Common things that people spend money on that you would never spend money on?

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Netflix or Disney+

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Anonymous wrote:Agree about pets.

Anyone who says pets are not expensive is delusional. They're insanely expensive. Quality food costs over $100 per mo, perhaps even several hundred a mo. Vet bills are always, always, aallllllways a couple hundred every.single.damn.time and vets constantly try to get you coming back multiple times for many visits/follow-ups, tests, lab work, and additional medicines/procedures. Teeth cleaning alone for a cat or dog is almost $1000, and you should be doing that 1x a year or so. We spent soooo much money on vet bills for our cat. Towards the end of its life, I think we blew almost $10k in a year on a never ending stream of vet visits, tests, labwork, exams, medication, and special diet food.....he died anyway.

+1. When our dog was diagnosed with a terminal illness, the vet tried to get us to come in every 2 weeks for lab work at $650-850 each time. We declined. We bought her the expensive food and medicine, but it's not like the vet could do anything to save her and the food and medicine were the only things to extend her life/quality of life. Plus traveling was an issue with hoping to get the expensive boarding spot for her and not being able to take spur of the minute trips if we couldn't get one. Honestly we bought a beach house in part so we could just easily travel with the kids and dog. And we bought a beach house instead of a condo so she could have a yard to run around, which cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars more.

She died over a year ago and I'm still really sad about it. I mourn her every day and just can't really get over her. I don't see us getting another dog any time soon.

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Anonymous wrote:RE pets: my good friend has spent over $35K on surgeries for their dachshund over the course of its 9 year life. Another friend recently dropped $12K on surgery for his French bulldog.

I mean, that’s a f#cking luxury item by any metric. Most average American households have no business affording that and frequently put pet care on credit cards.

It should be criminal to breed French Bulldogs and I judge anyone who buys one.

Agreed. They're also freaking ugly.

They have a lot of allergy and breathing issues. A lot of breeds have these issues and breeding them is cruel, especially the teacup varieties. They are very prone to health issues and people did this.

well bread French bulldogs don't have any of the issues you described. And as to ugliness, you need to know their personality. This bread is known for their personality traits. ISL had three of them.

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cable TV
coffee shops
underwear
cars
maid service
food delivery

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Plastic Wrap -- haven't used it in 3 years
Anything from Amazon (shop local)
Fancy cars
Clothes for my kids (just get the bare minimum for two boys)
Starbucks
Beach house (have relatives we can stay with)
Whole life insurance

I spend all my money on private school, house cleaning, traveling, and Doordash.

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Gold-plated toilet.

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Anonymous wrote:Gold-plated toilet.

I've seen brown color toilet paper.

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Makeup

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Anonymous wrote:cable TV
coffee shops
underwear
cars
maid service
food delivery

ouch

[Anonymous]

Wine
High priced restaurants
Cocktails out
High priced purses/bags
“Best” schools neighborhoods
Unlimited celll phone service with a contract
Newest iPhone

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Non-in state college tuition. I think it’s a scam.

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Anonymous wrote:Butt implant

This is common?

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Starbucks
Nail salons ( I'm a nurse and cannot have nails done anyway)
Casinos
Sport related anything
Movie theaters

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Well I don't understand people starting threads about what they don't want to spend money on. why can't you understand that we are all different?

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Anonymous wrote:RE pets: my good friend has spent over $35K on surgeries for their dachshund over the course of its 9 year life. Another friend recently dropped $12K on surgery for his French bulldog.

I mean, that’s a f#cking luxury item by any metric. Most average American households have no business affording that and frequently put pet care on credit cards.

It should be criminal to breed French Bulldogs and I judge anyone who buys one.

Agreed. They're also freaking ugly.

They have a lot of allergy and breathing issues. A lot of breeds have these issues and breeding them is cruel, especially the teacup varieties. They are very prone to health issues and people did this.

well bread French bulldogs don't have any of the issues you described. And as to ugliness, you need to know their personality. This bread is known for their personality traits. ISL had three of them.

HA Ha...never saw a breaded French bulldog..was it lightly breaded?