Housing. You will never ever convince me that your average 1500 square foot house is actually worth nearly half a million dollars no matter where it sits. The damned thing better be lined with gold before I'll pay that much.
We bought our house right before the housing bubble burst. When we first started looking the mortgage and banks would allow us to take out a mortgage for up to $500,000. But I knew the crash was coming and ended up buying an $80,000 townhouse. Our bank and most mortgage companies did not want to work with us because we were buying well under our means. People also laughed at me (friends/coworkers) because I bought a cheap house, but after the crash some of them lost their houses and I ended up helping pay the mortgage for two close friends. Buying a house is a real big scam. My family and I just needed a place to live, sleep and hold some stuff, we don't need a status symbol.
Going to college! Tuition and textbooks are growing out of control. Student loan interest rates are absurd. Somethings got to give over the next decade, because this is just unsustainable.
Toilet paper. I feel like I spend so much money on toilet paper and every time I see that nice stack of white rolls in the pantry I feel a strange loathing for them. I don't want to spend money on toilet paper! But I must.
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Housing. You will never ever convince me that your average 1500 square foot house is actually worth nearly half a million dollars no matter where it sits. The damned thing better be lined with gold before I'll pay that much.
We bought our house right before the housing bubble burst. When we first started looking the mortgage and banks would allow us to take out a mortgage for up to $500,000. But I knew the crash was coming and ended up buying an $80,000 townhouse. Our bank and most mortgage companies did not want to work with us because we were buying well under our means. People also laughed at me (friends/coworkers) because I bought a cheap house, but after the crash some of them lost their houses and I ended up helping pay the mortgage for two close friends. Buying a house is a real big scam. My family and I just needed a place to live, sleep and hold some stuff, we don't need a status symbol.
Can't agree more. (source: lived in the Granite city, almost as bad a London despite being a fucking horrible black hole of hell)
Oh lord. What about a 1500 square foot house for several million? That's Vancouver for you. (And a lot of other metropolises, of course).
Going to college! Tuition and textbooks are growing out of control. Student loan interest rates are absurd. Somethings got to give over the next decade, because this is just unsustainable.
Internet access. We keep paying more each year but the infrastructure never gets updated.
Here's why.
Toilet paper. I feel like I spend so much money on toilet paper and every time I see that nice stack of white rolls in the pantry I feel a strange loathing for them. I don't want to spend money on toilet paper! But I must.
According to my wife, photo equipment is expensive. That's when I remind her I could still be burning a lot more money on motorcycles or classic cars.
HDMI cables.
There you go, never pay over $10 for an HDMI cable again in your life.
Look for cheap ones, the last I bought cost me CA$ 4 for a 2m (about 7') one, works like a charm.
The moon.
Mobile plans in Canada.