00 is a waste to me. I would ban smartphones myself and go back to talk and text only again.
As a Tuesday prepper, what is worth having is a landline. We will lose Internet and cell service when shit hits the fan but like in the old days, landlines still worked without power if I remember correctly.
The phone lines were independently powered by the phone company so as long as their generator keeps going, the phones still worked. I think we should've stopped at pagers myself. This species just isn't meant to live at the speed of light.
I disagree with you on the smart phones because they offer deals where you can trade in your old phone and upgrade to a new phone for free so long as you sign a two-year contract with them and your new smart phone is generally last longer than two years. The gap between a smart phone and a regular phone is just too great in my opinion to not be worth upgrade to a smart phone.
Haven't had cell phone service for about two years!!! So peaceful, wifi is everywhere, im 34 male living in Arizona work at Amazon and teach yoga
Fast food is definitely a stand-out. The point was that it was garbage food, but everyone would eat it when hungry, including picky kids, and it was cheap and fast. Still garbage everyone will eat, though the menus are reduced, but definitely no longer fast or cheap. 😑
All fast food. They really stuffed their heads up their own asses and forgot the point of fast food. It's not gourmet or fancy it's just basic cheap food to fill you up. Delivery has gotten out of hand as well with the upcharge on the apps and the ridiculous drivers thinking they deserve a tip as much or more than the cost of the meal
Besides, we have air fryers now.
One large Costco bag of fries and burger patties on sandwich bread is all I need.
They fry, chicken, sea food in the same frying oil... to save money..
Even with all that money, they still dont care
Just about everything is too expensive. Grocery shopping and eating at restaurants are a good example. Unless you're being super frugal with your money, there's a good chance you're spending a minimum of $200 at the grocery store(and that's for basic necessities). As for restaurants, depending on where you go to eat/how many people are coming with you and who's paying, you're probably spending 30-50 dollars just to eat out once.
For the average American, we could budget our money constantly but we might not be able to afford the majority of basic necessities such as groceries and housing.
Disney sucks. There's reasons the locals call it Walt Dismal World or the Tragic Kingdom.
I used to drive up to Disney from Miami with friends just to spend half a day. Now even if they included the transportation from Miami I refuse to go.
Chicken wings became too expensive!
Tuna! Used to get a can of tuna for like 40 - 50 cents a can. Now that shit is like almost $3 a can for the big one and like $1.60 ish for the small can. Tuna and corn with mayo used to be a cheap struggle meal, but with tuna prices all crazy, now i don't think so anymore. 😂
Tuna is bad.. let tuna be 100 billion $, so nobody can buy..
When I was a kid you could get a 3 liter of Pepsi (Yes I say 3 liter,they used to have those.) for 99 cents. Probably 20 years ago. Now only 2 literally available at 3 times the price.
I clicked on this video just to comment... "oxtail". I been feening for it for months but its mad expensive my cousin came to town sunday and bought some and left it here. My broke ass cleaned the plate soon as she left lol
1. Married ! 2. Divorce ! 3. Children ! 4 warhammer !
I say PC gaming. If you want to try the newest games you have to spend a fortune on a usable pc, and then another fortune to buy 60-80 dollar games, and then a third (optional) fortune for mictrotransactions if you dont want to spend all your time grinding battle passes/in-game currency.
I know there are lots of older pcs and games still around, but you get what i am saying. Its only for people who have hundreds and thousands of dollars to spend on a PC and who knows how much more depending on what games they want. It might not sound very much to someone in the US, but a couple hundred dollars can be massive amounts of money in other parts of the world.
I have a pc with 10 year old parts and i can only really dream of trying out anything made past 2018-20 even on lowest graphics. I dont have such disposable income so i am pretty much just screwed.
Lets see here.
- Owning a Car
- Owning a House
- Going on Vacation
- Retiring
- Having Sick Days.
- Going on Dates
I came to comment about eating out, and I feel so vindicated that it was number 1 on the list and came up so frequently. I got massive sticker shock this year after not eating out for a few months. Prices have hit the roof and portions are shrinking. And that's just for the food, no drinks and / or icecream, without delivery charges (which are another matter entirely). Absolutely not worth it.
Any processed foods. The prices went up and the ingredient quality went down. If the prices went up and the ingredients were the same for the same quality, no problem but you now want more money for worse tasting products.
Getting anything for yourself these days is like risking necessities for the rest of the month or whatever. I swear to god even something small is just like "will this end up costing me toward the end of the month when I'll really need it?".
Pokemon cards: I used to enjoy collecting them but now even the newer cards cost an arm and a leg...
I suppose that streaming has gotten so bad that people have just about forgotten how cable TV made them do it in the first place. Also, at the second mention of cable TV (39:46), that was getting way too expensive before streaming took over due to increasing cost demand from content owners. The same issue is also causing streaming to become a cost bloat.
Streaming is still a good value. I can subscribe to multiple services for around 1/3rd of what I used to pay for basic cable. It's just that people want to watch everything they want for a few dollars a month. I wish that was the case too bit it's just not realistic.
Story 40 is from 23 year old recent graduate from ucla and is currently living in a 2 bedroom apartment with 3 other guys talking trash about the 26 year old conservative living with their parents
These posts really don't know that this is all intentional.
Almost like they don't know anything about the WEF.
Alright I'll bite what is WEF?
@@Cuma9 I assume its World Economic Forum (googled it)
@@Cuma9 World Economic Forum.
Look into agenda 21/30 for more information, I don't care if you don't believe me as I've prepared. The rest is down to you.
@@Cuma9world economic forum. A bunch of billionair weirdo billionair leaders meet in the Switzerland and decide the path the world economic future.
The phrase you will own nothing and be happy comes from them
Pokemon go. They are locking more stuff behind paywalls.
Multiple Disney stories are hilarious
Bags of chips. It's 5$ nearly 6$ for a bag where I live for regular size bag. The price of the small bags are the same price of the bigger bags pre-covid.
Specialists for everything. I had my thyroid killed thirty years ago and except for one specialist, the best care was from my internist. Most of the specialists just knew everything and synthyroid was the god of treatment. I make a ton of reverse t3 so I don't convert t4 to enough usable free t3 so I don't do well on just synthyroud.
So food, hotels, housing, cars, vacations (including camping), and anything else fun or sociable. Thinking about saving up money and buying a fruit orchard in South America. What is happening right now.
No your homework. I have land down there and it's almost getting to to U.S. prices.
I was getting into 3-gun in a rural area and it was $10 a box of 50 9mm and depending on what the RSO had for you then 150-200 rounds was enough with a $5 buy in, now its $20 bucks a box and $10-15 buy in.
Farming supplies. An 8 dollar gallon of fluid for tractor is now $30
In general, if I already pay the increased price, I accept it (often begrudgingly). The experience is still worth it. If I currently don't use the service, it is usually because I don't want it for free, let alone paying through the nose for it. Sometimes the experience is still worth it but too expensive, so I just save for that experience instead.
Candy in the checkout line. If it reaches $3 for a chocolate bar, I'll swear off candy for good.
If food prices keep going up, we'll be on involuntary diets because it's too expensive to eat in general.
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Bruno Marc shoes are 🔥! The look dressy and are ridiculously comfortable.
I visited Disneyland Paris with my wife and kid about 14 years ago. I was shocked at how willing people were to hold the bank account open with the attitude of here take what you want. This in a place that charged ridiculous prices for a buffet where my daughter (picky eater) couldn't find anything she was willing to eat except pasta with nothing on it.
Its a money extraction machine. And having to queue for a coffee, to meet a Disney princess, or rides for an hour is not my idea of a good time. It sucked.
The attitude of the park was already paid for staying there. Pay again or queue or leave your kid disappointed.
I just took my family (me, long-suffering 15 year old son, 7 year old daughter who actually wanted to go there after seeing commercials) to Great Wolf Lodge. The rooms were a reasonable price, but we drove into the parking lot and there are signs everywhere announcing an extra $15 a night parking charge, “Don’t worry, we’ll just add it to your bill!”. 🤨 We walk in, it’s 10:30 PM. Get the kids settled in the room, daughter is hungry. No worries, every hotel has some kind of drinks and snacks available 24/7 or close to it. Except this “all-inclusive resort” catering to families with young children DIDN’T. “The fast food place closed at 10… there’s a gas station across the street…”. Wow. 🤯 THEN, they had this “Magiquest” thing that sounded kind of like a scavenger hunt, which my daughter enjoys… but it was way too complicated for a young child, and, as my son pointed out, “By the time a kid would be old enough to do that, it wouldn’t feel magical for them anymore.”. Quite. Hate to think how much I spent on that. I got her the “Wolf Pass”, which had a number of other opportunities to get sucked into attractions for various “freebies”, only to end up upcharged. The most obvious one was swim goggles in the “gift shop”; basic, boring ones right next to a huge, gaudy display of fancy ones. Managed to steer the kid away from that, though, and the only time she got “extra” was a shirt for her “Build a Bear” wolf, which I still got a 20% discount on. Oh, and I paid an extra $5 in the arcade, but I still feel I got off light there. Maybe spent half of our “meal plan”, though. Overall, just felt nickeled and dimed and exploited. Won’t be going back; there’s a cheaper place closer by that, last we were there a couple years ago, wasn’t too “fee heavy”. 😑
Eating out is ironically now cheaper than cooking for some things. I challenge you to get 2000 calories for $10 these days, without compromising. Plus, consider labor cost for cooking. Wendys has $5 meals that give more than 2000 calories in 2 sets. If you like beef, great deal.
Of course, this depends on COL level in your area. For me, $2.99 chicken on sale = terrible, but beef is $9.99 …on SALE. Pork is even $7.99 a pound.
Barbershops
Life, that's what 😢
Housing in Florida
Most of these things are stuff you don't need. Make your own food, pirate movies, craft your own vacations.
Do you want a no knock warrant because that's how you get a no knock warrant
marriage/divorce
Children/child support
It's because of the government we have a lot of these problems mixing with greedy corporations.
Disney World for example it's a real Kingdom basically. Florida basically gave them power and the privilege of paying no taxes and all they have to do is keep Florida happy but end up it self in the foot like like you do if your dumbass with too much power.
Agreed on Honda, my family used to loyaly buy them, we've switched to Hyundai and Kia now. The one Hyundai is 6 years old now with 75,000 miles and hasn't given us any trouble yet.
Having a girlfriend lmao
To the person saying places kept their Covid prices because people are used to paying it... Welcome to Supply and Demand/Capitalism.
Also even back then it was mostly an excuse. Most of the things that actually had to raise prices only needed to do so because Covid tanked their market and they needed to recoup the losses. But groceries? yeah try again on that one the only people who stopped buying were the restaurants and you recouped those losses in the first quarter.
Skating rinks...It use to be 3-4 bucks for a Friday or Saturday night session...Now 15.00 for 3-4 hours and terrible music
Government passed a policy that is illegal to lie but is legal to mislead. Corporate lobby laws and we think stock market has our best interest for providing Americans a one way ticket to streets .
Raman with some green onions,cilantro, eolki mushrooms 100% ordinary to exstordarie a buck and a minute 😂
Concerts and cinema.
Casual golf, now you can't unless your a member and that can cost thousands.
America hasnt had free markets since 1913 yet we keep blaming them.
For Disney, my family of 4 adults spent $6,000 at Disney, that's still horrendous but value resorts are a thing.
What isnt these days? 😂😂
That said - SUPPOSEDLY "free to play" games so over-run with micro transactions and "pay to play" "winners."
Also, video games as a whole. Many computer games are locked in a system that requires the internet to open the game, even if the game was bought SPECIFICALLY for its "no online needed to play."
HOW CAN I PLAY MY OFFLINE GAME IF I NEED THE NET TO GET THROUGH YOUR STUPID APP?!?
Living in Vancouver
Video games. I stopped playing much video games because video games are costing 70 dollars now. How come all these things go up but our pay check doesnt catch up to this economic crisis
Living, apparently.
Buying a home, It's more profitable to rent a place and, use the rest of your money in investments
I'd love to live where there is public transportation so I could ditch my car.
No buses here. It's an hour drive to the closest town with a bus system.
This is Calif., U.S. public trans. Is archaic.
Nothing has become as unworthwhile financially then modern women.
I'll just say that I recently discovered the activity of reading a book.
Why would ANYBODY think that an hour of commuting is worth it? Seriously, if a job is more than an hour away (one way!)? Yeah, not worth it! Half hour? Sure, I can do that! (Note: I don't live in a big city, I live in a small European (German!) town and while I'd love to live in a larger city, I couldn't afford a place there and I am certainly not commuting for an hour! I have a live and that doesn't happen in the car on the way to and from work! Hell, ideally? No commute at all, work from home (remote work!) - that even the likes of Google try to force people back into loud, crowded offices? I don't get it! Must be about control IMHO!
An hour of commuting is pretty normal even if your not commuting large distances. Most people whe live in a suburb probably have a commute around that length.
I'm an American and I visited the United Kingdom and I was absolutely amazed at how easy it was to get around without a car. In the United States, unless You're in a metro area like New York City, public transportation is subpar at best. Not to mention, if you decide to live in an area where there is more public transportation, you tend to be charged higher rental rates. Not going to lie. I'm debating moving somewhere in your neck of the woods because it's so much easier to get around and to live.
@@Tim85-y2q Where do you live? Unless you're making 100k, no it is not worth it. You are actively giving up 2 hours of your time.
7th story had bittersweet ending.
Life... Comfortable living has gotten out of reach for almost everyone. Buy a casket and hope for the worst, cus it ain't gonna get better!
Ok, most of these are legit, but frankly paying for someone to take care of your nails and putting "extensions" on them (that also make typing on a keyboard a chore - I've seen my mother and she was supposedly teaching 10-finger-typing to her students (she was a teacher back then, retired now))...that is not what you should spend good money on, same for 1000000000 pairs of shoes, stupid purses, extensive make-up etc. (it's not like men really see all those things! I should know, I am one and the things I see on a woman are: Her over all shape, her boobs, her face, lips, eyes and if she's remotely in shape or not! I don't see expensive hairdoes, painted nails etc.)
All that is not for men it's for other women.
Have you considered for a minute that women don't do these things for guys' enjoyment? If male attention was the main reason for any of it, no gay women would partake in fashion or haircare, and they certainly wouldn't bother working out.
I love going to concerts alone
Golf, greenfees have more than tripled 😒
Walmart is so expensive now.
eggs .havent bought eggs in years .
RVs
A lof of Price Gouging
Fgoodwill
I found some nice sweaters there looked up the price online and saw they were CHEAPER at Walmart BRAND NEW than at goodwill used….
Living.
Junk food. Not worth it.
Women. 😅
It’s tee time for golf not tea time that’s the drink ( earl grey)
Life
Starbucks
1. Only in the US..... Everywhere else is OK.
2. Rich people don't want poor people on the slopes.
3. Corporations haré you and you still don't Wake up.
Not just the US: some of the stories were from Australia, Canada, and the UK.
@tamarlindsay8382 shit holes basically
I'm not based in the US and came to comment specifically on eating out. Whether it's fast food or fine dining, skyrocketing prices + shrinking portions mean it's simply not worth it - one meal for my 3 person household derails the entire month's budget. And that's when I get the food. Delivery is a different monster altogether.
inflation is hitting people worse in Europe actually
Playing video games... no more
I saw several sources about the Disney hikes approx 6 months ago. They are not short term. It was done on purpose, allegedly:) They really want high income customers only going forward. I feel very sad for the children. They aren’t ever looking back either. I will never support them again. Easy to do as an adult. Fabulous thrift store with all the Disney movies I could ever want to watch for a $1/each. They might as well become a direct to video entity now. U have jaded your ride or die customer base. Please prepare your children & protect them from being marketed to. It’s sad u have to explain this kaka to a 4 yr old w/ big dreams in their ❤’s, but sooner the better unless u are & remain fully flu$hed. Glad I went a few times 20+ yrs ago. Wouldn’t ever trust them again if their tongues came notarized
Taxes
All this video is doing is taking a subreddit, in this case it’s verbatim the title of the video, and putting every part of the thread through an a.i. generator in text to speech.
AI content is ok to pass the time, I guess, but when a list hits the same topic two or more times, it gets tiresome
Thank you so much for your video.
Marriage. Dating.
Dating.
USPS
I was about to dating
Children
Apparently English classes from the title.
That's called bidenomics, we're very proud of bidenomics.
Not a book reader are ya buddy?
I don't understand this argument that physical media is somehow more cost effective than streaming. You don't want to pay $15 a month but you're ok with paying that or more for each individual piece of media? Makes no sense to me.
Yea but you can go watch your dvd whenever you want when Netflix takes your show or movie enjoy being controlled
Library. Also estate and garage sales are excellent sources of media for a dollar or two (or less).
Buy a $15 physical piece of media and you never have to pay for that piece of media ever again unless it gets broken. Spend $105 on a collection of physical media and you can watch that collection whenever you want, wherever you want, no additional fees. Also you can break the nose of anybody who tries to take your movies away from you and you can mold your collection however you like with the stuff *you* want to watch.
Spend $15 a month for a piece of media and you either keep paying every month just to have access to it whether you watch it or not, or you lose access to it. Hold a subscription until you've paid about $105? You had 7 months to watch that collection of media. After that you either keep paying for a collection that you won't watch 90% of or stop paying and lose access to everything and you might as well have thrown that money into a bonfire. Oh yeah and they might remove your favorite movie at any time and there's nothing you can do about it unless you sail the high seas and most of the collection available is low-tier slop that not even a pig will touch.
When I spend $20+ for 4k disc I own it forever and I only rent streaming rights
Junk food
Food
Cheese Burgers
I dont want to hear about disney land. As a south efrican, I want to hear about fast food and groceries. Not some expensive fatansy land people afforded years ago.
Life!
Children
Healthcare
Cars
lol everything.