46 Ridiculously Overpriced Items That People Just Refuse To Buy Anymore

Not only has the food gotten more expensive but you get much less even with the price increase.

And support your local restaurants.

I would rather go out for one good and expensive meal each month than one cheap and crappy meal each week.

If I’m going to spend the money, I want something better than fast food.

I see what they did there.

Guild?

Just got rid of my 08 Chevy. Yeah, I coulda spent 7k on body work (Michigan winters suck) and still had a truck with 170k miles. Went 11 years newer for another 4k it would have cost for body work.. Do lawns and haul my tractor and trimmer/blower, so I need one.

I have a 1996 Dodge Ram 2500, long bed, Cummins diesel 5.9l. Over 600,000 mms on it, hauls a 5th wheel and a motorcycle on a rack with no problem. People are always asking me if I want to sell the truck. Never.

Bring your own snacks to the theatre. Staff don't seem to care.

I don’t mind the cost, as movie are a once or twice a year treat got me. It’s the audience I can’t stand anymore. I hate to generalize by age, like these websites like to do, but I swear GenX is the only one that knows how to behave in a theater. Anyone younger seems physically unable to put their phones given, and Boomers cannot keep quiet.

Movie tickets have gotten stupidly expensive, but $150? NFW. Ticket prices in the states range from $16-25....which means $75-$100 of that was spent on snacks and absolutely avoidable. Price is a secondary concern for us at this point, the main reason we have abandoned the movie theater is the number of total inconsiderate POS that now seem to populate every single theater. A-holes who not only have their phone out the whole time, at full brightness but have the volume, the fuckwits who bring screaming babies, and young children to films like Oppenheimer with the expectation that they'll be fine because they have a tablet, and once they get bored of that tablet they ignore them as the run around screeching. Its not surprising that some certain quality level of parents would pull that c**p, but WTF would theaters think allowing it is going to retain customers?

I don't pay directly for the cinema any more... I get two free tickets with my TV subscription, and one free ticket from my bank every month.

Tickets are not the problem for me, the snacks will put you in debt for sure. At the local skating rink, a Powerade costs $5…water it is son.

But beware the price of soft drinks - we were out recently a bottle of wine was £20-25 - not too bad, a pink of Cobra £6.50 - my large coke £7 - it came from 2 small bottles - but how is it more than beer? Water next time (which is my drink of choice normally).

If I can't get front row, I'd rather be in an elevated seating area. No phone in your way, and no tall person in front if you. If I'm spending a £100 for a concert, I want to see it!

Ditch enormodome gigs. Find your local gig venue, check that tickets are all in the £10-£30 range, go and see artists who are up and coming or are making their way through life as a gigging musician. Support local, small venues and I guarantee you’ll have an up close and personal experience.

I was the d******d that stood up and danced during Muse for just one song - but I was so excited to see them live!!! I'm short so tend to now go into the seating section. And HATE when people feel the need to r3ecord the entire thing. A few pictures at the beginning, the rest can be found online.

Concerts ! Worse entertainment rip off in history!

I went to a concert last year and there were signs everywhere saying "No mobile phones". Yet the only way you could get in was by showing your E-ticket on your phone. Only in the UK.

Good thing I'm in Canada where we have real healthcare

I saw a $100 pillow in the walmart clearance aisle. $100 was the clearance price.. uhm...no.

AirBnB self imploded in the US but is still pretty much ok here in UK.

AirBnB is hit or miss. I always check on the app but im just as likely to book a hotel room now. 5 years ago I never even looked at hotels when traveling.

Depends where you go. I always compare prices, convenience, and reviews, before booking accommodation.

The Sam Vines' Boot Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. Men at Arms

Depends on how you treat your cheap stuff, imo. I always wear budget shoes and they will usually last 2-3 years. Not just seasons. Years. The shoelaces I use are more expensive than the shoes. Lol. I loved the look of some expensive shoes and after years of "should I?" I finally bought a pair. They lasted not even half a season before they were falling apart. Also, most of my clothes are cheap budget clothes. But they still last for decades. And I wear skirts and dresses for everything! A walk in the woods, gardening, going out whether it's for dinner, music or dancing. I am not particularly concerned about taking care of my clothes. Nor my shoes. But they last a pretty long time anyway and they look fine, imo. My point is: it depends.

I go just once a year. Maybe twice. Sometimes I'll trim my bangs a bit. I hate going to the salons and have to explain myself as if I'm doing something wrong with the hair that grows on my head, while they make snide comments here and there, and act like my hair is theirs.

That's why my bf and I learned to cut each other's hair.

I'm in my 30's now and my dad has been trimming my hair for yeeeears. The joy in his face when I bring him scissors and tell him to hack off a few inches is priceless :)

You tip for a haircut!?!

I feel the same except for grooming pets. (Don't know if its on this list haven't reached the bottom yet) but.. bought $30-40 grooming sheers for our yorkie and he looked just like he came from the groomers saved $80-100 every few months.

Learning to cook has been one of my best investments ever.

I do treat myself when I am too tired to cook, clean, etc. Got sick a month back and knew i should be nowhere near a stove.

I will spend money on the merchandise, but I have decided to not go to watch the games at the stadium anymore. The tickets, parking, a drink, all of it together is expensive. Just like the movies, I prefer to watch at home but even that is getting expensive

This. sucks being an Arsenal fan when you can't afford tickets.

I won't buy steak, but a pound of ground beef will stretch into 3-5 meals for my 2 kids and me when I make a casserole.

We buy a 1/4 cow from a rancher friend once or twice a year. Works out to around $3.50 per pound, and that includes ALL cuts (ground, and tenderloin, and ribeyes). The quality is sooooooo much better, we will never buy Kroger ground beef again! Just need a huge freezer!

We’ve been lucky, one of cows who had a great life but was not a nice cow, has been feeding four people for half the year already and there’s still at least $600 in grocery costs worth of mince and steak left. It’s my first time having farm stuff like this and I had no idea one cow could last this long. He was an Angus.

Even the cuts of steak once considered not ideal (looking at you flank) are overpriced.

Or fix what you have. Very basic mending like stitching closed a small hole before it gets bigger is super simple to do.

My friend has a trick where she goes to the thrift stores and buys plus-sized clothes made of nice cloth and takes them apart. She can get 2 or 3 useable yards of fabric out of a good-sized dress or long skirt.

Street markets carry pieces of really cheap fabric here. You need to dig a little but can find nice things. My only problem is that it'll take me FOREVER to sew something, so it's not time cost effective

Yeah, McD and Burger King getting pretty pricey now. KFC as well. Meantime my local chicken shop does a massive chicken wrap for £2.99...

Dollars were invented long after my country had settled on different currency units. The original Joachimsthaler dates to 1520, so a bit more than 460 years before I ever saw a McDonalds..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar#History