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Your post glazed over:
By your own admission and being generous with the above, we spend more than 80% of our time subsisting, which becomes increasingly more difficult the less money you make. What happens to Saturday shopping and meal prep when your paycheck is monday and you had a big expense that ate up what little savings you had?
You're making the rich man's equivalent argument of "just don't be poor". Even if the numbers aren't exactly as she put it, the point remains the same. This is /r/personalfinance level disillusionment
No, I was saying using it during work if it's a sedentary job. It's becoming pretty normalized for people to use treadmills + standing desks for a couple hours a day at their desk jobs, if needed.
I use one and easily hit 15k steps literally just sitting in on zoom meetings, for example. Makes it less boring.
This should be something that only comes up 1-2 times a month and takes like 5 minutes. And thats if you haven't bothered to just setup automatic payments. If you spend more than 5 minutes on this sorta stuff maybe you are just bad with tech? It's literally 6 button clicks for me to pay my phone bill right now.
You shouldn't be grocery shopping every. sngle. day.
Maybe the reason people in here struggle so much with their time is it sounds like they have no capacity to plan out and get all there weeks worth of errands done in 1 single outting on Saturday afternoon.
I go out early Saturday, get my errands done for the whole week, and get home and meal prep it for the whole week.
I usually have an entire month of meal prep in the deep freeze of various meals. I prep a month of food each week but a different meal, that way I usually have 4-5 totally different things in the freezer to mix and match.
Then all my meals take literally 3 minutes to warm up anytime I wanna save time.
I still make nice meals, usually on days where no other tasks were needed and I have extra time.
I've been deeply entrenched in poverty. I worked as a dishwasher in kitchens for 5 years getting myself through school. I had barely anything to my name, I lived in a shit apartment, I didn't own a vehicle, I didn't even own a bike for awhile.
I still had no issues saving my money and setting funds aside.
Every. Single. Person. I have ever met who complained about money, and I met countless people working in kitchens over 5 years, from all walks off life, all had 1 thing in common.
They spent money in really stupid fuckin shit. They talked about how they had no money but they smoked or drank, or drove to work from 20 blocks away, or got speeding tickets, or smoked weed, or went out partying every weekend, or showed up to work with a monster energy drink and a pepperoni every morning, etc etc etc etc.
You know how many fuckin meals you can make yourself for the same cost as one energy drink a day?
I have never met someone who complains about money that I haven't been able to point out dumb shit I personally watched them buy.
But I point that out and I'm the asshole. Dude. Just fuckin stop buying stupid shit, stop wasting your money.
At first I really thought some people just truly were fucked but... no, I saw way way way to many people living life like this to just realize that... no.
The average person os stupid as fuck when it comes to managing their money. They'll drop $4 on a single energy drink and then complain that potatoes are $1.75 now.
B r u h.
Everyone can tell your economic background from your comment. Now youre just making the boomer avocado argument. People should he able to afford amenities and shouldn't have to grind that hard for small things. Our parents and grandparents sure as fuck didnt.
People aren't having trouble making ends meet because theyre buying energy drinks. Thats the view the media wants you to have to you turn your anger towards them. People forget the first country the nazis invaded was their own.
I told you my economic background whether you wanna believe it or not.
I've personally worked with dozens of people that literally fit this exact description.
Dudes that would unironically chug 2 monsters a day and then complain about how tight money was.
Mate you just blew 1/7th of what you made today on two fucking drinks
Then they'd ask me if I wanna get drinks with them after work.
These are extremely real people and honestly, the quantity of people I met who lived like this VASTLY outnumbered people closer to my lifestyle.
Simple shit love me going "I don't drink" "I don't party" "I don't smoke" "I don't have a car, I walk to work" and etc would fucking blow people's minds.
"What do you do all weekend???" "Uh, play video games, work out, read, watch anime, go for hikes, pick up extra shifts...?"
Also don't even get me started on the even worse people that constantly always complained about money, yet always were trying to get other people to take their shifts for them, get cut early, etc.
"I don't understand why I'm not getting any shifts" Mate you literally keep giving them to other people, you understand you actually have to work to get paid right?
Sorry but this was like easy 60% of people I constantly dealt with at every fuckin job I worked. You get like 20% of people busting ass actually giving a fuck. 20% quiet folks that work and keep to themselves, and then like 60% of people that you honestly have to ask yourself "how the fuck did this person even make it this far"
I regret to inform you that if you think I'm bullshitting here, you may just need to look in the mirror and confront the fact you are in the 60% group...
Yeah, these types of expenditures are fucking huge. You don't even need to cut out drinking after work with friends, simply move it to your living room. You now spend <$10/person for the whole night rather than $70+ per person.