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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 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 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.
More drives for my NAS - 16tb was about A$250 4 years ago. Same drives are now nearly A$1200.
In 2024, I bought 5 14 terabyte hard drives for about $600 for my NAS.
Thank God I have gotten nowhere near close to filling those up yet.
Just one additional drive is like 350 bucks now.
I refuse to purchase anything from Amazon. Bezos is not getting any of my money.
I feel like I should stop buying on eBay.
Actually, I kind of want to see a price fixing lawsuit against eBay now. They are explicitly telling sellers what price to list their items at, raising the prices of goods sold on eBay to the detriment of buyers so that they can get more money out of the commission fees.
The funny thing is my income has risen dramatically in the last few years, but I'm still approximately at the same level of purchasing power that I was six years ago.
If you had told me in 2012 I would be making low-mid six figures and still feel poor, I would have laughed at you.
I just bought some things on ebay to avoid Amazon. They dropshipped Amazon to me, individual packages and all, for nearly 100% markup. I don't know how to avoid that and find "real" sellers dropshipping non-branded warehoused Chinese goods like the good old days.
If you get drop shipped, report a problem say it’s damaged or whatever, and don’t let them send you the Amazon return - use the eBay generated label. Then they have to pay for it and returns absolutely destroy drop shippers. Then leave feedback saying they just drop ship from Amazon
Brisket
Fast food
Fast casual food
Applebee's-tier restaurants
Japanese cars
Used cars, motorcycles, ATVs, boats
Camping
Skiing
Taxi rides
Corn mazes
Pumpkin patches
Escape rooms
Concerts
Bars/Clubs
Retro video games and consoles
Thrift stores
Storage units
Apartments in the bad part of town
There's no more middle class :( can't afford a house, can't afford "affordable" entertainment, can't afford shit
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.
Streaming services.
Hard drives. They've gone up like 400%
And don't even get me started on RAM
Anything that comes in pods.
Waste of money and terrrible for the environment.
I agree, nuke the whales!
Gotta nuke something
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.
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
Fast Food. Used to be 1€ for a burger now its pretty much the same as regular restaurant but it tastes like paper at best.
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...)
If I was more familiar with it, I'd replicate Bane's speech from the Dark Knight Rises on being born in the darkness, but replace darkness with poverty.
So, just pretend I did and that it was awesome.
Oh, you think poverty is your ally? You merely adopted it. I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn't see wealth until I was already a man, and by then, it was nothing to me but sickening. The bargains betray you, because they belong to me. I will show you where I have made my home, whilst preparing to bring taxation. Your precious hoard, gratefully accepted. We will need it. Ah yes, I was wondering what would break first. Your spirit, or your property.
Not perfect, but is that what you wanted?
Generally computer hardware I guess. Unless it's essential any purchases or upgrades are on hold for now.
Carne asada. Tacos. Fucking food trucks in Portland want $15 for 3 street tacos. GTFO.
Granola. It's $5/lb at WinCo!
NA beer. People weren't buying reg beer so they just figured hey we'll wreck this market by pricing people out of it too! So I get no alcohol and it's the same price as regular beer? Piss off.
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.
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.
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.
kebabs. i still remembrer they were 4.5€ before covid. now it's 8€ at best
fuck that
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.
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.
