Or refuse to buy
GPU’s. I remember before the mining boom and the AI boom, three to four hundred bucks would get you a decent card. Managed to score a 9070xt for close to retail price recently and that will have to last me at least 3 more years, if not forever.
Drinks in a restaurant. I always order water. One day I was in the mood for tea until I looked down at the $4.99 price. Strangely, soft drinks we’re $3.99. I guess many of you aren’t surprised, but like I said, I never really order drinks with a meal so it had been a while since I had seen the price.
Matinee movie tickets. Outback 6 oz sirloins. 12 packs of soda. I just watch Netflix, cook steak at home (still expensive but I get more bang for buck) and drink water.
kebabs. i still remembrer they were 4.5€ before covid. now it’s 8€ at best
fuck that
Beer. When I was in school a pint of domestic was $5. It’s around $10 now.
Beef. Beef used to be in the affordable to readily affordable range. Now for a pound of ground beef it’s about half as much for a bag of chicken breasts.
Just eating a sandwich outside, now you can only find SuperFancyFrench Sandwich with gold plated armor, made by Mongolian monks.
I’m like wtf, just give me 2 pieces of bread and whatever cheap inside, 4$ and we are good.
When I lived in PA i would grab a really good $5 hoagie from Wawa and a free coffee after school, now its like $8+ and coffees are only free if you buy enough…
Peace and quiet
Video games. Retro video games. All of it.
Sure, we have Steam sales and those are still cheap. But physical games? Gone bonkers since covid.
This is the first time in the history of the world that current Gen consoles have gone UP in price. Games hardly go down in price anymore.
Retro games used to be cheap. Now everyone and their mother knows they’re not just old children’s toys, and think everything is a collectible. And these days, they might not even be wrong! Not to mention thrift stores and sometimes even garage salers are trying to charge eBay prices for everything they have.
I’m just holding onto digital games and Steam sales and such…and, well, piracy of course. (But storage is expensive too…)
I was going to buy an old game that was not very good for nostalgia purposes as a gift. Since COVID it has tripled in price.
It was already not good, and at $150 I’d rather gift an Everdrive with an 8gb card full of the rom than spend that much on a shelf piece.
Was it “notoriously bad” or just lacklustre? That makes a difference! Lol
Green onions are up 200% in just a few years
Cocktails are so expensive these days. I have a very high alcohol tolerance and it’s 10-20$ as bare minimum for <1$ of ingredients. 5 negronis + tip and you’re down at least a 100$. I’m more of a smoker these days but taking people out is such a luxury. If you have 3 friends visiting and buy couple rounds you’re in a triple digit bill already.
Yeah, I’ve started learning to make my own cocktails.
Computer memory (RAM)
I bought a laptop when I migrated. EIGHT FUCKING YEARS AGO.
A 12 pack of Molson Canadian.
Carne asada. Tacos. Fucking food trucks in Portland want $15 for 3 street tacos. GTFO.
Granola. It’s $5/lb at WinCo!
NA beer. People weren’t buying reg beer so they just figured hey we’ll wreck this market by pricing people out of it too! So I get no alcohol and it’s the same price as regular beer? Piss off.
Also in Portland. Food trucks are no longer the cheap street food thing. Haven’t been for years. Now they’re trendy and commercialized like everything else. I hate it
Morons keep lining up no matter what they charge. The whole point of trucks is you don’t have to pay the restaurant lease, servers or dishwashers.
Yeah, that means they can charge restaurant prices and pocket the difference!
A two bedroom apartment in Bergen sentrum
