Some folks have a vice where they can’t start a single day without a fancy grande latte or whatever, but mostly when I see that, it’s middle-managey types that make more in a month than I’d ever see in my account at any given time.
How many skipped small vanilla cold-brews or boba teas (+a tip for my fellow working class ✊) buys an average healthcare deductible or car repair beyond my DIY abilities? Heck let’s lower the bar…An oil change?
Just filling the tank costs like 8 enjoyable refreshing coffees. What a lame exchange rate!
Even if we struggle, it’s still okay to enjoy things once in a while.
Sure. It’s also cheaper to just drink water. However, gas station coffee is cheaper than Starbucks by a fair amount at least where I’m from, and it’s not half bad.
Ironically poor people tend to put more emphasis on buying name brands, certainly for things that other people see, like clothes, vehicles etc.
Value signaling is a thing.
My dad grew up poor and he can’t stand going to budget stores like Aldi and Lidl. It’s almost a matter of principe for him, he can afford to go to the more expensive store so he will.
Man I’m the complete opposite. I grew up in the hood, if you had nice things, you wouldn’t have them for long.
Driving nice cars and wearing name brand clothes just states “I have more money than you and I’m proud of it” which is a) universally a dick move, especially when you drive that fancy car past a dozen homeless every day, and b) makes you a mark. Oh you’re driving a Benz? You’ve probably got valuables in it, let’s take a look.
Nowadays I still drive a beat up old car and wear off brand clothes, both because I can’t afford better but I also don’t want to even look like I can afford better for the above reasons. It’s just being an ass and also putting a target on yourself.
…he said, drinking his Starbucks coffee
Found a new poor.
those don’t look like Starbucks cups? Aren’t the only brown parts on a smaller sleeve? This cup looks mostly brown?
These Nouveau Pauvre can’t tell a gas station French vanilla from a Starbucks caramel macchiato
i used “Starbucks” in a “generic expensive coffee to go”- way
Quitting coffee has never make anyone rich. That’s not a cost that kills you.
For real.
Some folks have a vice where they can’t start a single day without a fancy grande latte or whatever, but mostly when I see that, it’s middle-managey types that make more in a month than I’d ever see in my account at any given time.
How many skipped small vanilla cold-brews or boba teas (+a tip for my fellow working class ✊) buys an average healthcare deductible or car repair beyond my DIY abilities? Heck let’s lower the bar…An oil change?
Just filling the tank costs like 8 enjoyable refreshing coffees. What a lame exchange rate!
Even if we struggle, it’s still okay to enjoy things once in a while.
Stole it.
That’s gas station coffee. Talk about new poor.
oh so there is they also a chance they have a car
You can go to the gas station to get their coffee, you don’t have to also get gas.
Cheaper to drink my homebrew moonshine.
Sure. It’s also cheaper to just drink water. However, gas station coffee is cheaper than Starbucks by a fair amount at least where I’m from, and it’s not half bad.
I give out so many free coffees too, literally anyone that asks.
How so?
You think old poor don’t have crushing credit card debt?
As an old poor I don’t, bank wouldn’t even trust me with an overdraft.
Ironically poor people tend to put more emphasis on buying name brands, certainly for things that other people see, like clothes, vehicles etc.
Value signaling is a thing.
My dad grew up poor and he can’t stand going to budget stores like Aldi and Lidl. It’s almost a matter of principe for him, he can afford to go to the more expensive store so he will.
This sounds like a Nouveau Riche thing because your dad now has money to spend. If he can go to Whole Foods over Aldi, he ain’t pauvre.
It’s not only my father in taking about
Man I’m the complete opposite. I grew up in the hood, if you had nice things, you wouldn’t have them for long.
Driving nice cars and wearing name brand clothes just states “I have more money than you and I’m proud of it” which is a) universally a dick move, especially when you drive that fancy car past a dozen homeless every day, and b) makes you a mark. Oh you’re driving a Benz? You’ve probably got valuables in it, let’s take a look.
Nowadays I still drive a beat up old car and wear off brand clothes, both because I can’t afford better but I also don’t want to even look like I can afford better for the above reasons. It’s just being an ass and also putting a target on yourself.
I love Aldi. Week of food for 15 quid, easily. Fried rice is a popular cheap meal for me
I know, I love it too.