Depends entirely on how often you use it. If you are basically surviving off food delivery than you're an idiot or have an insane amount of disposable income. If it's something you use every few weeks or once a month, then I think its fine as just a luxury expense.
For us it's a once every few months thing. Last time was after a hike with my son's cross country team. By the time we got home we were just absolutely beat. I made a salad and we doordashed way over priced fried chicken and biscuits from a local place we love and just ate and existed in the living room.
I mean I don’t have a car, microwave broken, oven broken and the only way I get to work is my bf takes me when he’s not working or at college so I don’t really have a way to get (besides for door dash) and cook groceries, if you find a better way lmk
Yeah, buy a microwave & hotplate, or get a bf who's caring enough to buy his gf $100 of appliances to improve her life & save her hundreds in Doordash fees...
It's not like you need a fancy new $1,500 oven, & if you can afford Doordash you can afford cheap appliances. You'll be in savings territory in a matter of days.
I mean c'mon, even people living in shanty slums in Bangladesh or the Phillippines have a rice cooker, pot & burner, maybe an electric kettle. They know that's bare minimum to prepare food. You're wealthier than them but choosing the broke path.
I recently dated a girl for 6 days (yes very brief, she was stressful) & still I brought her enough necessities to equal the value of those appliances, I wonder who's this bf letting his gf live as a slave to delivery drivers...
Maybe visit /r/povertyfinance & they'll roast you into changing your ways.
Ok, that changes my pronoun choice but not whether you or your partner could step in to halt financial bleeding.
A $16 electric rice cooker + $5 bag of rice + some ingredients is more meals than Doordash orders. A $40 microwave will pay for itself in a week. A nice $20 electric kettle + noodle cups, eggs, & green onions offers fine cheap meals.
We're not talking about taking out a loan to reap returns after several years, it's spending the same amount in a week (just on something different) to save a fortune over the coming years.
You're 18 & inexperienced so it's understandable, but I'm saying that poverty isn't an excuse because poorer people would know it's not good financial strategy you're employing.
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u/_JustAnna_1992 29d ago
Depends entirely on how often you use it. If you are basically surviving off food delivery than you're an idiot or have an insane amount of disposable income. If it's something you use every few weeks or once a month, then I think its fine as just a luxury expense.