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)

The frozen ones don't go out-of-date as quickly as the fresh ones. The price of a punnet of fresh strawberries has to factor in the cost to produce the punnets that don't sell and get binned.

This has reminded me that I have a couple of rolls of reusable kitchen roll on the cupboard. You just use a sheet and then wash it. It's very durable and lasts for ages!

Virgin fecking media!
Fresh food
mattresses
Good pens
Molton Brown shower gel when Bergamot from Lidl is 25 times cheaper?!!!!

Exactly, I’m on my own. Perhaps family tickets are the key?

I do this with a combination of Sharpies and stickers!

Cars and everything it takes to keep them on the road. I find it inexplicable that it doesn’t put more people off driving. We haven’t for years.

Some of us need or want to go to places that aren't served by buses at the time of day that we want to go there.

What made me take an intensive driving course and pass my test was being turned down for a job because the earliest bus of the day couldn't get me there in time for shift start at 8am.

The job I got just weeks after passing my test started at 5am.

I'm on my own too and there's no offers.
I'd love to go abroad, but everything is based on two sharing

But you get the same quality of bra for much less elsewhere. I’m not sure the ones sold here are even made here either.

Lidl’s sesame dupes are only £1, I prefer them

Yes, only for train tickets, any sort of packaged holiday is based on two sharing.

Heinz Baked Beans and soup (they almost need mortgages).

Lol please don't do this 😂#oddments

Sundried tomatoes

Olive oil! Butter! Cat litter!!!!

BIN BAGS!
they've gone up SO much over about the past year. it's crazy.

Gold. New record high this month $2750 a Troy ounce.

We paid the insurance a couple of weeks ago for a rental, then someone must have bumped into us at traffic lights and scratched the car: a few scratches over no more than 2x2 inch surface. That was £250. We stupidly forgot to buy the extra insurance for the waiver, which we have done in the past, to cover all costs. It was a big car and we didn’t feel the bump, but heard the satnav bleeping and showing something. Logged it after with the police as there was CCTV at that site, but didn’t get details at the time as we didn’t feel it happening and being an unfamiliar car didn’t know what it was telling us. Still waiting to hear if the repair is less than £250 and we get any money back. So I’d say worth the money but also buy the extra insurance against the insurance IYKWIM.

Dom Pérignon 76.. ridiculous over priced.. joke. Let me explain
Actually even though I worked among those who drank that kind of thing ( to clarify I was crew on those rather large yachts in the 80s ) none of the guests imo who'd understood the difference if it was bloody tizer. oops just showing my age remembering soft drinks tizer.

I've tried supermarket DD+ bras and believe me they lack sizing consistency that pricier brands have. The supermarket bras didn't even have the same length back strap despite being the same style in the same size. Consistency is an important part of quality and it costs money.

Bras attract VAT here, so they will be pricier than in other countries that don't put sales taxes on underwear.

Jewellery diamonds. Unlike industrial diamonds that are actually useful, all they do is look sparkly, yet they cost ridiculous amounts for what is basically decorative fossilised trees.

Takeaway pizza. The mark up is ridiculous!

Cushions

Buy men's ones, they're meant to be much cheaper.

I got quite nice frames at Specsavers for £30 which I felt was quite reasonable.