University books… boycott them, ridiculous price for individuals to pay for education, should all be online publicly for free.

Microtransactions, especially in sports games. Cosmetics in a free to play game? I don't have a problem with that, gotta make money somehow and it doesn't affect gameplay. Blatant gambling and pay to win functionality in games like NBA 2K and Madden? Those can f**k right off

Animals that are so inbred to meet a certain 'breed standard' that they are a walking vet bill from birth. Brachycephalic dog breeds such as French Bulldogs being an example.

Shark fin soup. The fishers only want the fin and throw the shark out to the sea after cutting it since the other body parts have no monetary value, letting the shark to die

Anything an influencer gets paid to promote

So much. Stop buy so much. You don't need all that f*****g s**t.

A new phone every year.

GLITTER. Sparkles, glitter and sequins on everything, especially kids items. You think it's hard to get that s**t out of your house after craft time? It's MICROPLASTIC, and it's going into our waterways and oceans. Yet the toy stores and clothing stores are adding more sequins and glitter every day. Makes me furious. Just stop buying it!

Caskets. Especially those sealed tight ones... Our dead need to decompose, and they will, but the casket can just explode. When I'm dead I want to be buried in a blanket and tossed in a hole. Let nature worry about me.

Cigarettes. Quit while you can. If you need help doing so, we can be friends and I can help you all I can.

Detox teas or anything that claims to help rid you of “toxins” in your body. If you can’t do that s**t on your own already then you need a kidney or liver transplant, not a tea that a fit mom is trying to sell you.

Plastic bottles. Just buy a water filter and fill up the same bottle Edit: for people saying just drink tap water, I agree 100%. I’m just saying there are a lot of people who only buy bottled water, drink it, throw it and buy another one. Ridiculously unnecessary. Those plastics are so difficult to recycle, if at all. Most just ends up in landfill anyway. Trying to convince them to buy a water filter is good middle ground! My FIL boasts about how eco-conscious he is but still does what I said above. Drives me mental.

any kind of shower gel or facewash that has those plastic microbeads in them. The beads are small enough to get through most filtration systems and are ruinous to marine life

Anything involved in an MLM scam. I’m looking at you Young Living Essential Oils

Online IQ test. If there was a way to fail an IQ test, paying for one online would be it.

Red Delicious apples. You deserve better than that mushy garbage. Get yourself a honeycrisp.

The sewage that comes out of TV Evangelists' mouths.

Tiny plastic garbage I see tiktoks of people unboxing like these mini-plastic toys (?) of name brand items. And they will have 100s of them all individually wrapped in multiple layers of packaging just to have tiny replicas of a bottle of windex or lay's potato chips.

Any home exercise machine or equipment that requires a subscription to use. You paid 2 grand for a treadmill and then a recurring monthly fee to use it. How is this business model working?

I can't understand the people that buy holiday decor every single year. Are people buying fake trees and tossing them every year and needing a new one? Same with ornaments and what not. Obviously people move out of their parents or they need to replace ornaments if they're broken or something but the amount in stores does not add up to me. Why so much new stuff every year?

S**t made of plastic they use once and throw away.

Most saltwater fish if they aren't willing to put in the effort, and certain species that just can't be kept in captivity even with the effort. 90% of saltwater fish you see in the store except for most clowns, some tangs, some seahorses, and I think maybe cardinal fish are all wild caught. More than any other pet, when you take home a saltwater fish you have purchased a piece of the environment and you should treat it with every bit of respect it deserves.

Cheap children’s party favors. We aren’t talking the colorful pencils and paper pads that actually have some use. I’m talking about the non descript plastic forms with popular media stickers and other garbage. The amount of trash plastic available for this niche is staggering- especially given that most of those toys hold a child’s attention for 2 hours. Also- happy meal toys. Great for a collector, because most of them get thrown out 6 months after being found behind the couch. Legos are highly resealable/giftable and tradeable. Hot wheels last forever. Most toys have at least a possible second life. But party favor crap- is just crap.

Madden. Seriously. Basically anything that comes from EA. They've just gotten a bit too greedy for my liking.

Fantasy books that are first of a series of 13. Fantasy has become completely entrenched in this model where every story HAS to be a massive multivolume epic. I can count on one hand the number of multivolume series that actually NEEDED to be 8-10 books long. Most of them could have been told in one trilogy, if not just one epic book. I 100% believe that writers are pressured to stretch out their 2 volume stories into 8 purely for the additional sales.

Not a sexy or flashy response, but no one should be buying a boiler, furnace, or water heater below 90% efficiency. The ~80% efficiency equipment is ancient technology and you are throwing your money away while also spewing more greenhouse gasses! Edit: well this did leagues better than I anticipated! Many of you have pointed out instances where the 80% is an appropriate choice, whether it be flue issues, a steam system, or you don't have the fund for the 90% upfront. On top of this I'll clarify that these upgrades should be made at the end of the boiler's life, it will almost never make financial sense to replace a functional appliance with a more efficient one, and the greenest equipment available is the one you already have. Heat pump crew, I'm with you, but currently, with US fuel mixes and electrical costs, there are very valid arguements against them. Everyone talking about how they have a 60 year old boiler that runs like a tank, this is some serious survivor's bias, if they all worked that well no one would have to replace old equipment and the industry would have died except for new construction.

Please uninstall Yelp off your phone. They are nothing more than extortionists that hold small businesses hostage to bad reviews (real or fake, doesn’t matter). I can’t express how s**tty Yelp is as a company. Every time you open their app, you give them support.