Things you think are overpriced

[FunkyTime]

I will start

Dominoes Pizza 100%

Houses, although most of the UK is cheaper than where we live - "abroad" isn't always cheaper. €700,000 for a 3 bed semi in the part of Europe we live in.

Overpriced:
Public transport
Dentists
Vets
Private consultants
Builders
Highlights
B&B's
Houses
West End shows
Sourdough bread
Eating out (except in big cities)

Things I find relatively cheap in the UK:
Children's clothes
Window cleaners
Hand carwash
Tea

Theatre tickets
Gig tickets - DH was given a £150 Ticketmaster voucher for his birthday, so decided to get us tickets to see ELO. Cheapest ones were £90 each, (and they were at the very back, miles from the stage).
Kid's shoes
Secondary school uniform
Crap restaurants - DD wanted to go to Frankie and Benny's for lunch today; I'm pretty skint so checked the menu online first - £14 odd for a salad, £4 for a bowl of chips. Forget it!
House stuff that you have to pay someone else to do, but is basically unskilled - my boss had someone round to clean out her gutters and seal a couple of gaps a few weeks ago. They were on the premises less than an hour and charged her £300.
Rent

Cherries

Haircuts
Council tax
Gas and electricity
Food is becoming very expensive
Holidays

Dildos.

Carrots are far cheaper.

Anything for maternity and breastfeeding... basically anything that is to do with being a woman, add 10%. Makes me so pissed off

Activities to do with kids! Amusement parks, movies, bowling, trampolining, wall climbing, restaurants, etc ... all ridiculously expensive. Don't know how many families can afford to take their kids out!

Theatre and cinema tickets

Hair colours at the salon
Air pods
Levi jeans
Clarins skincare
House prices

"Cinema and cinema snacks"

£4 cinema tickets where I live. I still never go.

"Perfume. I refuse to buy it."

Yes, I just go without most of the time. I always take a free squirt in the shop and try to get it on my coat and hope it'll stay on. I tried the cheap day perfumes from Zara but they disappear.

"Most cosmetics"

Cosmetics vary so much, I'm surprised you can say 'most cosmetics'.

Decent toilet roll!
You can get cheaper toilet roll but that 2ply is too risky!

"Gym membership £38 a month for the council leisure centre, or it’s £5.50 per class if you’re a non-member, so to get your money’s worth you need to go to 2 classes per week, every week. "

No budget gym near you? They cost a lot less.

Theme park entry fees. Disgraceful!

Ah yes. Secondary school uniforms. Ridiculous prices due to unreasonable Academies in the area who want everything 'logoed' and single suppliers. Madness. hope the govt steps in on that one now.

"Berries. Even when in season it's £2.50 for a handful of raspberries."

A bit cheaper frozen, but berries are just expensive things.

@Gwenhwyfar nope, I live in a small town. There’s a couple of privately owned gyms that cost about the same as the council gym but are considerably smaller with fewer facilities.

(New) baby clothes - they're only in them for a couple months!
Edible gluten free bread 😭

Farrow and ball paint

Solicitors and mirrors. I disagree about vets though. The actual costs they incur are huge. X Ray machine, hanging on the wall costing many 000s but used only a couple of times a week, massive drugs bill every week, insurance, staff CPD, specialist instruments and equipment, wages, laundry, running a veterinary ambulance, necessary anaesthetic and theatre equipment. The list goes on and on and on...

But you are not really paying for the G&T, you are paying for the ambience of the Park Lane Hilton.

You have clearly never been to the Park Lane Hilton.

I’m pretty sure berries are so expensive because they still have to be hand picked

I always think berries are a rip off. I do massive annual pick of wild blackberries. One year I actually worked out the hours wandering lanes (did a kind of hourly rate)., the soaking and washing and drying and freezing and bagging and suddenly it didn’t seem so bad. I don’t consider time spent anymore as it’s fun.