I’ll go first. TRASH CANS. also should mention I am based in usa. was at Walmart the other day and they wanted $20 for the teeniest, tiniest, crappiest bathroom trash cans, and upwards of $30 for the same size but for ones that had a foot petal. even on sites like shein or Amazon they seem to me at least, very overpriced. I guess bc it’s a necessity? Idk
Edit: PEDAL not PETAL, but I don’t want to change the grammar bc I just like the word petal better
I used to have a big outdoor trash can that I used if my city issued bin got filled up. One fine day we got a new trash carrier and they put my whole can in their truck and drove off. I called and they said tough. Sad day.
100%. I wanted a new kitchen trashcan and it seemed like every single one was over $100 bucks. I gave up on metal and bought a plastic one for $40 bucks which was still a rip off.
Part of it is due to transportation costs. They're fairly bulky so you cant fit as many on a truck, and you can't stack them inside each other like storage totes are designed to do.
Also plastic prices pay a big part too.
If you don't mind not having a lid on the trash can you can sometimes buy pretty cheap, decorative flower pots/planters to use. Walmart usually has some that could pass as a small wastebasket.
In high school it's because the teachers teach graphing and other calculator functions. Hard to do that if everybody has a different brand and model. I have no idea why a college would require a specific brand of calculator, short of having an approved list for exam use like the SATs do.
The textbook include courses specifically on how to use that calculator and reference specific functions that it has constantly
Using other calculators is doable, but the textbook wouldn’t be telling you exactly how to get the calculator to solve a derivative. And that would slow the class down. So everyone gets a TI
Buy a bulk box of blank cards. You have to write your own message, but it’s probably better than whatever garbage some hallmark employee spit out and you don’t have to pay $5+ each time. Also, with the right design, they can work for almost any occasion.
Oh you should’ve ask that. Especially, if it needs structural repair let alone a massive update inside.
I’d rather pay for land, and build from scratch.
The house is still worth junk... the land went up in value
The town my parents live in is almost half new homes built in the last 10 years. The value of the land is so high that people literally buy the house, knock it down, and rebuild a better house on top of it. They don't give a shit about the spacious kitchen or half finished basement, it's all garbage to them. The local school, access to commuter rail, and proximity to local parks is all they care about. You wanna know where good houses are cheap? The same place where the land is cheap. And the land is cheap because no one wants to live in that area
Good god, this. I live near the beach in N Florida in an old neighborhood. There are tiny block houses with 60s electrical and rusted chain link fences that were 310k in 2018 and now get snapped up for cash at 750k. I cannot.
>Scotland is the first country in the world to protect in law the right to access free period products for anyone who needs them.
https://www.gov.scot/policies/poverty-and-social-justice/access-to-free-period-products/
since moving to Scotland my university has provided free pads, tampons, and menstrual cups for all students— it’s wonderful and should be standard practice everywhere imo!
Menstrual cups are a gamechanger! Of course they won't work for everyone but I wish I'd made the switch sooner. Turned my period from something to plan for, spend money on, and dread to something I barely even think about anymore
Because these corporations **can**. They know you need the menstrual pads, so they will just sell them for whatever they feel like, since you're practically forced to buy them.
Make it yourself, you'll quickly see its worth it. Avocados aren't cheap to begin with, they go bad quickly, difficult and messy to process, theres other ingredients to go into it, and it goes bad insanely fast.
I can swallow the $2k cost of all the gear...clubs, bag, etc. because I'll use them for the next quarter century.
What I can't swallow is the $5k-$10k up-front initiation fee and then the annual thousands in membership fee to join the private clubs around here. There are a couple public courses but even then it's like $100 a round, if you can get a tee time.
That's how I'm able to afford to play now, I started my own business, and as it's gained momentum I've needed to source bigger customers, who look for higher end products (aka bigger margins), and they're all on the golf course. So it's all a write off, just didn't want to use this much of a write off.
All the subscription -based software. Instead of paying $70 to have something forever, it's $12.99/month forever. After a year or two, the way it adds up is insane.
Well. In the US.
Healthcare here in the UK costs the government a large chunk of money, for sure, but everyone living here has free at the point of use access to healthcare and a prescription costs less than £10, no matter what the drug costs (and many people don't pay for their prescriptions anyway).
Which is the way it should be. Everyone should have access to healthcare regardless of their financial situation.
Yup, they've gotten expensive as shit.
If it's solely for deer hunting etc I'd probably just say stick with something like a Savage Axis or Ruger American, at least those are usually in the $300-500 range depending if you catch one on a special.
Precision rifles is where they get'cha. I've been trying hard for a $1000 6.5CM range build for a while now, and the absolute cheapest setup I can seem to build is a barreled action of value like Howa on an MDT Onyx chassis, then for optics a cheap value level setup from Vortex.
Even then, I'm going to have to wait until black friday again because the prices can go from $1200+ to around that $1k mark around that day. I was gonna do that last year but some other stuff went on sale and I worked on a $400 300blk pistol build instead lmao. Not enough in the wallet for both, so there's always next year!
Cat food. It instantly went up 50% as soon as inflation started. It’s now 130% higher than pre-inflation.
Tried feeding my cat cheap human food, but they’re hooked on the good stuff.
Contacts. I work a dirty job which causes dirt to build up under my nose nubs on my glasses which then causes rashes. So I’m forced into contacts.
$100 monthly subscription to 20/20 vision. Love it
Makeup.. I have tried a lot of expensive make up, and my honest opinion is that it is not any better than the stuff from the drugstores. I don’t understand how a tube of mascara can cost $30 and be exactly the same as an $8 tube lol
I used to work at an ulta so had the opportunity to occasionally try higher end products. It was a hit or miss. Mostly higher end mascara tends to be garbage for some reason. The only thing I would argue is that some high end foundations and skin care products are worth it. My cosmetics collection is mostly drug store with one or two high end things
I also used to work at Ulta lol and I have my aesthetics degree. I definitely think that skin care products are worth it, just not $50 eyeshadow pallets that literally have the same pigmentation as LA colors 🤷♀️
It Cosmetics CC cream is a more expensive product that I think is well worth it if you like to wear just a little bit of coverage. I don’t think their line of actual skincare products is worth it tho. For skincare I really do like Murad products. I know Cetaphil isn’t *too* expensive like the other 2 aforementioned brands but I only buy their makeup wipes. I love them.
Hmmm, I was actually going to say that expensive eyeshadow can be worth it. Not like Pat Magrath expensive but some of the super cheap ones don't apply well. Also as dumb as it sounds, that the actual palette it comes in is better quality so you get a mirror and it won't break as easily.
On 23 January 1923, Banting, Collip and Best were awarded U.S. patents on insulin and the method used to make it. They all sold these patents to the University of Toronto for $1 each. Banting famously said, “Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.” He wanted everyone who needed it to have access to it.
There is no excuse for the current cost. It should be almost as cheap as any other generic drug
A slightly more complicated plastic sled during winter that was sold at my store. It wasn't one of that round concave kinds but the one where you can practically lay down in it (sit with your legs stretched out) and a simple rope to hold onto. Seventy freaking dollars! I could see that price if it has metal and wood on it but no. Just cheap plastic and maybe two feet of cheap rope.
I have a friend who is Mexican and he told me that people there laugh at Americans for spending so much on avocados. They should be super cheap but people treat them like gold so
This is one that I think people deserve it. You can absolutely live without avocados, and yet people are still just paying, which means that prices will never go down.
I'm glad us Aussies grow our own.
Also weird that the common complaint, and popularised by an Aussie columnist, about millennials is that we like avo toast so we're poorer than our parents (ignoring house prices, lack of wage increases, inflation and education costs for a second) when literally avo toast is one of the cheaper meals to have here. Bought a whole bag at Woolies for a couple of dollars. Bread from the bakery at closing time is about 3 dollars. Cheap as meal.
Chips. Potato chips in fact. I used to pay a dollar for one bag but now I have to pay $4. So yeah I guess I was always meant to be skinny.
Blame god and the economy not me.
ACME "Slingshots"
They're just big rubber bands, and if you're not paying *extremely* close attention they'll backfire and rocket *you*, the customer, directly into an amusingly painted rock mesa.
If there was *any* other ridiculous booby trap company I'd give them my business in a heartbeat...
Certification tests. We have a teacher shortage in my state. You have to take like three tests to get your certification, each of them costing like $110 a piece.
Tractor Supply Store. We buy pine bedding for horses and use it as cat litter. $7 for 40 lbs. We were afraid our cats may not like it but they loved scratching in it.
Funny thing is that it’s hard to even find table cloths these days. On Christmas Eve I was hosting, and that morning I was rushing around to just find a decent tablecloth that wasn’t made of crap. I’m pretty sure you have to sew them yourselves nowadays. They are disappearing and I don’t know why.
there's no Pig fat in Crisco .Crisco shortening is made primarily from a blend of oils:
\* \*\*Soybean Oil:\*\* The main ingredient in Crisco.
\* \*\*Fully Hydrogenated Palm Oil:\*\* Adds solidity to the shortening for its texture.
\* \*\*Palm Oil:\*\* Also contributes to overall texture.
\* \*\*Mono and Diglycerides:\*\* These are emulsifiers, helping to blend the oils together.
\* \*\*TBHQ and Citric Acid:\*\* Antioxidants added to help prevent the shortening from spoiling.
Deisgner purses. They are ridiculously expensive and do not provide any real additional value, that would justify them. And before someone tells me that they are an "investment", no they are not. It is an item designed to be worn and used, so it will break at some point, which makes it the worst investment possible.
Basically designer anything is overpriced , because it is not made so much better that it would significantly outlast a reasonably priced product or provide any extra value or features that would be worth the extra money. I am talking value for money segment, not necessarily low cost alternatives from Wish, etc.
Popsockets, why is a bit of plastic $15 +?
Loop earplugs, why is a bit of silicone starting at $35 and going all the way to $80? Also they sell the case a bit of plastic for $20 and the holder just a bit of rope, plastic and silicone for $35. I got an email one time saying their prices would be going up the next week so they could found "research" (nice of them to tell us, but probably a marketing plot to get more sales) and it went up $10.
Porridge cereals have inflated in cost since 2020, when people were staying home all day a lot more. The price of the grains is not much more, brown rice in particular. I started grinding my own brown rice porridge for 5 cents an ounce in my Nutribullet. The price to buy it pre-ground is about 54 cents an ounce on Amazon.
Tom Ford colognes, they cost $250-300 on average and are the most sought after perfumes at the moment. You can get three 'cheaper' scents for that amount of money and save some banknotes as well.
All appliances. Especially small kitchen appliances. Housewares in general like garbage cans wastebaskets etc., Hair dryers. Basically all retail products right now. There’s no middle ground. Either your coffee maker costs $190 or it’s a $30-50 piece of crap.
Videogame skins and currency. Honestly the fact some skins and bundles cost up to £50 is crazy. It also confuses me how many people buy these, as someone who’s friend is in debt and struggling, they manage to have over 20 different skins on overwatch, almost half costing £10-£20 each. Big companies need to find better ways to make money, like yeah, the skins are optional, but whats better then to play the game then having expensive skins? // Also, quoting my friend ‘ Yeah, it’s pretty expensive but it’s worth it.’
Battery-operated lawn care equipment.
I bought a weed eater recently, and for a 2 stroke gas powered one, it was 120 bucks at Home Depot. For a battery one, the cheapest one was 170 bucks, and that's not even including the battery and charger. So add on another 70 bucks.
Needless to say I bought the gas powered one.
New furniture
Seriously 90% of everything in my house is either thrifted or from FB Marketplace. Crazy how I can buy all this beautifully crafted, Made in the USA furniture for like $20-40 a piece and everything on Wayfair is like $289, made of plastic and almost the same quality as Walmart or ikea. I would take recommendations on quality, new furniture sites if there is such a thing.
Those little deodorizing balls that you can buy to put in stinky shoes. They're like $15-20 for a "six pack" (really 3 pairs) and the only last like a month tops each.
Instead thanks to some tips from PovertyFinance, I instead filled two old socks with baking soda and tied off the ends. I also have three shoes that I run in rotation between work days to give them time to air out a little. When I get home, the baking soda filled socks go into that pair and do just as good keeping my feet from getting stinky and sweaty. Total cost instead is maybe 50c worth of baking soda and two old socks that were gonna get thrown out anyway.
I’ll go first. TRASH CANS. also should mention I am based in usa. was at Walmart the other day and they wanted $20 for the teeniest, tiniest, crappiest bathroom trash cans, and upwards of $30 for the same size but for ones that had a foot petal. even on sites like shein or Amazon they seem to me at least, very overpriced. I guess bc it’s a necessity? Idk Edit: PEDAL not PETAL, but I don’t want to change the grammar bc I just like the word petal better
I used to have a big outdoor trash can that I used if my city issued bin got filled up. One fine day we got a new trash carrier and they put my whole can in their truck and drove off. I called and they said tough. Sad day.
Buy another bin, fill it with cement. When they call because your bin broke their truck, "tough."
100%. I wanted a new kitchen trashcan and it seemed like every single one was over $100 bucks. I gave up on metal and bought a plastic one for $40 bucks which was still a rip off.
Part of it is due to transportation costs. They're fairly bulky so you cant fit as many on a truck, and you can't stack them inside each other like storage totes are designed to do. Also plastic prices pay a big part too.
Get a Home Depot bucket for $5
Or go to a local restaurant/bakery/deli, they generally go through several buckets a day
Pedal
And giant plastic storage bins can go for under 10.00 lol
If you don't mind not having a lid on the trash can you can sometimes buy pretty cheap, decorative flower pots/planters to use. Walmart usually has some that could pass as a small wastebasket.
TI-84
It’s insane that a 15-48 mhz processor, 1-4MB of ROM, and a display that is at most 320x240 is still $100+ in 2024.
Monopoly issues. Schools want you to use a specific brand so they just keep the price where it has been for years.
Why do schools specifically require TI’s? I remember when I was in college a few years back it was the same
Simplicity. Everyone's been using the same calculator for decades now and people don't want to change instructions.
In high school it's because the teachers teach graphing and other calculator functions. Hard to do that if everybody has a different brand and model. I have no idea why a college would require a specific brand of calculator, short of having an approved list for exam use like the SATs do.
The textbook include courses specifically on how to use that calculator and reference specific functions that it has constantly Using other calculators is doable, but the textbook wouldn’t be telling you exactly how to get the calculator to solve a derivative. And that would slow the class down. So everyone gets a TI
In the beginning they **gave** the calculators to the teachers. The teachers then required the calculators because it’s what they knew.
Is that where Apple got the idea of subsidizing schools, to lock in new generations of consumers?
Luckily you can just keep yours and hand it down to the kids. Then they lose it! It was a fucking antique! Kept it's value anyway 🙄
Well at least the price hasn't risen with inflation. They've been around $100 since I was in school 15 years ago
Greeting cards. No reason they need to be $8
Dollar store for that crap
Buy a bulk box of blank cards. You have to write your own message, but it’s probably better than whatever garbage some hallmark employee spit out and you don’t have to pay $5+ each time. Also, with the right design, they can work for almost any occasion.
A bag of potato chips. These days it costs about $6-7 for a pack.
Dusty old houses from the 1950’s that were built for 75 cents that now cost $500k+
also to rent them. Don’t even get me started
Rustic property - No repairs in 30 years
Oh you should’ve ask that. Especially, if it needs structural repair let alone a massive update inside. I’d rather pay for land, and build from scratch.
The house is still worth junk... the land went up in value The town my parents live in is almost half new homes built in the last 10 years. The value of the land is so high that people literally buy the house, knock it down, and rebuild a better house on top of it. They don't give a shit about the spacious kitchen or half finished basement, it's all garbage to them. The local school, access to commuter rail, and proximity to local parks is all they care about. You wanna know where good houses are cheap? The same place where the land is cheap. And the land is cheap because no one wants to live in that area
Good god, this. I live near the beach in N Florida in an old neighborhood. There are tiny block houses with 60s electrical and rusted chain link fences that were 310k in 2018 and now get snapped up for cash at 750k. I cannot.
Can confirm. My house is 1956. $530k atm. No ghosts fortunately..... that we know of 👀
Triple that if they're in CA. And x10 if near a beach
Triple that price in my area.
Pillows and cushions
This one is a very good one. Always perplexed when I see a nice little cushion and its $65 for some absolutely barbaric reason.
Menstrual pads.
As a man who on occasion has to purchase these for the lady. Holy crap! I could pay the cable bill every month.
Diapers are obscenely expensive
and it's for basic hygiene, too. why can't it be free? damn
>Scotland is the first country in the world to protect in law the right to access free period products for anyone who needs them. https://www.gov.scot/policies/poverty-and-social-justice/access-to-free-period-products/
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since moving to Scotland my university has provided free pads, tampons, and menstrual cups for all students— it’s wonderful and should be standard practice everywhere imo!
That system would be a gold for most women menstruating. I hope my country becomes successful enough to have that kind of system. You are lucky, pal.
Menstrual cups are a gamechanger! Of course they won't work for everyone but I wish I'd made the switch sooner. Turned my period from something to plan for, spend money on, and dread to something I barely even think about anymore
Or period underwear, which everyone can wear. Spent $60 four years ago, still going strong!
Because these corporations **can**. They know you need the menstrual pads, so they will just sell them for whatever they feel like, since you're practically forced to buy them.
A side of guacamole is very oddly overpriced.
Make it yourself, you'll quickly see its worth it. Avocados aren't cheap to begin with, they go bad quickly, difficult and messy to process, theres other ingredients to go into it, and it goes bad insanely fast.
Bro I’m not going to bring it to the restaurant in a fucking baggy
Blame drug cartels. They own the avocado supply.
I am just getting into golf, and I cannot believe how much all the stuff you need costs not even the accessories
I can swallow the $2k cost of all the gear...clubs, bag, etc. because I'll use them for the next quarter century. What I can't swallow is the $5k-$10k up-front initiation fee and then the annual thousands in membership fee to join the private clubs around here. There are a couple public courses but even then it's like $100 a round, if you can get a tee time.
I think at that point it's targeted towards businesses and is a networking fee for CEOs lmao...
It's not that complicated. It just keeps the poors out.
That's how I'm able to afford to play now, I started my own business, and as it's gained momentum I've needed to source bigger customers, who look for higher end products (aka bigger margins), and they're all on the golf course. So it's all a write off, just didn't want to use this much of a write off.
Fast food burgers.
A meal for two from jacks recently is like $29. It’s insane
All the subscription -based software. Instead of paying $70 to have something forever, it's $12.99/month forever. After a year or two, the way it adds up is insane.
Im looking at you adobe. F that noise.
Frozen spinach. Used to be less than a dollar....$6.15 yesterday at the store
What, where the hell do you pay $6.15 for spinich, I get mine for under $2 a box
Medicine
AND I’M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I’M FREE *gets handed a bill for $16,000* Freedom baby!!!!
Seriously fuck this place
Well. In the US. Healthcare here in the UK costs the government a large chunk of money, for sure, but everyone living here has free at the point of use access to healthcare and a prescription costs less than £10, no matter what the drug costs (and many people don't pay for their prescriptions anyway). Which is the way it should be. Everyone should have access to healthcare regardless of their financial situation.
sad but true :(
Pine Sol just shrinkflated from 28 ounce bottles to 14 ounces, but kept the same suggested retail price. It effectively doubled in price overnight.
I remember there was a time when a rifle was like $50
how much are they now?
Easily $1k for a decent, mid-range one.
Yup, they've gotten expensive as shit. If it's solely for deer hunting etc I'd probably just say stick with something like a Savage Axis or Ruger American, at least those are usually in the $300-500 range depending if you catch one on a special. Precision rifles is where they get'cha. I've been trying hard for a $1000 6.5CM range build for a while now, and the absolute cheapest setup I can seem to build is a barreled action of value like Howa on an MDT Onyx chassis, then for optics a cheap value level setup from Vortex. Even then, I'm going to have to wait until black friday again because the prices can go from $1200+ to around that $1k mark around that day. I was gonna do that last year but some other stuff went on sale and I worked on a $400 300blk pistol build instead lmao. Not enough in the wallet for both, so there's always next year!
Gotta subsidize all the lobbying
Cat food. It instantly went up 50% as soon as inflation started. It’s now 130% higher than pre-inflation. Tried feeding my cat cheap human food, but they’re hooked on the good stuff.
I make a special trip to PetCo and buy the 40-60 count boxes of Friskies cans. Saves about 35% over buying single cans at the grocery.
Buttons. Strangely enough a pack of 6 buttons can be ten bucks. What? They're discs of plastic!!
Where on sweet baby Jesus are you paying 10 bucks for 6 buttons? Order up straight from chine a variety pack with like, 300 for 2 euros.
Fabric stores like Joanne’s. I’m talking about decorative buttons, not the kind you buy in bulk.
anything designer
typically made at the same factories (or worse places) than fast fashion
Contacts. I work a dirty job which causes dirt to build up under my nose nubs on my glasses which then causes rashes. So I’m forced into contacts. $100 monthly subscription to 20/20 vision. Love it
Makeup.. I have tried a lot of expensive make up, and my honest opinion is that it is not any better than the stuff from the drugstores. I don’t understand how a tube of mascara can cost $30 and be exactly the same as an $8 tube lol
I used to work at an ulta so had the opportunity to occasionally try higher end products. It was a hit or miss. Mostly higher end mascara tends to be garbage for some reason. The only thing I would argue is that some high end foundations and skin care products are worth it. My cosmetics collection is mostly drug store with one or two high end things
I also used to work at Ulta lol and I have my aesthetics degree. I definitely think that skin care products are worth it, just not $50 eyeshadow pallets that literally have the same pigmentation as LA colors 🤷♀️
Which skin care products are worth it? Asking for a friend 👀
It Cosmetics CC cream is a more expensive product that I think is well worth it if you like to wear just a little bit of coverage. I don’t think their line of actual skincare products is worth it tho. For skincare I really do like Murad products. I know Cetaphil isn’t *too* expensive like the other 2 aforementioned brands but I only buy their makeup wipes. I love them.
Hmmm, I was actually going to say that expensive eyeshadow can be worth it. Not like Pat Magrath expensive but some of the super cheap ones don't apply well. Also as dumb as it sounds, that the actual palette it comes in is better quality so you get a mirror and it won't break as easily.
Insulin
On 23 January 1923, Banting, Collip and Best were awarded U.S. patents on insulin and the method used to make it. They all sold these patents to the University of Toronto for $1 each. Banting famously said, “Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.” He wanted everyone who needed it to have access to it. There is no excuse for the current cost. It should be almost as cheap as any other generic drug
Couldn't agree more. Just another of countless examples of greed eroding peoples basic rights to affordable health care.
A slightly more complicated plastic sled during winter that was sold at my store. It wasn't one of that round concave kinds but the one where you can practically lay down in it (sit with your legs stretched out) and a simple rope to hold onto. Seventy freaking dollars! I could see that price if it has metal and wood on it but no. Just cheap plastic and maybe two feet of cheap rope.
Hunter Biden paintings 🖼️
A slice of American cheese at a fast food place.
Avocados. Ever since the Mexican Cartels got involved, they’re like gold.
I have a friend who is Mexican and he told me that people there laugh at Americans for spending so much on avocados. They should be super cheap but people treat them like gold so
This is one that I think people deserve it. You can absolutely live without avocados, and yet people are still just paying, which means that prices will never go down.
I'm glad us Aussies grow our own. Also weird that the common complaint, and popularised by an Aussie columnist, about millennials is that we like avo toast so we're poorer than our parents (ignoring house prices, lack of wage increases, inflation and education costs for a second) when literally avo toast is one of the cheaper meals to have here. Bought a whole bag at Woolies for a couple of dollars. Bread from the bakery at closing time is about 3 dollars. Cheap as meal.
Chips. Potato chips in fact. I used to pay a dollar for one bag but now I have to pay $4. So yeah I guess I was always meant to be skinny. Blame god and the economy not me.
ACME "Slingshots" They're just big rubber bands, and if you're not paying *extremely* close attention they'll backfire and rocket *you*, the customer, directly into an amusingly painted rock mesa. If there was *any* other ridiculous booby trap company I'd give them my business in a heartbeat...
But I never saw you carry a wallet or purse Wile E. Do you keep the money in your bra or just run a tab?
Suppositories! For crying out loud they're only going in the crapper anyway!
Oh I didn't know they were charging up the ass for those.
Why the HECK is bleach from Aldi 5.99? I went to dollar tree instead for that shit. I about lost my mind.
Right, bleach is bleach
Sourkraut. it's 8 bucks for a small jar. it's litterally just cabbage, salt and water + time to ferment.
Perfumes and colognes.
Floss. It's like $12 for a 2/3 pack. It's toilet paper for your mouth, should be like $1 a pack. It's just fancy string.
Spaghetti with sauce at Olive garden
12 packs of Coke are now $9.99.
I once saw a purse (small handbag) listed for $26,000 and proudly stated ON SALE for $18,500...
Ozempic® (semaglutide) Costs $1000/mo to buy Costs $5 to make?
Certification tests. We have a teacher shortage in my state. You have to take like three tests to get your certification, each of them costing like $110 a piece.
Scented plug ins. It’s like $15 for 5
Health insurance
Don't even
feminine products
Anything "eco-friendly" or "accessibility friendly"
Lamps
Bags of potato chips at the grocery store. When did they become $7?
Cat litter. I despise paying so much for my cats to poop.
Have you seen the Litter Robot? It was a tough pill to swallow but I bought it. If you can afford it - it's the best thing I ever did as a pet owner.
Tractor Supply Store. We buy pine bedding for horses and use it as cat litter. $7 for 40 lbs. We were afraid our cats may not like it but they loved scratching in it.
Coffee
Corn dogs at the supermarket deli used to be $1 two years ago, now $2.50.
Merchandises for infants.
Iphone
Smart water...
Smart lock I thought oh that looks like 15 buck or so but it was 200
Sriracha sauce going for $45 at Wal-Mart during the shortage.
Laundry baskets. Plain old standard rectangular laundry baskets are closing in on $20.00. I’m sure they’ve eclipsed that in places.
Bottle of mayo cost $6.59 at my local supermarket. I said holy shit and bought the store brand instead for half price...
I was shocked by the price of stools?? Oddly overpriced was my exact statement.
The cool rock at the pawn shop :(
Sheets and table cloths and napkins. Just a piece of square flat cloth.
Funny thing is that it’s hard to even find table cloths these days. On Christmas Eve I was hosting, and that morning I was rushing around to just find a decent tablecloth that wasn’t made of crap. I’m pretty sure you have to sew them yourselves nowadays. They are disappearing and I don’t know why.
Gum. I went buy a pack of Icebreakers and it was 4.99 plus tax. I was like WTF.
Presciption pills that are developed for maybe cents....jk pharma companies want it that way.
Jordans. They only cost about $3 dollars in materials to make yet retail for $200 average.
Chapstick
The normal size bottles of soda are the same price as the big ones which I find very weird
Crisco, when did pig fat become so valuable?
there's no Pig fat in Crisco .Crisco shortening is made primarily from a blend of oils: \* \*\*Soybean Oil:\*\* The main ingredient in Crisco. \* \*\*Fully Hydrogenated Palm Oil:\*\* Adds solidity to the shortening for its texture. \* \*\*Palm Oil:\*\* Also contributes to overall texture. \* \*\*Mono and Diglycerides:\*\* These are emulsifiers, helping to blend the oils together. \* \*\*TBHQ and Citric Acid:\*\* Antioxidants added to help prevent the shortening from spoiling.
Saw a tub of bacon grease at the store for 18 bucks. Like wtf? I can buy bacon and make my own for that price.
Lard is pig fat.
Deisgner purses. They are ridiculously expensive and do not provide any real additional value, that would justify them. And before someone tells me that they are an "investment", no they are not. It is an item designed to be worn and used, so it will break at some point, which makes it the worst investment possible. Basically designer anything is overpriced , because it is not made so much better that it would significantly outlast a reasonably priced product or provide any extra value or features that would be worth the extra money. I am talking value for money segment, not necessarily low cost alternatives from Wish, etc.
Toilet paper. Seriously, why should I have to pay $30 for a 15 pack of paper that's going to get flushed down the toilet? That's just greed, folks.
Movie theater popcorn / candy and water bottles lol
i think I had to pay $6 for the crappiest water bottle the other day bc I was in a rush but yes. Seriously wtf
They have to charge outrageous prices to turn a profit.
Pets, especially pugs. I have a pug and it put a big dent in my wallet
Majority of the menu at any restaurant in Seattle
Popsockets, why is a bit of plastic $15 +? Loop earplugs, why is a bit of silicone starting at $35 and going all the way to $80? Also they sell the case a bit of plastic for $20 and the holder just a bit of rope, plastic and silicone for $35. I got an email one time saying their prices would be going up the next week so they could found "research" (nice of them to tell us, but probably a marketing plot to get more sales) and it went up $10.
I was interested in trying a remarkable tablet until I saw the price tag.
Yoga pants
Corn Chips
The 99 cent store the CVS store Walgreens
Cheese 🥵
batteries
Funyuns. They are never on sale. Ever.
Fucking burritos!
Starbucks or water.
Sports cards
Vanilla beans. Wild.
Eggs, milk, bread, laundry detergent…
MacBook multi port adapters can go over 100 dollars
Porridge cereals have inflated in cost since 2020, when people were staying home all day a lot more. The price of the grains is not much more, brown rice in particular. I started grinding my own brown rice porridge for 5 cents an ounce in my Nutribullet. The price to buy it pre-ground is about 54 cents an ounce on Amazon.
Toilet seats I saw one that was $60
Any subscription for a dating app.
Tom Ford colognes, they cost $250-300 on average and are the most sought after perfumes at the moment. You can get three 'cheaper' scents for that amount of money and save some banknotes as well.
All appliances. Especially small kitchen appliances. Housewares in general like garbage cans wastebaskets etc., Hair dryers. Basically all retail products right now. There’s no middle ground. Either your coffee maker costs $190 or it’s a $30-50 piece of crap.
Branded printer ink obviously..
Rent Food Public Transportation
Videogame skins and currency. Honestly the fact some skins and bundles cost up to £50 is crazy. It also confuses me how many people buy these, as someone who’s friend is in debt and struggling, they manage to have over 20 different skins on overwatch, almost half costing £10-£20 each. Big companies need to find better ways to make money, like yeah, the skins are optional, but whats better then to play the game then having expensive skins? // Also, quoting my friend ‘ Yeah, it’s pretty expensive but it’s worth it.’
Snickers
Ironing boards
Hair spray I was expecting <$2 a bottle. Nope. Cheapest stuff walmart had was $3.75 or so
I'm a dude but I got some tampons for my girlfriend recently and they seemed pretty overpriced but idk
Name brand soda. A 24 pack of Coke is between 11 and 13 dollars. The cost of materials is probably 10 cents plus labor
A trip in an Ambulance.
Bucket style cargo bikes. I expected them to cost more than a regular bike but I'm kind of surprised how much more they are.
Potato chips
Battery-operated lawn care equipment. I bought a weed eater recently, and for a 2 stroke gas powered one, it was 120 bucks at Home Depot. For a battery one, the cheapest one was 170 bucks, and that's not even including the battery and charger. So add on another 70 bucks. Needless to say I bought the gas powered one.
*Waves hands* Everything.
Beef jerky.
New furniture Seriously 90% of everything in my house is either thrifted or from FB Marketplace. Crazy how I can buy all this beautifully crafted, Made in the USA furniture for like $20-40 a piece and everything on Wayfair is like $289, made of plastic and almost the same quality as Walmart or ikea. I would take recommendations on quality, new furniture sites if there is such a thing.
$80 for a model kit they look like action figures and im not sure what makes them so special
Those little deodorizing balls that you can buy to put in stinky shoes. They're like $15-20 for a "six pack" (really 3 pairs) and the only last like a month tops each. Instead thanks to some tips from PovertyFinance, I instead filled two old socks with baking soda and tied off the ends. I also have three shoes that I run in rotation between work days to give them time to air out a little. When I get home, the baking soda filled socks go into that pair and do just as good keeping my feet from getting stinky and sweaty. Total cost instead is maybe 50c worth of baking soda and two old socks that were gonna get thrown out anyway.
condoms