Or refuse to buy
Streaming services.
Thank god piracy is free and it’s easier than ever.
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 $10 now.
So many things. Eating out. Taking my car to work when i still had one (I take the motorcycle, so much cheaper on gas). Going to the movies. Any kind of vacation. Meat. Groceries that are not essential. I’m considering replacing my lawn with a dry garden because water. Many video games. A/C if I’m not seriously uncomfortable. PC upgrades. Phone upgrades. I’m sure forgetting many. It’s all essentials now.
Beef. Beef used to be in the affordable to readily affordable range. Now for a pound of ground beef it’s about half as much for a bag of chicken breasts.
Peace and quiet
Just eating a sandwich outside, now you can only find SuperFancyFrench Sandwich with gold plated armor, made by Mongolian monks.
I’m like wtf, just give me 2 pieces of bread and whatever cheap inside, 4$ and we are good.
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.
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 $150 I’d rather gift an Everdrive with an 8gb card full of the rom than spend that much on a shelf piece.
Hard drives. They’ve gone up like 400%
And don’t even get me started on RAM
Generally computer hardware I guess. Unless it’s essential any purchases or upgrades are on hold for now.
A 12 pack of Molson Canadian.
Cocktails are so expensive these days. I have a very high alcohol tolerance and it’s 10-20$ as bare minimum for <1$ of ingredients. 5 negronis + tip and you’re down at least a 100$. I’m more of a smoker these days but taking people out is such a luxury. If you have 3 friends visiting and buy couple rounds you’re in a triple digit bill already.
Nonalcoholic beverages are gaining popularity.
Mysteriously, they cost the same even though they miss several layers of taxes.
That’s why I learned to mix drinks. A dollar a drink and vastly better than most bars in town.
Yeah, I’ve started learning to make my own cocktails.
A two bedroom apartment in Bergen sentrum
RAM! 😭
Also see: SSDs, HDDs, GPUs and CPUs
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