"It's Astronomically Expensive": People Are Calling Out Things That Were "Ruined" When They Became Too Popular

1. "Beef brisket. I erstwhile could find a 20-pound brisket for $0.89 per lb (adjusted for inflation, $2.73/lb is nether $55 for a 20-pound brisket). Now, I’m fortunate to find 1 for nether $5/lb = $100."

—acidiclegend403

2. "eBay. Not adjacent joking. It utilized to beryllium a spot for radical to offload things they needed to get escaped of cheaply to others who needed to bargain them. Now, it's wall-to-wall resellers, and nary 1 tags things properly. Try to find thing vintage, and you'll tally into everything 'vintage.'"

—stylishzombie21

3. "Indian food!!! It utilized to beryllium cheap, and the portions would beryllium enormous. Now, it's astronomically expensive, and the portions are tiny."

—messyogre94

4. "Formula One. I'm sitting adjacent to 1 of these fake fans of F1. It's truthful aggravating erstwhile they enactment similar they cognize worldly astir it and can't adjacent accidental their names correctly — doesn't adjacent cognize the driver's archetypal names. They don't adjacent cognize astir the driver's lives. They besides conscionable bargain merch to enactment similar they emotion it and advertise it to everyone else. It conscionable ruined it for the existent fans."

—Anonymous

5. "At trade fairs/shows, they've been overrun with radical selling items they got from Temu. They enactment similar they handmade it themselves and jack up the terms 4 times oregon much than what they paid. The past 1 I went to, I had to truly look for the booths with existent handmade items."

—todypoo

6. "Camping. I utilized to spell to galore places with my friend's household arsenic a kid. With their elemental pop-up camper, it was easy, fun, and ne'er overcrowded. I'm turned disconnected these days by the request to publication a campsite a twelvemonth oregon longer successful beforehand and the shame you mightiness consciousness for not owning a fancy 30-foot trailer."

—Anonymous

7. "I, too, can't judge the terms of pizza, formerly inexpensive cuts of beef, and chickenhearted wings. I could spend to get the household a mates of pizzas, immoderate garlicky bread, and six wings each Friday. I astir died astatine the prices past year! My mom, who was a azygous genitor making debased wages, could ever marque a chuck roast each Sunday with carrots, potatoes, and onions. Nope."

"Finally, chickenhearted wings? Excellent mode to person a bully meal. Batter and heavy fry those inexpensive wings and sprinkle immoderate Frank’s implicit them. Today, acknowledgment to renaming them and making them a Super Bowl staple, they are outrageous! In fact, eating has go excessively expensive."

—greenjaguar162

8. "Subscriptions. Companies weaponized them and enactment them into appliances and different places wherever they person nary concern existing. They're evidently not fashionable with customers, but manufacturers look to emotion them."

—u/BookLuvr7

9. "I miss OG Etsy earlier it was flooded with the aforesaid inexpensive crap that's everyplace else."

—gostango

10. "Golf! It utilized to beryllium an affordable activity, and now, the greenish interest tin tally implicit $100 for 2 radical astatine astir courses."

—Anonymous, 65, California

11. "Pot roast! Pot roast nutrient cuts were ever affordable and made for a large meal. Now, I marque a cookware roast erstwhile a year. The past clip was for Christmas Day 2024. It's disconnected the charts unaffordable."

—Anonymous, 71, Georgia

12. "Craft breweries. You utilized to person a fistful of them successful each town. It was a chill mode to get to cognize a metropolis and larn however radical successful an country lived and what they liked to drink. Now, determination are dozens successful each metropolis you spell to, and they're each serving the aforesaid citrusy IPA slop."

—Anonymous, 39, South Carolina

13. "Food transportation services. It's unspeakable now, but erstwhile I archetypal utilized it galore years ago, you'd get fast, blistery nutrient for a reasonably tiny other cost. Now, it's conscionable a dumpster occurrence due to the fact that truthful galore radical usage it, and they person (relatively) fewer drivers each trying to instrumentality arsenic galore orders arsenic they tin (because the wage is bad), starring to astir everyone's nutrient being cold/late."

—u/RyanMolden

14. "Oxtails! They utilized to beryllium $4.99/lb, but a fewer years ago, the prices jumped, and present they're, like, $9.99. Why?"

—Anonymous, 61, Nevada

15. "Good sportfishing spots. They've been ruined by inconsiderate jerks leaving their trash and cleaned food parts everywhere."

—u/EMAW2008

16. "Beaches and exotic land retreats. I conscionable spent a twelvemonth surviving mostly successful Southeast Asia, and immoderate places are truly bittersweet to see. People travel for the pristine beauty; it becomes popular; the country gets developed to conscionable demand, truthful much radical travel — and, increasingly, radical who are little respectful of the area, the people, and the environment. So the precise quality they travel to spot is spoiled."

"Then, eventually, the much discerning customers volition determination connected to a caller portion of pristine land, but the aged tract conscionable spirals down further and doesn't get a accidental to recover. Thus, creating a perpetual spiral of encroachment and despoilment of quality spots."

—u/RoyalT663

17. "Airbnb. I utilized to get a country and enactment with a bully household that would speech to me, archer maine astir the section area, and often invitation maine to articulation them for meals. Now, it's often conscionable a location owned by immoderate distant capitalist with a clump of rooms rented retired to random people. Also, getting a spot for myself is usually mode costly erstwhile you see each the B.S. fees."

—u/SwingingtotheBeat

18. "Fanfiction. The commercialisation of definite works by radical looking to marque a speedy subordinate brings the full country into imaginable ineligible trouble, but also, plentifulness of radical wrong fanfiction are conscionable unbelievably pretentious astir the full thing. Half of them enactment similar they're gonna beryllium the adjacent Tolkien oregon something, oregon they obsess implicit engagement."

"It's wherefore I don't adjacent look astatine the large sites. My main fandom has a dedicated tract and that's the go-to."

—u/RipCurl69Reddit

19. "Thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail. It utilized to beryllium a mode to disconnect for a fewer months. Now, it's a societal media backdrop."

—[redacted]

"Any hiking/backpacking, really. In the PNW, you could spell connected a Tuesday 13 years ago, and nary 1 would beryllium there. Now, there's a wide of people, and idiosyncratic ever with a Bluetooth speaker."

—[redacted]

Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.

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