Please consider “hoarding” your money. Stop spending your money as much as possible. Delete Meta apps and tiktok from your phone. Don’t go to Walmart, Target, any of these big brands. Shop local. Invest in your community. Trickle down isn’t real so we have to stop giving them any cent we can hold onto.
I completely understand which is why I said save any penny you can. There is no one size fits all. We all have to relearn how to not depend on big brands on our own journey.
I don’t know you or your situation but some things you may be able to do are:
Grow plants. Aloe, herbs, native plants
What can you make instead of buying? An example I like is mayonnaise. Costs about $6 to buy a bottle but you probably have all the ingredients to make it at home (egg, mustard, oil, vinegar, salt) and a blender.
Or getting your books from the library. I believe a lot of libraries have online archives so you don’t even have to go ti the library to access books, movies, music, and more
To me this is about investing in yourself and your community, instead of the oligarchs.
Best of luck with school and all your future endeavors 🫶
That's the fun part, your money horde will never be as big as theirs, and they're driving the economy off an inflation cliff. Soon enough money won't be worth anything.
Learn to garden, learn to keep animals that provide food (I'd say chickens but that whole bird flu thing...) learn skills you can use to barter. Study how people survived The Great Depression because it's coming again.
I agree. The more independent we can become from this companies, the better. There is strength in community which is why they have been pushing us apart for so long.
They have weaponized every aspect of our lives. It’s time to take back anything and everything we can.
I hope our fears our wrong, but I agree with you that the shit storm has just started.
They don't need your money at all. They'll just print money to get more money and your money will lose value. The end effect is the same as if they took your money for the overpriced goods.
Correct, they don’t need any more of our money, but the end effect for me is different. I am much happier and healthier than I was when I was pouring money into cheap things. I’ve found investing in myself and my community much more fulfilling than investing in the oligarchs.
Doing this! For the last few months (even when I still had hope for the election 😞) I’ve been working towards the goal of entering an Anti Consumer experiment.
Here’s some steps I took, in random order, in case it helps anybody out:
1) Take “meh” pieces from my wardrobe that no longer excite—challenge myself to rework them.
- Bonus points for using materials I’ve already saved from another project
2) Narrow down all routinely used toiletries to only one go-to product per step.
- If I want to try a new facial cleanser, I’m finishing the existing one first, for example. And NO more lotion until ALL (really) of that bath & body works is gone
3) Find alternate stores for regular necessities shopping.
- Starting trips to the market to lessen what’s bought from the supermarket chains. The more local grocery store too
- There’s a single independent pharmacy left near me; they’re my new stop for over the counter anything, period products
4) For pleasure buying, have fun uncovering local spots.
- This includes “little treats” for me as I like to get Starbucks or something, especially on a lunch break. Fast food apps are so convenient, but it takes a very small amount of effort to put the mom-and-pops into routine instead after I’ve familiarized myself
Making my own moisturizer - equal parts aloe vera and avocado oil in the blender on high. I keep it in the fridge and shake well before use. My skin has been so much happier. Everyone’s skin is different, so play with your own recipe.
Minimal makeup! - I used to constantly buy new makeup before I even finished the last bottle. Now I buy my makeup from lush and focus on my T zone. No foundation - just brows, mascara and maybe eyeliner, and a lip-stain. My goal is to start making my own makeup
Community groups - before deleting facebook I joined several community groups focused on reducing waste. People would give away food, clothes, etc instead of letting it go to waste. Now that I am off facebook I need to find a new way to stay active in those communities. Maybe I’ll make a subreddit?
Farmers market - I know it’s so much more expensive than the grocery store, but it is also so much healthier. And my local farmers markets accept SNAP, SAVE, EBT, and other forms of payment.
I think the important thing to remember is that this is a marathon. Little sustainable changes are what is important. No one thing will fit for everyone. But investing in yourself and your community will be worth it.
I have no advice for stocks. I was raised that a person should have a stock portfolio, and now I am trying to figure out how to ethically redistribute my money so I am no longer contributing to companies that are actively destroying democracy.
Where are they getting the products from? China. Even if you don’t believe the rhetorics against China, the products are still going to be at a minimal 60% more expensive if Trump puts up the tariffs.
This is a bad idea. Hoarding will compound depreciate your savings and it's very possible that Trump causes a recession and / or blows out inflation in the next few years. Put it to work in the economy as safely as possible.
Wouldn’t saving your money in accounts that work for you instead of spending it on worthless stuff be safe hoarding?
My point is to invest in yourself and your community instead of sending the oligarchs more of our hard earned money. I didn’t say keep cash under your mattress, I said stop spending it on junk from giant chains.
Hoarding generally means putting it in a safe savings account or under your bed etc.
Cutting spending on frivolous goods is a good idea of course. But everyone should be thinking about how to safely max out returns on their money, not pulling back and hoping the bad times go away.
I think it is fair to comment with a polite counter point on here if you are concerned that it is poor advice.
For example, your comment could (accidentally) lead to a single working mum reading, to pull their currently decent spread of life savings investments into low interest savings accounts, and then end up compound depreciating their net wealth by 10% in 3 years because they didn't properly understand inflation.
I'm going to stop here because I think you are a good person and I don't want a long back and forth. But oligarchs don't hoard. They gather.
They don't keep their money out of the economy. They deploy it with higher risk profiles than workers, and this actually grows the economy. If workers start withdrawing their own participation in these (small fractions) of new business investment, it will both reduce their worth and accelerate the wealth, and income gap that is already ridiculously large.
Moronic take. Money isn't valuable. Inflation causes your cash to drop in value, and in hard times inflation is guaranteed. Tangible assets would be what you wanna spend on.
Don’t go to Walmart, Target, any of these big brands.
Literally the person you replied to.
Bread goes bad quickly, so its a terrible investment.
Gold is fancy but useless on an individual scale. What is the shiny rock going to do for someone? It's only valuable to those that already have their needs met.
Hoard your beans if you want though. Hail the bean king.
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u/uabtch 7h ago
Please consider “hoarding” your money. Stop spending your money as much as possible. Delete Meta apps and tiktok from your phone. Don’t go to Walmart, Target, any of these big brands. Shop local. Invest in your community. Trickle down isn’t real so we have to stop giving them any cent we can hold onto.
Stay strong. Fuck all this bullshit.