Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

[D.Angus]

Same level as the people that use those tiny coupons (take a roughly two dollar discount off an order) and spilt their single order into like 5 because they want to use all those stockpiled coupons or will purposefully split their order up to get those survey coupons that are randomized to happen every x number of receipts.

When I worked at Dollar General, that was every Saturday. Dollar General offers a coupon on your receipt for 5 dollars off your purchase of $25.00 or more on Saturday of that week. Wasn't uncommon to be stuck behind the register my entire 5-6 hour shift those days. You'd get a lady, always a lady, and she'd spit her 200 dollar order through several transactions. Most Dollar Generals around here only have 2 registers, with only one of them being fully open at a time. You could just see the angry faces of the customers behind the couponer and just give them a shrugged look, as you had rung for the other cashier 5 minutes ago, but on their way up, they got stopped by 3 other customers and had to help them.

Most of the customers that did that were buying Amberlynn tier junk.

 

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Most of the customers that did that were buying Amberlynn tier junk.

The dollar stores are favorites of Amberlynn-style coonsoomers. Most of the stuff they sell is cheap crap. I can't imagine spending $200 there.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

The coupon situation is baffling but makes sense through the lense of hoarding for hoarding sake, they just want to have lots of something piled up and may be mentally not making the connection that buying something cheap on discount is still a waste of money if you don't need it or you are buying too much of it. Funkos are like that too, individually they are cheap as shit but funkocels will drop copious amount of money for the satisfaction of simply having a lot of them. One 100$ nice statue that actually looks good on a shelve or 10 funkos? Funkos because they are more things and more is better

 

[KingFrampt]

Decided to browse r/Collections for low hanging fruit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Collections/comments/qz965u/i_collect_vhs_and_dvd_copies_of_pearl_harbor/ - Several copies of the same DVD

https://www.reddit.com/r/Collection...nster_energy_collection_47_different_cans_in/ - Monster cans?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Collections/comments/qledjo/my_energy_drink_collection/ - Seriously what is it with the fucking energy drink cans

 

[Pissmaster]

The coupon situation is baffling but makes sense through the lense of hoarding for hoarding sake, they just want to have lots of something piled up and may be mentally not making the connection that buying something cheap on discount is still a waste of money if you don't need it or you are buying too much of it. Funkos are like that too, individually they are cheap as shit but funkocels will drop copious amount of money for the satisfaction of simply having a lot of them. One 100$ nice statue that actually looks good on a shelve or 10 funkos? Funkos because they are more things and more is better

From personal experience, I can vouch for how that's a hole that you can slip into if you have no introspection and get off more to the act of just buying something, rather than enjoying it. Anyone can have a huge shelf of video games for the price of a single console if you're willing to fill your shelves with old sports games, trashy licenses, and online-only games that don't work anymore.

I mean if you're gonna fill your home with garbage at least be funny about it:

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

The worst thing is being locked behind an avid couponer in line that is throwing a fit over a dollar or two difference because they can't read the fine print and will proceed to hold up the whole line as they wait for a manager to 'fix' the problem for them. Same level as the people that use those tiny coupons (take a roughly two dollar discount off an order) and spilt their single order into like 5 because they want to use all those stockpiled coupons or will purposefully split their order up to get those survey coupons that are randomized to happen every x number of receipts.

When I am made king by divine right I will hunt down every grocery line holding up nigger and execute them personally.

 

[whitepumpkin]

The dollar stores are favorites of Amberlynn-style coonsoomers. Most of the stuff they sell is cheap crap. I can't imagine spending $200 there.

Dollar stores are great for buying chocolate bars for under $1 when you need to make a birthday cake or some other dessert recipe. Oh, and cheap Birthday cards. Other than that, spending $200 at one seems insane unless you were planning some massive party and needed a fuckton of paper plates/balloons/streamers, etc. And even then, that seems excessive.

It's so weird to read about because I remember the library being the best place to pick up any YA novel since you wouldn't be out any money if it sucked and if you did end up liking it enough you could buy a copy for yourself without worrying you'd be wasting money. Most YA aren't worth reading a second time around besides those rare gems or specific authors, so I don't get how it's a flex to be blind buying a bunch of YA besides showing you hate money.

I still donate my old books to my local library and it seems like the town it's in (very, very small town. Hamlet sized, even) is extremely grateful for getting new items into circulation because most people there still seem to run on that mindset. Rent the books before you buy. Hell, even then, if someone donates books they know will probably never checked out or it's a rattier copy, they sell it in the library book closet for 25 cents. Romance novels are 5 cents if you're desperate.

It's only been with the explosion of apps like Instagram and services like Amazon that I really started to see these "bookish" girls with their hoarding libraries. It made me realize that now, if I am going to keep a book on my shelf, it better be good enough for me to highlight/sticky-note and re-read more than twice. Otherwise, I'm just like these girls. Hoarding books for no reason other than to look "nerdy".

 

[proteus4994]

Decided to browse r/Collections for low hanging fruit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Collections/comments/qz965u/i_collect_vhs_and_dvd_copies_of_pearl_harbor/ - Several copies of the same DVD

This one is just fucking hilarious.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Troydan bought all of those UFC games and a modded original XBOX just to get a knockout in the video game.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

Troydan bought all of those UFC games and a modded original XBOX just to get a knockout in the video game.

At least he actually plays the games, unlike 99% of vidya consoomers who buy old games, only to leave them in a shelf for eternity.

 

[no-exit]

So, I said to myself that next year I needed to get a calculator for my computing studies since I’ll probably be needing it for my math work. I was looking at Texas Instruments calculators for them and I looked online to see which were the best ones.

Unsurprisingly, most of the good ones are very expensive to get. Some even range from $90 to $120+ dollars on places like Amazon, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc.

Then, I decided to mess around and half-jokingly ask if people are consooming calculators and low and behold…..

ha this reminds me of /r/mechanicalheadpens . Every once in awhile I see an RPN calculator on craigslist and I'm tempted to pick one up for the novelty. I'll just try and stick to Emacs Calc though. What are you thinking of getting?

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

ha this reminds me of /r/mechanicalheadpens . Every once in awhile I see an RPN calculator on craigslist and I'm tempted to pick one up for the novelty. I'll just try and stick to Emacs Calc though. What are you thinking of getting?

I really do want to get this one:



A TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator, that also has the ability to learn more about the Python language. Now some might say that Python is a language that may seem easy to anyone wanting to do it, but I think it can come handy with my coding homework if I forget about a basic variable or function that I need to use for my homework.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

Hell if they're going to be buying something bottled anyway, why not buy one that they can reuse like a Voss?

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.​

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.​

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.​

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”​

― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms​

That's how I feel about things like "Do it on a Dime" too. They're promoting all this shit as being "thrifty" but it's just a waste of money.

That video offends me on every sensory and aesthetic level. I watched all eight minutes absolutely glued to my screen because I'm an extreme masochist. This is some Stepford Millenial shit.

 

[Alexander Thaut]

i have inherited books from a bunch of old people who just left it to me. like, I have boxes and boxes of old books now.

they're all good shit, ranging from literary classics to good fiction and even topical books on stuff like adult education, history, and police procedure.

probably keeping it all since it feels nice to be able to thumb through stuff and chill.

also, 5 copies of the anarchist's cookbook (or was it bible?)

 

[Nijigasaki]

I’m usually a lurker, however I realised that I actually had something to contribute to a thread.

Say hello to the Sneaktards, people who really enjoy making the fact that they like the energy drink Sneak an integral part of their personality.

Spoiler

I wish I’d been able to nab a screenshot of someone suicide baiting and using their recently deceased grandmother for asspats (in a single post), but I’m afraid you’ll have to take my word that that really happened. There’s also a disturbing amount of people making their baby’s birth about Sneak.

There was also an exceptional community post of a Sneak collection master thread, however as of posting there are nearly 700 comments of people clamouring to get “elite” points so they can spend more money on this fucking brand. I’ll hand it to them, they’ve really mastered the art of keeping people hooked in an endless cycle of brand consumption.

(Sorry if I've messed up any of the formatting.)

 

[WULULULULU]

this is the video that came on my mind every time I saw some weird car stickers

Don't forget:
>Laptop stickers
>Gun stickers
>Phone stickers
>Stickers in general

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

I’m usually a lurker, however I realised that I actually had something to contribute to a thread.

Say hello to the Sneaktards, people who really enjoy making the fact that they like the energy drink Sneak an integral part of their personality.

Spoiler

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I wish I’d been able to nab a screenshot of someone suicide baiting and using their recently deceased grandmother for asspats (in a single post), but I’m afraid you’ll have to take my word that that really happened. There’s also a disturbing amount of people making their baby’s birth about Sneak.

There was also an exceptional community post of a Sneak collection master thread, however as of posting there are nearly 700 comments of people clamouring to get “elite” points so they can spend more money on this fucking brand. I’ll hand it to them, they’ve really mastered the art of keeping people hooked in an endless cycle of brand consumption.

(Sorry if I've messed up any of the formatting.)

The dude who got them to ship him a box.

I don't know how to do the reaction images in posts, so imagine a row of lunacys here.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

The coupon situation is baffling but makes sense through the lense of hoarding for hoarding sake, they just want to have lots of something piled up and may be mentally not making the connection that buying something cheap on discount is still a waste of money if you don't need it or you are buying too much of it. Funkos are like that too, individually they are cheap as shit but funkocels will drop copious amount of money for the satisfaction of simply having a lot of them. One 100$ nice statue that actually looks good on a shelve or 10 funkos? Funkos because they are more things and more is better

Couponing also has elements of "winning" and gaming the system. It's the extreme version of people who'll but things they don't particularly want because they're deeply discounted and it makes them feel like they're getting one over on the shop. They've never heard the advice that 20% off is 80% on, you're not saving money unless it's something you were planning on buying anyway.

 

[InteracialBowelSyndrome]

Decided to browse r/Collections for low hanging fruit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Collections/comments/qz965u/i_collect_vhs_and_dvd_copies_of_pearl_harbor/ - Several copies of the same DVD

https://www.reddit.com/r/Collection...nster_energy_collection_47_different_cans_in/ - Monster cans?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Collections/comments/qledjo/my_energy_drink_collection/ - Seriously what is it with the fucking energy drink cans

Of all the Ben Affleck movies they could of collected multiple copies of, THAT was the one they chose?

Mahfucka, if you want Affleck+War movie, go for Saving Private Ryan. The D Day scene was fucking insane.

 

[Pissmaster]

Of all the Ben Affleck movies they could of collected multiple copies of, THAT was the one they chose?

Mahfucka, if you want Affleck+War movie, go for Saving Private Ryan. The D Day scene was fucking insane.

An entire shelf full of Saving Private Ryan but then you slip in one copy of Saving Ryan's Privates just to be funny