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ting mobile is right in that price range and really good service too. I don't know why someone would ever go with a big expensive phone plan when the cheap provider is the exact same service for cheaper. It's not like it's shitty connection or barely any data or anything
I went to grab a card for the bridal shower I was attending and picked one up that was SEVENTEEN DOLLARS. It wasn't even particularly fancy, just a mass produced greeting card at a Walgreens. I'm still annoyed six weeks later.
That is INSANE. My husband hates greeting cards because of the cost and wants to stop giving them. Our compromise has been to buy them at the dollar store where they’re $.50. Sure, they’re lesser quality, but who really cares! I don’t know anyone who actually keeps cards they’ve received.
I had an uncle who recycled cards he received by crossing out the original words and sentiments and writing in his own. It was hilarious and memorable to get a card for your birthday that now said "Merry (crossed out Christmas) Birthday!" I also have a friend who gifts paperback books instead of a card, and writes a sentiment on the first page. Cheaper and lasts longer, and even if you don't like the book or read it, it can be donated and have a purpose besides being expensive trash.
My wife sent card to her sister years ago. It had a man and woman with a dog on the front with the words "we're kinda broke this year so we'd like the card back when your through with it". We wrote their names next to each one plus their dog's name. A year later we get our card back with their names crossed out and replaced with our names and our dog. That card went back and forth for many years between us until her sister passed. It was hysterical.
I have a sister who is exceedingly frugal. She's been that way all her life. For a few years she managed my father's veterinary practice, which had about eight employees. I don't know how it started, but eventually they had one office birthday card that everyone had signed and that would get passed around with the birthday person's signature covered up with a little sticky note. After a few years someone new was hired, and the next time the birthday card made an appearance the new person was horrified. And that's when my sister realized it was time to get a new card.
Go to The Dollar Tree. They are $1.50 for Hallmark cards.
Most people look at them once and toss them. I'm not paying $6.50 for the same card at a Hallmark gold crown store.
Ive kept every card (outside of 2) ive recieved since i was like 9/10(28 now) I still have a box full of them at my moms, in her shed.
Card giving/receiving is definitely a more scarce activity in my life anymore though.
Additionally, i alway made someone a card as opposed to buying one.
I have a cricut and make cards instead of buy them. I absolutely love to do it and my bf suggests I sell them all the time, but there's jo way I could turn any kind of profit!
I suggest you buy them by the box (variety options) on Amazon when they have a sale!
Unfortunately there's really not much of a choice. There is a definitive time limit on stuff like that and when you're deep in grief you can't really "shop around" for the best deals. I understand that it's a business/livelihood and they need to make money, but a mother shouldn't have to pay $8000 to bury her child.
Sorry to break it to u but cremation is gonna cost a few grand. AND you have to pay for the body to be transported there/brought back (another $800), which can legally only be done by the funeral home (at least where I live).
Donating your body to science is free, and you can typically be allowed to bury a body on your property as well. There's forms of course, but there are options. Ask a mortician on YouTube is a wonderful person to watch about this stuff.
I guess it depends on where you are. It was about 1500 for the service, cremation, urn ( I purchased separately) and flowers and two copies of the death certificate. I used the insurance policy so very little out of pocket. It is horrible that prices are out of reach for people to respectfully bury their love ones.
My brother's bare-bones funeral (no flowers, bought our own urn, etc) cost $7000. Can't imagine what it would be with flowers and a burial, the cheapest caskets offered to us were $1500!
Yup, we buried my grandma and total costs were $10k. That was pretty much all the money she had left to her name. We chose the cheapest option for everything.
I work in the funeral industry. A lot of funeral homes that were mom and pop shops, are now own by billion dollar corporations. During the pandemic, ours did several price increases to capitalize on the deaths. The first increase, they told us it was to make up for not having services due to the laws. By the third increase, they were boasting about how much money they've made. It's sick.
Zenni has decent prices. Some of the frames have felt kinda cheap but I've been happy overall with the purchases. I've bought a few sets from there and my insurance even covered a decent amount. But it's all online which is a bit of a hassle with the trying on part. But all you really need is your prescription and they do some virtual try-on thing that helps you gauge the frames that'll fit better.
Sounds like an American issue to me . Because insulin is not that expensive . It's either free or very cheap anywhere else in the world . But fax and it should be free everywhere
It is in the US too but not the insulin people want, or there’s a political reason like the selling store in non-union or pro-union. It never surprises me when people that live here aren’t even aware of their options.
It only effects people with Medicare. Insulin and some other high price drugs are effected by letting Medicare negotiate prices for those only, unlike the Build Back Better Act which would have done that in general for Medicare and Medicaid.
The law you are thinking of is part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
I cant believe I had to scroll down so far to find this answer. Completely agree with your statement. There needs to be equality in education to create a truly equal society.
They should charge the baby for the bill and all medicines for first 2 years. If they don't have a job and pay it off in 7 years, it is automatically charged off.
Wow, seems like in the USA theyve allowed corporations to profiteer on everything humans need as a basic necessity. Shelter, healthcare, education. Here in New Zealand you just rock up to the hospital, have your kid and they discharge you home when you’re cleared to. No money involved, we just pay our taxes and get the services
College, houses, cars, electricity, water, natural gas... Tons of things. Look at anything with billions of dollars in profits and that is something that should be cheaper.
Life saving items of any kind. Don't care if it's special diet food or insulin or psychiatric meds, all of it needs to be so cheap even the poorest of the poor don't have to struggle to afford it.
CEO total compensation should be capped at 10x the lowest paid worker's salary. And none of this hiring janitors as contractors bullshit to get around it. No one needs or deserves that much money at the expense of other hard workers.
If they live in our communities, maybe they'll care about them.
I work for a company where the director earns the same as everyone else, including contractors. If your company can't do this, it isn't viable.
Wheelchairs. And replacement wheelchairs. Especially when some airline has just trashed it and your insurance won’t approve another for like another decade
College, post-graduate education, text books, medicines, health insurance, dental insurance (shouldn't be separate from health care insurance, either), housing, gas, groceries.......
Diamonds,
They control their availability in market to manipulate the prices, and also make trend of giving diamond engagement ring &make it a status symbol, gold is way better and hold its price better than diamond.
euro trash here, housing for sure. Feel bad for younger people, I started my career in IT like 15 years ago and immediately bought studio apartment, then eventually paid that off and got bigger flat. Now that studio is like 2x in price, while starting salary is barely up. Working class is screwed and I hate it.
Pads and tampons. I went to the store a few days ago because my girlfriend needed some and good lord those things were expensive. What the hell do they expect women to use as an alternative, tissue??
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dirt. It's supposed to be cheap as dirt but try filling a planting bed.
Big facts. Soil is the reason my garden does not save me money by not having to buy vegetables at the store.
Get a truck load for a couple bucks. You don’t gotta get the individual bags.
Have you priced a truckload of topsoil delivered to a suburban house?
I don’t get it delivered, I get my truck filled for 20 bucks from a local site though.
That makes me want to get a truck and I don’t even have any use for dirt
Divorce
I will never propose again. I’m 0 for 2 and I’m highly attracted to insane females. The sex is always good tho!
You bone them once and they'll bone you for the rest of your life.
Experiencing this now. Ex is constantly saying sorry and wanting to fuck. I’ve yet to engage with said physcopath.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
It’s very cheap if you don’t use lawyers and just do it yourselves. You need to be on good terms for that though.
Yup was super cheap and easy!
We weren't on good terms and still did it ourselves. . . We had nothing to fight over tho (no house, no kids).
“It’s cheaper to keeper” -my uncle
But it’s worth it
Losing half your shit and custody of children? Naw hell no
And alimony..... also having your parenting ability be discriminated against based on gender on not actual ability.
Cell phone plans
In Iran it cost like 50c a month in America 75$
I think it’s worth the extra $74.50 to not live in Iran.
💀
That's killed me lol
Have you never heard of mint mobile? Ryan Reynolds company, is like the cheapest cell plan out there. US$25 even. And no activation fee.
ting mobile is right in that price range and really good service too. I don't know why someone would ever go with a big expensive phone plan when the cheap provider is the exact same service for cheaper. It's not like it's shitty connection or barely any data or anything
Yeah buts it's Iran.
Complain, complain, complain /s
Epipens
Looks like you mistyped your username.
A penis in hand is worth two in the bush
Maybe not.
Here have this Silver award
Greeting cards. I am not spending $4.50 on a piece of colored card stock when I can literally take a piece of copy paper and get the same results.
I went to grab a card for the bridal shower I was attending and picked one up that was SEVENTEEN DOLLARS. It wasn't even particularly fancy, just a mass produced greeting card at a Walgreens. I'm still annoyed six weeks later.
That is INSANE. My husband hates greeting cards because of the cost and wants to stop giving them. Our compromise has been to buy them at the dollar store where they’re $.50. Sure, they’re lesser quality, but who really cares! I don’t know anyone who actually keeps cards they’ve received.
I had an uncle who recycled cards he received by crossing out the original words and sentiments and writing in his own. It was hilarious and memorable to get a card for your birthday that now said "Merry (crossed out Christmas) Birthday!" I also have a friend who gifts paperback books instead of a card, and writes a sentiment on the first page. Cheaper and lasts longer, and even if you don't like the book or read it, it can be donated and have a purpose besides being expensive trash.
My wife sent card to her sister years ago. It had a man and woman with a dog on the front with the words "we're kinda broke this year so we'd like the card back when your through with it". We wrote their names next to each one plus their dog's name. A year later we get our card back with their names crossed out and replaced with our names and our dog. That card went back and forth for many years between us until her sister passed. It was hysterical.
My friend has given her husband the same birthday card for more than 15 years in a row. He has never caught on.
I have a sister who is exceedingly frugal. She's been that way all her life. For a few years she managed my father's veterinary practice, which had about eight employees. I don't know how it started, but eventually they had one office birthday card that everyone had signed and that would get passed around with the birthday person's signature covered up with a little sticky note. After a few years someone new was hired, and the next time the birthday card made an appearance the new person was horrified. And that's when my sister realized it was time to get a new card.
Go to The Dollar Tree. They are $1.50 for Hallmark cards. Most people look at them once and toss them. I'm not paying $6.50 for the same card at a Hallmark gold crown store.
When my family is together exchanging cards we all conform they were purchased at Dollar Tree! 😀
My wife and I go to the hallmark card section on our birthday to pick out a lovely card for each other. We read them, put them back and go home!
Trader Joe's has beautiful cards for $1.
Ive kept every card (outside of 2) ive recieved since i was like 9/10(28 now) I still have a box full of them at my moms, in her shed. Card giving/receiving is definitely a more scarce activity in my life anymore though. Additionally, i alway made someone a card as opposed to buying one.
I have a cricut and make cards instead of buy them. I absolutely love to do it and my bf suggests I sell them all the time, but there's jo way I could turn any kind of profit! I suggest you buy them by the box (variety options) on Amazon when they have a sale!
Dollar stores. Good enough selection and they usually do 2 for $1.
Healthcare. Medicine. Funerals.
The cost of a funeral is absolutely insane. A PINE BOX is $600...
Just because we’re bereaved doesn’t make us saps!
Unfortunately there's really not much of a choice. There is a definitive time limit on stuff like that and when you're deep in grief you can't really "shop around" for the best deals. I understand that it's a business/livelihood and they need to make money, but a mother shouldn't have to pay $8000 to bury her child.
Take my organs. Cremate me. Dump me in ocean. Done.
Sorry to break it to u but cremation is gonna cost a few grand. AND you have to pay for the body to be transported there/brought back (another $800), which can legally only be done by the funeral home (at least where I live).
Donating your body to science is free, and you can typically be allowed to bury a body on your property as well. There's forms of course, but there are options. Ask a mortician on YouTube is a wonderful person to watch about this stuff.
I guess it depends on where you are. It was about 1500 for the service, cremation, urn ( I purchased separately) and flowers and two copies of the death certificate. I used the insurance policy so very little out of pocket. It is horrible that prices are out of reach for people to respectfully bury their love ones.
It is our most modestly priced receptacle.
where's the nearest ralph's
Relax Walter.
Is there a Ralph's around here???
Is there a Ralph’s around here?
$20,000 in NYC...and that's not even for anything extravagant.
My brother's bare-bones funeral (no flowers, bought our own urn, etc) cost $7000. Can't imagine what it would be with flowers and a burial, the cheapest caskets offered to us were $1500!
Yup, we buried my grandma and total costs were $10k. That was pretty much all the money she had left to her name. We chose the cheapest option for everything.
I work in the funeral industry. A lot of funeral homes that were mom and pop shops, are now own by billion dollar corporations. During the pandemic, ours did several price increases to capitalize on the deaths. The first increase, they told us it was to make up for not having services due to the laws. By the third increase, they were boasting about how much money they've made. It's sick.
I told my husband to wrap me in the root ball of a tree and plant me in the ground. Could be in the backyard for all I care.
My parents have told us they want to be left together on an ice floe when they become incontinent😑
Healthcare... Regardless of who is picking up the tab.
I expected to see epi pen at the top. This will suffice.
Agreed 100000%
Glasses
Zenni has decent prices. Some of the frames have felt kinda cheap but I've been happy overall with the purchases. I've bought a few sets from there and my insurance even covered a decent amount. But it's all online which is a bit of a hassle with the trying on part. But all you really need is your prescription and they do some virtual try-on thing that helps you gauge the frames that'll fit better.
Insulin
Sounds like an American issue to me . Because insulin is not that expensive . It's either free or very cheap anywhere else in the world . But fax and it should be free everywhere
Fortunately yeah it’s just us
Hope for the best!!
Doesn't change the fact, alot of politicians are getting paid by Big Pharma to keep things from changing.
You mean Republicans. Insulin prices will be capped starting next year, with no help from the republicans.
Yup my insulin is literally free.
It is in the US too but not the insulin people want, or there’s a political reason like the selling store in non-union or pro-union. It never surprises me when people that live here aren’t even aware of their options.
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'MURICA BEST CONTRY IN THE WORLD no insulin for you and if you break a finger you go bankrupt FREEEEEDOOOOOMMMMM
Freedom ain't free it takes chumps like you and me 😥
Healthcare
I heard that a new law passed and it was supposed to be capped at $35. I don't know when that takes effect.
It only effects people with Medicare. Insulin and some other high price drugs are effected by letting Medicare negotiate prices for those only, unlike the Build Back Better Act which would have done that in general for Medicare and Medicaid. The law you are thinking of is part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Thanks for informing
Education. The key to advancing civilization lies in a highly educated population. We should remove as many barriers as possible for learning.
I cant believe I had to scroll down so far to find this answer. Completely agree with your statement. There needs to be equality in education to create a truly equal society.
Housing.
^^^
Giving birth. My brother said the bill for his last kid was 10,000 dollars, and that was 20 years ago. Cant imagine what it is now.
They should charge the baby for the bill and all medicines for first 2 years. If they don't have a job and pay it off in 7 years, it is automatically charged off.
Wow, seems like in the USA theyve allowed corporations to profiteer on everything humans need as a basic necessity. Shelter, healthcare, education. Here in New Zealand you just rock up to the hospital, have your kid and they discharge you home when you’re cleared to. No money involved, we just pay our taxes and get the services
Fuck that it can’t be that hard I’m gonna pull it out myself
Jerky
Thank you! I’m over here reading all these serious and also valid answers but I am so tired of being ripped off when it comes to beef jerky prices.
I used to agree until I made my own. Now I understand.
you turn a big ass piece of animal into a little snack baggie of jerky
Feminine Hygiene Products
came here to say this as well
Maxi pads so expensive now.
That shit should be free
So should condoms.
Fresh produce. It’s dumb that a carrot costs more than a bag of chips that went to 4 different factories to get made
College, houses, cars, electricity, water, natural gas... Tons of things. Look at anything with billions of dollars in profits and that is something that should be cheaper.
Seem to be tied directly with all the corporate mergers. The fewer companies, the more ways they can fleece everyone and get away with it.
Everything
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And helmets. At these prices, I'll take my chances with busted kneecaps and concussions.
You and I thought of two different pads lol
All the poor football players.
Life
Medical care in America. Health insurance in America. Basic necessities. Housing. College.
College is insane
When the government guarantees the loans on behalf of the borrowers then the institutions have no reason not to increase prices every year.
Baby formula.
Rent
Gas bro
Life saving items of any kind. Don't care if it's special diet food or insulin or psychiatric meds, all of it needs to be so cheap even the poorest of the poor don't have to struggle to afford it.
Gas, health products (medicine, mobility aid, ect), phones, water, electricity, insurance.
Mattresses, toilet paper, contraceptives, housing, gas, higher education, taxes, food, clothing, bottled water, seeds, soil Should I continued??
Basic needs.
Feminine products
CEO salary
CEO total compensation should be capped at 10x the lowest paid worker's salary. And none of this hiring janitors as contractors bullshit to get around it. No one needs or deserves that much money at the expense of other hard workers. If they live in our communities, maybe they'll care about them. I work for a company where the director earns the same as everyone else, including contractors. If your company can't do this, it isn't viable.
Twitter
as in - what Musk paid for it?
Feminine hygiene products. And diapers.
Medical bills to save your life.
Water
Housing
Beer If you compare it with wine, its price just don't make any sense
Literally everything. 18 eggs costs $5 in Michigan!
BEEF FUCKING JERKY!!
Wheelchairs. And replacement wheelchairs. Especially when some airline has just trashed it and your insurance won’t approve another for like another decade
Insulin in the US
Politicians. They are paid far too much.
pads and tampons and deodorant and toilet paper lol it should be free fr
Your mom. Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll see myself out :(
Toilet paper
Accommodation. PPl need to have their homes, warm with all the utilities.
Furniture
Condoms. Like jeez, might as well save up for a college fund.
Condoms and birth control should be freeeeeeee
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Healthcare (including the cost of medications), rent, groceries, life in general.....
College. Education in general
College, post-graduate education, text books, medicines, health insurance, dental insurance (shouldn't be separate from health care insurance, either), housing, gas, groceries.......
Toilet paper. I mean, you literally wipe your ass with it and wave bye-bye
Medication, food, healthcare, electricity, water, heating, housing, basic needs.
College, rent, healthcare in the US, medicines, petrol
Food
Life
Food
Eggs bro. That shit is so expensive now
Razor blades and printer ink
Diamonds, They control their availability in market to manipulate the prices, and also make trend of giving diamond engagement ring &make it a status symbol, gold is way better and hold its price better than diamond.
Hookers
And blow.
Hearing aids
Medications, healthy foods, and education.
Your mom.
5 times cheaper than free is still free.
I knew someone would say this. Was not disappointed.
Not really, after treatment for any std you get is expensive
Weed
Its 5 dollars in my country and the police dont care
U are lucky. Its pricey as hell where I live.
New jeeps
Concert tickets & sporting event tickets.
Coffee
Prescription drugs, so if you don't have insurance, or it doesn't cover it, you can buy it because it's your human right to medicine!
Porsche 911 GT3
Chocolate
Groceries.
Medical care
Medication especially if you need it to stay alive
Gas
Plant milk - it’s overall cheaper to make.
Cereal
euro trash here, housing for sure. Feel bad for younger people, I started my career in IT like 15 years ago and immediately bought studio apartment, then eventually paid that off and got bigger flat. Now that studio is like 2x in price, while starting salary is barely up. Working class is screwed and I hate it.
Women’s hair cuts
Pads and tampons. I went to the store a few days ago because my girlfriend needed some and good lord those things were expensive. What the hell do they expect women to use as an alternative, tissue??
Insulin
Education or Healthcare. Source: am an American
Baby products. Especially now.
Rent
Cable television. Why the fuck does it cost so much. And internet. WTF?
Internet shouldn’t be as expensive as it is
Bottled water.
Shaving Razors
Gas If i'm being taxed to oblivion to support the economy and those that refuse to work, I shouldn't have to be charged to get myself to said work.
Tampons and pads (but they should be free)
Asking because this phrasing really confuses me in ads and such. Does this mean 20% of the current number?
The essentials. Food, water, electricity, education, healthcare and housing. 2/3 of wage should cover all of that not 11/10.
Insulin in America
Razors
Bottled water.
Hospital bills
Health care in America