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I hate the rhetoric of including groceries and vacations as if they're the same. People don't 'waste money' on food. They buy food because you need it to live
When I was making about $1400 a month I made a spreadsheet with prices of staple foods from four grocery stores in my area and went to all four on a regular basis to get the best price on each thing. Now that I make substantially more than that I "waste" about $400-$500 per month by only going to one store and buying everything I need. I still feel guilty about it sometimes.
The time saved is not waste.
Depends if ~$6k/yr is worth it for them
How dare we want to... checks notes ... Eat food and experience some of life before we MAYBE live until we are 70
Had a conversation with my friend the other day about this. Why should I be putting away 20% or more of my income and make myself miserable for the years when I'm healthy and fit, just for the chance of being able to be financially comfortable when I'm old?
Our bodies are full of microplastics. The earth is getting hotter than ever year after year. Right-wing authortianism is on the rise across the globe. This isn't a cry for help, but I genuinely don't plan on living that long.
If I expected to have a future I’d probably save for it, but I’ll never afford a house, be able to raise a family, and will spend my last years working until I’m 90 paying some landparasite most of my pay check.
Might as well enjoy what time I have and go out guns blazing in my 60s.
I'm lucky, I have a tech job and might actually be able to pay off my mortgage if I can live to 65.
I'm still working paycheck-to-paycheck though. There's literally no room in the household budget for vacations or retirement savings.
70 sounds optimistic
"groceries and vacations"
Foodstuffs are such a short-term luxury.
Do not become addicted to food, it will take hold of you and you will resent its absence
I was just talking about this. The amount I spend on groceries for a small family is insane. It has doubled in less than five years. My income has not.
Damn Millennials again. Now they ruined savings!
Who tf can afford a vacation in 2023/2024??? Hell I'd have to be between jobs to even have the time off
my "vacations" are basically for having an extra day or two off. Maybe I'll go on a day trip to somewhere in the area. It's not like I'm going to a retreat on a private island or anything
Now I go on vacation it's only thing that keeps me from going fucking crazy. It expensive but goddammit I am going.
Also only reason stay at this shitty job because of three weeks of vacation I get. If I didn't get that I would quit.
Doing that as we speak. My job was shit, so I'm moving back to an old also-shit-but-slightly-less-shit job. I don't start back at my old job for another week or two, and had originally planned to keep working the currently one until then. But I got fed up with bullshit and stopped going a few nights ago, and am now enjoying a two-week unpaid "vacation".
I went to visit a friend a few states over for their wedding. They let me stay at their place for a week. For the time off I work union :D
The only vacations I can afford are #Staycations where I #GirlBoss and #FixMyBrokeAssCar
How do I sign up for a higher paycheck? I don't really know anyone who's paycheck has, actually gone up when weighed against inflation.
I was denied a raise for a bullshit reason. My work effort is negatively impacted by inflation
I'm on like 3 years running of no raise and my SO got one 4 days before being laid off after 3 years of no raises.
Yeah totally not high AF rent
Nothing new. This is the same shit since Bush was around. Keep the millennials and their children held back as much as possible so all the rich kids can steal everything.
NOTHING NEW.
Y’all are taking vacations? Must be nice…
That's not a vacation home. It's my house... I'm not going on vacations.