• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Ask people. Craigslist. Offerup. Neighborhood swaps.

    Do you absolutely need to buy things?

    Either way, the reason there aren’t other options is because people aren’t quitting. So they won. And you are basically handing money over to Facebook to do more of the same.

    The only way out is to quit.

    I don’t have Facebook and I manage. You can too.

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      The work I do I need a lot of like tools and stuff is part of my problem but yeah I already try the other options first, same thing with Amazon it’s the only option to get a lot of stuff that just doesn’t exist in stores and is unworkable to order directly from vendors.

      Like brewing yeasts, phone charging cords, all sorts of stuff they don’t sell at any stores. The yeast I could find elsewhere easy enough, little electronics things with shipping and handling it’s unworkable but I am trying to use it less, I live 50 miles from a major store here too so that’s a factor.