• Arcden@lemmy.zip
    2·
    16 days ago

    Streaming services of any kind. I’ve got a jellyfin server now that has everything I need.

    It was fine when they were $5 a month, but this $20 a month bullshit is insane. And what do you mean I can’t share one account with the family if we’re not on the same network, get real.

  • Talaraine@fedia.io
    1·
    16 days ago

    Soda. Wtf are they even thinking at this point. Hell, I ran into a Dollar General to get carbonated water the other day and the only product they had was $9. For carbonated. Water. GTFO

  • PissMissile@lemmy.world
    1·
    16 days ago

    Pizza. Getting pizza for the family shouldn’t cost over $70. Hell, eating out and fast food are exorbitantly expensive.

    • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
      0·
      15 days ago

      Pizza in my corner of the world is still a reasonable price. First, there’s cheap but delicious Little Caesars – that’s a go-to that I’m not at all embarrassed to admit. Then my local pizza shop can get me a XL pie and cheesy bread sticks for less than $20 out the door. My family of three always has leftovers from that for lunch the next day for someone but not everyone.

      Any of the bougy “wood fired” blah blah blah boutique pizza grift stills costs a fortune here. But my little local pizza shop is a good NYC style slice, with normal pizza shop ingredients.

          • PissMissile@lemmy.world
            1·
            9 days ago

            It’s not BAD. I don’t mind it for the price. I would never claim that it’s “delicious” either though. I’m from Detroit too. The Little Caesar’s pizza at Little Caesar’s Arena hits different. Albeit it’s $30 more.

            • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
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              9 days ago

              I, too, am originally from the Metro Detroit area. My Metro Detroit area chain pizza takes: Hungry Howies used to be better, I think (or I’m suffering rose colored hindsight). Jet’s Pizza is still pretty good. Dominoes was never really good and despite their commercials, they’ve not gotten much better.

              Hot take: Buddy’s Pizza is overrated greasy dog shit.

              I now live out of state, but I visit my family in SE Michigan every other month or so. I have a preference for Coney’s too.

              • PissMissile@lemmy.world
                1·
                9 days ago

                Best Detroit Style: Cloverleaf with a close second being green lantern.

                Best Non-Detroit Style: Supino’s in Eastern Market.

                Best Coney: Duly’s, but honestly National Coney Island just feels right.

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      16 days ago

      my nephew build a pc this winter. he paid like 2K for roughly the same spec that my older nephew built in '23 and paid like $800 for.

      only thing that wasn’t a massive price increase was motherboard, case and power supply.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      15 days ago

      If you are in desperate need of a laptop, you can at least check out the refurb section. I know dell tends to have a good refurb section, its where I got my laptop, its where I got my monitor too. dirt cheap compared to the same models as retail, and the only difference was the box they came in.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          14 days ago

          The problem is that its refurbished stuff, so the stock is limited and can change frequently. today might be shit, tomorrow there might be a great gaming laptop with a cosmetic flaw that reduces the price by 40%

  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
    0·
    16 days ago

    Oil change services for my vehicles. Despite doing tons of my own repairs, I hate dealing with the oil. It always gets on the outside of the container and my recycling locations are always full. The service (including oil) used to be about 50% more than the oil I could buy to do myself. It was worth it to me to spend an extra dinner’s worth of money ~4 times a year. But now a service costs at least twice as much as the oil alone, even at independent shops. Plus, I now get oil in slight bulk, so the service is 3x what I pay in oil. I treated myself to a nice catch pan and dedicated funnels as a compromise, still costing less than a service on my first DIY in a decade.

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      16 days ago

      I’m planning on doing this myself now.

      My last oil change was $116 with a $15 off coupon.

      I can buy the oil from Costco for like $30. A good quality oil filter is 20 bucks.

      Even if it takes me a full hour to do, which it will not, I’m getting paid $70 for that hour.

    • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
      0·
      15 days ago

      I guess I’m lucky that every auto parts store near me takes used oil for free. I drain my old oil into the “pan,” set it aside and do the oil change, and then i pour the pan of used oil into the now-empty jug that had my fresh oil. I take a sharpie and write OLD on the jug. I set that aside in the shed. Then when it’s time for my next oil change, I grab that jug of old oil out of the shed and take it to the auto parts store where I dump it and then buy fresh oil and a filter – one-stop shopping. Easy peasy.

      • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 days ago

        My local stores are always full and can’t take more. Still doesn’t change how much oil always gets on the outside of the containers

  • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 days ago

    Yes. Dont buy any crisps anymore. Now only self made. Milka chocolate the same. Anything tech unless something important broke. Anything Kinder So yeah sweets and snacks and stuff like that probably other things too but it doesnt come to mind rn

    Edit: oh yeah. Eating out. So many restaurants have high prices and food really is shit. Ordering the same. But i still have to get into the rythm of then not being lazy and just cook something simple instead of ordering even when im very low on energie myself which luckily is once in a blue moon