I could rent three apartments here for that! Three bedrooms! In a place with a pool!My maternal grandma lived that way. Mom said that if she got $20, they’d have steak on Monday and shredded wheat the rest of the week. Once she took them on a trip to Six Flags in Texas on less than $40. They ate a lot of Jack in the Box tacos, but they had a blast. I think grandma was so used to living in poverty that she literally couldn’t imagine a live where she was financially stable, no matter what she did, but she didn’t want her kids to grow up without ever getting to ride a roller coaster or having that adorable dress in the window. She never did for herself though. It was always for her kids, or even other people’s kids.
Yeah, I can understand that. I might have overdone it a bit on my kids for things like Christmas and clothes because when I grew up we were poor and didn’t have what the other kids had (I’m not complaining–we always had enough to eat and shelter,etc.), so I wanted my kids to have it better. But we really did not go overboard, and they didn’t grow up to be spoiled (they began working as soon as they could and are very industrious today). I think it’s natural for parents to want their kids to have it better than they did, as long as it’s not going overboard and substituting things for what really matters.
Welcome to the east coast.
The average Catholic IS selfish because they make all of these lame excuses about not having families and like much of the rest of the American/Western/East Asian public whine and complain when their entitlements are in danger (Well, DUH!) or that it’s all too expensive. They do none of the things you list below.
Backup a second. I don’t know if all of these luxurious things are sinful, but they do have consequences. Having a crampy house in the burbs, a cabin at the lake and an iphone, laptop and college education (really to de-catechize your kids) for each child is absurd especially when people in general and not just Catholics say “but it’s too expensive”! :crying:
Strawman. Besides, the people who are closest to arguing for those things are leftist liberals who will still keep their iphones and laptops but want everyone else to give up things.
No pity parties.
What’s wrong with this?
Basically, another strawman. And more whining about the patriarchy. :bighanky:
Brother, I have to ask: are you a Pepe the frog meme that has somehow gained sentience? I don’t think I’ve ever seen you not politicize a post. It’s pretty impressive in a weird way.Liberals liberals liberals
You could pay for a car rental with just a couple Uber rides.
First of all, the post you are quoting isn’t even a real quote of mine. You made that up.
Depends on distances, frequency of usage, and parking costs.
Plus fuel costs, of course…Your lack of concern for my feelings is a microaggression. Kindly apologize sir/ma’am/whatever your preferred gendered honorific is.
Why do people think that Uber is a luxury? I had never heard they did. But the prices you quoted for the rental do not even come close to any I have ever seen. I know people that rent a car for the weekend to make a multistate trip and it’s never been more than $60. My husband had to rent a car for 3 weeks (21 days) and we only paid $150–$50 of that refunded as long as the car is returned undamaged with full tank of gas. So I’m not sure if that may play into why some people would think it was a luxury. Uber is not available here. Taxis either. We don’t have any public transportation at all. What we tend to do is ride with a friend or neighbor and normally it is free (or extremely cheap) if the need arises. Exceptions for crazy schedules (like my husband needing to be at work at 2:30 AM every day) or outrageous needs (multistate trips). So to me, the city bus is kind of a luxury I took for granted at previous locations. The closest any public transit is to me now is 3 towns over. Something else we don’t have is pizza delivery. Or any other food delivery for that matter.Depends on distances, frequency of usage, and parking costs.
I was checking on our local car rental rates, and it looks like the most basic option for one week is $225 (with tax included) and renting a minivan (Dodge Grand Caravan or similar) for a week is $400, $472 with tax.
I’m about three days into the experiment and I believe I’ve spent $70 (over 6-7 different orders depending on how you count) on Uber, with at least one round trip ahead of me. I may even finish up under $100 for the week. In fact, I suspect I will.
Obviously, I’d get more use and flexibility out of a car rental, and maybe I could get a better deal than the numbers I found (the prices I used were from the first company I saw), but it’s not clearly the case that a car rental would be the cheaper option. I would need to average $32 of Uber every day for a week to reach the break even point–which I’m not going to do.
So, again, why do we think of the Uber as being the luxury option while the car rental is the sensible, economy choice?
$150 for a three week car rental is insanely cheap.
Yes it is. I don’t think that most places have prices like that, but they usually have other options. We don’t. So the people renting cars have plenty of business and they make plenty of money. It’s one of the many things I’m going to miss when we move.$150 for a three week car rental is insanely cheap.