What do people waste money on thinking it’s worth it, but really isn’t?

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What do people waste money on thinking it’s worth it, but really isn’t?

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  1. Common_Caramel_4078 Avatar

    Cigarettes, it is dangerous for the health

  2. dabor11 Avatar

    New smartphones every year

  3. AllTheGoodNamesDied Avatar

    Health insurance in America.

  4. mercurygermes Avatar

    Paying $8 for coffee just to sit in a loud café, pretend to work, and judge everyone who walks in. ☕📝👀

  5. didacticly Avatar

    Luxury clothing is an illusion. Chinese manufactured goods at an insane markup

  6. Zekxon Avatar

    Designer clothes. Have you seen the prices on Lanvins website?!

  7. UdonAndCroutons Avatar
  8. sisyphus-333 Avatar
  9. NomadR867 Avatar

    Luxury cars. A Cadillac Escalade is the same as a gmc Yukon but costs a lot more. Same with Lexus and Infinity.

  10. RowaTheMonk Avatar

    Active but unused subscriptions.

    I know a lot of people that have no problem keeping Netflix and the like active for years but would go months if not longer without using. I guess they want the convenience and effort saved from not having to spend the 5 minutes renewing their sub?

  11. Kitchen_Bicycle4339 Avatar

    Extended warranties for stuff that already has a return policy and dies after 2 years anyway. It’s like paying to lose twice.

  12. uptoeleven1 Avatar

    The majority of products labeled as “luxury”

  13. bijelo123 Avatar

    Microtransactions in games

  14. SunGreen24 Avatar

    Starbucks coffee

  15. Additional_One3539 Avatar

    Smartphones, big weddings, wedding rings.

  16. Heavy_Direction1547 Avatar

    Multi-billion dollar ‘alternative’ health/medicine products and procedures. The placebo effect is a real thing but most of the industry lacks scientific evidence/support.

  17. AccessibleBeige Avatar

    That gym membership they got in January but now don’t use.

  18. GuybrushFunkwood Avatar

    Expensive hookers.

  19. ljr69 Avatar

    Most streaming services

  20. Slambrah Avatar

    Video game cosmetics

    Or even worse – a box with the video game cosmetics hidden inside it

  21. Top-Cycle-4791 Avatar

    Premium or mid grade gas when the vehicle doesn’t require it

  22. gracefull22 Avatar
  23. Interesting_Ask4406 Avatar

    Everything that was once luxury can now be manufactured with little to no difference. You buy bags from china that were shipped to Italy so they can sew a tag on it and skyrocket the price. You’re paying for the name and that’s it. Stupid money.

  24. Desenova Avatar
  25. PossiblyExtra_22 Avatar

    Breast augmentations and lip injections.

  26. can_of_cactus Avatar

    Drive-thru coffee.

  27. IndigoGirl_09 Avatar

    Stanley Cups & expensive coffee machines

  28. arrec Avatar

    Weddings. Just have a big party and invite your favorite people.

  29. MeghanSOS Avatar

    Everything lol

  30. fetishlyme Avatar

    New vehicles to keep up with the their neighbors or tech

  31. AgitatedPassenger369 Avatar

    Coffee once you leave the house

  32. sisyphus-333 Avatar

    Fancy cars. I find it so funny when people buy big ass cars that makes everyone else on the road/trying to park hate them, just for them to complain about how much their monthly payments are. Like youre telling me you got a $20,000 car that you cant even pay off? Be for real

  33. GreatXs Avatar

    Weddings. It’s not about the wedding, it’s about the marriage.

  34. DoesMatter2 Avatar

    Traveling overseas to a charity site to get Insta and FB photos of yourself with skinny African kids for your shrine to yourself.
    Just send them the fkn money!

  35. Waltzing_With_Bears Avatar

    Things that they dont enjoy

  36. AccidentRoyal5979 Avatar

    Buying new cars every 3 years

  37. abcpdo Avatar

    various insurances for trivial things when your risk profile is average or lower (you aren’t an absolute klutz with memory loss). if was cheaper than just eating the loss there wouldn’t be an industry for it.

    Apple Care is worth it though because it’s an emotional object in the first place and having a cracked/dented phone would annoy me to no end.

  38. New_Dust_6020 Avatar

    A brand new car that vastly loses value the minute you drive it off the forecourt.

  39. josephbando Avatar

    Cocaine , always end up with none left and will always will end up buying more, just to defeat the anxiety from the comedown.

  40. TheDangerHeisenberg Avatar

    Video game skins.

    Really, what else does a new design for your character bring to the experience of playing apart from the fact that your avatar changed its clothes and/or appearance?

  41. Long_Shallot_5725 Avatar

    Louis Vuitton and other branded leather goods.

  42. fishdog419 Avatar

    Brand name clothes, people pay a fortune to be walking billboards for shitty companies that make garbage clothes with slave labor

  43. DamianC469 Avatar

    haha those ALPHA MALE bootcamps, jeeesus

  44. jlsteiner728 Avatar

    Keeping up with the Jones’s.

  45. NeoDio971 Avatar

    Only fans subscriptions , they don’t care about you 😢

  46. Zealousideal_Bad8537 Avatar

    Scratch games. Casino

  47. PqqMo Avatar

    Expensive cars, brand clothing…

  48. Familiar-Sea886 Avatar

    Meme coins. They’re ponzi schemes with a different name.

  49. shakazoulu Avatar

    Expensive hotels

  50. OneFuckedWarthog Avatar

    Whole foods or food with “organic” in the name. There’s no difference in a tomato vs “organic tomato”. You are wasting money.

  51. chefboyarde30 Avatar

    Lottery tickets lol

  52. djauralsects Avatar

    Women and “beauty” products. Anything fake is a huge turn off. Long nails, wigs, coloured contact lenses, filler, Botox, lip injections, breast implants, heavy makeup, fake eyelashes, fake tan, etc.

  53. 5ccc Avatar

    Bottled water.

    Why would anyone want to drink water that had been sitting in a thin plastic bottle (leaching plastic into the water) for months, if they already have clean tap water.?

  54. throwaway007676 Avatar

    Anything they buy to impress others.

  55. Electrical-Horse-698 Avatar

    Anything gambling related…

  56. lionbacker54 Avatar

    High end skin lotion. None have been proven more effective than the cheapest lotion