Comment on Daily discussion thread: đââŹđŚđ𧟠Tuesday, June 4, 2024
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠agoYeah nah bro, not in this economy no ones gonna be making fun. My mortgage is +1k greater when I moved in, power bills through the roof, council is knocking on my door for rates. Iâm about to propose to the mrs we introduce 1 or 2 âPovâ nights for dinner, where we see what we can make for a capped price.
We all get it! Though I am gonna raise an eyebrow if youâre reusing teabags for the 4th time đ I legit have been wondering about reusing some of the expensive tea bags a second time. 47 bucks for a box of tea is taking the piss!
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Heh, I use generic instant coffee so thereâs no waste, and generic teabags. I donât tend to reuse teabags but⌠if itâs still sitting in the cup from having been left in there⌠đ¤
There might be more tolerance now, sure. I just see people who are uh, perhaps a little new to being skint. I think whatâs been happening is that working class (and underclass) have been forced to be frugal for a very long time so peopleâs expectations are lower and adaptability is higher. But conditions are now getting so bad that theyâre starting to hit the middle class and itâs causing a real culture shock.
Like you suggest an occasional treat that can be made with leftover amounts of stuff you already have/buy in bulk - so they go out and buy large sizes of new ingredients they donât have another use for, and then tell you that itâs not working out cheaper than bought :|
Or this weirdly rigid handholdy article about recipes you can use if you canât afford olive oil anymore⌠Itâs like darls, those arenât the only recipes you can use now. There may be specialised uses like animal fat or peanut oil for extremely high heat/deep frying but for general cooking you wonât explode if you substitute a more affordable oil. Itâs usually just a spoonful anyway. Even canola and sunflower oil have essential fatty acids so there is still a little of a health benefit there.
Or news articles will come out with the most obvious cost cutting tips presented like nobody has thought of them when⌠itâs something everyone you know has been doing forever.
It makes me feel weird to say stuff like I havenât bought olive oil in years, have never had a Netflix subscription, I donât buy takeaway, grew up wearing op shop and hand me downs, I would always darn socks and replace zips or elastic rather than buy new clothes, I would use dried or tinned foods⌠Poor shaming has been such a thing for so long that something very normal for me might be a bridge too far for someone who hasnât quite adjusted to âthe new normalâ.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I also LOVE that its a way to stick it to the man! Cause fuck coles and woolies for screwing us for years. Screw fast fashion. Fuck the economy that requires us to buy buy buy. The planet is dying and society is too stuck in the status quo to see it. Being cheap is a great way to âfight backâ. Kind of.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
That too, that too đ Thereâs even a perverse pleasure to deliberately being a povo gremlin sometimes.
Iâll see the price go up on something I can do without and be like, âyou know what, Iâm good.â
Oh, your sales are falling? Less discretionary expenditure? Nobodyâs buying as much stuff anymore? Well maybe itâs because the workers can no longer afford to buy the goods they produce, mf. Between low wages and inflated prices you killed the golden goose and nobody can afford shit anymore. I will proudly wash my hair with bar soap and pay my catâs vet bills rather than pay you shysters any more than I have to.
Unfortunately physical disability = needing delivery, otherwise Iâd have long switched to a supermarket that wasnât Woolies or Coles. But my genetics fucked me over there
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
yeah that makes it tough as heck. Woolies and coles just end up taking advantage of battlers doing it tough.