very much so. I cancelled all subscriptions and saved all that money for 1 year. I now have enough money to start my own subscription service company that recommends subscriptions to users that subscribe to my subscription based subscription locating service.
What’s a subscription? /s
this
I have no doubt this could actually work…
right?
all your subscriptions are handled through my subscription. you get 1 bill for all your combined subscriptions and my company works with the original subscription service and performs all modifications and cancellation requests. *disclaimer; we are not responsible to ensure any subscriptions are actually cancelled and you are responsible for any and all bills for subscriptions we send
I’m starting to sound like a corporation now. it’s legit.
Wages haven’t kept up for at least 50 years. Working hard and making savings alone is not enough to create a comfortable nest for yourself. Older generations and the younger ones who are instilled with that notion don’t realise that the old way is no longer working.
It’s not your fault, it’s the system. This isn’t to implore people to do investing, but this is a reason why I started doing investing. I don’t trust the system fed to us.
If you are buying groceries, you are spending more efficiently than half of America.
Groceries are 3x-4x cheaper than eating/ordering out.
Assuming you have the free time/appliances to cook and prepare the food, yeah
How rich are you that $20 in savings isn’t worth 30 minutes cooking time? That’s $40 per hour after tax, which if you work full time puts you in the top 20% richest Americans.
Even if you can’t share appliances with friends or neighbors, a stove, pan, microwave, and fridge combined cost only a couple months’ profit up front. Save up $400 one time and in five years you’ll have $5000 more than if you keep buying takeout.
(I’m assuming you cook for multiple meals at once and put the remainder in the fridge/freezer)
My jobs don’t have “work as long as you like” schedules. You work until the day is done - even if you’d rather be cooking. I’m up at 5 to start the day and don’t get home until 8 or 9 most nights. With so little time at home, I don’t have 30 minutes to dedicate to cooking.
Yeah - I could spend my weekend cooking and cleaning, but then my life would entirely be working or prepping for the week in which I’ll be working. I need to have some time that’s for me.
Wow. That’s only extremely illegal here.
Having required hours or multiple jobs is illegal?
Having a shitty commute is illegal?
You can meal prep on one of your days off. Would take an hour or two. Then you’re set for the week and off the fast junk food that’s bleeding you dry
I have, on several occasions, realized I was waiting longer for ‘fast food’ than it takes to make the food myself at a quarter the price. ‘Fast food’ is no longer fast or cheap, which were pretty much the only two things it had going for it.
I think some people are trying to solve your “problem” but you’ve already balanced it out and what you’re doing works for you.
What if you worked an entire day less, or quit one of your jobs? Maybe the savings from groceries wouldn’t quite make up for it, but you would have the rest of the day to fill the rest of the shortfall. I can’t imagine your medical expenses are looking great with all the stress you must be under, maybe 10 hours of simple rest would be enough.
30mins of cook time actually equals
30 mins to prepare
30 mins to cook
30 mins to eat
30 mins to clean up
So now it’s a two hour thing when I just got home from work and I’m tired and just want to relax.
A with that logic eating out is
10 minutes deciding where to go
10 minutes going there
10 minutes queuing
10 minutes ordering
10-30 minutes waiting for food
30 minutes eating
10 minutes going back home or wherever
You aren’t saving much time.
(I don’t understand how you spend 30 minutes eating or cleaning after yourself)
Why are you including eating time?
Also there’s no way it should be taking you 30 mins to clean up.
The extremely drawn out timetable feels like me unloading the dishwasher as a kid, a task which took 30-60 min.
See, the dishes were 6 min, and the rest was watching Dragon Ball Z. :p
Yeah, even an hour to prep and cook feels like a lot for an average meal.
Let’s do a dinner for one: Steak and a Veggie
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Prep time: Pull the steak, veggies, and a pan out (2 min), optionally trim fat (+2 min)
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Cook time: 10 min. Use this time to add seasonings to the meat/veggies and clean your cutting board if you trimmed fat. Use the same pan for the meat and the veggies.
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After eating cleanup: 5 min. Clean your 1 pan, 1 spatula, 1 fork, 1 knife, 1 plate. (even less time if you have a dishwasher)
Total cooking and cleanup time: < 20 min
I have no clue how you would take 30 min just to prep. Or, how you would take 30 min to pan-fry this steak (are you eating pure ash by then?!), and another 30 min to clean a pan, spatula, fork, knife, and plate.
Furthermore, it would take even more time to go out and order a steak. You are saving time by cooking this steak yourself.
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Assuming you have … appliances to cook and prepare the food
An inexpensive toaster oven and hot plate is all you need to make anything. The money you save in the first week of buying groceries instead of eating out will more than pay for those two appliances. Every week thereafter is more money in your pocket to put toward debt, fun, etc.
idk what you’re cooking but it’s mostly bread and cheese and some vegetables for me. vegetables can be eaten raw, so i don’t even need to turn on the stove.
Aldi FTW.
100%!
I am currently training my photosynthesis to avoid paying for groceries.
smart, growing algae in your backyard ;-)
What this meme suggests ? To starve to death?
Hey rose56
I don’t think it’s about starving at all. It’s more like a dramatic, joking way people express frustration about unfair systems. When people say something like that, they usually mean they wish things were more equal and that everyone had a fair chance by eating the rich.
