It all started when someone on Reddit posed the question, “What in your opinion is the biggest waste of money?,” with folks more than happy to chime in.
Responses include:
- “Name-brand shoes for toddlers and pre-schoolers. They’re not gonna stay clean and they’ll grow out of them faster than you think.”
- “Gold flake covered food.”
- “Buying new electronics every year just because it’s a new model.”
- “Often out of season fruits (like strawberries in the winter) are really expensive and taste like water.”
- “Diamonds because of all the artificial scarcity, I was told if anything buy precious stones. That’s why if you look at royalty they always have rare or precious stones.”
- “From what little I understand of it I’m going to say NFTs.”
- “Weddings/wedding dresses. I have nothing against marriage, but I think spending 30k on a wedding and 10k on a dress is absolutely insane and pointless, and has nothing to do with marriage.”
- “Buying products from the Kardashians. Literally from any celeb.”
- “All the food delivery services. It’s obscene how much more expensive it makes a meal.”
- “Funerals: nothing better to honor a loved one with than personal bankruptcy.”
- “Designer clothes. You're paying for the manufacturer to get free advertising. Bitch I'm walking around advertising your sh*tty clothes, now pay me!”
- “Gambling, you're literally saying here's 100 dollars give me some amount less on average.”
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