Frozen pizza, luxury loungewear, and $16 Sweetgreen salads: 12 people on the things they're never spending money on again
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images Recently, I’ve been spending money like a robber baron’s wayward son. I’m buying flamboyant leather boots, limited-print-run poetry collections on thick paper, tiny statuettes from the local thrift store. My pent-up energy has been directly channeled into frivolity. If you’re selling me a drink with a wild garnish , I will order one for me and one for you! This is a marked change.
It seems as if many of us experienced a tidal shift in how we think about spending during the pandemic. But as fun as it is to talk about what we are buying, I also wondered what people have decided to forego. Asking around, I found that even people who feel as spendy as I do have also isolated things they never want to buy ever again. The homesteaders gained skills they never knew they could possess: They could do their own spa treatments, they could make their own pickled delicacies.
After talking to 12 people about their budget cuts, I saw that it wasn’t astringency or asceticism that changed them: It was making sure that what they were buying was as fun, comfortable, lively, and joyful as possible. The answers below might be about giving things up, but only in the name of pleasure.No More Isolated “Fun” I’M DONE WITH DRIVE-IN MOVIES. It’s not fun to watch movies sitting in your car. Don’t care who says different.
After the office shut down last March, I started making salads myself. Sweetgreen taught me that the trick to a good salad is two to three extra ingredients. Throw in some quinoa! A sweet potato! A handful of almonds! Leftover cauliflower! And make it 50 percent bigger than you think it needs to be. Once I started doing this, I realized that Sweetgreen had taught me another thing: I do not need Sweetgreen.
And, side note, two years ago, I was in a Target during a minor earthquake and it was … a bleak place to be. — Connie, media consultant, Los Angeles Sauerkraut I will never buy tiny, expensive jars of kraut again. Buy a big vessel, jam it with salt and cabbage, fennel seeds if you have a good head on your shoulders, and wait! — Lelia, artist, Los Angeles No More Person-Filled Yoga Studio … I’m not going back to in-studio yoga classes.
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