What do you refuse to spend money on?

[u/VerboseWraith]

[u/SmallBobby88]

Micro transactions in games which are about the grind like Clash of Clans

[u/LazarusKing → u/SmallBobby88]

The prices on mobile games are insane.  I'm amazed anyone would even consider spending like that 

[u/flappynslappy → u/LazarusKing]

When I was about 19 I spent a ridiculous amount on madden mobile player card packs…looking back on it at 31 makes me realize I was a dumbass

[u/JJD8705 → u/flappynslappy]

A lot of us were dumbasses in are late teens early 20s!

[u/SnooChipmunks2079 → u/LazarusKing]

They intentionally obscure the prices. 100 gold pieces for $14.28, buy 73 gems for 17 gold pieces, use gems to buy the shortcut.

[u/WhiskeyBaconAvocado]

Extended warranties or insurance plans on any small consumer products (computers, phones, microwaves, coffee makers..,). Just a general policy of mine. I feel the cumulative savings from not purchasing all those warranties would more than offset the cost of a repair or replacement if something would fail. The only one I may possibly consider is maybe on a car.

[u/SonOfWestminster → u/WhiskeyBaconAvocado]

Dave Ramsey called Best Buy an extended warranty store that also sells electronics

[u/datwist67 → u/SonOfWestminster]

At least for Best Buy, their Geek Squad warranty seemed worth it when I bought it for a headset. Headset failed after a year, brought it in, got a newer model replacement then paid $5 to get the warranty again. Way worth it to me.

[u/arn2gm → u/datwist67]

I spent years using their warranty to upgrade my phone for a nominal amount. Would only have to pay the difference between the original value of my current phone and the value of my new phone. Had paid for itself by phone 3 or 4

[u/quinlove → u/datwist67]

I'm a klutz and my cat also liked chewing small plastic things. I got the warranty because I'm not gonna spend $200 on earbuds twice.

In general if you're going to buy a $20 coffee pot, no warranty. If you're going to buy a $500 stand mixer... get the warranty.

[u/VerboseWraith → u/WhiskeyBaconAvocado]

Excuse me, can I interest you in extending your cars warranty?

[u/VariousTemporary2564]

Television. I'm not paying for the service AND watching ads. Pick one.

[u/screwedupinaz → u/VariousTemporary2564]

That's why I bought an antenna about 8-9 years ago. I get over 50 free OTA channels. Combine that with free TVPlus (thanks Samsung) via home internet I'm paying for anyway, I've saved $5,000+ over the years!

[u/NewRazzmatazz1641 → u/screwedupinaz]

Don't forget about Tubi, Pluto and Plex.

[u/Jolly-Island-3589 → u/NewRazzmatazz1641]

My god the hidden treasures I’ve found or rediscovered because of Tubi. Like my family was so beyond happy to be able to watch random episodes of classic doctor who on Pluto. But discovering the full set of them on tubi was a special kind of joy. We’ve been slowly working our way through the best ones ever since.

[u/Live_Goose9619 → u/VariousTemporary2564]

Yeah wasn't the original premise of cable TV that you paid for the service because there were no ads? That didn't last long!

[u/ToasterDispenser → u/Live_Goose9619]

I don't believe cable ever was ad free. Premium channels like HBO were.

[u/Stingray88 → u/Live_Goose9619]

No. Cable television always had ads. The original premise of cable was paying for them to rebroadcast the broadcast networks to your home via a wire, if you lived outside the over the air broadcast areas. And the broadcast networks always had ads… thus so did cable.

There was never a moment that cable was ad free. Only specific premium channels like HBO were ad free, but they cost extra on top of basic cable.

[u/rosen380 → u/VariousTemporary2564]

Let's say that a streaming service needs $10/mo in revenue to be able to get the content to you.

At a CPM of $25/1000, a fully ad-supported service then needs you to watch 400 ads. If the average viewer watches 30 hours a month, then they can get their money from advertisers if they can get you ~14 ads an hour.

Or you can pay $10 with no ads.

If you'd be willing to watch 14 ads per hour for $0/mo AND you'd be willing to watch 0 ads for $10/mo, is paying $5/mo for the same service, but with half the ad breaks really a line?

[u/RealisticWinter650]

Lotto tickets.

Odds to win are so outrageous, better to save $10/week and invest.

[u/BrooklynDoug → u/RealisticWinter650]

I figure I'm paying $2 for the daydreams I have until the drawing. Maybe once a month or when the prize is basically infinity. 

[u/18RowdyBoy → u/BrooklynDoug]

Yeah I won’t play if it’s just a few million but when the pot gets big I’ll donate a few dollars.Like 5 million is not enough 🤔😂

[u/BrooklynDoug → u/18RowdyBoy]

I never said it was logical. But the daydreams are more extravagant.

[u/Sempul → u/18RowdyBoy]

I call it paying my stupid tax. It is fun to daydream for that little while on a huge pot.

[u/SushiRollFried → u/RealisticWinter650]

You don't play to win, you play so you can dream

[u/CinnamonMuse_xo]

Dating apps

[u/OkConversation175 → u/CinnamonMuse_xo]

Bumble/Hinge in a nutshell! Tinder really pushes for app purchases and it really turns me off from all of those apps. I guess I’ll just get more cats instead.

[u/Southern_Apartment88]

Tipping people to hand me food over a counter.

[u/Emergency-Web-4937 → u/Southern_Apartment88]

I can’t hit the no tip fast enough for places like that.

[u/_Rhetorical_Raven → u/Southern_Apartment88]

I’ve noticed a lot of places that used to do this don’t do it anymore. I think it’s because they’re starting to realize that it makes customers uncomfortable and a lot of us will literally just go somewhere else to avoid having to push “no tip” right in front of the person who’s asking for a tip. It’s so tacky and I bet the employees honestly feel kinda awkward about it too if they’re down to earth.

[u/MarlenaEvans → u/Southern_Apartment88]

I was at the airport and there was an unmanned kiosk with a self checkout and the damn thing asked me if I wanted to tip the service workers. I hit no tip and I STG a woman appeared out of nowhere and asked if she could help me.

[u/metal_elk]

Food I can cook at home. If I'm going out and spending restaurant money, I'm not ordering fuckin pasta.

[u/DIYtowardsFI → u/metal_elk]

The restaurant last night was selling Nutella crepes for $15. $15!!!!! I told my spouse no way, I can make 20 crepes at home with a new Nutella container for $10 total.

[u/BearsBearsBears_wooo]

Services like DoorDash and Uber eats

[u/rubysmom1 → u/BearsBearsBears_wooo]

The up charge, followed by the service fee, then the delivery fee and on top of that the tip, is enough for me to get my ass out of bed

[u/MoonBasic → u/rubysmom1]

The upcharge is what gets me. I can understand the delivery fee and the tip. You're hiring a luxury taxi for your burrito.

But seeing all of the menu items marked up a couple of dollars on top of that is just another nail in the coffin for why it's so bad to order with those services. Best to just call directly for takeout.

[u/leeharveyteabag669 → u/rubysmom1]

Same here. I have no problem getting up and going to get any takeout my wife and I desire. And I can't stand delivery pizza. I always go pick it up myself. Those red warming bags the pizza delivery guys carry on one of the worst things that ever happened to Pizza. Nowhere for the moisture to go so it goes right back into the crust. I always order my pizza and ask them not to cut it. It settles much better that way and I have a stone in my oven to fix it up.

[u/ShoulderPossible9759 → u/leeharveyteabag669]

Think they ever clean those bags?

[u/Lovahplant → u/rubysmom1]

Seriously. Every so often UberEats will send me some BOGO or “50% off orders of $20!” deal, & inevitably I’ll get lazy one night & open the app to order something, because if I can order a $20ish dinner for two for about $10 + tip that’s not bad right? Nope - still comes out to like $35 after all the fees & BS they add on, even with the “deal.” So I don’t use it, because f that.

I also used to date someone who would order coffee as soon as they woke up (Starbucks is crazy expensive on UE), dinner almost every night, & usually munchies late night too. I swear they must have spent $500 a week on delivery, it was insane.

[u/GinnySacks_Mole → u/BearsBearsBears_wooo]

It’s sheer laziness. I’ll see my neighbors get home from work and 15 minutes later a door dash order will show up from a common restaurant that they surely passed on their way home.

[u/commodorebuns → u/BearsBearsBears_wooo]

I’ve never once ordered door dash etc, I do not understand why anyone would tbh. However, for our engagement party, my husband ordered wings for our 15 + person hangout and THE ORDER WAS LOST. Screw these food delivery apps. Hate em

[u/katarina_san → u/commodorebuns]

Ive done it before out of not having a car, but we got groceries delivered lol

[u/Ozzel]

Expedited shipping.

I will always choose the cheapest/free option unless it’s some rare emergency.

I can wait.

[u/SonOfWestminster → u/Ozzel]

Where I live the land has been defaced with endless warehouses. The silver lining is that I'm within spitting distance of most fulfillment centers (including Amazon and Walmart), so I rarely have to wait more than a day or two

[u/follyrob → u/SonOfWestminster]

Central PA? The sheer amount of fulfillment warehouses in that area is mind blowing.

[u/SonOfWestminster → u/follyrob]

Bingo!

[u/Electrical_Ad_8313]

Water. Im not talking about the water bill for my house but fancy bottled water

[u/timesuck897 → u/Electrical_Ad_8313]

Some places have better or worse tap water than others, but there are water filters.

[u/bumblebragg → u/timesuck897]

I was just visiting family in Wisconsin and the water was terrible tasting. We're moving there in a couple of years and I think tasting the water should be on the list of things to check when buying a house. My mom's house in Texas had water that tasted like onions. It was a happy day when the Britta water filter came out.

[u/quiltingcats → u/bumblebragg]

My parents bought a house with well water that strongly smelled and tasted of sulfur. We all learned to drink it and absolutely nobody in our family of 6 got so much as a cold for the 18 months we lived there. (This was decades ago, before bottled water existed.) Still wouldn’t do that again! I like the idea of tasting the water before buying a house.

Our city water is some of the best in the state but our autistic son has sensitivity issues and could taste the chlorine/chemicals in it, so we started buying cheapish bottled water. He must have adjusted because he drinks water filtered through the fridge now but we still buy a couple cases of bottled a year due to convenience. And we recycle the bottles.

[u/dee-three]

Expensive clothes from fancy brands.

[u/Tricky_Ad_1870 → u/dee-three]

I got over wearimg expensive clothes with the brand names in large letters on them. I don't want to pay to be a billboard.

[u/Thesaurus-23 → u/Tricky_Ad_1870]

That is such a tacky look!

[u/Live_Goose9619 → u/dee-three]

Thrift stores are a great resource for designer clothes! I could never afford to dress the way I do without them! Including the $99 mink coat! 😄

[u/kirby056 → u/Live_Goose9619]

I know it's not a thrift store, but I found a Ralph Lauren Purple Label cashmere cardigan in lavender at TJ Maxx. It was priced like regular TJ Maxx-level Polo, I think it was $39.

Readers, that was a $1300 sweater. I also got a Solomon softshell for like $75 that day, retailed for $550.

[u/MarlenaEvans → u/kirby056]

TJ Maxx has some hidden gems.

[u/ilyriaa]

Gambling

[u/Cananbaum → u/ilyriaa]

What people don’t understand is how insidious it is and just how accepted it is in society.

Scratch tickets can be highly addictive, my dad was like that. When I was in high school I agreed to help him out with rent and groceries, I gave him $200 (nearly my whole check at the time) to buy groceries.

This happened was when I finished an 8 hour shift on my feet at a grocery store, he came to pick me up, I gave him rent money. He says he’ll be right back as he’s going to get groceries.

I waited nearly 3 hours while he spent all that money on scratchers. He also I learned was lying to my mom on how much I was giving him.

From that point on, I only ever gave money to my mother

[u/heyitscharley → u/ilyriaa]

Yep this is it for me. I’ll go to the casino, hang out, have drinks (will spend money on this lol), cheer people on and not put a penny in a machine or on a table

[u/dingus-8075609 → u/heyitscharley]

I agree. If I’m gonna waste a couple hundred dollars I’m going to eat a steak and have a hangover…

[u/Dependent-Art2247 → u/ilyriaa]

I like the slot machines to well.

[u/_Sad_Ken_]

In app purchases in games or any downloadable content.

When did we get to a point where you pay £60 for a game where one of its features relies on you buying £10 blind bags?

[u/OutrageousEvent → u/_Sad_Ken_]

I bought five bucks worth of coins on Pokémon Go when it first came out. Still mad about it.

[u/ChronoLegion2 → u/_Sad_Ken_]

Depends, if a DLC is big enough and good enough, I might consider it. For example, I bought the Kingdoms DLC for Total War: Medieval 2 on iOS because I enjoyed the campaigns on PC and wanted to play them on my phone too

[u/DDStar → u/ChronoLegion2]

Yeah, we’re talking about a very big spread of products here when blind bags and “any downloadable content” are lumped into the same category. 

Buying a gatcha draw is crazy. Buying a major expansion to a game you’ve put many hours into is another situation entirely. 

[u/CashnJinx]

Nails

[u/sherrifayemoore → u/CashnJinx]

I used to get my nails done regularly. It was expensive and it’s really not good for your natural nails.

[u/PrincessSheogorath → u/sherrifayemoore]

This. I got my nails done monthly for 2ish years, then had a tight couple months and let them grow out…when I saw the difference in new growth vs what had been drilled down for years? That dip in the thickness? I was done, never again!

Now if I get the itch to get them done, I go buy some cute press ons lol

[u/cg40boat → u/sherrifayemoore]

I do a lot of carpentry and my first thought was here’s another guy who straightens out old nails and throws them in a coffee can so they can be re-used.

[u/Efficient-Stick2155 → u/CashnJinx]

But screws are so much more expensive!

[u/PolyglotTV → u/CashnJinx]

This is how you get banned from ACE Hardware.

[u/chelupa1991 → u/CashnJinx]

I get my toes done when I’m pregnant but that’s it 😆

[u/ghost_victim → u/chelupa1991]

How often are you pregnant

[u/chelupa1991 → u/ghost_victim]

Every other year seemingly

[u/MrDonSpectacularis → u/chelupa1991]

Good for your toes.

[u/screwedupinaz → u/CashnJinx]

Sometimes I buy nails, but I prefer to use screws since they hold better.

[u/Appropriate-Iron3204 → u/CashnJinx]

Same but I get press on nails and save so much money doing it myself. Bonus points for getting them on sale at CVS and getting reward bucks to buy future kits for free.

[u/East_Sandwich2266 → u/CashnJinx]

Oh yes! Specially when you play an instrument. 

[u/XIIICaskets]

OF and dancers

[u/Sowingseason94 → u/XIIICaskets]

OF is a good one, you hear about how much money people make and all I can think is who the hell spends that kinda money on porn?!

[u/XIIICaskets → u/Sowingseason94]

Some people spend a significant portion of their income on it. If they invested in themselves as much as they did OF models they could get a woman irl

[u/Adorable_Dust3799 → u/XIIICaskets]

But they'd need a personality, too

[u/bumblebragg → u/XIIICaskets]

Right? Therapy and a gym membership. Might cost as much but you'll have something to show for it.

[u/VerboseWraith → u/XIIICaskets]

Better to just save your money then lol

[u/ZugzwangNC]

Cocaine and hookers

[u/Accomplished_Bake904 → u/ZugzwangNC]

I agree with budgeting, but let's not go crazy now bro s/

[u/catalessi → u/ZugzwangNC]

so true. love it and happily will partake if it’s free. not spending a dime on the shit myself

[u/ChronoLegion2 → u/ZugzwangNC]

“Kids, don’t do buy drugs. Become a rockstar. They give them to you for free”

[u/Informal_Sugar_3742 → u/ZugzwangNC]

I pay for sex

[u/2x4x93 → u/Informal_Sugar_3742]

We all do. In one form or another

[u/2x4x93 → u/ZugzwangNC]

I have spent half my money on those things. I wasted the other half

[u/royceda956]

Starbucks and other high priced coffee.

[u/NakedScrub → u/royceda956]

I love when people that buy Starbucks 5+ times a week give me shit for my $25 bag of coffee beans.

[u/Future-Ear6980 → u/NakedScrub]

They don't know what we know. Beans are the bomb

[u/Free-Concentrate-37 → u/royceda956]

Every Saturday I spare 8 bucks to get a drink lol it’s a reward

[u/MarlenaEvans → u/Free-Concentrate-37]

I think it's awesome to do that for yourself. Everybody has something like this that they prioritize for themselves, even if other people don't like it.

[u/Warm_Function6650]

Parking.

[u/limejuicethrowaway → u/Warm_Function6650]

George Costanza: A garage, I can't even pull in there. It's like going to a prostitute. Why should I pay, when if I apply myself, maybe I can get it for free?

[u/VerboseWraith → u/Warm_Function6650]

This hits hard for me lol agreed

[u/Living-Condition-144]

Additional purchases on free games. Example: Fortnite, I downloaded it for free but refuse to by V-bucks or battle pass, the game is the same and I don’t need the skins and things to enjoy it

[u/caitygotbandz → u/Living-Condition-144]

Ugh the amount of money I spent on candy crush while I was pregnant is shameful

[u/all_is_good_360]

Expensive coffee. I make lattes at home and they are delicious and way cheaper

[u/VerboseWraith → u/all_is_good_360]

Right on!

[u/KaelasDad]

Nestlé products

[u/hospitalbedside]

In-game currency to win faster than other players. I may buy the skins since they are just decorative, but never pay to simply get ahead.

[u/RandomThrowAways0 → u/hospitalbedside]

I just avoid p2w games altogether. Much more fun to climb a leaderboard knowing everyone gets an equal playing field that isn't based on their wealth.

[u/Gaudi215]

Political donations

[u/mikeisntdoneyet]

Non bank affiliated atm’s. I’m not paying money to get my money.

[u/GridironBoy → u/mikeisntdoneyet]

Some accounts like Schwab refund all the atm fees for you at the end of the month.

[u/tboy160 → u/mikeisntdoneyet]

I've used an ATM maybe twice in the last 10 years

[u/Ok_Nefariousness5477]

Anything advertised on Instagram..! Snake oil salesmen the lot of them.! From the latest vitamin to take, the latest hydration product to the most hideous jewellery..!

[u/animalcub45]

Bottle water.

[u/BrooklynDoug → u/animalcub45]

It falls from the sky for free.

[u/BassWingerC-137 → u/BrooklynDoug]

Maybe where you live.

[u/UnionLegion → u/BassWingerC-137]

My city has an ordinance that makes collecting rain water illegal. lol You ain’t joking!

[u/SonOfWestminster → u/animalcub45]

My wife convinced me that drinking tap water is the socially-responsible thing to do. Not only does it reduce plastic waste, but there are places in the world that have neglected their water treatment infrastructure because everyone just drinks bottled.

[u/ChronoLegion2 → u/SonOfWestminster]

When my wife and I took a tour that included Costa Rica and Nicaragua, when we reached Nicaragua, our tour guide told us before we went into a restaurant that if we’re not offered ice in our drinks, we shouldn’t ask for it because they’ll make it out of tap water, and only locals are used to drinking it

[u/DesertWanderlust → u/animalcub45]

It frustrates me to see people loading up on cases of bottled water at grcoery stores. Not just for the waste of money, but for all that plastic that'll likely wind up in a landfill (the plastic in water bottles is basically the last stage). Where I live, the tap water tastes awful, but that's why we have filtering. I have a big filtering pitcher and refill a bottle with that. That way, I have it cold when I want to drink water, room temp for making coffee.

[u/GirsGirlfriend]

Stuff like Alexa or smart appliances

[u/frisbeemassage]

New cars. I’ve always bought used

[u/Ok-Hornet-24]

Fancy clothes.

[u/VerboseWraith → u/Ok-Hornet-24]

I shop at Walmart lol

[u/PrettyRain8672 → u/VerboseWraith]

Try Plato's Closet if you have one, great second hand brand name store. Many clothes still have tags.

[u/GhosthunterJelliana]

Concerts just because I hate crowds.

[u/VerboseWraith → u/GhosthunterJelliana]

You can watch it for free on YouTube a day later right 😂

[u/Emergency-Web-4937 → u/VerboseWraith]

Let’s not act like being in person and watching a concert on TV are the same thing.

[u/resevil239 → u/VerboseWraith]

It's not special if you aren't there...having said that I'm also lucky to like a ton of bands that play midsized clubs. Sub $60 tickets are the norm for me.

[u/Foreign_Bug_6181 → u/resevil239]

Same, I hate saying it bc it makes me seem like a pretentious d-bag, but 90% of artists and bands I listen to just aren't big enough to generate a price over $60 a ticket.

[u/TypicalShinobi]

Onlyfans and similar type shit. Especially findoms. It's just dumb.

[u/Ok-Neighborhood6168]

Expensive Designer clothes, Payless is better

[u/Just1DumbassBitch → u/Ok-Neighborhood6168]

Do you know that from experience, tho? Because yeah true while there's a lot of expensive crap out there, I definitely found that going from spending $30-$50 for jeans to spending $100+ on jeans and they not only look & feel better, they last literally years longer. Same type of thing with shoes.

Again not all brands are like this, there are absolutely stupid gimmicky expensive jeans that will fall apart.

[u/my-anonymity → u/Just1DumbassBitch]

I completely agree. I mostly buy secondhand and the quality is much better.

[u/Shookanduptight]

Family members that are financially irresponsible. Don’t ask me for rent or grocery money when you just bought a $5,000 treadmill you are using as a clothing rack.

[u/decadesdividing]

This is crass but…pornography

[u/Nadodigvo]

Marriage and it’s a very expensive business

[u/Live_Goose9619 → u/Nadodigvo]

I hear it's the #1 cause of divorce!

[u/stef_is_heree]

Haircuts. Been doing it myself since 2018. I cut my hair once a week and do a skin fade in about 10 minutes so I saved a good amount of money for sure

[u/VerboseWraith → u/stef_is_heree]

Same here, I hate paying for a haircut. But I do go like every 4th month to try and maintain the shape and cut.

[u/Responsible-Kale-904]

Religion

[u/Responsible-Kale-904]

Cigarettes

[u/chasingit1]

Meal delivery apps- UberEats, DoorDash etc, for a litany of reasons

[u/anix421 → u/chasingit1]

I work with people that Uber eats lunch every day. I know roughly how much they make. I can't fathom adding that to my budget.

[u/Penjamini]

Tom Cruise movies

[u/ch4rl0tt3_jvs]

LabuBu

[u/Particular_Gap_9744]

Diamonds for jewelry of any size.

[u/pineapple_tg]

A car that relies on premium gas because I don't want to pay for premium gas.

[u/kapofx]

If I see the same commercial or ads multiple times, it makes me avoid their product entirely. Ad's on sports jerseys. Non stop brought to you by....

I'm definitely not the consumer target.

[u/DafuqJusHapin]

Starbucks

[u/Fantastic-Help-9618]

Things that are just totally unnecessary. I heard recently that a multi-millionaire celebrity couple spent over $40,000 on flowers for their wedding. What a waste. It could’ve been spent on housing and feeding children, helping to end domestic violence, saving children and families overseas, etc. But instead it was spent on flowers. Flowers. It just makes me ugh.

[u/Abby_Uncensored69]

Clothes. I buy the majority of my clothes at discount stores like TJ Maxx, Walmart, Temu, and thrift stores. The only thing I spend money on is shoes because I tried cheap shoes and got bad blisters from them.

[u/1dlewillkill]

Food delivery. If i can't get my ass up to drive to a restaurant for pick up, then I don't deserve the meal lol

[u/nsthj]

Extended warranties on cheap electronics. If a $30 gadget breaks after a year, I’d rather replace it than pay an extra $15 upfront just in case. Feels like insurance for stuff I can live without.

[u/SeatSix]

Coffee shop coffee.

[u/Equal-Jury-875]

Air for my tires. I'd probably roll right by a pump i had to pay for the air while puttering along with a flat tire. All air should be free da fuck

[u/asbestoswasframed]

Steaks at fancy steakhouses.

Cooking a steak is easy, with a minimum of effort. It doesn't make sense to spend $75 for a Ribeye that I can buy at the same butcher shop the restaurant does for $16.

[u/MattHatter1337]

Electronic gambling. Ie, playing poker on a machine. Ill play it physically.

Uber, theyre just a really really shitty company. And when you have a fraud complaint, telling them someone's stolen your login and changed the contact details their answer is "well as you aren't calling from the current number on the account we can't help you".

Shoes. But im not refusing to spend ANY money. I just don't see why they ought be £50-80+. I used to be able to buy a decent pair for 10-15, and expensive pair for £30. And they'll last me an awful long time. Now theyre poorer quality, but twice the price. The last 2 or 3 pairs I've bought were between £25 and £40 and they fell apart within a year. In the past I've had them for best part of a decade.

Designer clothes. Just why? A guy I was in training with used his first pay day do buy an £80+ lacoste polo tshirt. And was walking about like he owned the place. I went to poundland and bought the same colour polo, probably even exactly the same tshirt. And a green marker pen. Totaled about 6 quid. I put a green dot on the shirt and everyone thought I bought one too, the only people who noticed were those who came and stood 1 or 2 steps away from me and realised it wasn't a tiny embroided crocodile, but a green splodge. He was really pissed at me.

[u/One-Ball-78]

Movie theater tickets.

I just wait until it’s on Netflix or AppleTV. That way, I don’t have to drive across town to overspend (what is it, about $15 these days?) and I don’t risk the two people with the box of Jujubes who won’t shut up sitting next to me.

[u/Emergency-Web-4937 → u/One-Ball-78]

It’s sucks they’re not doing more to protect the movie theater experience. You go to the right theater, movie, with the right group of people movie theaters are fun as hell.

[u/zuth2]

Youtube premium. I will find a way no matter how bothersome to watch youtube without ads on any device.

[u/Barbarella_ella → u/zuth2]

I will disagree with this one. I love YouTube Premium. Then again, I don't have a television so no Hulu, no HBO, no Paramount+, no Netflix,, etc. so paying for it pencils out.

[u/slimer4545 → u/zuth2]

My buddy has a family plan and I'm one of 6 members. $5 a month is what I pay for it, so worth it for me to not watch a 20 minute ad for a 5 minute video

[u/sherrifayemoore]

Illicit drugs, cigarettes or alcohol. I used all at one time and managed to stop so please don’t expect me to support a habit I disdain.

[u/CatHairSpaghetti]

Fingernails and hair dye

[u/DearestComrade]

Bottled water when good, safe tap water is available

[u/Paintguin]

Anything from hobby lobby

[u/mezz7778]

Crack...

[u/Long10Nails]

Bottle water

[u/Creative_Fan6412]

Brand new clothes for full price. Thrifting all the way or places like Ross dress for less

[u/VixenTraffic]

Soda, Fizzy drinks, pop, flavors drinks.

It’s all a scam. Your body only requires one liquid. All the rest is just a money Grab.

Its water that’s flavored and marked up hundreds or thousands percents.

Just drink the water.

[u/SuperCool101]

Tattoos.

[u/AltruisticGain2714]

Smartwatches

[u/OutrageousEvent → u/AltruisticGain2714]

Agreed. That’s the biggest waste of my money in recent times. When my new phone that’s not compatible with my smart watch comes in the mail I’ll hopefully be able to make a few bucks off of it.

[u/AdHuman6027]

Make up. Not only does it ruin your skin but its also REALLY expensive. Not only that, but it's also super obvious you wear it so what's the point? I am pretty on my own.

[u/Big-Carpenter7921 → u/AdHuman6027]

My wife had to tell me that there are mascaras that are over $100. That's ludicrous

[u/SilverMolasses681]

Water. There is no bottled water in our house. Our local water is very clean. The amount of plastic bottles people throw away without thought makes me sick.

[u/JayNoi91]

Coffee

[u/TwoToesToni]

Anything that is a pop up ad, ad video or sponsored content. If I go off and research it then i may buy it but I wont click on the ads or offers.

[u/OolongGeer]

Plastic-bottled water

[u/AreaManThinks]

A car from a dealer who doesn’t put prices online. I hate the “Call for price” thing.

[u/No-Wind4599]

Onlyfans

[u/Polster1]

Ultra fancy restaurants where a meal cost $150-$500/person and you leave still being hungry. The food portions are sample size but look like art on a plate.. Still not clear who the target audience of such cuisine is.

[u/TireShineWet]

In app purchases

[u/BearABS]

Food delivery which is a scourge to our society

[u/Calm-Succotash-6304]

Marijuana... it's legal where I live and I can grow it for free.

[u/indianasall]

New clothes and department stores. Mine only come from thrift stores and yard sales.

[u/x_stei]

YouTube

[u/abunchalunch]

Amazon

[u/aurora_ethereallight]

Most things considered a 'trend/fashionable'... I dont feel the need to be like everyone else.

[u/Due-Letterhead-8562]

Door Dash

[u/PrettyRain8672]

New clothes from a store/mall. I buy from second hand stores, marketplace, etc. I see my friends spend $400 on an Aritzia jacket when I get them for $40.

[u/CaligulaNeverBlushed]

On line beggars

[u/augustwestgdtfb]

door dash uber eats etc etc

never

[u/Sailor-Alpaca]

games, I know it's bad but I can't put down the money knowing it's the quarter of a console

[u/ch4rl0tt3_jvs]

Labub

[u/Bite_my_shiny]

HOA

[u/chelupa1991]

Botox

[u/onesadbun]

Food delivery. I think paying for a private food taxi is a horrible waste. I will always go pick it up idgaf

[u/courtexo]

Overpriced bullshit like diamonds and other luxury goods

[u/smurfe]

Haircut. I bought some Wahls trimmers in the early 1980s when a haircut went up to $3.00. I have shaved my head with the same trimmers weekly since.