Couldn't hear the TV over my crunchy snacks
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This is my daily. I am harder of hearing than my wife so I have to turn the TV up, but then it is disrupting her sleep.
So then I sometimes use headphones, but sometimes the odd quietness of the room at that point causes her to wake up.
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I live in a nice village, my company were going litter picking volunteering which I really wanted to do but after day 1 (found a few items) it was just going for a walk with an empty bag.
I considered dropping lower the night before my son had to do a litter pick for a beavers badge
A couple of weeks ago, my favorite coffeeshop was closed. And, to make matters worse, my backup coffeeshop was closed. I was very lucky that my second backup was open. Otherwise, I would have been forced to go to the fucking Starbucks.
I'd rather eat a spoonful of dry instant coffee than set foot into this establishment.
My 65" oled tv is pretty laggy, and there's supposed to be an Optimize section in the menu, but there isn't, and the firmware is up to date.
I guess being unable to lose weight?
It is ridiculous how privileged it is in the context of human history to actually struggle with too much calories.
My wife is technically obese. She's not bedridden fat like you see on TV, just nicely rounded. She complains about wanting to lose weight and finding it hard.
I suffered pretty serious poverty before meeting her and turning my life round, and also the brexit-covid combo basically emptied our supermarket shelves and scared the shit out of us all.
My mouth agrees with her that we should both do more to lose weight, but my mind says "bitch finish that sandwich let's get a bit more famine resistance in us."
I think this is also a big part of the issue.
Many countries are only recently in the phase of over consumption, meaning that parents and grandparents are often teaching kids early on to not waste food in a extremely unhealthy manner once you are in the context of over consumption.
For some people their parents grew up in a time where wasting the last few bites of a meal, or letting food go bad, or not eating food that in front of you would actually be bad. Like, if you didn't eat the last few bites you are wasting a valuable resource that you might not get the privilege of eating tomorrow.
But for example in many parts of the US right now, you are much better off learning to throw food away than to learn to force feed yourself.
It is a shame that the world is like that, but the reality is that for many people today, being okay with throwing away food is an actually important part of staying healthy.
I got a Rx for zepbound and lost a bunch of weight.
I ate too much, and now I feel so bloated that all I can bring myself to do is sit on my comfortable sofa
A family with too much stuff in their house. We're sometimes given brand new clothes with the tag still on that they forgot about and no longer want. And this is like upper middle class.
Anyway, what I mean to say is tax the rich.
I am currently at a party of around 50 people sitting alone because I only know 1 person who is off talking to others, feeling super awkward. Does that count?
I dated a girl whoโs family never kept leftovers from meals even thanksgiving dinner they would throw out anything not eaten after dinner.
Wow. To me, Thanksgiving leftovers > the actual meal.
This hurts my soul.
I've been to a fancy restaurant before. We were given dirty looks for leaving with a bag of leftovers.
Wtf leftovers are like half the fun
Thanksgiving sandwiches are amazing.
Would they at least make less food to avoid the leftovers???????!!!!!! ๐ข
Nope they were very wasteful. And they all thought they were so much better than anyone else.
bet they white and Christian.
White yes, but Mormon.
I know nothing about mormonism except for surface-level info and memes, but I would have assumed they'd be more frugal types.
Yes they run the gamut of how they live their lives. I know some in the Mormon community who are very frugal and save and what not. And there are many people i have known in the Mormon community who act like they are Hollywood celebrities and are just wasteful with everything. Always buying a new car or truck, selling and moving into bigger houses, buying expensive name brands clothes etc.
Even worse
Extra worst! As another example her dad who is no longer alive was close friends with that Bundy family from southern Nevada that had that stand off with the government.
When I lived with my grandparents for a while I had to use the bathroom without heated floors whenever the maid was cleaning the other one. My current bathroom straight up doesn't have heating.
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My friend is a multi-multi-multi-millionaire. Her father started a retail giant in my country. She has her own pool building with (i think it's called) a free span roof. It is big enough to contain 6 copies of the house I used to own, exterior, roof, chimney and all. She spends more money per month heating the building and pool (which has not been used in 3 years) and paying maintenance and upkeep, than most people pay on their mortgage per year. She complained that the cost of natural gas went up 1.2%. She was spitting mad, tearing up the bill, balling it up and throwing it down in a huff. She also has a 30 car single span roof garage with row after row of industrial racking which contains mostly packrat stuff. She keeps that "Quonset" as she calls it, a balmy 20C all year through our -25C winters. And also complains about that cost.
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I bought the wrong dual arm monitor stand, and couldn't refund it.
The ice maker stopped working and When I make Sodastream I pour it over ice so I wouldn't make Sodastream soda and was "forced" to drink the Cokes in the fridge. It took 2 days before the ice machine was fixed.
Get those little pressure lines on your fingers carrying bags of groceries into the house.
Woah, look at Money Bags over here.
My local supermarket keeps the dark beers in the cooler!
C'mon guys, the darks are brewed to taste best at room temperature... and I want it now.
Fresh hop beers being stacked center aisle at room temp.
Yum.
When my WiFi has a 5-10 minute hiccup because my ISP is upgrading its network.
How will I ever last?
Damn. This sounds like Comcast to me.
With my current provider if it happened they have to discount my bill.
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