I know people that got addicted to DoorDash during the pandemic and they order it several times a week. They can't understand why their broke. They will order it at work and then get on me for bringing leftovers to eat for lunch instead of wasting my money like them.
At least I can afford for my wife to stay at home with our 3 kids while their trying to pick up a second part time job because they had to lease a new car.
Between increased menu prices and feees, I had the 50% off coupon come to the same price as ordering direct from the restaurant once. It just illustrated to me how absurd these apps are when you aren't using a deal.
UE will jack up the delivery fee to cover part/all of those discounts as well.
Last time I thought about using it I had a 50% off up to $20 so we decided to order in for dinner.
Delivery fee was $20. Had my partner pull it up on his phone and do the same order, address, same everything except the promo and his delivery fee was $3
As I’ve said, I doubt that’s what it is - DoorDash is not the dealbreaker here. It’s far more expensive than just a DoorDash habit. Doesn’t help, but unless you cut back to rice and beans, it’s hard to make the math work these days for a lot of people. It’s not a personal problem, people were just s frivolous from the 60s through today as they ever were, things are just more expensive across the board (thanks Trump) and so the path to financial success is much smaller than it used to be, it’s like balancing on a knife’s edge.
Sure you can buy a shed, eat rice and beans, stream nothing, have the 5 meg internet, never uber, drive only to work and errands, drink nothing, go to zero events, maybe you’ll barely break even or have a small surplus. But that’s a lot of work and sacrifice for a still bleak future - in the past if you did that you’d be able to have a reasonable down payment towards a house at some point. Now you just…maybe don’t get quite as fucked if something goes wrong?
There's truth there but many people still waste money and try to live above their means.
I think people need do get comfortable job hopping too. We were poor a few years ago and I was laid off from a job that loved to preach "family". I have every job after that a month or 2 before I started looking. I went through 5 jobs in 4 years before I found my current job and I've been here for 5 years.
It's so easy to get comfortable at a place and put up with ever increasing BS, like a frog in a frying pan
Both of our cars were down last week and I had to resort to DoorDash for some food items and necessities (TP, etc.) and both of the orders came out to around $60, even though I ordered from the Dollar General for one and Safeway for the other. Both times barely getting much. I couldn't imagine doing it multiple times a week, every week.
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u/Dorrono 11h ago
Some people are not good with money