Or refuse to buy
Drinks in a restaurant. I always order water. One day I was in the mood for tea until I looked down at the $4.99 price. Strangely, soft drinks we’re $3.99. I guess many of you aren’t surprised, but like I said, I never really order drinks with a meal so it had been a while since I had seen the price.
GPU’s. I remember before the mining boom and the AI boom, three to four hundred bucks would get you a decent card. Managed to score a 9070xt for close to retail price recently and that will have to last me at least 3 more years, if not forever.
Matinee movie tickets. Outback 6 oz sirloins. 12 packs of soda. I just watch Netflix, cook steak at home (still expensive but I get more bang for buck) and drink water.
kebabs. i still remembrer they were 4.5€ before covid. now it’s 8€ at best
fuck that
Streaming services.
Thank god piracy is free and it’s easier than ever.
I love piracy. It’s never let me down.
Fast Food. Went in to Subway yesterday and got a single sandwich meal and it was 25 bucks. Hell, McDonalds isn’t even really cheap, the sandwiches that used to be on the dollar menu are like 4 bucks a pop now.
Beer. When I was in school a pint of domestic was $5. It’s around $10 now.
So many things. Eating out. Taking my car to work when i still had one (I take the motorcycle, so much cheaper on gas). Going to the movies. Any kind of vacation. Meat. Groceries that are not essential. I’m considering replacing my lawn with a dry garden because water. Many video games. A/C if I’m not seriously uncomfortable. PC upgrades. Phone upgrades. I’m sure forgetting many. It’s all essentials now.
Beef. Beef used to be in the affordable to readily affordable range. Now for a pound of ground beef it’s about half as much for a bag of chicken breasts.
Just eating a sandwich outside, now you can only find SuperFancyFrench Sandwich with gold plated armor, made by Mongolian monks.
I’m like wtf, just give me 2 pieces of bread and whatever cheap inside, 4$ and we are good.
When I lived in PA i would grab a really good $5 hoagie from Wawa and a free coffee after school, now its like $8+ and coffees are only free if you buy enough…
Hard drives. They’ve gone up like 400%
And don’t even get me started on RAM
Video games. Retro video games. All of it.
Sure, we have Steam sales and those are still cheap. But physical games? Gone bonkers since covid.
This is the first time in the history of the world that current Gen consoles have gone UP in price. Games hardly go down in price anymore.
Retro games used to be cheap. Now everyone and their mother knows they’re not just old children’s toys, and think everything is a collectible. And these days, they might not even be wrong! Not to mention thrift stores and sometimes even garage salers are trying to charge eBay prices for everything they have.
I’m just holding onto digital games and Steam sales and such…and, well, piracy of course. (But storage is expensive too…)
Man, everything is a collectable now. I swear I can big some random cheap old tech and in a few years it will be double the price
I was going to buy an old game that was not very good for nostalgia purposes as a gift. Since COVID it has tripled in price.
It was already not good, and at $150 I’d rather gift an Everdrive with an 8gb card full of the rom than spend that much on a shelf piece.
Was it “notoriously bad” or just lacklustre? That makes a difference! Lol
Peace and quiet
Green onions are up 200% in just a few years
For this specific one, I put them in water after I cut the tops off and grow them more for a while. I get about 3x the total amount before they stop doing well.
Generally computer hardware I guess. Unless it’s essential any purchases or upgrades are on hold for now.
