I'd still rather have the car or the trip to Aruba.
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Knowing I have to pay the taxes on that shit, I'll take the dinette set.
Our fridge blew. I'm pretty handy, just too many damned issues. Fuck it. What can a new one cost?
I work at Lowe's, best we got is $900 for the very bottom of the line. Got on FB Marketplace and we have the nicest fridge I've ever owned, $200.
Washer crapped out a week later. Same exact story and prices.
And don't start me on appliances people hunk out because they can't fix a minor problem. Found a dryer on the road needing a $14 belt. Sold it for $125. Upgraded 2 ceiling fans to super nice ones by bypassing the crappy voltage limiter (it's a legal thing in the US.) I can do this all day.
tl;dr: Shit's expensive. Stop burning the planet and your wallet.
I got laid off and within a few days our dishwasher died. Had to wait for months until I got a new job to pull the trigger on a new dishwasher, all the while our stove was threatening to die on us. All this after our furnace died on us within a year of buying the house just a few years earlier, and then our AC just died last summer (not the end of the world, but insult to injury).
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I'm inclined to disagree.
I'm fortunate to have everything I need and a fair bit of what I want. I lost 140 pounds five years ago and my body's functioning really well too.
Getting old is way better than I anticipated.
To be fair, aging tends to involve gathering objects over the years. So unless you hit really hard times, you to end up collecting a lot of what you "need". Age also makes most people care less what other people think you should have, so you don't feel that you have to buy many things outside of what you actually want and need.
you don’t feel that you have to buy many things outside of what you actually want and need.
That's true. Most of my money, now, goes toward buying back my time in the form of saving for retirement. (At least, when I don't have to help my deadbeat parents in some way.)
I'm proud of you. Enjoy your hard work paying off.
That's nice of you to say. Thank you!
No problem.
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Shit, I like getting old. I never thought I'd make it to 50. Glad to be here.
Don't even get me started on that solid wood Broyhill dinnette set!
Me 30yrs ago: Solid wood? Are we calling 50% sawdust and binder "solid wood"? Lol...
Me now: it has like real wood mixed in, like from an actual tree? WTF, I that is way out of my league...
I'm like, "fuck it. We'll do it live. I'll learn how to make my own damned wooden furniture!"
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14 years ago when I was thrifting, I used to get excited about movies I'd find, season sets I'd find, a couple toy figures, maybe some games or hey, there's something I could use. Fucking awesome!
14 years later, I've been waiting until a thrift store at least puts up an office chair I'd like to have that's better than what I got and if the appliances I get are going to be useful.
Your neighborhood may have a Buy Nothing group on FB (and yeah, I know FB sucks but Buy Nothing groups are great) and you can bookmark it so you don't have to look at any other features on the site.
Been wanting to start a comm and show all my tips and tricks, get others showing theirs.
I can understand that.
I owned my first appliance at 17. How old could you possibly be?
- And that's not what the meme is about. It's about not having to pay for a brand new appliance.
Aye. It's also the difference between planned upgrading for quality of life improvements vs being unexpectedly forced to buy a new fridge or something because the one crapped out. Like, you can live fine without a dishwasher, but a fridge not so much.
Indeed.
This meme and variations of it pop up all the time, and sure, there's a 'haha' there. But it's doing some kind of whitewashing of REAL economic struggles of our generation, and I'm not sure how to feel about it.
It's more about laughing to ease the pain. For sure the cost of living has gotten way out of hand. But having a bit of fun about a shared bad time makes going through said bad time a bit easier.