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?

Comics

Tiles , for bathroom etc

Can’t believe no one has mentioned tampons...

And incontinence pants/pads - though Wilkos are not bad in price.

I’m in solidarity with everyone saying pizza. They must make a tonne of profit from a bit of dough with tomato sauce and cheese chucked on.

The cinema. The snacks are atrociously expensive, we take our own. You need to remortgage the house if it’s all the family going.

yy to student accommodation
the monthly rents for a single room would get you a mortgage on a 3 bed semi in plenty of perfectly decent parts of the country.

Some train journeys. So a 40 mile trip to one town is over £20. A 40 mile trip from the same station but to a different town is £11.

Don’t get me started on London to Edinburgh. Last time I looked I flew instead as it was half the price. Infact I could have flown to New York for less money than the London to Edinburgh train ticket.

Tube travel without an Oyster card.

Fucking ridiculous prices.

Gaviscon
Hair dye
Olive oil

student accommodation DS first year £165, second year really odd it went up to £185, checking now dropped back to £160. How odd.

Loo roll

Diabetic test strips (bit niche I know, but being T2 I have to buy my own & they're bloody expensive. I could have drugs free, but not the strips that stop me needing the drugs!?!)

I'm T2 and get the strips on prescription - have you checked with your GP about it?

Kids pyjamas

Thrush cream

Boden socks

Actually all socks stocked by John Lewis

Healthcare in the US

You don't have to buy kitchen roll. I use newspaper or cloths made from old t-shirts.

I was always a bit stingy with bog roll and didn't run out over the lockdown. The PITA with bog roll is that unless you stick to the same brand, the thickness is unpredictable. Using too much can lead to blocked loos.

Own brand sanitary products are fine. Supermarket or Wilko and they are a fraction of the price of the branded ones. The same goes for razors and toiletries.

Maybe not the most expensive thing but such a price rise. I've been buying a punnet of blueberries a week at asda, they've been £1.80 the past 2 months, suddenly they are £2.17! 37p price rise in a week

I guess it may have something to do with the blueberry season? But everything just keeps rising

I've found cauliflowers have been expensive for a few years now

Fennel. I love fennel, in Italy it's dirt cheap, here it seems to be priced on a par with gold bars.

Agree with pizza being a crazy price, and sourdough bread must be another money maker, ok good sourdough takes time, but you don't have to have people there stroking it and singing lullabies for 24 hours, and they don't even have to buy bloody yeast!

Have we mentioned dentists yet, yes I know, they train for years, have expensive equipment and terrific skills, but blimey they make you pay for it.

Ditto vets.

Curtains
Second hand eglu chicken coops.

I bought a single leek once in the supermarket...£1.20

Storage boxes, plastic ones.

Yes to kitchen bins... it holds crap - why are they so expensive???

I don't get why Jo Malone stuff is so expensive either. I have the fake Aldi and Asda versions of the same scents and they're lovely.

Sneaky little tip re AEG washing machines - John Lewis branded ones are made by AEG and sold for cheaper... See screenshot...

This is a lovely thread btw, nothing like a bit of long term seething resentment given permission to bubble up to the surface and relieve the pressure.........so satisfying, a bit like watching pimple popping on you tube.

Bags to fit in the kitchen caddy to dispose of your food waste with the recycling. In Sainsbury’s the other day and it’s £3.00 for 25 bags, they’re more expensive than supermarket bags for life

If only glasses were only £300.

I live in France, wear varifocals, and my prescription is +3/+6, and each lens costs

600€

Each lens!!!

The top up insurance for which I pay 70€ a month doesn't cover it, neither does the state health scheme.

Books are ridiculously priced when you buy them new. They are printed paper that's all ( I'm talking your standard paperback)
The sad thing is , you buy it at 7.99 but once its read you give it away for free or take it to a charity shop and they sell it for 50p or something.
They lose value so quickly!