The three tubes is the whole product. The rest is all empty cardboard. 10 ounces of sugar with more packaging than a 50 pound sack of sugar.

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Saw these at target when I was buying myself toothpaste. You can’t ever change the heads. On the adult version (last slide) you can but still

Kinda wild thing I never thought about until I looked into it. You and your friend get different prices at the same time for the exact same thing. WHY?

Some pricing companies literally sell software built around your "willingness to pay." And the faster and easier the checkout, the less you compare... which is kind of the point.

What I've been doing:

• checking stuff on a second device before I buy
• not shopping when I'm tired or in a rush
• honestly just buying more in person where I can see the actual price

I made a video on the whole thing if anyone's curious: https://youtu.be/PP0LL0-w-Fc

Anyone else going back to stores just to see a normal price?

this is being sold/advertised for an adult!!

what adult needs this?!

edit: thanks for the variety of perspectives. I didn’t mean to suggest we should remove joy and relaxation from people’s lives.

Growing up today means navigating endless trends, weekly clothing hauls and constant social pressure to constantly wear something new, driven heavily by platforms where fast fashion is normalized and rewarded.
For teens and young adults entering a world dominated by fast fashion cycles, what do you think is the most effective way to revert back? Is it about changing how social media influences fashion culture, shifting the stigma around rewearing clothes, or tackling the root of how young people build their identities through style?
Curious to hear your thoughts on how younger generations can navigate the fast fashion culture.

“my newest hobby” and its 11 notebooks of “dot by letter” which appears very similar to diamond painting. ELEVEN of them off the bat just seems insane to me. and of course she isn’t alone in over-consuming and going on a shopping spree for a new hobby. and i’ve seen much worse hobby shopping sprees on tiktok too. and we all have room to improve.

but i think a sub focused on this kind of trend-based habit would be good for people to vent their annoyances about it, or even talk about their own bad habits that are in that same realm. if it exists, let me know! but this sub does seem to not want this kind of post since it can be repetitive and doesnt have the kind of substance thats intended here (correct me if i’m wrong), however i feel showing it when it happens and talking about habits of people around us and ourselves could be helpful and i feel it could potentially reach more people, and introduce more people to anti-consumerism through shared annoyances lol. maybe i’m overthinking this! sorry!

I live in a cold winter climate renting a coldass house cheap. Comfortable heating is expensive and burns through a lot of fuel.

I’ve set up my own makeshift kotatsu with a legged coffee tray in front of my couch but wondering if anyone has tried this and have they seen underconsumption from it?

Basic idea is warm me, not the whole space.

Otherwise i might just switch to indoor tent.

... the moment I step into my local pound shop 🥲 (equivalent, I'm in Germany)

Blaaaaaarrrrgh.

Huge Tracy Chapman fan. But I've never properly listened to/heard the lyrics to this. It all made sense to me listening this morning.

Tracy Chapman - Mountains O' Things

I dont know if this is the right sub but im currently sick so im watching alot of TV. Currently half the adds on Paramount plus are ai scam adds asking people to call the number on the screen for lower car insurance rates, and burial insurance for people above 50. I would love to know if anyone else has been seeing these and why are they allowing these adds!?

I know paying for streaming services isnt the best but I mostly mooch off of my parents lol.

I just built my resume using a tool and my experience. It tried to paywall me, and then had the absolute cheek to obfuscate the screen when screenshotting.

I have a phone and access to AI. You want me to pay? I’m scraping that text into a free template. Screw you

I saw someone mention that there’s more plus size clothes in op shops now that GLP1s are so popular and the resonated with me because I’m on a GLP1 and am losing weight and my clothes are getting too big for me.

So I was wondering, for those of us who have gained and lost weight over the years, how have you dealt with the fact that you need clothes that fit you and are appropriate for work, etc. when your size has gone up and down so dramatically that you can’t keep wearing the same wardrobe?

I don’t have room in my house to store wardrobes for four different sizes so I had to remove my smaller clothes (besides a few faves I couldn’t part with and always hoped I’d fit again). Now I need smaller clothes again but I know I’ll probably need to go down another size again within the next year. Altering clothes to be smaller can work for something but I just don’t have the skill to alter everything I own.

Do you just have a capsule wardrobe/basic essentials when in a transition size? Like how are we doing this?

I am currently of the belief that industrial society (perhaps civilization itself) has been detrimental to our existence as a species, as individuals, as communities, and our lives in almost every aspect. I would sincerely like to be proved wrong in my assumptions and have searched many places for answers that would be suitably convincing, unfortunately finding none. I suppose I'm mainly directing this towards people who are at least sympathetic to the ideology, but I would just like to hear opinions.

Increasingly I've begun to think I simply am not made for an industrial world. Something in my wiring causes me such extreme discomfort when confronted with the consequences of our impact on the world, and even more so the impact on ourselves. We have created our own steel cages and give up more and more freedoms only thickening the bars. If the sole measure of success is our ability to adapt to these circumstances which we were never intended to endure, what sort of success is that? Is it virtuous to transcend our nature? I am by no means religious, but we are not animals which can evolve quickly, and the growth of civilization has far outpaced our natural abilities.

Even if so, to what end should one adapt? Endless economic growth? Arguing to ignore it and live a happy life just appeals to the diffusion of moral responsibility, "Oh well if I reject the evils of the world someone else will simply take my place, so why shouldn't I?" If I choose to ignore my perception of the world in favor of a white picket fence is that not just simply resigning myself to ignorance? Even if appealing, to what end are we trying so hard to cope with intolerable circumstances?

I know there must be an ethical "correct" answer to this; I am not ignorant enough to believe that I am the first person to have these issues, but it does seem insurmountable to me currently. Anyone who actually read this, thank you, I'd really appreciate some external input.

TL;DR: world is lowkey messed up, and I don't see a way to cope with it that isn't (at the very least) complacent in its perpetuation.

Is Rupert Murdoch media, of course. A Central for Independent stories. They want people to consume McDonalds, Hungry Jacks, Plastic, Fast Fashion and Sugary drinks

If uncertainty is their greatest fear: if it is what keeps us doing what's good for us: & not corporations (i.e., saving rather than investing, spending, or wasting money on high risk transactions): to destroy globalized capitalism it stands to reason that we must be as uncertain, whatever that means, as possible. Revel & wallow in "uncertainty".

wtf does that word even mean, to economics analysts?