Poll of the Day > What do you tend to waste the most money on, on a consistent basis?

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So not like a single purchase that you wasted a lot of money, but something like a subscription or a disposable habit.

I'd have to say food. Obviously I need food, so I justify it to myself that way, but I spend way more than I need to buying crap food. Soda in particular is a big waste, it's like $2 or more from most restaurants nowadays. At least I don't smoke, I guess.

Overall I don't think I have many other wastes. I stopped subscribing to stuff I barely use (XBL, Amazon Prime), and I don't drink as much beer or buy as many games that I'll probably never play just because they're on sale.

Video games, for sure. I buy games almost every week.
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I eat out a fair amount, so that's certainly up there.

Video games I have a habit of buying and then never playing. Same with books, so many unread novels.
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Far-Queue posted...

Video games, for sure. I buy games almost every week.

Do you play them, though? I wouldn't consider them a waste if that was the case. But I guess it's up to each person to decide what is a waste. From my perspective, I'd consider cigarettes to be a waste, but maybe certain people who smoke just view them as another thing they enjoy, just as people enjoy video games.

I almost always check them out for an hour or so to see what they're all about but most of them get shelved for something more interesting. I don't think I finish even half of them, but my intention is to play them eventually.
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Liquor
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Coffee when I run out of beans at home.
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Games, most likely. I'm pretty careful with money, generally. Whenever I do eat out I don't get anything too expensive.

I also never buy games full price and always try to wait for a deal, but that's probably offset by buying things frequently.
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Food, probably. I usually use all of it. But in the occasional stuff I have to throw away. I spend a lot of money on stuff like streaming services and internet gaming subscriptions. But since I use them and play online and it brings me joy, I don't really
Consider it a waste. That's why video games aren't really a waste. But food is...
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Do any of you guys make budgets and track this shit? I've always been a little scared to do it, but that probably means I should be doing it. Or at least I could probably track all my food purchases and see how much I'm wasting.

LinkPizza posted...

Food, probably. I usually use all of it. But in the occasional stuff I have to throw away.

Oh, I meant more like eating a lot of fast food is how I consider it a waste. I don't like throwing away food, of course, but I think everybody ends up having to do it.

I spend like $100 Canadian a month on figurines.
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SteamedHams posted...

Do any of you guys make budgets and track this shit? I've always been a little scared to do it, but that probably means I should be doing it. Or at least I could probably track all my food purchases and see how much I'm wasting.

LinkPizza posted...

Food, probably. I usually use all of it. But in the occasional stuff I have to throw away.

Oh, I meant more like eating a lot of fast food is how I consider it a waste. I don't like throwing away food, of course, but I think everybody ends up having to do it.

I do eat a lot of fast food, too. Maybe less than I did before, though...

That being said, I have done the whole budget thing before. It can help certain people. But I only did it because I was forced to. I only meet my budget lady once. Then I avoid her like the plague. I saw her once a few years later and she was like, we have to schedule another meeting. I said sure, but never did. It might work for you since you want to spend less on fast food. When I did it, I didn't realy have more or less to spend. The only reason I had any funicular triuble was because I was moving. But still had to pay for 2 places at the same time for a couple months... It's not that hard. But you do have to know all your expenses to do it...
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Weed. Although I need it for medical reasons, so I don't at all see it as a waste. Others do though
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Candles
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Chocolate and Yu-GI-Oh cards. It's specially funny because people at home ends up eating more than half of the chocolate I buy and I have no one to play cards with but I just keep buying all of this for some reason.
And maybe I could save a little more money when it comes to food, but screw that, if I wanna eat, it has to be the good stuff instead of the cheap one.

Impulse shopping, or generally shopping without a specific purpose in mind.
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Weed, cigarettes, beer, energy drinks are all up there, but cigarettes are probably my biggest expense of the sort.
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I spend around 20-30 bucks a week on comics. Also I spend around $20-40 every other week or so, out drinking.
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booze. if I got the money i'll drink at least once a week.actually cigarettes beat that by a mile but i'm hoping to quit that one day. only way i'll quit drinking is if weed becomes legal and even then its still only a small chance i'd quit altogether as I recall really enjoying mixing the two.
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That damned American tuition; I must pay about thirteen-hundred dollars per class. The only other thing I pay for is lunch, but that's less than sixty dollars for this semester, anyway.

Come fall, I will spend less than ninety dollars. But I still live with me mum, so that's the main reason why I don't spend much on food or any money on rent.
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Food lol
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Lots...

Video games and video game related stuff like figures and merchandise.

Smokes

Pot

Cars and parts

Food

Ice Caps from Tim Hortons

Probs more stuff

Vaping.
I only spend around 5 a week but eh it's still a waste of money.
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Food
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I save most of my money. I haven't upgraded my PC in 4 years, there's zero reason to.

Fast food doesn't cost that much, and honestly, I don't even eat enough to worry about it. I'll eat one big mac and a multi-vitamin + snacks in a day.
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SteamedHams posted...

Do any of you guys make budgets and track this s***? I've always been a little scared to do it, but that probably means I should be doing it. Or at least I could probably track all my food purchases and see how much I'm wasting.

I have around 95% of my video game receipts, dating back to late-1989. I finally went through them all last year and recorded them in an Excel file. I'm pretty confident that it is my largest non-necessity expenditure. Music CDs would probably come in 2nd.
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Yellow posted...

I save most of my money. I haven't upgraded my PC in 4 years, there's zero reason to.

Fast food doesn't cost that much, and honestly, I don't even eat enough to worry about it. I'll eat one big mac and a multi-vitamin + snacks in a day.

It does add up if you get it a lot, though...
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> Fancy Restaurants with my wife
> TV Subscription for football ( i only watch like half of the games)
> Internet data caps
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Clothes. Ever since I developed a fashion sense I end up buying clothes for fun rather than necessity. I buy a lot of stuff on clearance though, so it could be worse.
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Taking your mom to hotels.
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Food

I'm too lazy to make my lunch at home so I have to go out for lunch
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energy drinks

about 120 euros a month

that's 84 cans of monster
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Expensive food because I like to cook and take fancy pictures of my creations.
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Beer, easily
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Taxes.

prostitutes and vodka :|

Eating out, easily.
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SteamedHams posted...

Do any of you guys make budgets and track this shit? I've always been a little scared to do it, but that probably means I should be doing it. Or at least I could probably track all my food purchases and see how much I'm wasting.

I (and my wife) make budgets and track our spending. At first it was a pain but after doing it a couple of years its pretty easy. The first year we just tracked our spending in various categories. The second year we made a budget based on the prior year spending. The third year we tried to lower are spending in some categories. Now we have monthly budgets for each category and if we don't use it all then it carries over to the next month.
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Food. I end up buying more on sale than I intended. I went in today to get Pillsbury biscuits on sale with free eggs and orange juice. Ended up buying a half-price chuck roast, cheese and sour cream for oven-baked mac&cheese, bacon on sale, hamburger buns, Italian bread, spent $30, intended to spend $5 or $10.

Mac&cheese is in the oven, my neighbor is broiling sirloin burgers to go with it, we'll have a nice little feast for lunch, but I still spent more than I meant to.

Ramen is 25 cents a package.
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Taco Bell. At least Im not wasting it on pizza delivery like a few years ago, though. I only get $30/week for myself though so Ive gotten very selective with my purchases.
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Berating posted...

energy drinks

about 120 euros a month

that's 84 cans of monster

I'm worried about your heart

Yellow posted...

I'll eat one big mac and a multi-vitamin + snacks in a day.

What the fuck

So it seem like my food habits aren't as bad as I thought comparaed to what you guys posted. lol

Mostly just fast food and the occasional game that I stop playing after 30 minutes.

Other than that, I have literally wasted nothing.
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johnny cakes

also known as mary hoowannah
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It's only a waste if you didn't want it, I say

VixYW posted...

So it seem like my food habits aren't as bad as I thought comparaed to what you guys posted. lol

PotD is a curious mix of fast food junkies, and people who despise fast food.
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SteamedHams posted...

What the fuck

I probably eat 1000 calories a day at most. If I ate more I probably wouldn't feel so lethargic, but I mostly sit around anyway and forget to eat.

The funny thing is I'm actually kind of skinny-buff.
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I mean is that your daily meal though? Or is that a meal you eat on occasion, but still all you eat on those days?