My life feels pretty boring because everything is so expensive, I don't feel like spending a single dime on all these expensive things. Car fuel is expensive as hell. Restaurant drinks and food are expensive as hell. Ticket prices for places are expensive. I don't go out in the weekends or go on holidays because of the prices. Rather I'm saving aggressively and realizing it's for nothing because house prices keep rising extremly fast. In my point of view this system doesn't make any sense and it doesn't work anymore. The other thing to do feels like spending a lot more money and just start living in the moment, spend all that money on going out and holidays. But I will save a lot less .
Is this just me or have more people experienced this?
My life has been like this for 3 – 4 years now. I have pretty good savings now and I can't buy even the smalles house with it.
I don't feel like spending any money, is this just me or more?
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Posted by RideToReality
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Restaurants are, and always have been, a completely unnecessary waste of money. You’re paying 5-10x grocery prices for less healthy food.
Don’t flush your money down the toilet on garage. Invest it properly instead, and in 10 years you’ll thank yourself.
And if you have no idea what to invest in, you can’t go wrong with a well diversified market etf like VTI, VTSAX, VHYAX, or similar.
I bought two combo meals from McDonalds yesterday and it was $27. For a second I thought I accidentally bought a couple extra meals.
I’ve never spent much money – first because I didn’t have any, but also grew up in a large family where there wasn’t a lot of unnecessary spending going on. That said, I have been spending less and less these last few years. We rarely go out to eat, and after quitting Prime I rarely buy anything online. I’m quite content with my hodgepodge collection of mismatched furniture etc. Fortunately we own our house (modest, but we were lucky in terms of timing), I can’t imagine trying to purchase a house in this economy. All of my houses (I have moved quite a bit) were the only one I could afford in an ok neighborhood, the first two were under 1000 square feet and all needed lots of work. But it seems those cheap starter homes aren’t even available these days, what with flippers and corporations buying them up. My oldest daughter purchased her first house, it’s a manufactured home and cost more than any house I have owned. At least she now has her housing costs locked in, her rent was ridiculous.
What? An illogical system based on infinite growth and inflation on a planet with finite resources and space doesn’t make sense?…shit
OP, keep doing what you are doing. At some point prices will fall and you will be ready to pounce.
I got a house already and feel the same way.
I dont even want to save it. Its like I lost interest in earning and spending.
I work to help office buildings and AI, and then eventually I’ll be dead.
Buying shit won’t change that or improve my life, so what’s the point?