I had a massive consumption problem. Especially on hobby spending. This year I uninstalled every retail app and unsubscribed from every promotional email. No exceptions. No more notifications about limited time offers, sales, bundles, last chances, etc.

Tell yourself that if you really need it, you’ll pay full price for it. If you aren’t willing to pay full price for it, then ask yourself if you really need it. Force yourself to log into the site from your browser when you buy it rather than having it be two taps away.

I’ve also taken a more critical look at the YouTubers I follow to see which ones are spending more time talking about promoted products or the monetary value of things VS their quality and utility.

Almost every interaction on the internet is now designed to separate you from your money. Remember that and you’ll realize how much we’re being treated like lab rats.

I basically cut my spending in half, which was good because my income was lower this year. Despite that, I was able to save more.

I play so much Balatro considering I barely know what I’m doing.

There was a short time where my baby cousins and I connected on video games each Christmas but now they show up with their partners and are too cool to hang out.

It became a December problem for me because someone else thought it was a January problem.

Nintendo is a blight on this earth and must be abolished.

Us elites were using BBM…probably. I don’t know when that was and I’m not looking it up.

Awesome!

… we’ll never hear about this again.

With bony hands I hold my partner, On soulless feet we cross the floor, The music stops as if to answer, An empty knocking at the door. It seems his skin was sweet as mango, When last I held him to my breast, But now, we dance this grim fandango, And will four years until we rest.

Not a farm, but I’d like to open a coffee shop or bistro type place someday. The kind of place where people in my neighborhood can meet up to chat and grab a really good sandwich, not just stare at their laptops.

It was cancelled after season 2. They never got to reveal who the father was.

I apparently thought him and Jeremy Sisto were the same person my entire life.

Only if you have a work visa. Don’t want foreigners stealing crow work.

They do but first they need to have to get a rib removed

Shut up and take my money in 4 installments that I will be unable to pay back later.

Been really getting into playing drums on Clone Hero recently and it’s given me a chance to rediscover so many songs that I haven’t thought about in years.

I obsess over half of these things and my kids’ mom the other. Our kids never stood a chance.

At least in the case of my phone I had to put 11 back on to unlock the bootloader because OnePlus removed the ability to do it in their version of 12. Screw those guys.

Wow I was a day one Steam Machine, Frame and Controller buyer until this. Maybe people like me are the problem.

Straight from the playbook. Announce something terrible, then back off with something bad. Everyone calls it a win.

See: Wizards if the Coast, Unity

I prefer to put my hands on the floor and lift my feet up against the wall.