The absolute worst waste of money, what is your list?
1) Starbucks, (and others) make your coffee at home save five bucks a day.
2 McDonalds (or others) for breakfast, get up 15 minutes earlier make your own healthy breakfast for $1.50.
3) Data on your cell phone. It is expensive, use WIFI and stop using apps that use data. Buy a Garmin for 100 bucks for getting directions and save the data package costs. Cell phones can be used until they die then get a new one 3-4 models old and save big bucks.
4) New cars and trucks. Buy one three years old with 30-40,000 miles and let the previous guy eat the huge depreciation. Then drive it until the wheels fall off or, if in the rust belt, until the frame rots in half.
5) Pre-packaged frozen foods, ready to microwave. Have you ever seen the cost per pound of Tyson frozen chicken nuggets, mostly bread? The cost for a whole chicken you cut up yourself is less than half per pound.
6) Movie and sports channels on cable. The cost of an antenna is 25 bucks, the airwaves are FREE, listen to the radio for your sports, watch free streaming for movies.
6) Going out to movies or sports events. Seven dollar beer, 8 dollar hot dogs, 10 buck parking, loud and rude drunk crowds, for what? To support elite scum that despise you, why do it???
7) Clothing. I wear T-shirts I have had for 25-30 years. why spend the national average on clothes? The name brand stuff simply feeds people that despise you.
8) Storage units. Get rid of "stuff", save the storage money you spend for crap you seldom/never use or even forgot you have.
Take all the cash you save and invest in guns, your retirement, ammo and your home. Enjoy life more by not keeping up with the (D) voting masses. They are the fools that buy into FB and Twitter ads for junk they don't really need.
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Private citizens donating money to politicians. They get fed at the trough enough already! 6 -
Don McManus said:
Put close to 100 hours on ours this year. There are 4 or 5 restaurants on the lake between 5 and 20 miles away. The Wakeboard boat would have been a kidney buster and this thing rides like a champ.neacpa said:Me personally, my pontoon boat that I just thought I had to have.
Cost more than a small used airplane, but a lot cheaper to own and operate.
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Up on the large lake I lived on, on the NY/NJ border - Greenwood Lake, there was a huge Law Enforcement presence. NY & NJ State cops, Coast Guard, etc. etc.
Many people were shocked that you could get a DUI on the water, almost easier in fact. Boats were stopped and boarded and searched on a regular basis. If you are the Captain/driving, you better not smell like beer.
There were quite a few restaurants and bars on the Lakeshore as well. Lot's of partying.
I had a 16' V-hull bowrider with a 50 horse Mercury. Yes, a hole in the water.
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Don McManus said:
Put close to 100 hours on ours this year. There are 4 or 5 restaurants on the lake between 5 and 20 miles away. The Wakeboard boat would have been a kidney buster and this thing rides like a champ.neacpa said:Me personally, my pontoon boat that I just thought I had to have.
Cost more than a small used airplane, but a lot cheaper to own and operate.
And they can carry BEER!!!
OK, maybe not cheaper to operate.
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The most worthless thing I purchased this year was a 2020 Planner Booklet. 6 -
Gasoline to drive to the voting place 6 -
Extended warranties
Dessert at restaurants
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mjrfd99 said:Motorcycles.
Had a lot of fun and adventures. Burned a ton of money on them. doing it
Every home I bought I looked how many garage doors first.Motorcycle can be I expensive, if you worry about fitting in with the dress like a pirate crowd, and need a new HD at 25 thousand. I buy used Triumphs with a couple thousand miles on them for a fourth of the new models and have just as much enjoyment.
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Diet ice water with organic ice cubes in 99.85% recycled cup and no illegal straw. 0 -
ex-wife 0 -
Top of my bucket list was my first Corvette. Got the car and everything on Covid shutdown ever since. Don't even want to check the value of really low mile-age car. 0 -
Starbucks Coffee
Giving out personal information to incoming phone calls
Paying credit card interest
Trading in a used vehicle you still owe lots of money on just to save a few bucks on the monthly payments. (This is a true "bend over" moment)3 -
Green font LOL wife and kids yes I love them dearly and would not part with them
but early in life had older fellows tell me .. should have just rented one ..
so many conveniences now ( I ) we take for granted besides the cable and phone service
as a kid a few examples I never seen a paper towel or cans of pet food in the house ( or neighbors ) fast food was unheard of
two later on three TV channels and dial up l phone worked no one spent the day calling about every detail in the day like posting now ( oopps LOL )
we had one car for the family for years much later on two added one for mom . one TV , one phone , one bathroom , th elist is endless if you think about what we could get by with vs what we want to have to make life easier
as for cable or dish if they would allow me to pick and choose the networks I might go back in place of a package deal with 90% BS I never watched any way
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my list is long also hard to pick from so many over my life of wasted and foolish things money was spent on ..
all I can say for sure is ,, it started with my fist real pay check when I was 16 yrs old and continues today ..
some people just never learn
hind sight is so much better LOL0 -
Totally agree D\R! If I could get back all the money spent on cable bills over my lifetime, I'd be sipping drinks with umbrella's lying on a palm tree lined beach!
Oh! Wait! Umbrella drinks would be another big waste of moola!0 -
My $100.00 reservation to buy a Elio comes to mind. 0 -
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Cheap optics 3 -
I'd buy when it snowed, sell in the spring. Restoring the old ones was not very profitable but it's what I loved doing.Silver Star 5301 said:mjrfd99 said:Motorcycles.
Motorcycle can be I expensive, if you worry about fitting in with the dress like a pirate crowd, and need a new HD at 25 thousand. I buy used Triumphs with a couple thousand miles on them for a fourth of the new models and have just as much enjoyment.
Only one new HD here 1979 FXE-F. IIRC $3500 in a snowstorm. Trouble is I bought her 4 houses so far.
Anyone paying $25K plus with all the used low mileage HD's out there must have money to waste.
This 1975 500 H1 ate stock HD's for breakfast when they were new and she was 35+ years old.6 -
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Rented a wife????? LOLDitch-Runner said:Green font LOL wife and kids yes I love them dearly and would not part with them
but early in life had older fellows tell me .. should have just rented one ..
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