Or refuse to buy
RAM used to be so cheap they basically gave it away.
Capitalism.
Pets ( vet was never cheap but was affordable) I’ve spent over 7k this year in vet bills for 2 cats and one dog.
I don’t know but in general I’ve just stopped consumering. I get what I need and that’s about it. It’s my way of protesting not just prices but just how shit everything is today.
I buy independent media now, thats still cheap. I can pay the monthly subs for two indie news orgs for the same price I pay for four beers.
Note: I’m Australian, yeah beers a bit expensive here, but come on, value for money!
Bitcoin
SD cards. Used to be able to get 32 or even 64GB cards for basically pocket money, and now it’s something you’d have to save for
Yeah, I sure could use some cheap SD cards now. I feel like a lot of the more privacy conscious gadgets use SD cards to save you from the menace of manufacturer-controlled cloud storage, rightly so!
I remember USB thumb drives hitting crazy lows at one point too, to the point where I was getting some decently sized drives as promo items. I think I paid $40 or so for my very first 250MB USB stick, maybe it was even smaller than that. I also distinctly remember buying a 128GB USB stick for a very similar price in the last decade or two and seeing them even cheaper than that. You do notice a build quality difference between them when you hold them side by side. The old Sandisk feels solid, the led, the cap, the enclosure are all solid and feel super sturdy and like they’re one single piece. The newer 128GB PNY is cheap, rattly, trashy plastic wrapped around a circuit board with a goofy retractable usb connector, but obviously outperforms the old one by miles. Would love to have cheap and quality. :-)
Any soft drink that’s not Arizona iced tea.
I haven’t checked lately, is the price still on the can, though?
Yes it is. Not as cheap as before (~$1.49 last I checked), but it’s still a good buy if one decides to eat out. Fast food’s profit margins on drinks are notorious, after all.
Everyone’s talking tech, but I’ll add car parts.
Everything from aftermarket parts to basic things like filters or even windhsield wipers.
$25/blade. If you have a 3-blade car, that’s $75.
Had to replace a battery. They used to be $100-125 for a good one. Nope. $200 for a mid grade replacement.
It wasn’t cheap, but they were affordable. Not so much anymore.
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.
I honestly just finds it absurd that soda is usually as expensive as water. Or water is a few cents cheaper. I mean i drink water anyway, but still.
Wait… you have to pay for water at a pub or restaurant or cafe? Where are you from?
He’s probably referring to bottled water.
Right, that makes sense!
(Not that bottled water is as expensive as soda, that’s borderline criminal imo)
Depends where it is. Wetherspoons still does £1.99 a pint. I also found a place recently that I can abuse their system to get double my drinks order but even with that little cheat its still like £3.50/pint so I don’t go there much. Its mostly a human engineering attack combined with a little bit of knowledge of POS systems.
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.
Who goes to Subway? Is it 2002?
I ask this question every time I’m reminded that it’s the most popular fast food chain in the US by some metrics.
Shit is disgusting.
You have to use the app. A footlong is like $7.
If things are cheaper in the app and the app is free, there is a hidden cost that makes them want you to use the app more than paying the higher price for sandwiches. Falling into this trap repeatedly is how we got here. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
If I have to use an app to use a restaurant, I’m not.
Using an app does seem to be the deal now.
Streaming services.
Thank god piracy is free and it’s easier than ever.
I love piracy. It’s never let me down.
Exactly. I’ve been pirating content for 20+ years, except for a small period where Netflix was actually good. Now, I regret even paying for that short period; they don’t deserve any of my money.
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.
You considered $400 cheap?!
Yeah, at the time I had four times my current income.
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.
Steaks at home are always better
kebabs. i still remembrer they were 4.5€ before covid. now it’s 8€ at best
fuck that
16-25€ here… On the bright side, made me learn how to do them at home. And no, the ingredients don’t cost 25€ a portion!
I surely hope your salary is at least twice mine!
Basically any fast food. Within my lifetime fast food went from cheap end of week treat, to being a complete ripoff that’s almost never worth shelling out for…
Which is weird cause the price of actual restaurants hasn’t gone up as much during that time, so it now oftentimes makes more sense to just go to an actual restaurant where you’ll (usually) get better food in better portions
Yeah when taco bell is $40 for two of us and going to the sit down Mexican restaurant is $40, I’m going to pick food that gives me leftovers every time.
Taco Bell being cost-prohibitive is so wild to me. I remember going there so many times in high school in the 90’s and being able to get a veritable feast for $5.
No matter what you get it’s 90% beans, veggies, cheese, and corn. There’s no reason for this product to be high dollar except for motherfucking CEO’s.
I remember getting veritable feasts from Taco Bell for $5 in like 2018
I remember the taco bell challenge, order 10 dollars of food and try to finish it all. Now you can’t get a meal for that price…
I can still get my bean burritos and a drink for like $8. That being said I haven’t been to one in months
The $.99 bean burrito? Well, it was like $1.29 cause I’d get sour cream.
It’s like $1.50 now 😭
I figure it this way too, but then after I’ve eaten at the sit-down place the bill turns out to be $80.
My wife and I went out this year and the bill was $200 for a sit down Italian in our suburban town. I don’t even like Italian.
We did a tiki lounge more recently in the city and it was $150.
These are nicer ish places but like, that’s a lot.
$200 is crazy! We have some places like that here but, I live in a tourist town where the shitty chilli’s is $26 for one meal of burger and fries. But then you go one town over and everything is so much cheaper.
40$ is on the low end, think 70-100+ $, for people addicted to eating out.
family dinners events can be hundreds or up to a 1000$+
Yeah it very much depends where we go near me. Place we went to a few Fridays ago $40+tip for two of us, good portions, good food. Other place we go to, slightly smaller portions but still good food, $65+tip. I literally order the same thing at both places.
I spontaneously went through a mcdonald’s drive through yesterday to pick up breakfast while i was in a hurry. I ordered one sausage biscuit with egg and cheese. $7.50
I was shocked and checked the receipt. The default sandwich was 5-something (which is ridiculous by itself) and the “cheese” was $1.50.
I think i’m just done with McDonald’s as an occasional thing.
I remember $0.39 cheeseburgers at McDonalds and $0.79 bean burritos at Taco Bell.
But this was when gas was $0.89/g and we didn’t live under fascism.
Well, they were still that price when gas was much more expensive too. That price point was an awesome low point though.
I stopped most fast food years ago. It’s basically only an option in the rare situation that I need food “fast” and wont be home to eat it, and even then I avoid them more and more.
If I’m going home, I’ll order delivery or take out from a real restaurant. More-better food for same-less money.
That’s not even considering that I meal prep and cook at home even more, but even what little bit I still want to not cook myself… It’s not going to be restaurant prices for worse food.
You have to use there apps and points and shit to get it cheap, but it can be cheap. They’re basically in the business of wasting poor people’s time and collecting their data these days
I’ve seen people say this about Taco Bell, and I refuse to put that trash on my phone.
Just food in general.
I could conceivably budget for beef, but the price pisses me off so much I’ll go for a pork steak instead.
I’ve found some places are still affordable, like small local establishements or even A&W, their trio of the day is still like only 10$CAD
I get burgers to go from sit down places cause they’re better, full on burgers and not some slice of meat and filler measurable in the millimeters for the same price if not cheaper. I get a mushroom Swiss from IHOP for like $12 plus tip(yes typing culture sucks, but it’s the system we live in and I’m not going to stiff a kid cause I don’t agree with someone they have little control over). And I get legit big onion rings to boot!
Theres a perfectly good bbq resturant near me thats typically cheaper than mcdonalds.
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