Things that are inexplicably expensive.

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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?

I dont understand why 2ltrs of diet pepsi is around £1.50 when a 330ml bottle is about the same price.

Little bottles of pop are a mystery akin to Shergar.

The price of HP sauce, baked beans and tea on France is probably to do with demand. Beans and tea are staple items of many household’s shops in the UK; I can’t imagine they are that sought after in France.

I dont understand why 2ltrs of diet pepsi is around £1.50 when a 330ml bottle is about the same price.

Surely this just shows that the product itself is worth pennies, but the cost of getting it to the customer is in the bottling and distribution.

Like shorts are usually around the sane cost as similar style trousers from the same place.

@GuiltyBark

We only bought Cathedral City Mature Cheddar. Occasionally got subbed with Pilgrims choice or other similarly priced. On lockdown seemed to be going through tons & no offers!(we don't eat much meat) so bought Tesco's cheap 'creamfields' stuff for sauces and jacket potatoes etc. DH was a bit sniffy but has actually realised that it doesn't really taste any different to cathedral city.

@Fuss
I have tree envy of my neighbour . Their monkey puzzle tree must be 50foot high. Our houses are built on what was the grounds of a Manor House and once they were carved up into our gardens next door got the tree. I’ve posted a photo , but as our gardens are quite large you can’t see the full splendour of it

That does not sound expensive to me- not everything is going to cost 5p.
I find that when you pay more for things you get better quality products

@Ken1976 there is a residential street nearby in which every other house has a beautiful one of at least 15ft high. MIL's neighbour has an absolutely enormous one, bigger than the house. Stunning trees.

As it turns out with more research it probably wouldn't have liked the soil around our pond anyway so I've talked myself out of one again. Beautiful trees though and I think DH is sick of me yelling "MONKEY PUZZLE!" when he's driving and I'm looking for them. For an endangered species there seem to be loads here.

Some things are expensive for a particular reason. Printer ink is pricey for example because (in part) printers themselves are cheap (mine is internet enabled and tells the maker when it's low on ink, does photos, double-sided, A4, A5,colour, b & w etc etc, and two years ago cost £40). As for razors, I get my daughters cheapo mens razors which work just as well and are a quarter the price of some womens' razors. Vacuum cleaner bags (for those who don't like the bagless) are stupidly expensive for a similar reason (they subsidise the vacuum itself).

Fashion clothing can be expensive because an awful lot doesn't make the grade (sell enough to justify the cost of development and production) so the stuff that does sell has to carry the costs of a lot of duds.

Anything that's got the label 'special needs' on it is just an excuse to print money IMO.

^^.

Agree with this, and it should be the opposite.

paint in the netherlands as well.
it's almost worth it getting the ferry to harwich to go to the diy store by the harbour.

Dog ice cream at my local park. £3 per tub! The human ice cream is only £2!

Kids nightdresses!

@MakeLemonade Ice cream for a DOG?
You have got to be kidding me

@doubleshotespresso I have recently found an amazing eczema cream, before using it the pain/itching in my hands was waking me up at night - it’s Udder cream for cows! I got it from Amazon but you can get it from vet supply places too.

Asparagus. I can get one carrot for 9p that will go with my sons meal every night for a week or pay around £1.40 for a pack of asparagus that lasts the same amount of time. He absolutely loves asparagus though, so he gets it

Funerals.

Specifically my dad's recently. We downloaded music onto a memory stick & it was just a cheap box and a few guys in top hats & tails. Still cost thousands though.

Also houses... sorry if this has been mentioned, but I've not got time to RTFT. It's just bricks & mortar and yet they charge half a million?

Anything that's got the label 'special needs' on it is just an excuse to print money IMO.

^^ this, I have a lot of friends and family with kids so have bought many, many toys over the years. Even so, when I was raising money for equipment for a sensory room I was shocked at the price of suitable toys. Nothing special either, just expensive.

Butter is one of the prices I tracked while broke. It has tripled. Printer ink is the biggest con. They sell printers at a loss and then charge you hugely over the odds for the ink. Tell everyone in your house to use it wisely! And get rechargeable ink cartons. When the print shops reopen. 👍

Babies....

Yes, the MAP is disgracefully expensive. Also thrush treatment on prescription. And the cost of countless other drugs to the NHS.

Gluten free foods, essential if you are a diagnosed coeliac, are eye wateringly expensive. Shocking!

Food in general! It all seems to have increased by on average 20% since the lurghy took hold and yet most food is charged to the major supermarkets based upon contracts with fixed prices. Fuel costs are down, so it's not the cost of transportation so please someone explain........

Bras, theme parks, cinema - esp popcorn and drinks etc.

DH is sick of me yelling "MONKEY PUZZLE!" when he's driving and I'm looking for them.

We do this! Not because we want one (although I’d love one if we had a bigger garden) but because of a National Trust nature trail which finished with a monkey puzzle tree!