meirl
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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A 75 inch tv cost less than half of a single mortgage payment. Yeah, not the problem.
I eat a 75 inch TV slathered in avocado for breakfast every day. What am I doing wrong?
Yeah, because that free 55-inch TV really offsets the $500k starter home prices. Solid financial advice!
Luxuries have become more affordable than necessities.
My TV was on the expensive end and cost me £1400. It’s less than two months bills, and four months mortgage. It’s barely 1% of my total mortgage lol
People that say these things have no real context or understanding of modern real world costs.
Wrong part of the argument to be having with boomers. They do not deserve our justification for the TV. They deserve endless lectures on economic realities in the housing market. They deserve PILES of math homework to teach them how to compare average incomes over time and the cost of housing. I refuse to let them make this about avocado toast, or Netflix, or a fucking TV.
We have a 65-inch 3D TV and a whole AV stack with ceiling-based surround sound in our house that the prior owners just threw in because they didn’t want to bother moving it.
It truly is wild how cheap TVs have gotten over the last 10-20 years. I still remember seeing a $50,000 4k TV as a kid, and now even better TVs are sub-$1000
And a house has gone from 4 years salary to 20 years.
I have to admit, I splurged. Bought a stupid 65″ tv that cost… $400!!!! That’s 40 cups of Starbucks! Because I’m a monster! The guilt! It haunts me to this day.
It’s funny how time makes fools of us all. I still have it in the back of my head that a new TV is like $1600 for a 45″ plasma!!!, but then instead I get to Bestbuy and have to decide whether it’s worth $50 to go from 65″ to 70″.
I have 4 working smart tvs at least 50″ and up that I listed for free 6 months ago, the only way anyone wants one is if I deliver it…for free.
They give them to you when you buy a house because they know what it took to get there.
The 36″ tv i bought 14 years ago for $299 just died, so i bought a new 55″ 4k tv for $280. That was a whole pay check back then, and now its a days work.
Psh, I’ve been using a TV my parents got as a wedding around 15 years ago present for the last 7 years. I wish I could afford a new tv
Pretty sure Best Buy pays you to take 55 inch TVs during Black Friday
I can buy a big ass tv at walmart for $250. I don’t think $250 is going to get me a house
Rent for a decent 2bed 1bath apartment where I live is around $1200mo. Mortgage for a decent house would be even more.
For that same money I can get a new giant TV, console, and pay for WiFi and a several streaming services.
It’s insane to think about how much material goods you could get with just rent/mortgage money. Let alone what you could get if you didn’t have work healthcare taken from your paycheck (if you do that).
But no it’s the avocado and coffee that’s out of control.
I got a TV when I bought my first used car lol
I’ve been renting rooms in my townhouse for 6 years and I have so many tvs in my basement now.
I bought a 65 in last year for $400. In 2002 I bought an 25in TV for $375.
My friends bought a house a few years ago and the previous owners left FIVE TVs there.
lol you have stolen the joy out of every other aspect of my life the only thing I have left is sitting in front of the tv in hopes that whatever I’m watching drowns out my thoughts.
TVs are the only thing that totally ignored inflation over the last couple decades.
How about we stop entertaining the opinions of stupid old people?
A friend literally just offered to give me one of his.
not sure how its a good comparison. TVs are replaceable
Even if I sold ever TV I’ve ever owned I could still barely buy a used Honda
I’ve got one of the best 65” TVs on the market (or 2 years ago when I bought it). It cost about half of what I make in a month. It’s one of the best purchases I’ve ever made, only beaten out by my apartment which I bought two years earlier.
I feel called out here. That’s how I got my 5 year old TV 5 years ago. Still runs great 👍too
Have people said this before?
Bought a 50-in TV for Christmas for $250. Could have probably gotten it for $230 if I looked for discounts.
I have probably 10+ TVs in my house (most aren’t being used) and I think we’ve bought maybe two of them. Most I get out of junk sales/giveaways, ewaste, or yeah – left over from people moving around.
I mean maybe we should be looking at why my one week of groceries went from 110 to 250 for the same shit within 3 years if we are looking at affordability but old people don’t wanna talk about that. My grandparents built their house from scratch in the late 40’s for 3 of my rent payments.
It pains me to think what I paid for my 60” TV in 2012 versus what it would cost now.
The issue is that people want housing to be an “equity building tool” and affordable at the same time. We can only pick one, and we’ve decided it should be the former.
and a house has gone from costing 4 years’ salary to “the bank still owns it when you die”.
Ours is something my FIL got from a giveaway at a casino. The tech for the screen is cheap to make, they know the money is in streaming subscriptions and data collecting. They basically just give away tv hardware now as a gateway to get what they really want.
Dawg I spent more on groceries to stock up my pantry and fridge with when I moved into my apartment than I spent on my 43” TV
I have a 49 inch flat screen in my trunk because no one wants it and I don’t want to throw it out
i got my tv for free when i switched to a different ISP
i would’ve never gotten one otherwise
Who said young people don’t buy homes because of TVs? Did anyone really say this?
TV’s are interestingly one of the few consumer items that have experienced deflation. For example between 1950 and 2024: Televisions experienced an average inflation rate of -6.54% per year.
I just bought an 98inch for $1570.00 with tax I bought at Costco. We sell and install TVs at my work. They can still cost an arm and a leg. I would have much rather bought a LG or a Sony over the TCL I bought. Just really preference in my opinion and how much money you can afford to spend.
I got my tv for free from a friend moving
Literally just gave away a TV, which we got from some friends for free, to another friend after my in laws gave us their old TV for free.
The Tv in my bedroom I’ve had for like, 13-14 years now, 42 inches I believe, came with the original remote, still safe, and it was already ten years old when I got it in 2012. We’ve bought two more tv’s since then, but not a new one in like almost ten years.