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

[George Lucas]

Glad I'm not the only one who hates these delivery grocieries and shit. Of all the modern consoomer/service economy shit, this trend is the worst thing to come out of WuFlu simply because too many people are lazy niggers.

Also because around my area it is always third worlders who barely speak English who do these gigs and inevitably pester me and anyone around them with questions on where mayo, icing, or literally anything is.

Funkos are getting so worthless that they're getting stored in warehouses now in hopes the demand grows again. Literal tons of toxic plastic garbage that can't be recycled or turned into anything useful for human society. In 10,000 years when humanity has wiped itself out, aliens will unearth these fucking things and think they were out gods or some shit.

Amazon turned Whole Foods from a premier grocery brand to trash with their grocery delivery shit. I won't step foot in one anymore.

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

For the sake of discussion and for anyone who might be in this thread trying to tame their own consoomerism, has anyone tried "no spend days" aka spending fasts or spending freezes?

The concept is simple: you just don't spend money for whatever period of time. Exceptions are typically your bills, and if you're doing a longer one, groceries. Of course you can come up with endless reasons to spend money: "What if I need to buy OTC medication/there's a really good deal on clearance/I need to buy someone a present???" but you can decide your own restrictions.

I've seen arguments for and against it.
The obvious "for" is that you'll spend less money and break mindless habits of buying things all the time or centering your life on spending money.

The argument against "spending fasts" is that people will just wait until it's over to "binge-spend", and that a spending fast won't make up for someone who over-spends the rest of the week or month.
However, take someone with the habit of buying a coffee everyday before work. If they abstain from getting a coffee one day, will they really buy TWO coffees the next day? I don't think so.
Although, if that person is still buying 4 coffees a week instead of 5, that's not really much of an improvement over, you know, 0.

Another reason I've seen spending fasts promoted is for the type of person who wants to spend money as soon as it hits their account. So you do a spending fast on payday and/or the day after, to prevent that impulse spending. The longer someone sees that money in their account, and the less likely people are willing to burn away the entire paycheck.

 

[George Lucas]

For the sake of discussion and for anyone who might be in this thread trying to tame their own consoomerism, has anyone tried "no spend days" aka spending fasts or spending freezes?

The concept is simple: you just don't spend money for whatever period of time. Exceptions are typically your bills, and if you're doing a longer one, groceries. Of course you can come up with endless reasons to spend money: "What if I need to buy OTC medication/there's a really good deal on clearance/I need to buy someone a present???" but you can decide your own restrictions.

I've seen arguments for and against it.
The obvious "for" is that you'll spend less money and break mindless habits of buying things all the time or centering your life on spending money.

The argument against "spending fasts" is that people will just wait until it's over to "binge-spend", and that a spending fast won't make up for someone who over-spends the rest of the week or month.
However, take someone with the habit of buying a coffee everyday before work. If they abstain from getting a coffee one day, will they really buy TWO coffees the next day? I don't think so.
Although, if that person is still buying 4 coffees a week instead of 5, that's not really much of an improvement over, you know, 0.

Another reason I've seen spending fasts promoted is for the type of person who wants to spend money as soon as it hits their account. So you do a spending fast on payday and/or the day after, to prevent that impulse spending. The longer someone sees that money in their account, and the less likely people are willing to burn away the entire paycheck.

It’s wise to wait at least 24 hours before any unnecessary purchase. The amount of salespeople I’ve told ‘All right, thanks. See you later’ is enough to get me in hell.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

I'd recommend trying it, even if you aren't a big spender. I got into a nasty habit of going to the dollar store before work, and getting fast food every other day. I cut that out and manage to spend 0 dollars a day during the work week. The amount of money I've been able to save is incredible. You would think "it's only five bucks" but it adds up.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

It’s wise to wait at least 24 hours before any unnecessary purchase.

Amazon and online marketplaces make it so easy to impulse buy that waiting at least a few days with something sitting in your shoppin cart should be standard practice. It has kept me from buying so much crap i don't need

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

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no reason not to try
but i agree that this would only work for the average joe who doesnt realize how much he spends daily on little snacks or frivolous impulse buys, not people with genuine chronic shopping addictions who will just binge after the fact
altough the notion of spending money every single day is a bit nuts to me, i definitely find you do it more without realizing when you have access to it-
when i lived in the middle of ass nowhere i didnt buy anything until i needed groceries, but when i worked in the city i found that you find yourself more of a reason to buy a coffee or a soda on your way to work

speaking of none of that
is anyone familiar with pic rel? i figured this is the best place to ask, ive been seeing them in stores recently and they cost an absurd amount per bottle, ive always been curious to try it but its a little steep for me
whats the catch? whats the appeal?

think they were out gods or some shit.

and they'll be right...

 

[Terffals]

Funkos are getting so worthless that they're getting stored in warehouses now in hopes the demand grows again. Literal tons of toxic plastic garbage that can't be recycled or turned into anything useful for human society. In 10,000 years when humanity has wiped itself out, aliens will unearth these fucking things and think they were out gods or some shit.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

 

[retard strength II]

whats the catch? whats the appeal?

Influencers pushing it, I think heavily to kids and teens.

 

[saintJogger]

Glad I'm not the only one who hates these delivery grocieries and shit. Of all the modern consoomer/service economy shit, this trend is the worst thing to come out of WuFlu simply because too many people are lazy niggers.

Also because around my area it is always third worlders who barely speak English who do these gigs and inevitably pester me and anyone around them with questions on where mayo, icing, or literally anything is.

Funkos are getting so worthless that they're getting stored in warehouses now in hopes the demand grows again. Literal tons of toxic plastic garbage that can't be recycled or turned into anything useful for human society. In 10,000 years when humanity has wiped itself out, aliens will unearth these fucking things and think they were out gods or some shit.

And it would be hard to disagree on the God thing, considering how some people cherish their Funkos probably more than they would their loved ones, if they had any.

Amazon and online marketplaces make it so easy to impulse buy that waiting at least a few days with something sitting in your shoppin cart should be standard practice. It has kept me from buying so much crap i don't need

That's why I make it a policy of not buying things online. I always go to a store. One, I live in the middle of nowhere, so it becomes a chore; two, I just bought a new phone. The one I had couldn't even run a banking application anymore and the battery lasted for four hours, so I actually needed one. The amount of suffering I had to endure from having the sales guy push every gadget under the sun to me makes me want to never buy another electronic device ever again.

no reason not to try
but i agree that this would only work for the average joe who doesnt realize how much he spends daily on little snacks or frivolous impulse buys, not people with genuine chronic shopping addictions who will just binge after the fact
altough the notion of spending money every single day is a bit nuts to me, i definitely find you do it more without realizing when you have access to it-
when i lived in the middle of ass nowhere i didnt buy anything until i needed groceries, but when i worked in the city i found that you find yourself more of a reason to buy a coffee or a soda on your way to work

speaking of none of that
is anyone familiar with pic rel? i figured this is the best place to ask, ive been seeing them in stores recently and they cost an absurd amount per bottle, ive always been curious to try it but its a little steep for me
whats the catch? whats the appeal?

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and they'll be right...

"Hydration drink." Ok, so that's mineral water? Mineral water costs like $1 a bottle.

 

[postfeetpls]

is anyone familiar with pic rel? i figured this is the best place to ask, ive been seeing them in stores recently and they cost an absurd amount per bottle

First time I saw that was around a month ago when buying water in a gas station. I noticed the wtf price and first thing I did when I got in my car was to google that shit. As it turns out, it's that pest Rogan Paul or whatever, the youtuber who made one or two crypto rug pulls and I-don't-even-know what other shit he's famous for. Him and some other faggot are shoving this down teenagers' throats. Not only that, but apparently people are scalping this and selling it double even triple the price, and dumb teens are buying and asking for more.

The question still remains: What in the name of fuck?
And honestly I wish someone with more knowledge of the lore can clarify why is that guy selling it and why are people buying it. What is this and how is it worth so much other than "because the youtube guy said so". I saw it for what is the equivalent of $20 sold in the gas station and ranging between $30-$90 per piece on the internet. For reference, a can of Redbull here is ~$2.5 up to $5.

 

[The Great Citracett]

is anyone familiar with pic rel? i figured this is the best place to ask, ive been seeing them in stores recently and they cost an absurd amount per bottle, ive always been curious to try it but its a little steep for me
whats the catch? whats the appeal?

I guess Logan Paul promotes those drinks and all the kids who are fans of him are obsessed with the things. I've seen kids online showing off hoards of them, usually in the UK or Europe where they're expensive as some kind of status symbol and I don't get it. Kids online act like it's nectar of the gods.

They're in the drink machine at my job and they're $2 each for 16.9oz, but everything else is 20oz so I don't see them really sell unless other drinks run out. They're not very expensive here in the US.

I guess they have more caffeine than little kids should be having, so some schools banned them. I've had a few, they don't taste bad, but the flavor is super strong. Hard to describe, but it's like drinking candy or fruit concentrate or something.

They're okay, but not really my thing, and I don't get the hype at all.

 

[roo farmer]

And it would be hard to disagree on the God thing, considering how some people cherish their Funkos probably more than they would their loved ones, if they had any.

Can the visible machinery of FunkoPops substitute for the pure and intelligible Idea of God? This is precisely what was feared by Iconoclasts, whose millennial quarrel is still with us today. If they could have believed that these images only obfuscated or masked the Platonic Idea of God, there would have been no reason to destroy them. One can live with the idea of distorted truth. But their metaphysical despair came from the idea that the image didn't conceal anything at all, and that these images were in essence not images, such as an original model would have made them, but perfect simulacra, forever radiant with their own fascination. One can see that the iconoclasts, whom one accuses of disdaining and negating images, were those who accorded them their true value, in contrast to the iconolaters who only saw reflections in them and were content to venerate a filigree God.
-- Originally posted by Baudrillard.

We live in a hyperreal world where it is impossible to tell the difference between the real and the false, and if it were possible would it matter?

In the first stage, the symbol is a direct reference to the real, for example a real robbery. In the second, the real is modified slightly, a story about a robbery that could happen. In the third, the symbol is manipulated to hide the fact it is not real, Sherlock Holmes. In the final, post modern stage, there is no reality whatsoever, a Marvel villain. The symbol has no referential. FunkoPops are a referential to a symbol that has no referential.

I find FunkoPops distasteful because they have no reality of their own, but they are real. They are the physical embodiment of a new God who exerts his power purely in the Dork universe and has no wisdom to impart to people who must live in the physical universe. A God ought to supply wisdom to help improve the physical world.

 

[John Titor]

For the sake of discussion and for anyone who might be in this thread trying to tame their own consoomerism, has anyone tried "no spend days" aka spending fasts or spending freezes?

The concept is simple: you just don't spend money for whatever period of time. Exceptions are typically your bills, and if you're doing a longer one, groceries. Of course you can come up with endless reasons to spend money: "What if I need to buy OTC medication/there's a really good deal on clearance/I need to buy someone a present???" but you can decide your own restrictions.

I've seen arguments for and against it.
The obvious "for" is that you'll spend less money and break mindless habits of buying things all the time or centering your life on spending money.

The argument against "spending fasts" is that people will just wait until it's over to "binge-spend", and that a spending fast won't make up for someone who over-spends the rest of the week or month.
However, take someone with the habit of buying a coffee everyday before work. If they abstain from getting a coffee one day, will they really buy TWO coffees the next day? I don't think so.
Although, if that person is still buying 4 coffees a week instead of 5, that's not really much of an improvement over, you know, 0.

Another reason I've seen spending fasts promoted is for the type of person who wants to spend money as soon as it hits their account. So you do a spending fast on payday and/or the day after, to prevent that impulse spending. The longer someone sees that money in their account, and the less likely people are willing to burn away the entire paycheck.

I once saw a meme of a guy who said he's been trying to curb his spending by putting money in planner pockets and treats it like a daily login bonus you see in mobile games. I guess that's one way to save money.

 

[Myrtle the Turtle]

Genuinely do electric toothbrushes do anything?

I use a Sonicare, thing cleans really well, just vibrates back and forth alot which dislodges food and creates this microfoam which cleans better than a manual. Mine cost $100. They make a $350 one which is more like a luxury item from Nordstrom than a toothbrush and can connect with an app but its overkill.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Can the visible machinery of FunkoPops substitute for the pure and intelligible Idea of God?

Let's ignore all the religious merchandise garbage that exists and has existed long before FunkoPoop was invented.

 

[Peep Plops]

Let's ignore all the religious merchandise garbage that exists and has existed long before FunkoPoop was invented.

With how many pieces of the cross have been sold throughout the ages you'd think they hung Jesus on a mile high piece of wood.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

snepped.

its interesting how often the concept of simulacra comes up itt, i think its pretty fitting

maybe thats what consumerism is ultimately all about
we keep asking "what constitutes consumerism" and maybe theres an inherent correlation between it, and a desire to create a fake facsimile of living in place of actual fruitful or enjoyable life
if you signal something to the outside world, it must make it more real
if everyone believes something is the case, does it now, in a way, become true? if youre miserable, but manage to create this facade that youre happy, enough for the world to believe it, it may, through the power of human consciousness, gain some truth to it, at least insofar as ultimate truth does not exist

 

[WelperHelper99]

once saw a meme of a guy who said he's been trying to curb his spending by putting money in planner pockets and treats it like a daily login bonus you see in mobile games. I guess that's one way to save money.

My dad does that lol. It's why despite having a modest job, he OWNS his home, and can buy a pretty decent brand new car out of pocket. I'm not as good as him, but I've learned a few tricks.

 

[DrearyDoomguy]

I once saw a meme of a guy who said he's been trying to curb his spending by putting money in planner pockets and treats it like a daily login bonus you see in mobile games. I guess that's one way to save money.

There's apps that allow you to set a rolling daily budget(say, something like $40 per day) that accumulates if you don't spend it. It's a good way to keep your discretionary spending in check and helps visualize how seemingly small costs can quickly add up when you write them off as nothing. Likewise, you get a good sense of how small savings quickly add up.

 

[AskeDead]

Just don't spend money. It's really not that hard.