Friends, we’ve written a lot about consumerism and buying stuff recently. From our five secrets of secondhand shopping to our epic grocery store price comparison investigation… we’ve really belabored the subject.
And who could blame us? With inflation, price-gouging, planned obsolescence, and tariffs making everything from basic necessities to tech more expensive, shopping has been a huge part of our personal finance calculations recently.
But we need to move on. The people demand a robust and variegated content schedule from your humble Bitches! So here is the master list of everything we’ve written on how to buy stuff—frugally, ethically, and with more sense than god gave a grapefruit.
How to pay for stuff
- Buy Now Pay Later Apps: That Old Predatory Lending by a Crappy New Name
- Businesses Will Happily Give You HUGE Discounts if You Ask This Magic Question
- Dafuq Is a Down Payment? And Why Do You Need One to Buy Stuff?
- Ask the Bitches: Should I Get a Loan Even Though I Can Afford To Pay Cash?
- Season 2, Episode 10: “Which Is Smarter: Getting a Loan? or Saving up to Pay Cash?”
How to pay less for stuff
- Why Name Brand Products Are Beneath You: The Honor and Glory of Buying Generic
- How To Save Money With Affordable Car Repairs
- How to Save Money on Your Beloved Pets
- How to Get DIRT CHEAP Pet Medication, Without a Prescription
- The Pink Tax, or: How I Learned To Love Smelling Like Bearglove
- Blood Money: Menstrual Products for Surviving Your Period While Poor
- Understand the Hidden Costs of Travel and Avoid Them Like the Plague
- 7 Totally Reasonable Ways To Save Money on Cheap Entertainment
How to buy stuff ethically
- Ethical Consumption: How to Pollute the Planet and Exploit Labor Slightly Less
- Ask the Bitches: “How Do I Consume Ethically AND Frugally Under the Trump Tariffs?”
- 21 Ideas for Sustainable Swaps That Aren’t Shitty, Expensive, Greenwashed Garbage
- Fast Fashion: Why It’s Fucking up the World and How To Avoid It
- You Are Above Bottled Water, You Elegant Land Mermaid
- Kara Perez’s Debut Book “Green Money”: How To Use Your Money To Save the Planet
- Wallet Activism: Using Your Money for Good with Author Tanja Hester
- How Can I Justify This Deeply Unethical Purchase?
How to buy stuff secondhand
- Almost Everything Can Be Purchased Secondhand
- Our 5 Best Secrets for Secondhand Shopping Like a Frugal Warrior
- The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There
- Your Library Lets You Stream Audiobooks and eBooks FOR FREEEEEEE!
How to buy big ticket items
- Bullshit Reasons Not to Buy a House: Refuted
- Season 2, Episode 2: “I’m Not Ready to Buy a House—But How Do I *Get Ready* to Get Ready?”
- How to Pay Hospital Bills When You’re Flat Broke
- Our (Ridiculously Simple) Method for Choosing the Right Healthcare Plan For You
- Buying a Car with the Bitches, Part 1: How to Choose Your Car
- Buying a Car with the Bitches, Part 2: How to Pay for Your Car
- The Only Advice You’ll Ever Need for a Cheap-Ass Wedding
- You Deserve Cheap, Fake Jewelry… Just Like Coco Chanel
- How To Pay for College Without Selling Your Soul to the Devil
- Splurging on Kids: When It Works, and When It Doesn’t
How to buy gifts
- The Anti-Consumerist Gift Guide: I Have No Gift to Bring, Pa Rum Pa Pum Pum
- How Can I Tame My Family’s Crazy Gift-giving Expectations?
- In Defense of Shameless Regifting
- Traditional Wedding Gifts Can Burn in Hell Where They Belong
- Other People’s Weddings Don’t Have to Make You Broke
How to buy food
- To Hell and Back for Cheap Groceries: The Epic Investigation (and Shocking Results) of My Grocery Store Price Comparison Quest
- How to Shop for Groceries like a Boss
- Cosmic Truths of Cheap Grocery Shopping: 12 Universal Rules to Save Money on Food, No Matter What You Buy or Where You Shop
- The Ultimate Showdown: Cheese Crackers, Ranked
- If You Can’t Afford to Tip 20%, You Can’t Afford To Dine Out
- We Ranked Chocolate Sandwich Cookies by Taste and Price So You Don’t Have To
- Confessions of a Thanksgiving Lunatic: Why I Spend $500 Hosting Every Year
How to avoid buying stuff
- How to Avoid Lifestyle Inflation … and When to Embrace It
- The Magically Frugal Power of Patience
- Don’t Spend Money on Shit You Don’t Like, Fool
- Status Symbols Are Pointless and Dumb
- Here’s What to Do With Those Credit Card Pre-approval Offers You Get in the Mail
- Your Yearly Free Medical Care Checklist
- How to COMPLETELY Insulate Yourself From Advertisements
- 6 Proven Tactics for Avoiding Emotional Impulse Spending
- The Subscription Box Craze and the Mindlessness of Wasteful Spending
- Everything I Know About Minimalism I Learned from the Zombie Apocalypse
That’s all for now, bitchlings! We’ll periodically update this list as we post new content. In the meantime, if you’d like to support our mission of [checks notes] scathing reportage and dank memes, donate to Bitches Get Riches on Patreon or PayPal with the buttons below!
