Meat.

Most people go to the supermarket and buy cruelty, torture, violence, atrocity, and slavery.

I don't know if never.

But I don't want a smartwatch.

I've never carried a watch in general and I don't see the appeal of it when I carry a smartphone all day anyway.

I would never buy the subscriptions that most people buy (YouTube Premium, Netflix or similar). It's just too easy to pirate.

Holiday decorations. They are just plastic shit. Put a gun to my head, I would already know that every other weekend estate sale is going to have a whole room full of decor that is headed for a landfill. Some psychotics even buy new gimcrack every single year. They are evil, and they need to be stopped.

Smart - anything.

Why do you need a smart doorbell? Why do you need a smart appliance? You're just inviting waves of survelliance not to mention the bandwidth from all of that shit having to tap into the internet.

Car. I hope I never have to buy a car. They suck.

1. A car
2. Subscriptions of any kind (except a good VPN)
3. New clothes (I always buy used)
4. If the app is paid or even freemium I don't use it.
5. Food delivery (Really? $40 for a fucking burger)
6. Guess that leaves rent and renter's insurance which I have to have if I want a roof over my head.

Smart home devices. IOT devices. Subscriptions to things I paid for at purchase (car stuff like upgraded performance or heated seats)

Tickets to sports events. Yawn.

After building my first pc I will never buy a pre built again. I might never buy a pc again (pc of thesius!)

• Phones on contract payment plans
• New monitors: Maybe my eyes suck, but my set of two 21-inch LCD monitors from 2005 is still going strong
• Third-party meal delivery: I'm fine sitting down with a microwaved meal or some canned soup if I don't feel like cooking
• A new car every x years: My car of choice is old and relatively cheap, so I could afford to pay in full in cash. Bonus of being spyware-free, so I'll just maintain it for as long as I can.
• Stuff from Aliexpress, Temu and the like: the user experience is horrendous, customer service is nonexistent, and discount codes are pure gimmicks

Alcohol, tobacco

Digital media. It's too easy to pirate. There's no reason not to other than being a good boy. The only way I could see myself going legit is if they started to make really good public digital libraries and I could download anything I wanted from a single source with a library card of some kind. The exception to this would be online games but the ones I like to play happen to be free lol.

• P*rn premium subscriptions
• Tinder premium
• Paper news subscription or any printed magazine
• Paid tv channels

Lottery tickets.

They’re basically just a tax on the dumb. But man the slogans — all you need is a dollar and a dream, you gotta be in it to win it, etc. — sheer marketing genius.

Software subscriptions. I’ll buy a perpetual license if there’s no decent open source alternative as long as it will run offline. For example, $300 for Marvelous Designer back in the day was reasonable, but they can fuck right off with the subscription-only model.