See, that’s the batshit insane thing about this whole situation: these conservatives are so brainwashed that they typically don’t care why people don’t want to be around them. They often view it as a good thing that they’re in fly-over states/counties. So long as reasonable people with brains (and all women, and all lgbtq+ people, and all pregnant people, and all non-christians, etc etc) are excluded or subjugated, they feel like they’ve “won.”
I highly recommend the This American Life episode on the subject (ep 792 - When To Leave). The episode takes place before the OB-GYN actually decides to leave Sandpoint, and brings some thoughts to the idea of why many families - including myself and some of my family - can no longer call these states like Idaho home. The return of theological hatred-is-the-point laws and governance in places like Idaho is just outright terrifying. They’re going to become (and in some ways already are) incompatible with modern, fair, and just human existence.
Since someone already mentioned dashcams and cast iron, my vote is: a bidet toilet seat attachment.
Fancy ones can roll $200+ but a super simple one with just a cold water hookup and no electricity will knock you back $50-60. I bought one right as covid was beginning to hit the west coast, and instantly realized I could never - ever - go back.
Huge bonus of the toilet seat style bidets is that, since you aren’t actually replacing the toilet, they take like 5 mins to install and can be done in a home, condo, apartment, wherever.
My rule for a while has been to limit myself to one major subscription at a time. It really curtails the rampant streaming costs.
I made an exception for spotify for a while (so I’d have spotify + one streaming service + maybe one small low-cost one) but with how expensive they’ve all gotten I’ve reverted to only spotify and low-cost stuff.
Right now I just have spotify and dropout TV so I can catch up on Dimension 20.