From thousand-dollar Erewhon hauls to fridge restocking to simple «come grocery shop with me» videos, influencers give grocery shopping a glamorous treatment online. Celebrating and romanticizing the lifestyles of the rich and famous is nothing new, but now that longing-affluent fascination has trickled down to even mundane chores. This newer, even more confounding type of …
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Mother of 6 charges sister’s family $250 for staying at her house for a weekend: ‘I did a grocery run before arriving. I never wanted to be a burden on her.’
Money is such a tricky topic to broach, especially among family members. You can get away with never really talking about specific finances with your friends, but with family, it’s inevitable. It’s even more inevitable when you travel together and do things together regularly. Some people are strict splitters: you put down two cards at …
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33 Affordable Memes to Add Into Your Weekly Budget
In a time when we’re forced to be frugal, let the memes be plentiful.
Dude spends $18.75 on a cookie, blames the President for the price: ‘Before you became President, it was $3.75’
Living in New York City, I’m no stranger to absurd prices being thrust into my line of sight every time I go to the grocery store. The grocery store near my office recently started selling rotisserie chicken. Instead of selling it for $5 a bird, as any self-respecting grocery store would, they’re selling it for …
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“Next we’ll have food rentals”: Stingy restaurant charges bizarre fees for taking food to go
Going out to eat is an expensive venture these days. In my city, you can hardly get away from a dinner with a friend for under $50, and I’m just talking about your portion. Eating at restaurants is one of life’s greatest joys, though. I’m sometimes convinced that it’s the reason I was put on …
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A Tumbling Avalanche of 24 Therapy Memes
It’s that time of the week again; you’re looking forward to your crying session as you walk into your therapist’s office. The furniture is always a deep, earthy color, there are tons of grown-up-looking books, and the office smells like your grandma’s house. In other words, it’s all very neutral, in a sense. Your therapist …
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Twitter Users Eat Up a Warner Brothers Studio Cafe Menu From 1941
One of the first things I learned about in film studies, after Eadweard Muybridge’s The Horse in Motion, and the works of the Lumiere brothers, was the Hollywood Studio System. While it was technically the creation of Jewish immigrants, which sounds progressive, it was, in fact, a very toxic empire and way of conducting business. …
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«It’s getting serious». McDonald’s and inflation have teamed up to destroy the hash brown
The Internet revolts after McDonalds does the one thing they should never do: mess with the price of a hash brown.
Frustrating Thread Reveals That Boomers Are Still Disgracefully Out of Touch
We’re sad to report that the boomers still don’t understand that things have changed in the past fifty years. It’s as if nothing has happened outside of their lived experiences. «I made $10 an hour in 1970 and bought my own house by the time I was 30! If I did it, so can you.» …
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People Discuss How Much (Or How Little) $1 Can Buy In Their Countries
If you ask anyone in the United States, they’ll tell you that the dollar just isn’t what it used to be. I used to be able to buy two big chocolate bars for that amount. Hell, I’d buy a pack of cigarettes for $4 when I was way too young to be smoking. That same …
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