• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Just wait until you see how much they waste on unused life insurance!

      I know you’re joking, but lots of people buy really bad life insurance products (whole life, universal variable policies) that are a horrible waste of money in 99.9% of people’s situations.

      A large-ish term life insurance is fine if you have a family that needs to replace your income if you die early. Other than that, you only need enough money to get your remains put in the ground without burdening your family. Estimate $10k or so for full funeral and burial plot if that is your desire. If you just want cremation and spreading of ashes is much cheaper. If you’ve got the cash for that, you don’t even need a small term policy for that.

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    10 days ago

    Cancel subscription, the headline:

    Millenials are killing subscription-based businesses!

    😛

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    Once a year, I make a spreadsheet of my transactions and sort them by name to review subscriptions.

    But honestly, just scrolling through your transactions once a week it easy to catch and cancel stuff you don’t use very often

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    11 days ago

    My ex had three separate Amazon prime subscriptions going at once for three separate accounts and only used one of them. It was a lot of money wasted for no reason. I’m convinced most people never actually look at their bank account. Once a month I go through the expenses and make sure they all add up, it’s really not hard to do and catches weird stuff like this

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    11 days ago

    which is 20 a month.

    not a huge economic loss. that’s two drinks at a bar, our four coffees at starbucks.

    people are spending a lot more than that other places. I have known plenty of people who are pay $2400-3000 a year on gym memberships they never use, because they had to get on to a ‘good gym with a steam room’ or something utterly absurd like that. who also whine about how broke they are and how expensive everything is… the same folks who ask you why you don’t have the newest iphone that just came out and talk about how ‘old’ their 1 year old phone is.

    or just the habit of eating out a few times a week, will easily run you $300 a month or more.

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      11 days ago

      $20 for two drinks at the bar? Must be some cheap drinks, hell I haven’t seen cocktails under $15 in a couple of years now, and craft beer pints are $10+. Wild how much prices have ramped up, but our paychecks sure haven’t.

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        11 days ago

        cocktails are expensive because they take time to make. $15 cocktails is pretty cheap for me, where I am they are often closer to $20 unless you’re at a dive bar. $10 is a domestic beer or a house wine, which is what most folks drink when they go out.