I’d argue the biggest thing stopping most people from doing this is laziness. Which is great.

Even getting to the store to buy a cake is the only way we do it, making one is too much work (for casual bored cake consumption).

Probably purely the fact that when we go to the store we don’t have store bought cake on the mind, i we don’t buy it.

Nah nah. This is all accurate. However the difference is, you buy it, you eat it, you enjoy the hell out of it.

Then after dinner, you tell your kids they can have the rest for dessert. And since there’s one piece left, you have the last piece like a hoss. Then it’s gone within a days work, and you can pretend it never happens while the kids think it was the best day ever and it’s a win win situation.

This makes me curious, now. I ordered pizza this weekend and there’s the $5 delivery charge. Plus we tip, of course. But I do order through the app. So if that $5 is going toward app maintenance or whatnot, I wonder if calling them directly to place a delivery order will eliminate that extra $5 fee. Somehow I doubt it.

I agree with you 100% but in the interest of trying to contribute to lemmy more, I’ll make this comment: I didn’t even get a “wife bad” vibe from this meme, personally, until I saw your comment. So it’s almost a self-fulfilling prophecy scenario here, for me.

Well this hits a little too close to home at this particular moment.

Have you tried listening to meditations? I wasn’t sure if you were talking about self guided or not.

I sometimes find listening to a 30 minute guided meditation knocks me out. It’s like giving my brain permission to turn off.

This is definitely the way for me too. In fact, in the rare instances when I don’t have internet, I have a hard time settling without my habitual mindless scrolling before sleep.

This is where I am. I am having trouble finding much stimulating conversation over here, as I try to sift through all these memes and curate a feed. So I pop over there every couple of days, but dip out when I tire of scrolling old.Reddit on my phones browser. It doesn’t take long.

It’s weird, I read and respond to texts and listen to audiobooks on my phones speaker in the shower all the time. There’s a ledge outside of the water spray so it’s easy to navigate. I mean texts can usually wait but the ability to continue my audiobook from my headphones to my phone speakers for showering is key.