Anonymous
04/06/2025 11:18
Subject: Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hundreds of dollars to go to a ball game? Where did you sit? $125 sweaters? Where are you shopping?
I’m more curious what ball game YOU’RE going to? If you have a family of four, it’s hundreds of dollars. We go to a professional sports game every few years - usually baseball because it’s cheapest. We are able to get $60 tickets. That’s $240 plus fees which make it about $300. Parking is usually $30. Food is another $100.
So $430 total. That’s baseball. Which is way cheaper than football or basketball
Well luckily im an orioles fan and I can get tickets for 15 dollars and bring my own snacks in!
Anonymous
04/06/2025 11:12
Subject: Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Anonymous wrote:Hundreds of dollars to go to a ball game? Where did you sit? $125 sweaters? Where are you shopping?
I’m more curious what ball game YOU’RE going to? If you have a family of four, it’s hundreds of dollars. We go to a professional sports game every few years - usually baseball because it’s cheapest. We are able to get $60 tickets. That’s $240 plus fees which make it about $300. Parking is usually $30. Food is another $100.
So $430 total. That’s baseball. Which is way cheaper than football or basketball
Anonymous
04/06/2025 11:00
Subject: Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:That's what we've always done. It's difficult to cut back further when you're already living a frugal lifestyle.
This is us too.
I've re-used things, buy minimal, sell stuff on FB, watch every dollar I spend, penny pinch, living below our means for years, and exhausted to make it work.
Can you get a side hustle to increase income? You can only reduce costs so much.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 10:27
Subject: Re:Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The biggest problem is that every single media outlet is becoming subscriber based. I get that media is expensive to run but it used to be you could read a paper left on a train or watch the evening news and feel fairly well informed. But now, unless you subscribe to a bunch of places, you can't get decent information. I strongly believe this has contributed to where we are today and if I were a wealthy influencer, I'd buy a website and have no paywall.
Yeah, I'm sure you would buy a website and have no paywall. No rich people have tried that yet. You're so smart!
It's easier than ever to get around paywalls these days. Very few news sites have paywalls that can't be defeated with a few clicks and the use of a website. I'm not going to tell you how to do this though, because you should be smart enough to figure it out on your own. News isn't free and Americans being conditioned to getting news for free for the last 25 years has really hurt media literacy in the US and resulted in entitled morons like this ^^^^^ poster who think paid news is dumbing down America. Take a look in the mirror, toots.
DP. I’m confused. You’re berating someone for wanting free news but also bragging about how you know how to get your news for free?
Anonymous
04/06/2025 10:22
Subject: Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
My parents are in their 80s now, and they have a ton of money saved that they can’t use. Traveling is too difficult; even walking is too difficult. So all they can do is gift it down. That’s nice for me, but I don’t want to reach 80 and realize that all the things I postponed for the future can no longer be done.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 10:18
Subject: Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:That's what we've always done. It's difficult to cut back further when you're already living a frugal lifestyle.
This is us too.
I've re-used things, buy minimal, sell stuff on FB, watch every dollar I spend, penny pinch, living below our means for years, and exhausted to make it work.
If you have lived below your means for years, why can’t you live at your means now? Surely you’ve saved enough to handle a few shocks? You can’t take it with you when you die, so what’s the point of all this frugality?
Anonymous
04/06/2025 10:15
Subject: Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
You have to do what wealthy people have always done:
Have wealthy friends
Vacation at each others second properties
Prepay fixed college tuition 1-2 decades in advance while stacking a 529
Roth from an early age
Barter
Have wealthy friends
Vacation at each others second properties
Prepay fixed college tuition 1-2 decades in advance while stacking a 529
Roth from an early age
Barter
Anonymous
04/06/2025 10:13
Subject: Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Barter is the way to go.
I’m a white collar professional and barter expertise and services with other professionals.
I’m a white collar professional and barter expertise and services with other professionals.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 09:45
Subject: Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Hundreds of dollars to go to a ball game? Where did you sit? $125 sweaters? Where are you shopping?
Anonymous
04/06/2025 09:11
Subject: Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Anonymous wrote:That's what we've always done. It's difficult to cut back further when you're already living a frugal lifestyle.
This is us too.
I've re-used things, buy minimal, sell stuff on FB, watch every dollar I spend, penny pinch, living below our means for years, and exhausted to make it work.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 09:09
Subject: Re:Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Anonymous wrote:The biggest problem is that every single media outlet is becoming subscriber based. I get that media is expensive to run but it used to be you could read a paper left on a train or watch the evening news and feel fairly well informed. But now, unless you subscribe to a bunch of places, you can't get decent information. I strongly believe this has contributed to where we are today and if I were a wealthy influencer, I'd buy a website and have no paywall.
Yeah, I'm sure you would buy a website and have no paywall. No rich people have tried that yet. You're so smart!
It's easier than ever to get around paywalls these days. Very few news sites have paywalls that can't be defeated with a few clicks and the use of a website. I'm not going to tell you how to do this though, because you should be smart enough to figure it out on your own. News isn't free and Americans being conditioned to getting news for free for the last 25 years has really hurt media literacy in the US and resulted in entitled morons like this ^^^^^ poster who think paid news is dumbing down America. Take a look in the mirror, toots.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 09:06
Subject: Re:Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm convinced that Trump meant "sundries," which he had heard in some meeting or other, but is too demented to remember the word.
Or he's an out of touch idiot who has never bought "groceries" in his life.
I don't know why, but out of all the many, many stupid things he says this one sticks with me.
Because it demonstrates both his utter senility and how out of touch he is with normal Americans.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 09:04
Subject: Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Anonymous wrote:Are you going to just swim through your gold coins like Scrooge Mcduck?
I mean, I get it, prices are very inflated. But making yourself into a miser as a one person protest isn’t going to change that. It’s just going to isolate you, make you grumpy and cause you to miss out on cool things in the prime of your life.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard, so predictable to come from a woman who expects a man to pay her bills and bail her out. No one is looking out for your bottom line but yourself, so if you don't care enough to be smart about your spending, good luck.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 08:39
Subject: Re:Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Anonymous wrote:The biggest problem is that every single media outlet is becoming subscriber based. I get that media is expensive to run but it used to be you could read a paper left on a train or watch the evening news and feel fairly well informed. But now, unless you subscribe to a bunch of places, you can't get decent information. I strongly believe this has contributed to where we are today and if I were a wealthy influencer, I'd buy a website and have no paywall.
+1 But the problem is that journalistic integrity has sharply declined, so it's not worth it to me to pay for them.
Anonymous
04/04/2025 17:07
Subject: Re:Nickel and dimed everywhere these days
Anonymous wrote:The biggest problem is that every single media outlet is becoming subscriber based. I get that media is expensive to run but it used to be you could read a paper left on a train or watch the evening news and feel fairly well informed. But now, unless you subscribe to a bunch of places, you can't get decent information. I strongly believe this has contributed to where we are today and if I were a wealthy influencer, I'd buy a website and have no paywall.
I had this exact same thought today. Totally agree.