How Much Is Five Bucks?

not enough to buy you lunch anymore, but sometimes still enough to see a local show

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acceptable tip on bills under $25

one bag of potato chips

enough gas to get you through the next two days

Four bucks is the answer that makes the most sense to me, though, since that's roughly the buying power now compared to pre-pandemic

This makes me want to go find a list of all the $7.99 games on the App Store

Why can't you give your promise to me?
Is love so blind that you cannot see?
I'm trying hard not to walk out the door
Know that I, oh, know that I can't take no more

For good or ill, my mind loves precision too much to accept the idea that anything should round off to $5 outside the range of $4.80 to $5.35.

eight bucks is ten bucks in my mind, so is 7 bucks I think, 6 bucks is definitely 5 bucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB4z492z2hg

same kind of thing with time, my wife very much thinks of anything past x:35 as being x+1 o'clock. Even after all these years she still gets me every once in a while when we have to go somewhere or do something before a certain time. She'll say "it's already 5 o'clock and we still haven't _____" and I start lightly panicking until I look at the time and it's actually 4:38.

beat me to it zchyrs xp

Sadly I also do this with my age. In my mind, I'm already 40. It ain't fair

same kind of thing with time, my wife very much thinks of anything past x:35 as being x+1 o'clock. Even after all these years she still gets me every once in a while when we have to go somewhere or do something before a certain time. She'll say "it's already 5 o'clock and we still haven't _____" and I start lightly panicking until I look at the time and it's actually 4:38.

Agree with this one, but my wife will sometimes round up to the half-hour, like "It's 5:30!" (it's 5:12), which annoys me.

I think six bucks is five bucks, but beyond that I get into grumpy-old-man "That's how they get you!" territory.

5 bucks is 4 bucks when buying food but 7 bucks when buying anything else

same kind of thing with time, my wife very much thinks of anything past x:35 as being x+1 o'clock. Even after all these years she still gets me every once in a while when we have to go somewhere or do something before a certain time. She'll say "it's already 5 o'clock and we still haven't _____" and I start lightly panicking until I look at the time and it's actually 4:38.

― silverfish, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 20:53 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol my mother-in-law is notorious for doing this

You’re lucky if you can get a pint on draft for $5, or two tacos

I have found it is better to tell my son that we are leaving in 300 seconds instead of 5 minutes, for some reason that seems to motivate him.

Going to start telling myself i have seconds left to live. Lots of them, but still seconds

hah i had noticed a lot of indie games on steam are suddenly pricing at 17.99 instead of 14.99 but i didnt realize there was a master plan behind it i thought it was just inflation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LtMStIROtA

voted Four bucks

5 = 4 = 6 = 7 = 8

this is hard.

I can think of many examples where the difference between 4, 5 and 8 is significant:
- Kilo of fresh fruit or vegetables. Often the difference between normal and organic.
- Drinks at the restaurant. Wine or a good beer are often 7-8 per glass.
- Meal prepared at home (one portion). Maybe the difference between vegetarian and meat.

I don't think I can find an amount threshold where I really start considering my spending. If I have a fair price in mind, even a one-buck difference can stop me from buying. If I'm buying a car, nothing under a thousand difference is going to matter.

I'm sure many people treat five bucks as zero, meaning, not an amount worth saving or really considering. Snacks, drinks, ice-cream, renting a film, all the small pleasures you're not going to deny yourself. I'm sure half the economy runs on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8kEiL81_R4

I’ll have to think through whatever my answer to this question is, but I vividly remember, as a child, that $5 was a fuck of a lot of money. Once I round a five dollar bill just under a parked car outside of Roy Rogers (after dinner with my mom) and felt like I was richer than King Midas.

Hell yeah $5 when I was a kid meant a splurge at 7-11 and then an hour or two hours of arcade games.

I literally did this for an appalling number of Saturdays: finish taking out the trash, collect my allowance, then Big League Chew gum and Galaga or Asteroids.

I'm sure half the economy runs on this.

100%, just look at Starbucks.

if six turned out to be nine, i don't mind

go home mr. businessman, you can't dress like me

you'd lose clients and people would call you "gay"

jimi hendrix called himself "gay" but only when he needed to get out of the army

after that he called superman a "faggot"

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