Pays off
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Seriously. Suburbs are a hell I refuse to return to and which I wouldn’t wish on anyone. They just suck the life out of everything and you don’t even get anything for it. Hell, the houses aren’t even that cheap so you really just get to spend a lot of money on hot garbage.
“Hey, wanna be isolated from all your friends while getting nothing in return except the blandest, cookie-cutter hellscape? Have I got the place for you! And fret not, it’ll still cost you a staggering amount of money for even a small, shitty place so you better be fuckin’ married if you want even a two-bedroom condo!”
I think suburbs is really only for people who have no soul and no creativity in the first place which could get smashed by the blandness of it all. I grew up in a very rural area and i hated it so much, it's difficult to put into words. I'll never leave the city again.
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Buddhism has entered the chat!
Learning to sit still, in the quiet, and just being has been one of the biggest improvements to my mental health.
Of course, a bigger improvement to my mental health would be if we had an economy that worked for the people rather than for the rich...
wrote last edited by [email protected]There's a german poem that i find very intriguing:
Still sitzend,
nichts tuend,
kommt der Frühling
und das Gras wächst von allein.It means:
Sitting still,
doing nothing,
comes spring
and the grass grows on its own.It means that in very difficult times, where everything seems dead and hopeless (winter), being patient and doing nothing at all is best, and it will bring you into better times (spring).
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My partner can fall asleep at any time of day. I'm jealous. I'd spend a lot more time unconscious if I had the option.
There's a great poem about this.
A man walked through his life with his Lord by his side. When he died, he looked back and saw that during the saddest and most troublesome parts of his life, he would only see 1 set of footprints, instead of 2. He asked the Lord "why did you leave me when i needed you most?" to which the Lord responded "it was then, that i carried you".
I think this expresses how besides our emotional side, there is also a much more enduring side inside us that takes over our consciousness when we need it most, so we only see the parts of life that we enjoy.
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I wish i could endure that. I'd go nuts without my hobby's i drop the moment they require any effort.
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Concerts costing that much are never worth it. I spend ~400$ for 2 nosebleed SZA tickets for my wife 2 years ago. We were watching the jumbotron the whole time.
My birthday shows this year are 30 and 50 a ticket and we can actually be see the musicians. I know I'm being a dumb hipster, but its so hard to justify ticket prices for large artists. What's the point of going to a football stadium to listen to live music. You could get a decent home sound system for the same price
We have a local place a couple cities over (013 in Tilburg) tickets usually are like €32 and large beer is €6 (i usually do well on 2) so that makes it €44 for a live performance from a band i actually enjoy (some pretty big names show up here).
Now of only i could still function for the two remaining workdays after a concert there, i would still go there.
But i'm probably getting old because it completely cripples me until after the weekend. Which is too high of a price as it puts my job at risk.
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$1200! I could buy like 2 snowboards for that(1 split board), or another bike. Are concerts like a status symbol now?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Nah, ticket sales & venues are largely a monopoly in the US and we're seeing the impact of that on our live event costs.
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Kind of depends on the hobby, for example if you live in a country with some mountains and you like hiking than it's a negligible cost, if you like skydiving then I am gonna go out on a limb and say that costs quite a but more.
And if your hobby is warhammer 40k or MtG then just pickup a cocaine habit instead to cut costs.
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Unless it’s motorsports. Then the necessities of life are the rounding error.
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People that don't have to pay rent every month have the luxury of pursuing expensive hobbies. Housing is so expensive that permanent homes are so far out of reach for many workers...
My mortgage costs more than when I was paying rent, though I do get more space. A whole 60m²! No longer confined to just a bedroom that you can touch both walls at once.
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Yes, I'm aware. And around 34% of Americans rent. No offense, but this is part of the disconnect. Home-owners (especially when they bought long ago when homes were cheaper) and out-of-touch boomers are dismissive. "Just get a loan like I did! Just earn more money! It's easy!"
Let's get the obvious out of the way: you chose to buy a home. You're also making payments on that, instead of throwing thousands away on rent every month. My rent is more every month than the mortgage for older people I know's family homes, and that's not an unusual situation! I'm a millennial, so I can only speak for myself. But many of us have to rent because what's the alternative? Live with family? Many of us don't have that option. Live on the street?
We're paying rent because we have to. Meanwhile, they jack up the rent because they have a captive audience so we can barely afford that, we certainly can't afford to save money to eventually buy a home. Many also can't afford the cost of moving, trying to get people to help them pack up and move everything, and get the time off work. This all benefits the giant corporations that are buying up all the properties to enrich themselves, but what are we to do? They have us over a barrel and they know it.
I bought about 18 months ago. After interest rates went through the roof. Cries in 6.99%
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Concerts costing that much are never worth it. I spend ~400$ for 2 nosebleed SZA tickets for my wife 2 years ago. We were watching the jumbotron the whole time.
My birthday shows this year are 30 and 50 a ticket and we can actually be see the musicians. I know I'm being a dumb hipster, but its so hard to justify ticket prices for large artists. What's the point of going to a football stadium to listen to live music. You could get a decent home sound system for the same price
The cheap tickets could be better than close seats anyway. It's easier to hide a joint when you're sitting amongst a chaotic sea of blankets in the lawn section. Oh yeah, and you get to lie down on a blanket.
I can't imagine close seats could match the experience of either dancing freely without seats getting in the way, or lying back on a soft blanket, stoned with your friends, as one of your favorite artists performs live music nearby. Why would I spend more money to throw those perks away?
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I take my daughter out to lunch and I just don’t eat now. $18 for a bowl of spaghetti bolognese, I’ll just drink water while she eats thanks
Holy shit that is more than I spend on food in a week per person.
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To start drawing you need a pencil and some paper. It costs almost nothing to start and it can be very rewarding.
wrote last edited by [email protected]To anyone who doesn't think they have any talent for drawing, but who wants to try, I'd recommend starting with simple shapes. I know, I know, it sounds childish, but I'm going somewhere here.
Start with simple shapes on their own. Then start adding simple shapes to each other. Connect them, overlap them, make some of them squiggly or unusual. Do whatever feels right.
Then, look back at the picture and really look at it. What else could it look like? If you showed that picture to a child, what would they think it was? (Go ahead and ask a child, if one is around. They are really good at this.) Look at those shapes and imagine something new growing out of it. If you must, put the picture down and go do something else for a bit. When you come back, your fresh eyes may see something that you didn't see before.
Then, add on whatever you imagined, bit by bit.
Not only does this help hone the hand-eye coordination and fine motor control needed for drawing, but it exercises your imagination and teaches you how to perceptualize more complex images (by being able to break them down to simpler parts.) It blends seamlessly in with Bob Ross's approach of using mistakes to enhance a work, too. Mistakes will happen, nobody's perfect. Being able to turn a random paint smear or inkblot into something that would fit in with a work can take you far.
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I could pay $1200 for concert tickets or $0 for D&D
Shoutout to 2014.5e.tools (or just 5e.tools if you want the gross new shit)
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Borrowing books from the library is free!
Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card
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I'm introverted and frugal. I sit in my chair and vibrate through realities.
Ditto, but I also hate being inside. That's why I spend every waking second itching and shaking waiting for my next chance to go to my local public observatory. Nothing hut introverted nerds out there in the middle of the pitch black night
Bonus points if you like hearing people infodump, these mfs LOVE telling you about their mirrors and eyepieces and accessories and shit
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Your house?
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I started doing junk journaling. It’s cheap but very satisfying…. Although that got me interested in geli printing so now I’m painting, and of course I had to also get acrylic markers… but the ones that I got are too thick for the detail I want. So now I have to get a 2nd set… not to mention the stamps. Never mind. Don’t start a hobby. No matter how cheap it sounds.
I realized recently that like 90% of my things that my mom considers "junk" are art supplies of some sort. (The other 10% are various stim toys.) Yarn, sewing patterns, possibly a million bottles of paint, brushes that are broken on the handle but still have the best bristles for certain effects, a tub of beads, reams of drawing paper (because I always forget about the packs I already have), I could go on and on.
The problem is, I'm shit at organizing. My ADHD brain gets overwhelmed and I never end up succeeding. Besides, I cycle through hobbies but there's no clear cut-off for when some interests change. I may keep out a crochet project because I had the steam to get halfway through, and I want it nearby so I can pick it up and add a few stitches when I feel like it. But then I decide I want to paint something, so I take out my paint supplies. Before that interest cycles completely out, I start wanting to mold something from clay...
And yeah. It gets out of hand sometimes, especially when I re-buy things I already had because I forgot I already had them. The chaos breeds more chaos. However, having to put away everything just to take it back out a few hours later sounds equally absurd. I know that's the habit we're all supposed to do, but for me if something is out of sight for too long, I could forget what I was even trying to make. I only complete projects that I keep coming back to, and any hinderance to that is like stepping on a banana peel on a stairwell, as far as my executive functioning is concerned. It makes it so much harder to arrive to the point where I'm actually done.
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Look at Mr. Fancy pants over here with their own house. Man, that must be nice.
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I could pay $1200 for concert tickets or $0 for D&D
$0 for D&D
What about the Funyuns and Mt.Dew?
