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Daily Discussion Thread: 🌲🏰🌹 Saturday, October 12, 2024
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A lot of it is long term habitual. His Lordship is struggling with his personal budget because he comes from a decently well off family and has always had good disposable income...meanwhile i earn half of what he does now but i grew up poor so i'm beetling along
Second this - if you've ever been really poor then for the most part the current 'crisis' isn't one. And I have been. Choices get made on habit, but the absolute basics are still available and affordable. Does one really really need to drink only bottled water at a zillion per cent markup? Energy is another matter - what shits me about this is the unpredictability of current energy costs. Chalk that one up to capitalism.
It’s definitely stressful when there are things you don’t have wiggle room on. Most of my life I did happily beetle along with the bare minimum basics but now my body has decided to be intolerant or allergic to everything cheap 😣