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)

Center Parcs

Artichokes, the ones in jars, most are about £5 for such a small amount. I miss them.

Lamb

Bedside tables and drawers

Sun cream

"Also concert tickets seem to require you to remortgage your house these days."

The pilot, on my flight back from Turkey, earlier this week "Free flights for anyone that will swap for Oasis concert tickets".

Gluten free food is ridiculously expensive. I know there are manufacturers costs, not large scale production (relatively) etc but come on. Nearly £4 for a dinky little loaf of dry bread. Over £3 for a brand name pringles dupe that only comes in one flavour (ready salted) - Lidl I will hold a long grudge against you for putting wheat in your bargain own make pringles recently.

Absolutely!

Another one for Olive Oil. When? Why did it get so expensive?!

I used it for everything before and now I have a very small secret bottle for my 'best' salads 😆 Sad but true.

My tip (as a 41 year old with no fillings)...don't change your electric toothbrush head every 3 months as stated on the packet. Don't brush too hard with it (splayed bristles mean you're probably pressing too hard and damaging your gums). Just stick it in the dishwasher once a month and it will last a good 6-12 months.

Yes to lampshades!! Why on earth are they so expensive?!

Vet bills. Dog cost us £1500 this month for surgery (insurance wouldnt cover it), actual surgery was only £900 but they added a lot of ‘extras’ on top which wasn’t great. Took my hamster and it cost me £50 for some antibiotics… 🤔

Hotel chocolat have also put their prices up recently. I like some of their flavours but won’t be spending £30 for a box of chocs sorry.

Salmon and prawns, seems to be more expensive than before.

Yeah, fucking £20 for a box of 6 champagne truffles. Should be £10 max!

@SocksTalk @HopelesslyOptimistic meant to tag you in post above about toothbrushes.

I came on to say this! Even the non-extra-virgin stuff is ridiculous price suddenly

I was going to say olive oil too!
I was happy to pay, but not now prices have rocketed
Kitchen roll
Apples
Yogurts

I love artichokes. This might not help, but you can get frozen ones from Ocado. When I lived in London I bought frozen ones from the Greek deli.

Those roof boxes for the car. We looked at getting one once and I naively thought it would be about £50. I was staggered to see they were several hundred pounds - and this was quite a few years ago.

Baby formula that legally isn’t allowed to be discounted (stage 1), branded sauces (Heinz ketchuo, Perinaise, etc) and olive oil - I genuinely can’t bare to buy a new bottle right now the amount it costs!

I buy Tate & Lyle when I make jam because it’s proper cane sugar and the set is better. Most of the supermarket own brand sugar in the UK is made from sugar beet & the set is inferior. I buy bog standard sugar for everything else though.

Anything to eat/drink in a cinema. Counter productive for me as I simply won’t buy anything.

You can get the little bottles of vit c, a & d from some children’s centres. Mine sells it for £2 a bottle and it lasts for 2-3 months. Maybe see if you have one near by and if they offer?

Whistlefish is great for loveky cards and very reasonable. On offer at the moment.

Mr Kipling.

I now buy my cereals out of Aldi and my 2dc happily eat them as does dh and he's usually a brand snob