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MORE ITEMS THAT ARE A WASTE OF MONEY
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Hotel minibar: If you buy a full price bottle at a liquor store and think, "this would be better if it was smaller and more expensive" the mini bar is just right for you.
Plastic surgery: Everyone knows you're old. Paying good money to look weird and old isn't helping anything. Plastic surgery is butchery. It doesn't make you look better, it makes you look like someone cut your face open, pulled the slaps, and stitched it all back together. Your skin might look smoother, but leather suitcases are also smooth. Not to mention that plastic surgery is expensive like real surgery, only there are not any healthy benefits.
Movie candy: It's not bad enough that movie candy comes in packages so large that it would take a normal sized human being 4 movie screenings to finish it, but it is wildly overpriced. Also, you're an adult. Do you really need candy to watch a movie?
Single condoms from a bathroom vending machine: This is only a wise use of money if you decided on this instead of the whole "revolver with one bullet" route. You're playing with your life here. Not to mention, buying condoms in bulk, cowboy, is just more cost effective. Carry them around with you on the off chance that you get lucky.
Expensive male haircuts: Perhaps the greatest swindle ever perpetuated upon the fairer sex has been that a woman's haircut should cost at least 5 times what men pay. For women, that battle is lost. But men, there's still hope. It's called a barber shop, and it's just fine. Let's not mess up a good thing, OK ?
The gym: Here's a money saving tip: if you're chubby, go jog. It's free.
Casinos: You ever heard the expression "the house always wins?" Well it does. Oh, one more thing: YOU ARE NOT THE HOUSE.
First class plane tickets: If your boss buys your ticket, I guess it's worth it. If not, you're paying 600 bucks for a hot towel and a curtain. The first class section is just the "hey look at me, I spent more money than you on the same flight" section. Save money, sit with the rabble and eat the pretzels.
High-end cocktails: Fancy cocktails, bottle service, and top shelf liquor in the finest bars, have less to do with quality than vanity. That's why we're a lot cooler than you, cause we're out here on the curb brownbagging a 40 of Crazy Horse. Drinking alcohol is about one thing: getting a buzz. Cut out the pricey middleman and order two fingers of "brown-flavored liquor."
SUVs: You don't need a car that big. You. Just. Don't. Why? Because if you really needed a car that big, you'd have a pickup truck. Once upon a time, it might have been the "cool" thing to drive around in a neutered tank, but is showing off how much credit you have really "cool" anymore?
$200 sneakers: Air Jordans used to be cool, but let's face facts. In 2011, Michael Jordan is a 48-year-old underwear salesman. Stop paying 200 bucks for sneakers. They won't help you fly, no matter how much you clap.
Designer clothes for babies: The reason you don't buy a baby a 75 dollar shirt is the same reason you don't but one for a college kid. They don't care either way, and will likely throw up on it.
Amtrak: Planes are expensive, but fast. Buses are cheap, but slow. Trains are expensive and slow. Got it?
Expensive jeans: Blue jeans became classic because they were the dependable, affordable pants of the working man. Here's a tip, if you paid enough for your jeans that you are reluctant to wipe pizza grease on them, then they aren't jeans. That's what jeans are for.
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