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Let’s play.

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Because it’s Friday and that’s what we do here.

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Unfortunately this is an easy question to answer these days as almost everything is ridiculously overpriced.

I could say owning a home – as real estate prices are astronomical.

I could say eating out – as food prices continue to skyrocket.

I could say a new cell phone – because I just checked the price on the new version of mine and it was $1,399.

But I’m going with watching television.

I’m old y’all… and remember when we only got three channels. Four if you were willing to put tin foil on your rabbit ear antennas and wiggle them into just the right position.

The plethora of choices today is overwhelming, but so is the price. We live in the country where there’s no cable and internet speed is abysmally slow. Our only real choice is satellite and they don’t give that away. Add a few premium channels to the line up and our monthly bill is almost $300.

To. Watch. Television.

Honestly I’d be happy to pull the plug and just stream the few things I watch on my phone, but my husband is old school and could never live without it. He’s a channel surfer from way back.

How about you?

What’s almost too expensive for you to bear these days…

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39 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  4. There’s an ice-cream place near us that used to have “two buck Tuesdays.” Now? It’s $4.50. But the worst is healthcare. Various recent visits to physicians (tele-health, even!) have been billed at $850-$1,000. A friend of mine who lives in Korea? She says she’s never coming back because not only are the cities walkable, there’s no gun violence, there’s public transportation everywhere, and doctors’ visits? $3.00.

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    1. We’ve paid upwards of $7.00 for an ice cream cone here. It’s nuts.
      And yes, healthcare is crazy. We’re very blessed to have wonderful coverage due to my husband’s military service, but one serious illness can bankrupt people. That’s just wrong.

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  5. TV is pretty well meaningless to me. I watch local and network TV for the news
    in the mo4rning and a couple of streaming shows, Daredevil and Bridgerton. The rest, there’s a lot of it, is Cathy’s choice. I don’t know how much it all costs and I don’t really care. She indulges my guitar habit, even going so far as to buy me a wicked cool grape jelly purple jazz guitar for my last birthday. So, I have to say TV is expensive but worth it.
    Not worth it? Meat at the grocery store, especially beef. I won’t flinch at the price of a good steak but Hamburger? Come on, peeps! 🥞 Thank God for Pancakes.

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  6. I’m going to say healthcare as well, if I didn’t need it so bad I’d just chuck it. But because I’m on like a thousand pills a day I have to have it. Also, are you okay? It’s Thursday and I’m thinking River has had a bit too many Bloody Mary’s this morning? lol

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  7. Newspapers, which probably dates me, too. I recently gave up my Madison digital-only subscription because it got to be too pricey.

    Having said that, I do still subscribe to my small-town daily paper. The actual physical version even. It’s just too dang cute not to (and much cheaper than those big city rags).

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  8. Me checking my calendar, apparently TIME is expensive cause it’s still Thursday here. I haven’t put a down payment on Friday. *giggle giggle*

    I agree with the price of watching TV. And food. And homes. Everything is costly. But, we also earn more money than we used to, so it kinda evens out, right? Is that just a Suzanne thing? I dunno. I remember my grandparents complaining about the cost of everything, so me thinks it’s all relative to living in the world.

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    1. Bad scheduling. But my husband is retired so I never know what day it is now. 🤣
      As for making more money, yes.. we do. But the gap between income and home prices has grown to a canyon. It’s out of reach for many people and that’s sad.

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      1. I currently make litetally NO money (still haven’t addressed issues with getting social security), so everything is extra painful. I’m depleting my 401k much earlier than I anticipated. I planned to die at 65 and, more & more, it feels like it will no longer be a choice.

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