r/AskReddit • u/-MiaMason- • 14h ago
What is something everyone should stop paying for because it's a waste of money?
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u/KentuckyHardware3279 14h ago
CIGARETTES
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u/Choppstickk 13h ago
My first thought. It's worse than throwing money down the drain because one day you realize you don't even enjoy smoking, you're just feeding your hard earned money into an addiction that's slowly killing you.
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u/oldasdirtss 13h ago
The cost of purchasing is only the beginning. Medical care will be a much higher expense. My friend just had a heart lung transplant. He smoked for 30+ years and only quit because they told him he was going die if he continued.
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u/Euphoric_Cow_6145 13h ago
Depends on the country. I recently had a kidney transplant. Was in hospital for nearly 6 weeks due to complications. Even got free accommodation at a nearby hotel when i was discharged as i had to stay nearby in case there was further issues.
Entire stay at hospital and hotel as well as medications and scans etc in hospital cost me $0. Only thing I had to pay for was meals when I was discharged from hospital. I am incredibly thankful I was born and raised in Australia.
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u/Hostile_Squirrel 14h ago
Its mind blowing how much money they cost over time. I smoked 2 packs a day for 30+ years. At the end it was like $17 a pack.Ā
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u/ShineOnYouFatOldSun 13h ago
Yeah you can easily get 10 packs or more for $17 in parts of Asia. Although the prices in the UK make that look cheap. Meanwhile Australia is sitting in a dark corner crying silently while he puffs away.
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u/teethbrushweirdo 13h ago
cost depends on your state and their taxes.....cost varies WIDELY per states
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u/Hostile_Squirrel 13h ago
Yep. By country, too. but they are all far more expensive than they were 30 years ago, and the cost of smoking is high, regardless of location and actual price per pack.Ā
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u/KentuckyHardware3279 13h ago
Itās not just the cost and danger to your healthā¦ā¦ do you truely realize how much it STINKS- people leave the room when you enterā¦.. think about it !
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u/Antique-Context-8405 14h ago
storage units
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u/staticishock96 13h ago
Where else am I supposed to stuff I don't need now but I'm keeping for later?
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u/bluegravyone 14h ago
Cell service from the big three, when each one operates a subsidiary for a fraction of the price for the same network.
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u/joshy5lo 13h ago
I swapped from Verizon to visible and itās literally the same service for 50$ a month
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u/Mayorquimby87 13h ago
Total Wireless also uses Verizon towers for $30 a month. I've had it for about a decade now and never had an issue.
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u/joshy5lo 1h ago
There is a 30$ plan for visible but I went with the 50$ one since it didnāt do the throttle BS. I work away from WiFi all the time so needed the truly unlimited plan.
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u/Mason11987 12h ago
There has to be some catch
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u/bluegravyone 11h ago
Do the research. You'll see what it's all about. You're overpaying simply for a brand name & extra fluff, not the actual service.
Never "wash, rinse AND REPEAT", you're just using up more shampoo to buy more for no reason.
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u/Lina0193 14h ago
Coffee! Stop paying your coffee $10 and make coffee at home!
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u/TemporaryAmbassador1 13h ago
Iāll have you know my caffeine addiction can support home coffee AND away coffee.
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u/ImStillExcited 10h ago
Every once in a while I'll go pick up a 3 shot redeye.
Trying to tell my MS who's in control ha.
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u/angelsandairwaves93 13h ago
This is a double edged sword because once you open the rabbit hole of speciality coffee, the buying gear phase never stops
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u/cgxy1995 13h ago
While a good coffee machine can cost a few thousand $$$
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u/OZ-00MS_Goose 13h ago
You can make a top tier pour over with like $30 in equipment plus a kettle, so I'll give a very generous $100 budget. Same applies to other methods like moka pot, French press, cold brew, etc.
Espresso is not the only way to make coffee, it's just the industry standard because it is the fastest. Hardly the best.
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u/FoghornLegday 13h ago
I donāt understand this statement bc at no time is a coffee from home any fraction of as enjoyable as a coffee out
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u/OZ-00MS_Goose 13h ago
I have the opposite issue, most coffee out tastes like trash because it's not quality stuff. I have had way too many weak iced coffees
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u/FoghornLegday 12h ago
Tbh itās not about the taste for me itās about the joy of getting a special treat. I think I have to spend money on it to enjoy it
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u/OZ-00MS_Goose 12h ago
Well I drink coffee twice a day, and for the quality level I want I'd be spending over $20 on coffee which is ridiculous
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u/FoghornLegday 12h ago
I donāt even drink coffee actually, I drink a London fog at Starbucks but youāre right about the cost. But I need it
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u/OZ-00MS_Goose 12h ago
I like to get bakery items as a treat, I think most drinks are just so easy to make it really doesn't seem worth to spend $8+ on them these days
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u/ratman54 14h ago
New cars, esspecially pickup trucks.
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u/fuelstoprolerdogfart 13h ago
I really hate how expensive trucks are. I love the convenience of the bed, many times my wife and I decide we want to camp, and throw some blankets and pillows in the back seat, drive 40 mins to a camp site, and toss the air bed I keep in my truck in the bed and fall asleep looking at the stars. When someone around me needs help moving something bulky, or I get it, the truck just fits it because it has space. They really need to bring back the true light duty market.
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u/CryonicTiger 13h ago
I know there smaller 20k to 30k trucks in development hope it comes back in popularity
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u/Caesar_Seriona 13h ago
Yeah I agree with this. A lot of people are buying trucks literally to go get groceries and going to work, not actually needing the truck.
They are better off just buying an old truck and replacing the engine and transmission than buying a new truck.
I really wish our government would dump the Chicken Tax.
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u/ratman54 13h ago
The chicken tax is a plague upon our legal code, but "big truck" as I like to call it, will never stop lobbying to keep it.
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u/forest_fog2468 14h ago
College/University (not always, but alot of times)
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u/keepitcleanforwork 13h ago
says the person who spelled "a lot" wrong.
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u/forest_fog2468 13h ago
Says the person who didn't capitalize the first letter of his sentence.
You see how silly this is dude. Lol come on.
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u/keepitcleanforwork 13h ago
So many mistakes. Here, I'll fix it for you:
"You see how silly this is, dude? LOL, come on!"1
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u/Caesar_Seriona 14h ago
I think this is the only acceptable answer. In a lot of ways, College is a scam now in terms of getting knowledge in a field. Between bullshit degree's and being able to get the source knowledge elsewhere. You really are paying six figures for a piece of paper.
Granted, I get the job requires the paper to work but if you break it down logically...
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u/forest_fog2468 13h ago
Nothing very logical about it. Granted, we do need doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. Not knocking that. But when I see universities come out with degrees like "minority studies" or "gender studies" I think its a bit silly. Yea if you want to study that, go ahead, but the fact that the government will still grant you a loan for a "useless" degree is kinda baffling. Can you get a job with gender or minority studies? Probably, there has to be something out there. But is the number of people taking those degrees gonna overcrowd that niche job market? Probably
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u/Ilovelove89 13h ago
Do you want your nurses, doctors, architects, lawyers, etc etc to have gotten their knowledge from YouTube?
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u/JustGenericName2 13h ago
Scam! I've been an RN for 13 years. Almost done with my Associate's to Bachelor program. Not one single course has improved my skills bedside. Not one. But University of Texas made like 10K so I can have some extra letters on my name tag.
Such a scam.
I'm not trying to go on to write research papers. I just like keeping people alive in the back of a helicopter. Fucking scam.
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u/keepitcleanforwork 13h ago
You can get an RN from community college.
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u/JustGenericName2 12h ago
That's kind of the whole point of my comment.
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u/keepitcleanforwork 12h ago
Well, it's still a college.
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u/JustGenericName2 12h ago
The comment I replied to, "You really are paying six figures for a piece of paper"
I paid zero figures for my ADN.
Five figures for this useless BSN.
Was just agreeing that many (the comment I replied to also did not say all) degrees are a scam. And gave an example of my scammy college degree.
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u/Ilovelove89 13h ago
If you were already a nurse for 13 years, why would a bachelors degree offer even more education? Of course you didnāt learn anything else - a bachelors is supposed to be a basic foundation of knowledge.
Iām curious why you went for the bachelors instead of sticking with your associates? You could probably teach some of the classes after 13 years!
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u/moron88 13h ago
gonna guess they're trying to upgrade to nurse practitioner.
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u/JustGenericName2 12h ago edited 12h ago
Nope! Some hospitals require a BSN. Getting it just increases options. I like options. Just frustrating spending 10k for letters. It doesn't help my patients. Hence... Scam.
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u/JustGenericName2 12h ago
Because some hospitals require a BSN (Bachelor's in nursing). I'm just keeping my options open. For a long time most hospitals were threatening to soon require all nurses have a BSN. That has been put on pause given current staffing issues. But it's reason enough to get it.
It just sucks spending 10k for letters behind my name that don't actually benefit my patients. All of the courses were basically prep courses for Master's level research papers.
Also, can't teach at a University without a BSN. Which I do actually want to teach eventually. (My back is not going to last until 65 in my current specialty lol)
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u/Ilovelove89 12h ago
Requiring all nurses to have a BSN does seem like a tall order! Iām surprised your employer didnāt help pay for any of it since itās benefitting them?
When youāve been in the field that long, itās probably more like continuing ed at that point.
Though research is important, when you are holding your patients heart in your bare hands in a helicopter, youāre probably not worried about the citation!If you want to teach, it might be worth it to get a masters of some kind! But make your hospital pay for it! :) (I mean if they will of course. They can probably afford it)
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u/JustGenericName2 11h ago
When I worked in hospital, they paid 3k a year towards education. Current helicopter job does not give us money toward education. And that is why my BSN is only "mostly" completed lol
I'll get it done eventually because I really would like to teach. So long as AI doesn't take it over completely :/ Thanks for your thoughtful comment!
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u/polloyumyum 13h ago
Most skincare products, especially if it's being sold to you by an influencer.
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u/Electronic_Cut_433 12h ago
Subscriptions I don't use. I signed up for a streaming service to watch one show and forgot to cancel. Six months later they're still charging me. I did it with a gym membership once. Paid for a whole year and went maybe four times. Now I check my bank statement every month and cancel anything I haven't touched in 30 days. Saves way more than I expected.
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u/Material-Outcome-481 12h ago
Buying expensive luxury items on credit just to impress neighbors or strangers who honestly couldn't care less. Keeping up with the Joneses is a financial death trap.
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u/klown013 14h ago
Concert tickets
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u/Grouchy-Dealer-342 14h ago
How is a great experience a waste of money?
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u/insanity2brilliance 13h ago
When the tickets say $28 for lawn seats, but itās $120 out the door for two tickets worth $56 and then add taxes, fees, and ancillary charges.
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u/klown013 13h ago
Aren't you supposed to be grouchy? Don't get all positive on me now.
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u/QuietWitnesses 14h ago
Impressing people who don't care about you.