• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    My grocery bills are double what they were in 2019 now

    Rocket Mortgage has a commercial that shows some schlub walking into his house with his groceries while the voiceover says something about how those three bags of groceries used to be six. Then the house starts talking to him, reminding him that he can cash in the tiny amount of equity he has in the house with a second mortgage and use the money to buy groceries. Happy schlub dances the rest of the way into the house.

    It must be hundreds of thousands of people that have been conned by this one commercial alone into thinking that going into debt to buy groceries is a solution to their problems.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      I was super lucky and able to get debt free (except for my mortgage) in 2022.

      RM bought my mortgage last year, and yes, they’re relentless with the stupid ads. They’re begging us to take out debt, even if we don’t want or need it. They’ve even inflated their “estimated value” of my home on their website to try and entice me.

      Sucks that things have gotten so shitty that taking out debt to buy food seems reasonable. I wish we could elect better people, but if we get these two dozen or so DSA’s elected, maybe?