Turns out people weren’t imagining it.
Groceries really are expensive. Rent really is outrageous. And apparently surviving adulthood now requires a side hustle, emotional support coffee, and advanced financial gymnastics.

This painfully relatable mug features struggling stick figures showing the many stages of economic exhaustion:

• broke,
• stressed,
• defeated,
• and one sitting on the curb staring hopelessly into a panhandling hat like:

“So… is this the winning part?”

Front and center is the brutally honest phrase:

“Affordability Isn’t a Hoax”

lease stop the gaslighting! Groceries really are expensive, rent really is high, and finding a job that keeps up with inflation is damn near impossible. This painfully relatable mug features struggle sticks, formerly known as stick figures, that are economically exhausted and wondering if this is the winning part, what does losing look like?

• 15 oz Capacity, large enough for panhandling
• BPA & Lead-Free Ceramic
• Microwave and Dishwasher Safe

Because telling financially stressed Americans affordability is a hoax, while prices rise daily, is an insane alternate reality.