PhoenixDog
@PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 1 day ago:
I was raised pretty middle-upper class. Only child. My dad made 6 figures. I had a lot of privilege growing up and I knew I did. I was well informed on family finances, investments, etc. We were also frugal(ish) in spending. We went camping every year which I loved, but very few things like vacations, new cars, etc. We had a modest house in a small town. My parents would always just have a shit ton of money saved in savings accounts or investments.
Fast forward to today, they helped my partner and I buy a small farm halfway across the country. We’re a single income house (my partner has disabilities that prevents them from working). We live paycheque to paycheque because I like spending money. Local farmers market, buying things for the farm, and I get a little money spendy because my parents never really did that. I learned all the tips and tricks growing up and once let loose I didn’t really care. Never did.
We’re financially perfectly okay. We have debt like everyone else, but it’s manageable. But we don’t save anything. We’re trying to now this past year but it’s slow because I work in town and my partner will want me to pick up this thing from Canadian Tire, or this from Home Hardware, and always needing new things, or upgrading things on the century old house and homestead.
Basically, I was raised with money and my parents didn’t spend a lot of it. They’re very well off now. I do the opposite. I don’t really care much about the future, as hopefully we can break even on the farm. But we are trying to live more in the now than my parents ever did. Financially, I am very different from my parents.
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 3 days ago:
How do you know? Not to mention in my 40 years on this Earth I’ve never heard of anyone putting paper on toilet seats who isn’t a germaphopic sociopath.
Do you put toilet paper down every time you shit on your own toilet? That’s a REALLY weird thing to do. I’m all for the seat shaped hospital paper liners in most public bathrooms but ripping up toilet paper just to have it stick to your gross ass is really fucking weird my guy.
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 3 days ago:
Are you, an Internet stranger, telling me how my sensory processing disorder should operate?
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 3 days ago:
That’s a really weird thing to do. My sensory disorder feels violated through the screen.
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 3 days ago:
I’ve literally gone into public bathrooms with no urinals, only stalls, and the seats don’t lift up. You have no choice but to aim and pray.
Except I’m not a degenerate and I’ll grab some paper and wipe anywhere I missed.
- Comment on Not Enough Hate 3 days ago:
IT PUTS THE LOTION ON IT’S SKIN BECAUSE HOLY FUCK IT NEEDS IT!
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 3 days ago:
Dude I grew up in the 90s. My parents had shit from the 60s-80s that they still own today. Consumer products were made to last because if they didn’t the company would go out of business. Now every company and their dog is enshitifying everything and if they go out of business, the government will just bail them out, rename themselves, and carry on making garbage.
There’s a reason Nokia phones being indestructible is a meme, because they genuinely were. I had one as a child.
Obviously profit was the end goal, but making good shit people wanted would get more money for the company. Now it’s just quarterly earnings by all means. Longevity doesn’t matter as long as line goes up this month.
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 4 days ago:
Nah, like the 1990s
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 4 days ago:
When you’re a Trillion Dollar company, you don’t need MORE money. You make enough to make everything run without additional income.
But obviously a trillion dollars is still not enough. We need more.
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 4 days ago:
Back when humans cared ajout humans instead of money.
- Comment on Low rating 4 days ago:
Hey look everyone, someone found anecdotal evidence of something. Therefore that applies to literally everyone!
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 6 days ago:
Your comment literally screams “No one ever visits me and nothing I do is for enjoyment”
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 6 days ago:
Did you read a fucking word they said? About being exhausted, or having to look after kids, or having housework to do… You’re still gonna find time for 45+ minutes to walk 6 blocks, wait in line, pay, and walk back and still have all the shit you need to do and still eat before it gets cold?
Christ sake… “Just walk 6 blocks”. Tell a single mom that.
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 6 days ago:
Lose weight and eat vegetables.
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 6 days ago:
Are you disabled? Because I know a lot of people who can’t drive who order delivery because of disability.
But some people are just insensitive dick heads, I guess.
- Comment on Hmmm 1 week ago:
I could ask you the same question. Those are all technically pizzas. They are cooked dough with toppings on it, usually pizza sauce and cheese.
I don’t understand your confusion with the subject. Especially with comparing mammals to mammals. We are all incredibly similar with a few genetic differences. Just like a generic oven baked pizza or a tortilla pizza. They’re different, but also the same.
- Comment on Hmmm 1 week ago:
They’re both mammals, yes.
- Comment on Hmmm 1 week ago:
What do you mean? It’s dough with stuff on top.
- Comment on Snooze 1 week ago:
I’m nearly 40. I had analog watches in the early 90s set to 24h time.
I don’t trust people who don’t use it.
- Comment on Snooze 1 week ago:
This is why you use 24h time.
- Comment on You merely adopted smash bros 1 week ago:
Bumpers only. Basically pinball
- Comment on Ciao 1 week ago:
I could never imagine being such a pathetic individual such as yourself.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 1 week ago:
Oh I know. Single income family on a farm makes money for that sort of stuff a little tight.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 1 week ago:
Touché.
- Comment on Would it be offensive for me to wear bonnets as a white person? 1 week ago:
What’s the difference?
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 1 week ago:
Just wait for the article that the CEO is getting a $700 million bonus.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 1 week ago:
They’re also in a lot of debt from making dog shit for the last 15 years.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 2 weeks ago:
I’m literally watching a baseball game with the right picture in the back of my monitor, and it’s plugged into an adapter for the left picture in my PC.
I’m 39.
- Comment on Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language. 2 weeks ago:
A Quiet Place
- Comment on Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language. 2 weeks ago:
Screw them! Not like they can see what we type anyway!