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    11 days ago

    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.

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        11 days ago

        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.

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    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.

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    If you are buying groceries, you are spending more efficiently than half of America.

    Groceries are 3x-4x cheaper than eating/ordering out.

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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.

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        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)

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          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.

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            Why are you including eating time?

            Also there’s no way it should be taking you 30 mins to clean up.

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              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

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          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.

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            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

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              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.

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      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.