My phone is from 2021 😎
My car is almost old enough to drink, and my phone’s a $300 sunbeam phone which feels expensive to me (although I know that’s “cheap” compared to the new iPhones and whatnot)
Could easily afford a new car and a thousand dollar phone, but… why would I, when what I have works perfectly fine?
FYI, might get better answers if you don’t ask questions with an obvious goal in mind. Are you trying to learn about others situations or are you trying to shit on people for their choices?
I don’t care about what you call better answers. I’m asking a question and I want answers. It doesn’t matter if they’re dumb or intellectual. If anyone has offended, they need to get offended with the economy. Second part is you have no idea why I’m asking the question. If the question is applicable to someone answering, then maybe it will give them reflection time to think about why they have these things during an economic hardship. Giving them time to reevaluate their priorities. Or they could moan and groan and stay in their impoverished circumstance.
Looking at your online history (nanobots in COVID shots? really?) I’m gonna go ahead and let you win this one, you clearly need to feel special much more than any of us do. So, good job! Your opinion is definitely important enough to make people rethink their priorities! Society would be in shambles without you and your guidance!
Did you create an account just to be sanctimonious and superior?
Cartoonish
Bye, troll.
No but I have some cunt trying to be smug in my lemmy-feed which is challenging me emotionally.
Cranky
I’m on 5h sleep per night for the last five years. So you may have a point there. 🤷♂️
Yeah, if only I had gotten an older model of iPhone 3 years ago, then all my student loans would be gone! /s
Weren’t they going to forgive student loans last year or something. Oh wait nevermind. The debt must continue.
Nope
Also there is a massive difference between a few dozen thousand dollars, and just one thousand.
Lol nope. Just a 12 year old, paid for car and a two year old, paid for phone along with my financial stuggles. Thanks for asking.
This is considered good in USA. So you’re doing fine, honestly.
I’ve been unemployed for nearly six months and were it not for my amazingly generous girlfriend I’d be homeless.
OK?
So, the status of one’s car or celphone payments often have little to do with whether one is or is not struggling financially.
ETA: One cannot assume that another is “doing fine” by those metrics alone. It’s actually insulting because I am very much not “fine”, nor are many people around the globe.
The point isn’t to equate cars or phones with economic status or how well you’re doing financially. It is to illustrate to the people who may be struggling if they have a newer model car or cell phone that they need to get rid of those things because they cannot afford them financially. It may be it may alleviate some of their problems with finances. if they spend within their bracket and not overspend or consumerism.
I have a (refurbished) namebrand phone but I’m not struggling financially. I worked damn hard and got damn lucky to get to this point, though.
Edit: Not driving a car is part of why I’m solvent, though. Those bastards are expensive.
Makes sense. Cars for most people are money pits. On top of that, the insurance sucks even more.
Total expenses for my almost 20 year old truck are around 300€/month. While not cheap, it’s not that expensive either. Housing and food are by far the biggest expense categories for me.
If I owned a car outright, and never drove it, I would still be paying about $1500/yr in insurance and parking fees. Add in gas, maintenance, and the actual cost to buy and I couldn’t afford it.
Good thing I don’t need it.
As of a couple of months ago, sort of. I have a Google Pixel 8 and only recently got a reasonably well-compensated job. I got the phone in 2023, shortly before I was laid off, and it was on a fire sale in anticipation of the Pixel 9 release, so I’m only paying $4/month for it, $100 total plus the $70 up front.
My car is a 2007 model year that I could only afford because it was in an accident previously, though.
Sounds smart and sustainable
For now. I’m just hoping that the Pixel lasts until Fairphone brings back the headphone jack and the car lasts until I can move somewhere where I don’t need one.
Nothing phone is suppose to be good too. Its pretty affordable
They just added ads :(
nope. Although if I was not struggling I would likely be discussing cars with my wife as ours is 10 years old.
I consider a 10 year old car to be practically new. Older models are much nicer design-wise anyway than these new computers on wheels.
Its a dodge.
That’s not old. Do maintenance and use it for another 15 years
Our discussions go on for some years because we will need to save to get to the point of replacement. Its more like. Gee the car is getting up in years. They sorta ruined the model so we have to start thinking about what we would want for a replacement. We need to carve out time to do some test rides of possible models.
Buy a different used car.
yes but not till my financials are in order and its necessary to do so.
Of course.
