“Paying $200 for a required physical book, in order to read the required 1/10th of it, and then the college making it obsolete the next year even though it’s only a year old, so you can’t even sell it back. They’re not even IT books — which I could maybe understand — but history, English, and physics books, which NEVER CHANGE.” —u/whatchlookinat “Those access codes are a fucking racket. But if that’s what your class requires, you have to buy it. Kinda fucked up.” —u/Dmacxxx77 “Most high-end skincare contains ingredients that are, in their pure form, quite cheap to buy at this point.” —u/scare___quotes “The government takes more money from you than they should (in most cases), and you have to fill out lots of paperwork to try to catch them on it or pay someone to do it for you. Then, when you get that money back, even though it should’ve been yours to begin with, you feel like you got ‘bonus money,’ which a lot of people just end up spending on random shit so the government gets to skim some more of that off in sales tax. What’s always hilarious is the fact that so many people view this as ‘free money’ that they get every year, when in reality, it’s a reflection of a flawed system.” —u/nickyfrags69 “They’re literally just priced by a company to create value. It’s just a rock.” —u/thisiszeena “I went through a hard time years ago and ended up having no other option but a payday loan. I was stuck in this cycle of paying off the loan and taking the same amount for another week to get by. Never again.” —u/SlickAMF “It makes no sense to me. If it’s unpaid, why the fuck do you have to extend your workday?” —u/HackTheNight “I was looking for tickets to a pro hockey game. The ticket price was $108, and the fee was $83.” —u/Duluthian2 “We chose cremation after my mom died. We still had to pay 400€ for a plain wooden box! A cardboard box would’ve been fine — the box ends up as ashes.” —u/wwarhammer —u/tellkrish
