Which is ironic as fast food used to have 2 appeals - quick and cheap.

I’m not sure how quick they are these days because I can no longer afford it.

Free market goes to the highest bidder.

It’s a vicious pinch, rent rates going up preventing you from saving while housing rates (and minimum down-payment if you want a decent monthly mortgage/interest rate) are going up at the same time. My wife and I got lucky and we own our townhouse, but half of the properties vacated in our neighborhood either through eviction or owners moving out have all been turned into rental properties owned by a corp. It’s fucked up, they want noone to own anything anymore so they can get richer through obscene rent hikes every year… And we live in MD. I can’t even imagine trying to survive in NY or any other big city.

Dude was old and drove like an ass. I used to tell him he was gonna get his driver’s license taken away and he was gonna have to drive the forklift home on the shoulder of the highway every day lol

That depends on how the cops feeling. A guy I used to work with got pulled over for doing the speed limit in the left lane for “impeding traffic”

“Best I’ll be able to do is work a half day on the day of my funeral”

And even then, the mandatory overtime is gonna make me late to my own damn funeral.

It’s from 1986 and not insulated well. Between that and my wife keeping the thermostat and mordor temp, and opening the fridge for long periods of time not knowing it wasn’t working, it turned into a hotbox.

This is a great idea! But I will have to go with something other than meat. A fair amount of my wife’s side of the family is vegetarian. I’m also not that great at cooking lol one of my thoughts this year was to do some of my stencil spraypaints on canvas, as I have a huge stock of canvases and spray paint I never used when I stopped doing it years ago. I just wish I had more time to create some stencils.

No kids to take care of, but my fridge just went out today. This spoiled most of the food in the fridge as I can’t pick up a new one until tomorrow, and the of a new fridge and restocking my fridge pretty much cancels Xmas gifts for the family. I feel bad every year because they get my wife and I all kinds of cool stuff and it seems like every year I’m stuck telling them, “Maybe I’ll be less broke next year” Not quite the same, I know, but it still makes me feel aweful…

Meanwhile the owner of my company just bought a 5th wheel camper trailer and hitch for his truck in June because he felt like going camping, and is having a 6 bedroom house built for his son on his ranch because his sons wife is having a baby.

This world is fucked for the working class truly.

I agree fully with that. I use one of my credit cards for groceries just to keep padding in my bank account for on hand cash for emergencies (down payment on a car in case mine goes out as you stated, for example) I don’t feel like I should have to do that but here we are. There’s a fine balance I have to walk financially because of stagnant wages, which is a huge part of the problem.

I don’t either. I’ve already told the family Christmas is gonna be light. Other than what I can scrounge up, instead of the “buy now, pay later” model, I’ve adopted the “don’t buy what i don’t need, pay never” one.

Skyrocketting prices on everything means I use what i have until it is absolutely unusable/unfixable anymore. And my credit cards stay mostly clear except for emergencies.

It’s a lack of self control on a lot of people’s part, and financial institutions are loving it I’m sure.

The models vary between walk up and drive up already. But even so, half of the braile on an ATM are stuck on. They make us put these on when we install them. And we joke about the same thing.

I got my wife’s ring on etsy. It’s pearl and opal, but there are a good bit of jewlers on etsy. I would do a bit of research on the shop before you buy though.

This is 100% about pinching pennies. Gotta find new ways to post those “record breaking profits” every year.

Tik tok is legitimately rotting their brains though.

The CEO/Owner of the company I work for recently bought a 5th wheel camper with more square footage than my townhouse on a whim.

I don’t doubt this given YouTube record with the creators themselves. YouTube is a slimy company.

You and me both. I had a 97 Dodge Dakota Sport, which is barely bigger than my CUV. I miss that thing. I hauler a fridge in it once to help my friend out. Haven’t had a need to haul a fridge since, but still, never know when a truck bed will come in handy lol. I just hate that the smallest size now is enormous. Even “sport” models are what used to be standard size anymore.

It’s a pickup truck. And probably not used for anything a truck would be used for. They’re everywhere in America and just as annoying.

I personally don’t see the point in having a vehicle this big unless it’s used for work (hauling materials and towing trailers) And 95% of the time, it’s not.

That’s not an SUV… But yeah it looks like they backed up ONTO the curb, that’s pretty rude…