Or refuse to buy
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…)
A two bedroom apartment in Bergen sentrum
Hard drives. They’ve gone up like 400%
Generally computer hardware I guess. Unless it’s essential any purchases or upgrades are on hold for now.
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.
A sandwich. A cheesesteak in Norway cost just over $30.
Coffee and TV are the only things beating the last 5 years of inflation.
500g of somewhat decent ground coffee costs 8-9€ in a grocery store.
Assuming you’re from Finland, Hieno Mokka in LIDL costs 5€ a pack and is indistinguishable from Juhla Mokka.
i think coffee was always expensive if you want the good stuff(in the states) the cheap brands are cheap for a reason. i think because coffee requires such a intensive and specific environment to grow. thats why the customers are often well off, and almost no “middle class or poorer buys them”
RAM! 😭
Also see: SSDs, HDDs, GPUs and CPUs
😢
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.
bulk granola, made in person seems quite expensive, rather than buying the pre-packaged from brand names.
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
Dental care
i think it was always expensive, i shop around for the cheapest yet decent quality dental experience. university dental care, if you can tolerate the wait time, some emergency services are more immediate.
one nears me, upcharges everything comparatively to other dentist like 100-200% more than other dentist around.
Nothing that I can think of. Anything that I’m not buying because of how expensive it is I already was not buying because how expensive it was to begin with.
Brisket
Fast food
Fast casual food
Applebee’s-tier restaurants
Japanese cars
Used cars, motorcycles, ATVs, boats
Camping
Skiing
Taxi rides
Corn mazes
Pumpkin patches
Escape rooms
Concerts
Bars/Clubs
Retro video games and consoles
Thrift stores
Storage units
Apartments in the bad part of town
Yeah the applebeees-tier really has a lot of fuckin nerve these days. Especially since it’s not like they’re paying their waitstaff much (or any?) more than they did in the late 90s.
There’s no more middle class :( can’t afford a house, can’t afford “affordable” entertainment, can’t afford shit
Go have some kids
✅✅✅✅✅ yep!
Pizza. Pizza used to be about $20 delivered. This past weekend we had a large meatlovers delivered…it was $48 before tip.
As a Dutchie, 20$ for pizza already sounds very expensive to me, 48$ is a crime xD over here it costs about 10-15€ which is almost the same in $
In Norway, a plain cheese pizza is regularly between $16-20. that’s for kebab pizza, too so it’s not much better than frozen, imo
US Pizza is 3 times as thick as a normal pizza and 3000 calories.
it is a pizza, you get what you expect from it.
Went out the other weekend. Two drinks was $55.
Though in the Netherlands you are probably talking about a personal pizza, whereas if they are in the US, they are probably talking about a larger pizza that would feed at least two people.
I was in NY and my friend is a real pizza nut and wanted me to try this super trendy pizza, Ceres. We went mid afternoon and avoided the 4 hour line. A 20" pie was $68 before tax.
Glad in back home where I can cry into my $5 Digorno when I need a night off.
I’d cry as well if I was eating Digiorno
Fast Food. Used to be 1€ for a burger now its pretty much the same as regular restaurant but it tastes like paper at best.
