Things that are inexplicably expensive.

[malificent7]

Cauliflower...i paid nearly a pound for a tiny little thing in Aldi...daylight robbery.
Egg chairs...look lovely and fun but why are they hundreds of pounds ??
Halo top icecream...nearly a fiver for a tub...no thank you.
Please can i have some more nominations?

@Rockbird

Storage facilities. I want one for 3 months. £160 per month was the cheapest. For a small empty room! Bugger that.

Check with your local removal companies as well as the storage sites. They may not be as convenient as they're not 24 hour access and you'd have to make an appointment to drop off/collect stuff but you may find them cheaper.

Sorry, I can't remember how to start a thread, so I'm hijacking this one.

What's happened to Marmite crisps?

They've vanished from supermarkets.

A PP has stated that hairbrushes and hairbands, all hair accessories are expensive. They are in Boots and Tesco, but if you visit Home Bargains (don't know whether they have branches nationwide) and Quality Save, hairbrushes and accessories are very cheap. Also lip balm and antihistamine tablets are reasonably priced at HB & QS.
If I can add somthing to the inexplicably expensive list, "Gorilla" lids for horse feed bowls. Super, practical idea, as you can stack the bowls with the lids on, to protect from insects and rodents, but just for £5 -£6 for an approx 36cm diameter transparent plastic lid, please !!

Fitted sheets and duvet sets. Phone charges. Etc etc, unfortunately.

I can explain the printer ink, they make absolutely no money on selling printers. Yet that is the bit that cost quit a bit to make. They rely on making money on the ink, in fact ink prices have gone up. The carriages are smaller then they used to be.

We've switched to a home laser printer, only black and white but much cheaper print per she at then ink and any colour needed DH or DD can get printed at work or school.

The printer is intialy more expensive but should be worth it in the long run.

Paperbacks used to be more expensive than they are now, they have become cheaper since supermarkets started selling them cheap.

Planning permission applications

Bat licences/surveys allowing you to erect alternative accommodation for the single any bats in your barn, which you absolutely would have done regardless of the survey 'results'.

Sanitary towels and tampons!

House surveys- the man who surveyed my old house for the buyer literally spent 60 seconds in the house

Television stands/tables.

I never ever buy branded ink cartridges. Buy unbranded compatible ones. Can replace all 5 cartridges in my printer for a tenner compared to £20+ of branded ink.

Haircuts I asked my hairdresser friend why are women paying so much more
She said men just won’t pay any more for a haircut!

On the cost of opticians, I think glasses are expensive because you're not just paying for the product, but for the cost of staffing and running the branches. If you get your glasses online you still have to have an accurate prescription, which usually means going to a high street optician. It sucks, but I'm not sure how else it could work.

Not RTF but mobile phones.

I remember when they first came out and they were pretty cheap relative to other technology. Suddenly phones cost more than smart TV’s, PC’s or laptops.

Subscription services. Unbelievable amount people pay for sport or film packages.

Agree with fruit. Bananas are really cheap despite coming miles and being quite temperamental, whilst some brands of apple which can last ages and grow anywhere are £££.

They are printed paper that's all ( I'm talking your standard paperback)

But books aren't just printed paper: they're a year's work by the writer, sometimes more, months of editing by an editor, a copy-editor and a proofreader, design inside and out, etc, etc.

Also houses. How it is acceptable for a regular house to be 10x the average wage is beyond me.

Pyjama tops.

Started buying cheap thin day wear vests for £3 when the same shop wanted £10 for a pyjama vest top o.o

@BadgertheBodger
Re; dishwasher tablets, are you up North? If so, try Morrisons, they sell 30 basic dishwasher tablets for £2.

@BobbieDraper like the tip for the broccoli stalk. Have been guilty of throwing the whole stalk away but no longer will!

I fancied pie for dinner last night - change in the weather and all that.

We're vegan, so I bought a mushroom pie. It's technically a single serve but it's quite large so by the time you've added veg, it will comfortably serve two.

£3.50 for the vegan version. Whereas the equivalent in beef or chicken was £2. It always strikes me as bizarre because you would have thought that meat free filling and using marg instead of butter in the pastry would result in a cost-saving...

Puppies - £600-£1000 for a puppy which would have been given away as an everyday mutt when I was a kid.

Teatly tea bags, decent washing liquid and sun cream

Fresh Christmas trees.
Free range turkeys.(£120
Puppies.
Fake nails and eyelashes.

Butter especially lurpak spreadable.

Bras. I'm a 34hh so need scaffolding.