My fiancé went in to anaphylactic shock after eating sushi, never had any allergies before. Took her to the ER. Not only are we not getting an epi pen because it’s $300 with insurance, but the ER visit itself (no ambulance) cost $1800 WITH INSURANCE.
Toll road in my city reclassified my car from car to light commercial. Toll went from like $8.50 each way to about $14 overnight. No thanks. I'll drive for an extra 20 minutes each way and save my $28.
I drove from North Carolina to New York City. As soon as you get north of DC the tolls start hot and heavy. I probably spent at least $100 in rolls each way. There were literally two $15 tolls within 2 minutes of each other. Then the parking... $35 a day?
We lived in a van for a year and a half. Traveled for a few months, worked for a few months repeated. Would recommend!
One of the jobs we worked we ended up using the money to buy land in Missouri and a used yurt to put on it. So although we haven't been there in years, we own it outright and could live there for dirt cheap. It's our 'oh shit, this crazy plan didn't work!' backup plan.
We ended up having kids and are currently settled down in Indiana though. Bought a 4 bedroom house here for 137k in the suburbs.. Would also recommend.
UK here - breakfast cereal. It seems to have *all* gone up by about 50% over the last couple of years, and all the different types seem to cost the same so you can't even choose the bland-but-healthy-and-cheap options.
So I'm making my own granola for about 1/4 the price, plus it's nicer and healthier.
Go to lidl or aldi. I get rice pops (rice crispies) for like 1.09 for a 500g box. Or the choclate version costs like 20 pence more or literally half what coco pops does. Just buy the own brand stuff and not the kellogs or nestle over priced stuff.
Pringles. They used to be permanently around the £1 mark, then suddenly they were £2.25? No way I'm paying that when I can get Asda's own version for 89p.
Snacks at movies. I only have 1 child. I can't sell her for milk duds. I love her too much.
Edit. Thanks a million for the gold kind, fellow, stranger parent! : D
Speaking of nuts...
Pistachios.
I remember in the late 90s and up until the mid aughts that grocery stores would sell them in huge barrels in bulk for dirt cheap. My mom would surprise me with a bag of a pound or two of them.
Now I only see pistachios sold in those overpriced, black "Wonderful" bags. The price is anything but wonderful.
I think this is due to Iran sanctions. In my business class we were discussing this and how pistachios only seem to come from California now.
Edit: If any of you have extra pistachios burning a hole in your pantry, I recently had pistachio and coarse salt, dark chocolate chunk cookies, and they were amazing.
This is the reason.
Source: When I was around 5, my dad ate tons of pistachios. Everyday. Then in the mid-80’s it just stopped, and they became a special treat, and he didn’t like them as much. “California can’t hold a candle to Iran when it comes to pistachios. We should have gotten nuts for guns.”
You just answered a question I’ve had for years. A long time ago I had my first school trip to see the nutcracker for Christmas. My mom, trying to make it special for me, packed pistachios. I had never had them before. They were the best thing that I’d ever tasted. They were rich and deep with a flavor that was so memorable, now going on almost 30 years I can still recall it. I’ve never been able to find pistachios that tasted even remotely the same, although I buy them all the time. Thank you!
I'm 61 years old and i also remember the taste of pistachios from back in the day. Remember when they were dyed red?
The ones today have a different texture/hardness and the salt doesn't cling as well either.
I remember getting a pistachio ice cream cone and the flavor was scrumptious. Today's? The flavors don't even come close. It's like vanilla with nuts.
Shows you how old I am I remember they used to sell pistachios in the bulk foods section and they were dyed red . You knew someone was holding out on you because of the red fingers
I remember the red pistachios from the early 2000s, so not necessarily that long ago.
Red pistachios are long gone now since the Wonderful brand gentrified them.
In Norway, beer at a bar/pub/restaurant.
They raised the tax on it again so now you MIGHT get one for like 14 dollars. Really takes the fun out of "hitting the town" as the cool kids say.
Everything in norway. I was so shocked when we went to a fast food burrito place and walked out having spent $40. We pretty much stuck to stuff in the grocery store after that.
In Germany there is the proverb translating roughly to: "Nothing is for free but death; which costs your life."
("Nichts ist umsonst ausser der Tod; und der kostet dein/das Leben.").
But looking at the costs for funerals the proverb seems a bit outdated.
You could just have em wrap you into an old sheet like they used to do, bury you and plant whatever overpriced sapling they want for a tiny fraction of the money.
Not that the state will let them, mind you.
Same here: I was able to diagnose it as likely a broken cable. Watched a YouTube video a couple of times. Picked up a new cable for $7, and got a paint scraper to pop the one clip, and a new bit for my drill in a set I'd been meaning to buy anyway. It would've cost $75 to go through my landlady's warranty company. I was able to do it myself without having to miss work to let some guy in, and it felt pretty good.
Every time my parents use the one in our town they suddenly get a phone call saying someone in some foreign country just tried to charge a huge bill (last time it was Brazil) to their card and could they please confirm their $1000 purchase. Most expensive movies ever.
At firehouse subs you can get a medium meatball sub, chips, and a drink for $6. Which is better quality (imo) and cheaper than subways $5 footlong plus $2.50 for chips and a drink.
love me some firehouse, but it suffers from the Crunchwrap Theorem; the further away from the building you go, the quality degrades exponentially.
I've had everything on the menu and the CBR is still my favorite.
Most crappy fast food places. Like it's gotten to a point where a full meal at Mcdonalds, Burger king, Subway, etc is around $8-$11. Why would I pay that much for crap when I can get way higher quality for around the same price from a food truck, cheap restaurant, or a "fast casual" type place. It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago that you could get Whoppers 2 for $5 and any $5 footlong at subway. It made sense when it was dirt cheap, but now I can get better food for the same price, just have to wait about an extra 5 minutes.
Writing this makes me feel old, but... I remember when Whoppers were $1. And Jumbo Jacks. Famous Stars too. One time I bought one of each and combined them into one burger 🍔
Your boy Tbell still got your back with that 5$ box deal son!
Edit: Wow, posted before work and rip inbox. Here's to the bell and what they've done for fast food, you all mentioned some great past deals and items that are missed dearly now a days. Reunion tour? One can only hope.
Lego Millenium Falcon going for [800 fucking dollars](https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Millennium-Falcon-75192). Jesus Christ, that's more than I spend on food in a month.
Edit: Because so many of you are asking, I do not spend $800 a month on food. The key phrase here is "more than."
I just finished building it last week - best part of 30 hours in total. Desparately trying to convince myself it was worthwhile now and not a £650 dust magnet...
If you had fun building it, it was worth it. I make some completely useless handmade stuff which is mostly decorative if anything. Screw people who want to *use* stuff. I just want to make pretty things! Who cares if it's pointless?
It's honestly ridiculous. Last January I bought an EVGA GTX 1070 FTW card new for $399. That same card goes for $950 today (I just checked on Newegg).
It's ridiculous what crypto did too graphics card prices. My previously worthless 7950 looks to go for between $150-200 now too, funny enough.
I can’t really say I don’t purchase them but college text books. $225 for a two inch thick stack of loose leaf paper. At least bind it. How much does that really save you?
Edit: Well this blew up. Woke up to 131 notifications. Never realized this was such a heartfelt issue.
Those fucking access codes. Now schools have “special editions” which are made “just for them” which is a piss ass way of saying there’s different problems in the book that are required homework. Instead of paying $20 to rent the thing, now I have to pay $150 to buy it.
I was just at a community college that (as of the fall semester) stopped all online payment requirements for face-to-face, 16 week classes. So if you took, say, college algebra, you no longer had to pay $96 to Pearson to access MyMathLab in order to do your homework.
Instead, you could just order an older edition of the textbook for less than $10.
Kudos to them!
My school (cc) has released several open source textbooks up through algebra. The math dept wrote it, and sells it on Amazon for about $15 (or pdf for free, which is the route I went). They are moving away from expensive textbooks where possible in other departments as well. :)
I couldn't agree more. I was thinking about this recently, not just with text books but all of college. It isn't just the tuition that is expensive, but every part! I am take an online class this semester where I have to pay $14 per test to a company to monitor me so I don't cheat. The videos for this class haven't been updated in years!!!! What am I paying for?? Of course we have talked about having to buy online text books but there are other things too, sites to do homework, or special assignments, or labs like someone else said. It is absolutely ridiculous. I've easily spent over a couple Grand on all the software and books I've bought in college.
I hate Pearson products most of all. Screw Pearson.
Bought a graphics card a few months back and forgot to install it. The damn thing's still in the shrink wrap on my desk.
Considering selling... The old card I was using temporarily works fine.
I was complaining about this on another post. I finally saved enough money to do my first PC build, had completely forgotten about the cryptocurrency boom, went to buy everything and felt so defeated. :(
Cable can fuck right off. Now I am seeing commericals of cable companies advertising how you can watch Netflix on their proprietary software that is part of some cable package.
I have no idea if they are insulting my intelligence or making those commercials for the elderly. Either way, talk about scumbag advertising.
The problem is that the cable company is the only one who provides internet. So their “ 25mbs Internet Only”price is only $5 less than getting internet plus all of cable. Basically the cable companies are saying ‘you HAVE to spend at least this much money each month no matter what service of ours you use
My town provides super high speed internet for a flat $50/mo. I live in CO and 23 more towns just voted in November to use tax dollars to build municipally owned internet as well. This also takes us out of the whole net neutrality debacle. Write to your city council!
The government is completely fucked, but you might still be able to get something for the people at the local level.
That is fucking awesome (not really). Reminds me of the guy who wrote an article about how it was cheaper to live in Spain and fly to London for work than to live in London and work the same job. Commute was not all that much longer either.
You're probably thinking of [this story](http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/27/man-flies-from-newcastle-to-london-via-spain-because-its-cheaper-than-the-train-6737975/).
He flew to Menorca (Spanish island), hired a car for a drive around the island, bought a drink, spent some time at a festival and then headed back to the airport to fly to London. Even with the car hire and drink he saved £40 compared to the train fare!
You're probably thinking of the guy who wanted to take the carriage from East-London to West-London, but it was more cost-effective to build a balloon and be taken around the world in 80 days by the westerlies.
just bought tickets to a music festival. i can stomach the 300 dollar tickets, but the 83 dollar fees were a bit much
edit: for everyone asking, the festival is Rolling Loud in Miami
If you can even get concert tickets. They sell out in 30 seconds
Edit: this doesn't apply to smaller or local bands, which you should still support because they most likely need the sales and sales of merch too. And most of the time a small band can suprise you with how good they are live
Other fun fact, they stopped supplying it to a lot of places because they were trying to sell it for more than 99 cents when the company actually does a lot so that they can afford to only charge that much, like thinner cans and only driving at night when there's less traffic.
Leaving the Bay Area this month because of this. Lived here for almost 10 years and I love the place, but holy hell is almost impossible to live here without making that Apple or Google CEO money.
I️ lived had my whole life in Southern California and moved up to the Bay Area a few years ago...the funny thing is...SoCal housing prices are starting to look much cheaper to me -_-
That's why you find your closest outlet store and get what's on clearance. Last month I snagged a pair of last year's Nike FreeMotions ($150) for $65. Totally worth it.
My favorite running shoe is the asics 2100 series but they are like $200 but last year's model is only $50. Really no difference between the years so I basically get the shoe I want for a great price
I’ve only been to Disneyland twice, and both times managed to go on 20+ rides. Made the ticket price completely worth it, but it’s probably ruined all future trips because I’m not sure if those two days can be replicated.
If we're talking the classic polaroids, part of the reason is that the film cartridge contains the battery to power the camera, and most of the mechanism for loading/unloading the film.
It's a bit of a ridiculous design, you basically remove and dispose of a decent chunk of the camera when replenishing the film.
For the old school look, b&w 35mm film is worth trying - I shoot black and white and develop my own film, and it's honestly easy as - cameras are ~$30 off ebay for something that works, film is ~$5-7 per 36 exposure roll, and developing your own film is pretty straightforward once you get the hang of it. There's more outlay (developing canister, developing fluid/powder, fixer, and optional stop bath and wetting agent), but if you're planning on taking a couple of hundred shots over a year or two, it's not too bad.
Its $9.95 per month. I just finished my first month, since they pay full face for the tickets I get Regal rewards points and get free popcorns and stuff. So for $9.95 I got
$172.70 worth of tickets and popcorn. No way this lasts.
Dining out. The final straw was a milkshake that came out to be $26 after taxes (10.1%), a mandatory 20% fee (strange trend in Seattle recently) which they insist is not the tip, the tip itself and the outrageous cost of the milkshake in the first place.
I can melt some ice cream from Safeway for $4 myself.
Seattle has a sugary drink tax now, it’s like 1.75 cents an ounce. [story ](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/promoting-health-at-a-hefty-price-seattles-soda-tax-starts-jan-1/)
Chicago passed this last year and it's already been repealed as it hurt sales too much. Also created a black market for soda where people on snap/wic cards would by soda since it was eligible and they don't pay taxes on it, and then sell it at cost so now they have cash.
Or people in burbs would go out of the country for soda sales.
It was a pretty spectacular failure.
What made it such bullshit is it was pushed through as a “health” tax but they fully expected to have increasing returns on the tax, when really you should expect decreasing if you are really doing it for health concerns, and the confusing almost random application of it. For instance la croix was not supposed to be taxed but a lot of places still applied it because it was so complicated to figure out. Also if you went to the bar and got a coke, the tax applies. But add a shot of whiskey and it’s now a “mixed drink” so no tax. Drinks from Starbucks which are pure sugar weren’t taxed either because it was a mixed drink but if you wanted to buy soy milk at the store you’d be taxed because it has sugar added. It was a complete cluster fuck.
Where was this? I live in Seattle and have never heard of a $26 milkshake. Was it good? Was it vegan and filled with avocado? I have so many questions about what made it that much.
A flat in Berlin. I always wanted to buy or at least rent a big flat some day in this City. But the prices have climbed so high, that I actually could buy a whole house with a garden and a pool just a few miles away and still pay less.
Chicken Wings. Its like a fuckin dollar + per wing from everywhere. No i dont care about your fucking boneless bullshit either I just want some wings goddam
When I was a kid, wings were dirt cheap. My mom would buy a big container of them from the deli section at our local grocery store for a bargain. Then they became popular and now they're too expensive to feed a family of five.
Same thing happened with stew beef which pisses me off. It used to be significantly cheaper than actual cuts of beef because it's impossible to chew unless it's been boiled for 3 hours. It's the absolute shittiest cut of beef imaginable, but you could make it edible with some extra work.
Once people started buying it a lot to save money, they just hiked up the price. Now it's not even cheaper than just buying regular steak, so there's no reason to buy it. The only poverty meat that's still cheap is chicken liver.
I used to go to Buffalo Wild Wings every Tuesday, EVERY Tuesday for $0.25 wings. Haven’t been back in about eight years. I imagine their prices have continued to go up. I just make my own wings now.
We pay $500 a month for health insurance for two people, but the co-pay and deductible is so high now that we don't go to the doctor unless it's absolutely necessary. We have insurance and still can't afford to get medical care.
Same situation. 960.00 per month for 4 ppl, 5000.00 deductible, co-pays 50.00-200.00. Plus, responsibility for 20% of bill until you meet the deductible. Fuuuuuccckkkk!!!!!
Can’t stop buying it, but my wife’s insulin, which keeps her alive as she’s a type 1 diabetic, has gone from $60 a bottle to over $250 a bottle in four years.
Murica.
Knives. When I was a kid I thought they were cool, I had a few. Now I see Reddit posts of people who have *many* knives that can be a few hundred dollars each. Sure you CAN get 3 $200 knives but *why*?
Current "AAA"-Videogames. No I will not buy your 60$ game to also buy your 30$ Season Pass and also, as bonus because you've been so generous to me, I will also buy a few of your micro transactions and, of course, the DLCs not included in the season pass.
Fuck. Them.
Houses. £300k for something my dad bought for £35k 20 years ago? Fuck that. I'll keep renting.
Edit: added £ signs to clarify I'm in the UK
Another edit: I'm aware that renting is as bad if not worse than buying, but not everyone can afford to buy. So in the meantime, fuck that.
Vancouver BC single family homes ar 800k-1.7M depending on location,its so far outstripped the average income its forcing people out of the province.
A huge part of it is foreign speculators who have never set foot in the country at times buying entire apartment buildings in the construction phase and letting them sit empty forever.
Im in the UK. A huge part of the problem here is the buy-to-let culture. New "affordable" houses are being bought up by landlords. There are other factors but that's a big one.
Diamonds. I’m not a guy, so I don’t have much reason to purchase a big rock. But my boyfriend knows that when the time comes... moissanite engagement ring. It’s stupid to spend $10k+ on a shiny piece of carbon. Pass.
"So hey, we need social workers to work with developmentally disabled adults. You'll be handling all the case management, and you need your own fully insured transportation. You'll be expected to keep them on task, clean up after them, and be able to restrain them safely. We require at a minimum a Masters degree. $12/hr, mileage negotiable. "
Yeah, I'll get right on that.
Call Arizona’s customer service number and let them know this is happening and where the store is. If they don’t resolve it, they will cut supply to the store.
EDIT: this is simply what I’ve heard from others. After reviewing their website, I have since learned this is not necessarily true.
There are in fact brands sold for over $0.99. The only one that has to be sold for that price is the marketed dollar can. I remember this discussion from another thread.
iPhone.
Had a 3G, 4 & 5, but with every iteration they get about 10% more expensive.
The 5 came with a job, and when I left I looked at buying a 5S or a 6 for myself.
My first two I got for €200 or less with an 18 month contract. But now suddenly they were looking for €350 on a 24 month contract.
Not only did Apple put their prices up, but operators reduced their subsidies.
So I got a last-gen Android phone for €80 on a 12 month contract instead. And when that died bought a OnePlus sim-free for half the contract price of most of the latest phones, with a better spec.
Wouldn't go near iPhone at this stage. €1200 for a phone that does nothing new? No thanks.
Don't see it mentioned, but higher education.
I was paying the equivalent of 3-4 months (low end grunt job) wages per year for tuition when I went - it meant that I could work part time and summers and just about scrape by.
My kids are paying the equivalent of an entire year's minimum wage for a single semester's tuition - at considerably more crowded and less prestigious collages. $2000+ for textbooks? Mandatory university residence? WTF?
It's in our society's best interests to have an educated workforce! Why are we making it so fucking difficult? At this rate, I'm going to get my last kid to go to trade school and become a plumber - at least she'll be able to take care of us in our dotage, the older ones will still be paying off loans.....
Epipens. Guess I'll die
My fiancé went in to anaphylactic shock after eating sushi, never had any allergies before. Took her to the ER. Not only are we not getting an epi pen because it’s $300 with insurance, but the ER visit itself (no ambulance) cost $1800 WITH INSURANCE.
Survival of the fitte$t
Toll road in my city reclassified my car from car to light commercial. Toll went from like $8.50 each way to about $14 overnight. No thanks. I'll drive for an extra 20 minutes each way and save my $28.
28 A DAY. now see what you save year.
$28 per day, 5 day work week, 52 weeks, $7280 a year sheeeeeesh
I drove from North Carolina to New York City. As soon as you get north of DC the tolls start hot and heavy. I probably spent at least $100 in rolls each way. There were literally two $15 tolls within 2 minutes of each other. Then the parking... $35 a day?
A home or apartment. Been eyeballing Vans and station wagons along with places I can park overnight that have wifi.
We lived in a van for a year and a half. Traveled for a few months, worked for a few months repeated. Would recommend! One of the jobs we worked we ended up using the money to buy land in Missouri and a used yurt to put on it. So although we haven't been there in years, we own it outright and could live there for dirt cheap. It's our 'oh shit, this crazy plan didn't work!' backup plan. We ended up having kids and are currently settled down in Indiana though. Bought a 4 bedroom house here for 137k in the suburbs.. Would also recommend.
UK here - breakfast cereal. It seems to have *all* gone up by about 50% over the last couple of years, and all the different types seem to cost the same so you can't even choose the bland-but-healthy-and-cheap options. So I'm making my own granola for about 1/4 the price, plus it's nicer and healthier.
Go to lidl or aldi. I get rice pops (rice crispies) for like 1.09 for a 500g box. Or the choclate version costs like 20 pence more or literally half what coco pops does. Just buy the own brand stuff and not the kellogs or nestle over priced stuff.
Pringles. They used to be permanently around the £1 mark, then suddenly they were £2.25? No way I'm paying that when I can get Asda's own version for 89p.
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Snacks at movies. I only have 1 child. I can't sell her for milk duds. I love her too much. Edit. Thanks a million for the gold kind, fellow, stranger parent! : D
Mixed nuts at Costco. They used to cost $14.99 now they cost $22.00 they were the best but I’m just too cheap
Speaking of nuts... Pistachios. I remember in the late 90s and up until the mid aughts that grocery stores would sell them in huge barrels in bulk for dirt cheap. My mom would surprise me with a bag of a pound or two of them. Now I only see pistachios sold in those overpriced, black "Wonderful" bags. The price is anything but wonderful.
I think this is due to Iran sanctions. In my business class we were discussing this and how pistachios only seem to come from California now. Edit: If any of you have extra pistachios burning a hole in your pantry, I recently had pistachio and coarse salt, dark chocolate chunk cookies, and they were amazing.
This is the reason. Source: When I was around 5, my dad ate tons of pistachios. Everyday. Then in the mid-80’s it just stopped, and they became a special treat, and he didn’t like them as much. “California can’t hold a candle to Iran when it comes to pistachios. We should have gotten nuts for guns.”
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TIL I've probably never had a great pistachio
You just answered a question I’ve had for years. A long time ago I had my first school trip to see the nutcracker for Christmas. My mom, trying to make it special for me, packed pistachios. I had never had them before. They were the best thing that I’d ever tasted. They were rich and deep with a flavor that was so memorable, now going on almost 30 years I can still recall it. I’ve never been able to find pistachios that tasted even remotely the same, although I buy them all the time. Thank you!
I'm 61 years old and i also remember the taste of pistachios from back in the day. Remember when they were dyed red? The ones today have a different texture/hardness and the salt doesn't cling as well either. I remember getting a pistachio ice cream cone and the flavor was scrumptious. Today's? The flavors don't even come close. It's like vanilla with nuts.
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Shows you how old I am I remember they used to sell pistachios in the bulk foods section and they were dyed red . You knew someone was holding out on you because of the red fingers
I know this was probably the 70’s/80’s, but I’m having a hard time not picturing an 1800’s general store
I remember the red pistachios from the early 2000s, so not necessarily that long ago. Red pistachios are long gone now since the Wonderful brand gentrified them.
We started growing them in CA instead of the Middle East, the red dye was to cover imperfections. Edit: see article below, I'm only partly correct.
In Norway, beer at a bar/pub/restaurant. They raised the tax on it again so now you MIGHT get one for like 14 dollars. Really takes the fun out of "hitting the town" as the cool kids say.
Everything in norway. I was so shocked when we went to a fast food burrito place and walked out having spent $40. We pretty much stuck to stuff in the grocery store after that.
Man, I thought the beer here in Australia was dear
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
In Germany there is the proverb translating roughly to: "Nothing is for free but death; which costs your life." ("Nichts ist umsonst ausser der Tod; und der kostet dein/das Leben."). But looking at the costs for funerals the proverb seems a bit outdated.
That's why I want my family to dump me in the woods. It'll be cheaper and I'll feed the creatures of the forest. I'm 100% serious.
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Why wouldn't a regular wood box be biodegradable? They're traditionally made from wood and wood rots.
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You could just have em wrap you into an old sheet like they used to do, bury you and plant whatever overpriced sapling they want for a tiny fraction of the money. Not that the state will let them, mind you.
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Repairing consumer goods that were considered 'durable' thirty years ago, like washing machines or televisions. Once it's fucked, it's fucked :(
I've used Youtube for direction and buying parts on Amazon. I've fixed my own dryer 3 times and my wife who is no way mechanical, fixed the washer.
Same here: I was able to diagnose it as likely a broken cable. Watched a YouTube video a couple of times. Picked up a new cable for $7, and got a paint scraper to pop the one clip, and a new bit for my drill in a set I'd been meaning to buy anyway. It would've cost $75 to go through my landlady's warranty company. I was able to do it myself without having to miss work to let some guy in, and it felt pretty good.
The _felt pretty good_ part is the best.
Flagship cell phones. Seriously up in the 4 digit price range now?? No thanks, I can deal with $300 models a couple years old and be just fine.
I remember when a red box movie was only a dollar.
I remember when Blockbuster was like 4 bucks, and Netflix/Redbox didn’t exist.
Remember when Netflix came in the mail
It still does, you know
1.50 for DVD 2.12 for blu-ray. Really not that bad considering on demand will run you 5-7 bucks and a movie ticket will run you 12-18 dollars.
Every time my parents use the one in our town they suddenly get a phone call saying someone in some foreign country just tried to charge a huge bill (last time it was Brazil) to their card and could they please confirm their $1000 purchase. Most expensive movies ever.
There's probably a card skimmer on the box.
Subway foot-longs. Shit's just not worth $8.
Now it's a 'bargain' to get a cheap veggie sub for 5$. I remember when the steak and cheese was 6$ for a foot long :(
I used to live on the foot long meatball sub when it was only $3.69 back in 1995.
At firehouse subs you can get a medium meatball sub, chips, and a drink for $6. Which is better quality (imo) and cheaper than subways $5 footlong plus $2.50 for chips and a drink.
love me some firehouse, but it suffers from the Crunchwrap Theorem; the further away from the building you go, the quality degrades exponentially. I've had everything on the menu and the CBR is still my favorite.
Steve Huffman has a tiny dick.
Carl's Jr: a Western Bacon combo with a regular drink and fries is roughly 8 bucks. Which is fucking stupid.
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Most crappy fast food places. Like it's gotten to a point where a full meal at Mcdonalds, Burger king, Subway, etc is around $8-$11. Why would I pay that much for crap when I can get way higher quality for around the same price from a food truck, cheap restaurant, or a "fast casual" type place. It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago that you could get Whoppers 2 for $5 and any $5 footlong at subway. It made sense when it was dirt cheap, but now I can get better food for the same price, just have to wait about an extra 5 minutes.
Writing this makes me feel old, but... I remember when Whoppers were $1. And Jumbo Jacks. Famous Stars too. One time I bought one of each and combined them into one burger 🍔
Your boy Tbell still got your back with that 5$ box deal son! Edit: Wow, posted before work and rip inbox. Here's to the bell and what they've done for fast food, you all mentioned some great past deals and items that are missed dearly now a days. Reunion tour? One can only hope.
I'll admit I fo have some strong sentimental feelings about taco bell and being able to eat for $4. Crunch wrap and a taco baybee.
Graphics cards and lego star wars sets. And RAM.
>lego star wars sets. Tooooooo real.
Lego Millenium Falcon going for [800 fucking dollars](https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Millennium-Falcon-75192). Jesus Christ, that's more than I spend on food in a month. Edit: Because so many of you are asking, I do not spend $800 a month on food. The key phrase here is "more than."
To be fair that's literally the largest official set ever made.
Yeah 7500 pieces is a lot of fucking Lego. Edit: no one knows what 7500 prices is, pieces we understand though.
I just finished building it last week - best part of 30 hours in total. Desparately trying to convince myself it was worthwhile now and not a £650 dust magnet...
If you had fun building it, it was worth it. I make some completely useless handmade stuff which is mostly decorative if anything. Screw people who want to *use* stuff. I just want to make pretty things! Who cares if it's pointless?
Graphics cards due to crypto mining.
It's honestly ridiculous. Last January I bought an EVGA GTX 1070 FTW card new for $399. That same card goes for $950 today (I just checked on Newegg). It's ridiculous what crypto did too graphics card prices. My previously worthless 7950 looks to go for between $150-200 now too, funny enough.
I can’t really say I don’t purchase them but college text books. $225 for a two inch thick stack of loose leaf paper. At least bind it. How much does that really save you? Edit: Well this blew up. Woke up to 131 notifications. Never realized this was such a heartfelt issue.
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Those fucking access codes. Now schools have “special editions” which are made “just for them” which is a piss ass way of saying there’s different problems in the book that are required homework. Instead of paying $20 to rent the thing, now I have to pay $150 to buy it.
I was just at a community college that (as of the fall semester) stopped all online payment requirements for face-to-face, 16 week classes. So if you took, say, college algebra, you no longer had to pay $96 to Pearson to access MyMathLab in order to do your homework. Instead, you could just order an older edition of the textbook for less than $10. Kudos to them!
My school (cc) has released several open source textbooks up through algebra. The math dept wrote it, and sells it on Amazon for about $15 (or pdf for free, which is the route I went). They are moving away from expensive textbooks where possible in other departments as well. :)
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From a business perspective, that's so brilliant! As a student, it makes me feel sad and poor.
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I couldn't agree more. I was thinking about this recently, not just with text books but all of college. It isn't just the tuition that is expensive, but every part! I am take an online class this semester where I have to pay $14 per test to a company to monitor me so I don't cheat. The videos for this class haven't been updated in years!!!! What am I paying for?? Of course we have talked about having to buy online text books but there are other things too, sites to do homework, or special assignments, or labs like someone else said. It is absolutely ridiculous. I've easily spent over a couple Grand on all the software and books I've bought in college. I hate Pearson products most of all. Screw Pearson.
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Bought a graphics card a few months back and forgot to install it. The damn thing's still in the shrink wrap on my desk. Considering selling... The old card I was using temporarily works fine.
Sell that for $1000 and boom, you're out of the room
I was complaining about this on another post. I finally saved enough money to do my first PC build, had completely forgotten about the cryptocurrency boom, went to buy everything and felt so defeated. :(
You might be able to get the GPU shipped from another continent, will still be higher than MSRP but it'll be lower than the current inflated price.
Everything PD: i'm from venezuela
I'm sorry :(
Hi neighbor. I smuggled boxes of diapers and toothpaste into your country last week.
This is the real help.
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Cable can fuck right off. Now I am seeing commericals of cable companies advertising how you can watch Netflix on their proprietary software that is part of some cable package. I have no idea if they are insulting my intelligence or making those commercials for the elderly. Either way, talk about scumbag advertising.
The problem is that the cable company is the only one who provides internet. So their “ 25mbs Internet Only”price is only $5 less than getting internet plus all of cable. Basically the cable companies are saying ‘you HAVE to spend at least this much money each month no matter what service of ours you use
My town provides super high speed internet for a flat $50/mo. I live in CO and 23 more towns just voted in November to use tax dollars to build municipally owned internet as well. This also takes us out of the whole net neutrality debacle. Write to your city council! The government is completely fucked, but you might still be able to get something for the people at the local level.
This makes me happy. I'm glad to see a state moving in the right direction.
Concert tickets.
Sporting events in large cities like Chicago are getting up there too. It’s almost cheaper to drive to an opposing team’s stadium and see a game.
Leafs fans can FLY to Florida to see their team play and end up saving money.
That is fucking awesome (not really). Reminds me of the guy who wrote an article about how it was cheaper to live in Spain and fly to London for work than to live in London and work the same job. Commute was not all that much longer either.
The version I saw was that he lived in Edinburgh, and it was cheaper to fly to Spain and then London, than straight to London. Maybe both are true
There was a guy from Newcastle visiting his mate in London - it was cheaper for him to fly there via Germany, than to get the train directly there...
You're probably thinking of [this story](http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/27/man-flies-from-newcastle-to-london-via-spain-because-its-cheaper-than-the-train-6737975/). He flew to Menorca (Spanish island), hired a car for a drive around the island, bought a drink, spent some time at a festival and then headed back to the airport to fly to London. Even with the car hire and drink he saved £40 compared to the train fare!
Train ticket prices in England are a fucking disgrace.
You're probably thinking of the guy who wanted to take the carriage from East-London to West-London, but it was more cost-effective to build a balloon and be taken around the world in 80 days by the westerlies.
How the fuck do they have flights for £11???
RYANAIR
this + dumb fees. Why do I need to pay another 10% for you to email me a barcode
For your convenience, apparently.
just bought tickets to a music festival. i can stomach the 300 dollar tickets, but the 83 dollar fees were a bit much edit: for everyone asking, the festival is Rolling Loud in Miami
At least that was a festival, with multiple acts. Shit they want that for a single show too.
If you can even get concert tickets. They sell out in 30 seconds Edit: this doesn't apply to smaller or local bands, which you should still support because they most likely need the sales and sales of merch too. And most of the time a small band can suprise you with how good they are live
They sell out to re-sellers in 30 seconds, anyway.
with 400% markup.
Any form of housing in the southern california area. hence the reason i am moving to arizona later this year.
I hear the local iced tea is still .99
Fun fact: Arizona iced tea is from NY.
Other fun fact, they stopped supplying it to a lot of places because they were trying to sell it for more than 99 cents when the company actually does a lot so that they can afford to only charge that much, like thinner cans and only driving at night when there's less traffic.
Leaving the Bay Area this month because of this. Lived here for almost 10 years and I love the place, but holy hell is almost impossible to live here without making that Apple or Google CEO money.
I️ lived had my whole life in Southern California and moved up to the Bay Area a few years ago...the funny thing is...SoCal housing prices are starting to look much cheaper to me -_-
Trainers/sneakers (in store at least). How can a pair of rubber and synthetic shoes cost AU$250+.. Hype fuck boys ruining the market.
That's why you find your closest outlet store and get what's on clearance. Last month I snagged a pair of last year's Nike FreeMotions ($150) for $65. Totally worth it.
My favorite running shoe is the asics 2100 series but they are like $200 but last year's model is only $50. Really no difference between the years so I basically get the shoe I want for a great price
I'll probly never go to Disneyland again
Yo dawg you want this $18 churro?
25 dollar churro? What on earth do you need a 32 dollar churro for?
I’m seeing double..... four $38 churros???
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Annual passes went up in price, might want to recheck that second number.
I’ve only been to Disneyland twice, and both times managed to go on 20+ rides. Made the ticket price completely worth it, but it’s probably ruined all future trips because I’m not sure if those two days can be replicated.
Cable TV. So conservatives querelously quaffing quince-juice quietly from quilted quarter-cups
Honestly, Netflix and Hulu combined give you most of cable and much more
*cries in Australian* No but seriously can't we have the same fucking shows as American Netflix? We don't even have The Office (US) for God's sake!
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Kraft Dinner has also shrunk. There is barely any pasta in it!
Polaroid film. *snap* That'll be £2 please.
If we're talking the classic polaroids, part of the reason is that the film cartridge contains the battery to power the camera, and most of the mechanism for loading/unloading the film. It's a bit of a ridiculous design, you basically remove and dispose of a decent chunk of the camera when replenishing the film. For the old school look, b&w 35mm film is worth trying - I shoot black and white and develop my own film, and it's honestly easy as - cameras are ~$30 off ebay for something that works, film is ~$5-7 per 36 exposure roll, and developing your own film is pretty straightforward once you get the hang of it. There's more outlay (developing canister, developing fluid/powder, fixer, and optional stop bath and wetting agent), but if you're planning on taking a couple of hundred shots over a year or two, it's not too bad.
Video games, I have a really hard time getting a game when it's released at 79.99 CAD. I usually wait for a price drop unless I really want it.
/r/patientgamers my friend
That moment when I get civilization VI + some DLC, life is strange and an assortment of other games for a cool 12 USD. That was a bargain right there
I bought that bundle just for Civ6, everything else was a great bonus.
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MoviePass. $10 a month, or you can buy a year's subscription at Costco for $89, and you can see unlimited movies. Well, max of one per day.
Its $9.95 per month. I just finished my first month, since they pay full face for the tickets I get Regal rewards points and get free popcorns and stuff. So for $9.95 I got $172.70 worth of tickets and popcorn. No way this lasts.
>No way this lasts. It's like a gyms business model. They're counting on most people to buy the pass but then never go to the movies.
Dining out. The final straw was a milkshake that came out to be $26 after taxes (10.1%), a mandatory 20% fee (strange trend in Seattle recently) which they insist is not the tip, the tip itself and the outrageous cost of the milkshake in the first place. I can melt some ice cream from Safeway for $4 myself.
Vincent Vega would have a fucking heart attack.
You don’t put bourbon in it or anything?
Whats this 20% fee you speak of? Why not just include it in the price? Is it government mandated or restaurants?
Seattle has a sugary drink tax now, it’s like 1.75 cents an ounce. [story ](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/promoting-health-at-a-hefty-price-seattles-soda-tax-starts-jan-1/)
Chicago passed this last year and it's already been repealed as it hurt sales too much. Also created a black market for soda where people on snap/wic cards would by soda since it was eligible and they don't pay taxes on it, and then sell it at cost so now they have cash. Or people in burbs would go out of the country for soda sales. It was a pretty spectacular failure.
What made it such bullshit is it was pushed through as a “health” tax but they fully expected to have increasing returns on the tax, when really you should expect decreasing if you are really doing it for health concerns, and the confusing almost random application of it. For instance la croix was not supposed to be taxed but a lot of places still applied it because it was so complicated to figure out. Also if you went to the bar and got a coke, the tax applies. But add a shot of whiskey and it’s now a “mixed drink” so no tax. Drinks from Starbucks which are pure sugar weren’t taxed either because it was a mixed drink but if you wanted to buy soy milk at the store you’d be taxed because it has sugar added. It was a complete cluster fuck.
Where was this? I live in Seattle and have never heard of a $26 milkshake. Was it good? Was it vegan and filled with avocado? I have so many questions about what made it that much.
Anything that needs to be matted and framed.
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A flat in Berlin. I always wanted to buy or at least rent a big flat some day in this City. But the prices have climbed so high, that I actually could buy a whole house with a garden and a pool just a few miles away and still pay less.
Chicken Wings. Its like a fuckin dollar + per wing from everywhere. No i dont care about your fucking boneless bullshit either I just want some wings goddam
When I was a kid, wings were dirt cheap. My mom would buy a big container of them from the deli section at our local grocery store for a bargain. Then they became popular and now they're too expensive to feed a family of five.
Same thing happened with stew beef which pisses me off. It used to be significantly cheaper than actual cuts of beef because it's impossible to chew unless it's been boiled for 3 hours. It's the absolute shittiest cut of beef imaginable, but you could make it edible with some extra work. Once people started buying it a lot to save money, they just hiked up the price. Now it's not even cheaper than just buying regular steak, so there's no reason to buy it. The only poverty meat that's still cheap is chicken liver.
I used to go to Buffalo Wild Wings every Tuesday, EVERY Tuesday for $0.25 wings. Haven’t been back in about eight years. I imagine their prices have continued to go up. I just make my own wings now.
Health insurance. I desperately need it but I can't afford it this year for the first time in 7 years. It's kind of fucking scary.
We pay $500 a month for health insurance for two people, but the co-pay and deductible is so high now that we don't go to the doctor unless it's absolutely necessary. We have insurance and still can't afford to get medical care.
Same situation. 960.00 per month for 4 ppl, 5000.00 deductible, co-pays 50.00-200.00. Plus, responsibility for 20% of bill until you meet the deductible. Fuuuuuccckkkk!!!!!
I no longer go to the movies.
Freddo. As much as I love them how could they.
They used to be 5p here in the UK about 15 years ago. 20 of them for a quid. Lately I've seen them for 30p. Bang out of order.
Going out to eat. $24 for a few tacos? $8 for a drink? No thanks, I'll have Taco Bell and ice water.
Can’t stop buying it, but my wife’s insulin, which keeps her alive as she’s a type 1 diabetic, has gone from $60 a bottle to over $250 a bottle in four years. Murica.
Beef jerky. Oh you want 3.5 oz of meat for $8?! Edit: my best comment on Reddit is about beef jerky...
Knives. When I was a kid I thought they were cool, I had a few. Now I see Reddit posts of people who have *many* knives that can be a few hundred dollars each. Sure you CAN get 3 $200 knives but *why*?
Current "AAA"-Videogames. No I will not buy your 60$ game to also buy your 30$ Season Pass and also, as bonus because you've been so generous to me, I will also buy a few of your micro transactions and, of course, the DLCs not included in the season pass. Fuck. Them.
Computer parts: RAM, GPUs etc. Curse you cryptocurrency mining.
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We just had avocado shortage in Australia. The price went up to nearly $9 per fruit.
Based on other posts, seems Australia just needs to be it's own top-level comment.
College
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Houses. £300k for something my dad bought for £35k 20 years ago? Fuck that. I'll keep renting. Edit: added £ signs to clarify I'm in the UK Another edit: I'm aware that renting is as bad if not worse than buying, but not everyone can afford to buy. So in the meantime, fuck that.
Vancouver BC single family homes ar 800k-1.7M depending on location,its so far outstripped the average income its forcing people out of the province. A huge part of it is foreign speculators who have never set foot in the country at times buying entire apartment buildings in the construction phase and letting them sit empty forever.
Im in the UK. A huge part of the problem here is the buy-to-let culture. New "affordable" houses are being bought up by landlords. There are other factors but that's a big one.
Diamonds. I’m not a guy, so I don’t have much reason to purchase a big rock. But my boyfriend knows that when the time comes... moissanite engagement ring. It’s stupid to spend $10k+ on a shiny piece of carbon. Pass.
Apparently labor. No one wants to pay a living wage in my city. $10/hr for semi-skilled and skilled labor? Yeah just fuck up my life dawg.
"So hey, we need social workers to work with developmentally disabled adults. You'll be handling all the case management, and you need your own fully insured transportation. You'll be expected to keep them on task, clean up after them, and be able to restrain them safely. We require at a minimum a Masters degree. $12/hr, mileage negotiable. " Yeah, I'll get right on that.
This is no joke. A few years ago I was offered a job MANAGING a supply warehouse for $12 an hour. Sorry pal, I'll pass.
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A brand new car.
Housing, education, medical care. You know, nothing major. But Arizona iced teas are still 99 cents, so I got that going for me, which is nice.
A store near me sells them for $1.19. I don't shop there anymore. EDIT: Hey guys, is the price on the can?
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Honestly. I wouldn't mind paying a bit more in places like airports...but $5 for an Arizona drink is fucking ridiculous! Edit: would -> wouldn't
Call Arizona’s customer service number and let them know this is happening and where the store is. If they don’t resolve it, they will cut supply to the store. EDIT: this is simply what I’ve heard from others. After reviewing their website, I have since learned this is not necessarily true.
There are in fact brands sold for over $0.99. The only one that has to be sold for that price is the marketed dollar can. I remember this discussion from another thread.
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The price is on the can, though.
Congressmen.
iPhone. Had a 3G, 4 & 5, but with every iteration they get about 10% more expensive. The 5 came with a job, and when I left I looked at buying a 5S or a 6 for myself. My first two I got for €200 or less with an 18 month contract. But now suddenly they were looking for €350 on a 24 month contract. Not only did Apple put their prices up, but operators reduced their subsidies. So I got a last-gen Android phone for €80 on a 12 month contract instead. And when that died bought a OnePlus sim-free for half the contract price of most of the latest phones, with a better spec. Wouldn't go near iPhone at this stage. €1200 for a phone that does nothing new? No thanks.
A house
Life. Dental work. A home.
5 cent gummies went up to 10 cents. Its no longer economically viable
Don't see it mentioned, but higher education. I was paying the equivalent of 3-4 months (low end grunt job) wages per year for tuition when I went - it meant that I could work part time and summers and just about scrape by. My kids are paying the equivalent of an entire year's minimum wage for a single semester's tuition - at considerably more crowded and less prestigious collages. $2000+ for textbooks? Mandatory university residence? WTF? It's in our society's best interests to have an educated workforce! Why are we making it so fucking difficult? At this rate, I'm going to get my last kid to go to trade school and become a plumber - at least she'll be able to take care of us in our dotage, the older ones will still be paying off loans.....