What things do you think are ridiculously expensive and you don't know why?

[sharpclawedkitten]

I'll start.

Toothbrush heads for electric toothbrushes - just a bit of plastic!

Reprogramming keys for cars (why does it cost £100s)

Men

What happened to the brand that paid for itself? Harder to find these days.

Watches. I cannot believe that some of them go for hundreds of thousands of pounds 🙄

Free From products have to be made in dedicated factories from ingredients that weren't even grown in the same field as a gluten-bearing grain. Last year's wheat can self-seed and grow again in small amounts amongst this year's oats, causing disaster to coeliacs.

This level of segregation is expensive.

Water
Council tax
Diet drinks (they have no calories so should be free!?)
Cheese
Veterinary bills
Rent
Hot food from a food truck/stall

I was about to say getting curtains dry cleaned. Dropped a pair off at the weekend. The assistant didn't say a price just that they'd take three weeks and gave me a ticket.

As I walked away I spotted I'd be charged > £49 on pick up! I turned round straight away and asked for them back.

@SayDoWhatNow I craved Smooth Tropicana when I was pregnant in 2011 and it was about £1.25 for a 500ml back then. Now it's £2.99. Don't know how I would've got through my craving back then. Extortionate 🤣

I agree with this. Soft shoes for people with diabetes are outrageously expensive

Bastarding bubble tea. Am secretly cursing the (lovely) friend who introduced Dd to this overpriced sugar fest!

Tea bags. Cannot live without them but the ones I like are now £3 for 20 - which means it costs me about £6 a week! Worth it for my sanity though 😬

Canesten tablets. My pharmacy charges £19 for one tablet and cream combo. Can buy 3 generic fluconazole tablets online for £4.50.

Wooden blinds have gone up too. Used to be cheap as chips from Argos or IKEA. Now they are £60 odd.

Broadband and phone lines. Surely these should be loads cheaper now they are installed everywhere. And people are doending a fortune on subscriptions to tv on top.

Dogs. I mean I agree in principle dogs should,cost a lot. As a living thing it shoukd have value. But why should a non breed with nothing notable in its heritage or parents cost £1k. Or rather why are people paying that especially for sickly breeds prone to vet bills and short lives.

Use baby nappy sacks instead - much cheaper!

Same. I cancelled too. Such a rip off.

The basics: water, gas and electricity.

Yes. Looking after a friend's dog. Tesco dog poo bags £2. Same size sandwich bags £1. Dog poo in poo bins gets incinerated so no advantage to even more expensive compostable bags (which break down in the drawer if you forget about them).

Pet insurance
concert tickets
train fares

Exactly, how do they sell others for 2.50 each?

@mynumber not so good if you're dog is bigger than a terrier 💩🤣 a friend discovered this , always had terriers got a pointer and hadn't thought scale up the size of the dog, scale up the size of everything 😁

Hundreds of pounds for computer peripherals, like this £850 one-handed keyboard.

And then the companies that make something awesome for a short while, like the 3M Vertical mouse (a snip at £70 before being taken off the market), before discontinuing it or ceasing trading, meaning that you spend the rest of your life hoping that the two copies you could afford to buy don't break because you will have to quit your career if they do.

And people have the nerve to call disabled people "scroungers" if we find ourselves unable to work or claim PIP to help with the eyewatering cost of these aids.

For anyone bemoaning the price of Marmite, after the massive price hike somewhere during the pandemic I switched to Aldi own brand and wished I had thought to do it before, tastes the same, half the price!

Oh no, @Thistooshallpass24, I hope she realised she needed bigger bags BEFORE she took the new dog for its first walk! That could have been messy otherwise 🤢

Nobody said dentists yet? Crazy prices.

@AllTheChaos Nope not before 😂

Batteries! The batteries for my garage door fob are $20CAD. Ridiculous. 🤦‍♀️

Would you say yes if they asked you to post it next door?

Nicely scented candles and diffusers.