Over my life, I’ve noticed that my expenses for living fall into one of three buckets:

  1. Exciting buys
  2. Wise purchases
  3. Necessary costs

But I’m mostly curious about that first one…

What is your favorite kind of exciting buy?

My exciting buy might be a new musical instrument even though I have plenty, a new video game, purchasing art, a vacation, a luxurious meal, etc.

And less on the fun side of things, my other categories would shake out like:

  • A wise buy might be investing in a house or business, putting money away for savings, or spending a premium on a BuyItForLife kind of purchase to avoid buying a new one every year.
  • A necessary buy is probably the same as most others: housing costs, utilities, clothing, household goods, food, transportation, etc.
  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yea it’s definitely guitar pedals, microphones, cymbals etc.

    I don’t really buy anything else but necessities anymore. I would include wise purchases into that category. Hell I don’t really buy music stuff too often either. I finally have more than what I need, after struggling for a long time, but through it, I’ve found I never needed it to begin with. Plus I’m not having children.

    I am not the best consumer. Your ad targeting is lost on me! You hear that? Yea that’s right. 🖕

      • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Ngl, I’m “jaded”. I been through the shit, but found peace. It does take practice, or trauma, or some type of moment. We fall into our lesser nature instead of our better. It’s easy to do, and I fell really hard, all the way. Hated myself for it. But I’m all good now.

    • smolgumball@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I feel you. I have literally wrote browser automation scripts to press “I am not interested in this ad” buttons for me 💀

      • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s awesome. I literally do not know how to do any of that.

        Sometimes I think my own consumer tendencies kinda does the job tho. Like it doesn’t know what to recommend, so it gives me the same shit I’ve already bought. Like literally the same guitar over and over again lmao.

        • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          You probably look stuff up related to that guitar, so the algorithm is like, “I bet I can sell this guitar! There’s clearly interest here!”