45 Overpriced Things That People Avoid Buying Because Of How Expensive They’ve Become

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Ooph! This one stings

The fact that these companies have the audacity to boast about it to the public...

Because they can.

Blame Debiers. They've had the monopoly since slavery was still legal.

Our rule is sign up for one subscription until we're done with that one. But lately we're trying to go the free route. Tubi has some of my favourite shows and zoechip has That 70s Show I'm binging on with my daughter. That plus youtube, and the 200 movies we have at home is a lot of media to last us a long while. I'm often busy working or doing other things anyways.

My parents got married by the county Sherriff in my dad's front yard in the '70s. Still together after almost 50 years.

Only in good ol 'Merica

And in my experience, it doesn't even work. Also, the packaging is excessive (thick non-recyclable glass jars, bottles with pumps that don't reach the last 10%). Hate it.

I won't use an Airbnb. If I go on holiday, I want someone else to look after my room, clean, make the bed etc... I do that stuff every single day at home, a holiday is to get away from 'that stuff'

SCI=Service Cooperation International (I had to Google that one)

All fast food has become expensive. Not Just McDonalds.

Without inheritance you are damned. Or you have to be a millionaire. It is like they want us to be homeless :D

You need to sneak in your own drinks and snacks

I take my niece and nephew to the cinema a few times a year. We never buy anything, we just go to the supermarket and get a bottle of whatever they want to drink and a bag of M&Ms to share between us.

Can't you really stop to eat and drink for 2 hours?

Last time I went to the movies was 8 years ago. Way too expensive plus they come out on streaming services or cable so quickly that I'm fine just waiting.

The last movie I went to a theater to see was The Sixth Sense in 1999. I just wait for movies to come onto a streaming platform. I don't care how long it takes, I'll wait.

That's why they invented cargo pants.

I haven't been to a movie theater since 2016. From high prices to annoying people on their phones, etc... I have a better experience in my own home with a projector and surround sound. I even got to see "Five Nights at Freddies" at the same time the Thursday night release happened.

Same for me I have not been to the movies since the price went past 5$

London, found £5 ticket for Barbie on a Saturday. £7 for a corona. Dafuq.

Can't people go to see a movie and not stuff thier pie holes. I've never under the need to eat pop corn or anything else. Just another BS marketing tactic.

Check around at other theaters that may do $5 matinees. I never buy food anymore there and would just eat before or after seeing a movie for that price. Not worth paying that much for snacks.

I'm not sure where this was, but matinee shows at my theater are $6 for adults and $5 for children under 10. If we forgo snacks I can get the whole family in for around $30

Let me guess. 3$ without popcorn and soda?

Theatres always gouge you on the snacks. Just bring your own.

So dont buy them 100 snacks?

We bring our water bottles. We've been to several different theaters & nobody has ever said anything about us bringing them.

We go the cinema and bring our own snacks in and i know you are allowed bring snacks in once they dont stink out the cinema so no need to hide them

VPN, plex, and ride the high seas...

Inkjets are terrible for running out/drying up ink. Get a lazer jet. Cost more to start with but the ink doesn't dry out, so if you don't use it much, it will still work when you next go to use it.

Went for lunch, ham cheese bagel and water 11 euro 🤯 went to dunnes bought 4 pk of bagel ham cheese and crisps 6.50 stayed home and invited friends over so now we take turns making lunch in eachothers houses, cheaper and more relaxed and dosnt cost an arm and a leg if you want seconds

Weird. Why don't you just make up a sandwich or two at home, before you leave?

My heath insurance is 54€ per mounth. Went to the ER last month, in an ambulance, spend the night there. Need surgery next week, I'll stay a week in the hospital. Total bill with the medication and a nurse visite at home a whole week : 0€. Not to mention the birth or my 3 kids, 0€ too.

You can thank the ppl who comb thru second hand/charity shops to sell online. Was in a charity shop a few weeks ago, just having a nosy, and saw a lot of Primark clothes, but not at Primark price. Why in hell would I buy old clothes that are double/triple the price when I can walk 10 meters down the street and actually buy new from Primark?

A lot of the time we don't eat.

Getting married is wealth management and people don't get that. It's not only love. It's much more spendable money, less rent, tax deductions, etc

My mum takes 12 different meds plus insulin every day. She would be dead if in USA, not only that she has had 6 major surgeries, including a bypass in the last 5 years. All for a government capped cost of $500 per calendar year for meds, zero costs on anything else, doctors, paramedics, home nurses, specialists, surgeons, all tests, all extensive hospital stays. She just spent 13 days in hospital again for fluid on lungs and low kidney function. They did every test you can think of and adjusted her meds until they got the balance right.

To be fair, anything for a minority group will cost more as the overheads (including special design, testing, legal compliance and insurance ) are shared between fewer purchasers.

That's nothing. My university decided to build a new stadium. Nothing wrong with the old one. Did they use ticket sales of the previous stadium to pay for it? Nope. Charmed every student that started after 2004 an extra $1,000 until it was paid for. Would I have been able to use that stadium? Nope. Did I have an interest in sports? Nope. But I paid $4,000 towards that damn stadium!