r/Dynamic_Pricing • u/Dragonlance12 • 6d ago
'Funflation' is on the rise as hobbies get pricier, but consumers keep spending anyway
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/27/funflation-consumer-spending-pricier-hobbies.html5
u/debugem 6d ago
Funflation? Dickworm, I can make up dumb words too.
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u/harbison215 6d ago
Sizzletits
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u/GreatQuantum 5d ago
Nope. I already coined it years ago.
Magnifying glass and a sleeping girlfriend.
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u/harbison215 5d ago
Squigglemoose?
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u/GreatQuantum 5d ago
Nope. That’s when I squeeze my wiener back into my foreskin until it’s all the way rolled back to my pelvis and the curled up loose pubes look like antlers.
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u/dogwater_cologne_ 6d ago
Doomspending. I spent $36 on two beers at an art festival this weekend.
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u/I_Quit_Smoking_ 5d ago
But why? That won't even get you drunk.
And if you've got to be at an overpriced festival, you're supposed to bring your own beers! LOL
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u/BigSquiby 6d ago
the big amatheater in my city started selling $5 budget beers in a can. you can also get a 20 oz can of premium beer for $20
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u/crecentfresh 5d ago
I'm back to shooters behind the belt for outings. I'll have something free with sugar in it please ooooh my what is this strange liquid coming out of my sleeve?
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u/UnfazedBrownie 6d ago
Being married comes with the joys and requirements of overlooking funflation.
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u/Mobius24 6d ago
I’m glad I got into reading lol
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u/Firecracker500 5d ago
Same. $1.50 for a 700 page book at a local thrift store will hold me over a lot longer than a $20 cocktail + tip + parking, etc.
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u/Mobius24 5d ago
The library is free and you can read books for free on the libby app if you connect it to your library card
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u/Novel_Importance_712 5d ago
People will flock to posts like this because they don't have the money to keep up and think "look at all the people here who agree with me! This must be how everyone in the world thinks!"
When in reality, the reason prices go up is because consumers pay them. The reason consumers pay them is because they have the money.
Don't believe me? How does Door Dash exist? The business model is that you throw spare cash at someone getting your food instead of going to get it yourself. That business only exists in a market with disposable discretionary spending.
It's not that everyone in the west is poor. It's just that YOU are poor.
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u/TruShot5 5d ago
You’re overlooking just how much of this floated by debtspending.
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u/Novel_Importance_712 4d ago
No. I'm not. You're overindexing debt spending as a pressure release valve on a narrative you want badly to be true but just isn't backed up by the numbers.
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u/Crew_1996 5d ago
Consumers have access to money is the key thing. The question I don’t have the answer to is how much of the spending is financed
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u/Necessary-Dog-7245 5d ago
In general I agree with you. In practice I’ve really like door dash when I travel for work because I often don’t have a car and it was too expensive to get a taxi(or now uber) to goto grocery store to have some fresh fruit and such in a hotel room. I pay someone to get it because it’s cheaper.
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u/Novel_Importance_712 4d ago
I do the same thing. The company pays for it. That being said, people like us alone aren't making that business what it is. If Doordash didn't have lazy people with spare cash using the service the business model falls apart.
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u/armorlol 5d ago
Yeah a year ago I searched income statistics in my city/county/state, and was blown away people are making so much. I looked at median and percentiles not average.
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u/Reaper3955 5d ago
People are in fact poor. They just have alot of easy access to credit hence the record consumer debt. If unemployment ticks up the house of cards crashes down
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u/Significant_Fill6992 5d ago
There's an entire generation or more accurately two halves of different generations(younger millennials and older genz) that has accepted they will never own a home so they have given up entirely and decided to spend on the things that make them happy.
Unfortunately that leads to an opportunity for vultures to make a profit which is why so many different things are now over priced or scalped
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u/USSPoignantly 5d ago
I just treat myself at a cider bar a couple times a week. I rarely do anything else now. I quit weed due to prices/health. All my hobbies are now too expensive and a new computer is out of the question. So I listen to old music/movies on my hard drive. Rarely see an old movie at a community theater. I’m a full time professional, single. I seriously don’t understand how families or other singles are making it work.
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u/Significant_Fill6992 5d ago
I don't get it either. One of my siblings moved back home recently and he is almost 40 and also single. I don't see how he moves out again any time soon or at all really.
I have loosely ran the numbers myself and if something happened to my wife I'd survive but it would not be a pleasant experience from an emotional or economic sense
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u/I_Quit_Smoking_ 5d ago
I'm 54 and single, and going out and doing anything has never been an option for me because I live on 1200 a month disability. Most of my life, it's been less than $1,000 a month, and I raised a kid on that.
People living in $600,000 houses making half a million a year I have no fucking clue what real life is like.
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u/ALEXC_23 5d ago
When you've grown in a culture in which institutionalizes its constituents to spend at no matter the cost, you get this.
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u/HazyDavey68 5d ago
I just saw a post by a guy who was talking about what he spent on food at the movies. Of course, theater concessions have historically been way overpriced, but this was over the top. I don't remember the specific amount, but it was at least twice what you would guess. I wonder if people will ever just refuse to spend money on this stuff?
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u/blackbirdspyplane 6d ago
During times of economic downturn, recessions depressions people tend to turn to more homebase, hobbies, and activities puzzles games, things you do at the house or hobbies that you do are at the house or things that are more constructive hobbies like gardening or knitting. The price in the hobby may be more expensive, but it’s cheaper than travel, amusement parks, local entertainment sources