Examples of false economy where cheap means crap

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. Buying cheap baking trays and tins
. Buying economy washing up liquid. You need half a bottle to produce suds

Sorry to derail...Antonia Forest fan????

Washing up liquid
Cutlery
Sofas/armchairs
Wrapping paper
Felt tip pens

Shoes, especially children's shoes.

I have some sheets and pillowcases in a primrose yellow colour that my mother-in-law had from at least the 1970s. They are a cotton/terylene mix.
They look like new. They don't crease - at all!
Feel much like slightly thicker poly-cotton, but they are much, much better quality.
I don't think you can buy terylene blend sheets now. (IIRC my school dresses were the same type of cloth in the 1960s).

I'm not so sure, you don't hear any complaints about faulty ones

Chardonnay.

Fast fashion

Hiking shoes/boots.

Loo roll.

Large picture frames

Anything from Shein or Temu

Furniture. Old Victorian is better than new stuff.

White goods generally. Sometimes you get lucky.

Hoovers but not Dyson which is stupid prices.

Cars.

Bedding.

Glassware.

Tea and coffee
cheese
tomatoes
eggs

actually most food, excluding carrots as they are cheap and good

Food
Clothes
Vacuum cleaners
Tools and gadgets
Furniture

Basically everything really. There's a reason why "cheap" things are cheap.

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Flat-pack furniture. OK in situ, but try moving it.....

YANBU. Or things that aren't cheap, but in reality are masquerading as quality.

Definitely tyres.

Cheapo tyres are fine for pootling around town at 30mph. But when you need to make an emergency stop on the motorway in pouring rain, you will which you had paid for proper tyres.

@CalzoneOnLegs I agree with the cheese. Those breeze blocks of economy cheddar have no taste in them. A couple of slices of a better quality cheddar - you can taste it.

Another food example- bacon. The cheap stuff has lots of fat and rind to trim off leaving with FA bacon.

Was going to say the same!

The only really rubbish own brand thing we tried was dishwasher tablets, which hardly seemed to clean at all.

I was quoted at the tyre place near me to replace my two front tyres. The cheap tyres were just £8 less than the better ones.

Paint
Clothes pegs
Bin bags
Tights
Leggings

shoes and beds - if you’re not in one you’re in the other

The things you use the most, so…..

bed/mattress
car
washing machine
shoes
sofa

also agree with bin bags