• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    they spend it.

    a huge chunk of it IME is that they don’t cook so they eat out almost every meal. That runs up into 1000s pretty quick. eating out in my city can run you easily $100+ a day. they also impulse buy trendy and expensive things, like Pelotons.

    everything is about the image. without the image of being successful they have nothing.

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      17 hours ago

      I did have a coworker that was both a picky eater and didn’t cook. She’d order seamless (GrubHub) for most meals. That’s got to be like… $30/meal, two meals a day so $60, seven days a week, ~$400/week? My monthly food budget is like $200. Plus she’d go out drinking. Guess that adds up. That’s like $100k over five years.

      She also had an expensive gym membership she didn’t use and was too shy to cancel.

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        11 minutes ago

        yep. most of my co workers are like this. and socializing with them is miserable because they just complain how broke they are… and yet they are spend $1000s per month on stupid shit. and if you try to tell them life isn’t so hard… if they werent’ so stupid… they tell you your some rich asshole.

        i have a home gym. it costs me 0 dollars per month after buying some basic equipment that cost me like $500. most gyms in my area want $200 sign up fees and monthly fees between 60-200 a month. it’s insane.