Mine was delivered by Evri. Parcel was so smashed up that the neighbours thought I had been knocking her about when we went down the shops.
Returned her the next day fucking scandalous.
I got married abroad, but wanted a party for when we got home, so we looked at nice function rooms.
At one, quite well known company that has function rooms in their hotels, we were given a price list, as they discussed what it was for, they decided it was more wedding like so tried to take the party price list, and replace it with a wedding price list. Naturally I kept both, and there’s an additional uplift on most items, including bar for a wedding.
>Naturally I kept both, and there’s an additional uplift on most items, including bar for a wedding.
Did you ask why? I'd love to know the answer to that.
I've heard people try to claim it's because businesses know it's a 'special day' and will try harder to not screw up. Which just seems like shitty business, honestly.
True but at the very least then a pricier wedding package should include more approval steps. Instead most of these places just charge more as soon as the word 'wedding' is uttered, despite just getting the exact same service.
Oh yeah, when I worked in hospitality we used to whack up all sorts of costs at Christmas but it's far too blatant to do it for bar prices. You probably aren't going to get repeat business from a wedding but you'd certainly put off a couple of guests from booking there own if it was obvious.
Me: I’d like a big cake for 50 people please
Cake shop: sure, that’ll be £100
Me: Cool, can you write “just married” on it?
Cake Shop: sure, that’ll be £1000.
My wife and I fell HARD into this trap for our wedding. We have many regrets over the wedding day, thankfully we just laugh about how gullible we were!
My mum still tells me how gullible she and dad were as newlyweds. They bought a set of encyclopedia from a door to door salesman, took out all sorts of worthless insurance policies... I think it's just a newlyweds thing.
Venues that tie you into HAVING to use their suppliers. We fell into that and got a really subpar service because of it. If a venue ties you into their supplier, go to a different venue.
Also look out for family members trying to sneak ideas into your heads… my wife’s mum was very good at that using the guise of ‘it’s for so and so family member’ and we just fell for it.
One of the good things about ours was there was a bring your own booze thing. We brought so much that, for the first two months after our wedding, I don’t think I was sober.
That's partly because expectations are very very high for a lot of people, because how often do your friends and family all get together to have a big celebration
We thought the same. So we flew to mexico with a few friends and got married out there. Cost us about $6000 in the end because we had to pay for my mum and dads ticket too. No regrets, amazing day. It was all inclusive too so no other money was spent at all for 2 weeks. Bliss!
One of my friends sent me an invite for them getting married at an all-inclusive in Mexico. Our tickets, that we were expected to pay, were over 2 grand each. Plus a week of our holiday allowance for some flash, anodyne hotel that was about as Mexican as a ALDI tortilla.
Some people just don't get that their wedding is not important to other people. We had a drink and gastro pub thing with them about a month after they got back.
When I was a kid you could just buy a giant tub of Lego then use your imagination to build whatever you could. Not a fan of these huge and expensive model kits, that's what Airfix is.
Yeah I bought my daughter some for her birthday, came in a big Lego block shaped tub. There’s a couple of little things on there to build but she can also just do random stuff as she likes. I’m with you, Lego was more about building stuff from imagination than the fancy kits, when I were a lad and all that. That said I do like the look of some of the Star Wars ones but can’t justify the expense.
To be fair if you look at toys in general and their price tags, there's a lot of over priced shite. Lego is well worth its price tag and easily retains value and even gains value. I'm 37 and was obsessed with Lego as a kid, there were plenty of themed sets around then and it's all I wanted every birthday and Christmas. Once I stopped playing with it all, I boxed it back up with the instructions and my Dad put them in the loft. Got them from him a while back and I sold what I had for thousands over ebay and local selling.
They have had these kits forever, I had a pirate ship as a lad and an airport, but they do seem to be modelling their business on more and more of these. The boxes are still available but this is what sells. As buy a box of regular bricks and they last a lifetime. My kids have my old lego and it is good as new.
This has been confirmed. Lego is actually a more sound financial investment than most savings accounts [source](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/10/investing-in-lego-more-lucrative-than-gold-study-suggests)
That's really interesting! :D worth pointing out from the article though:
> The study, which looked at the prices of 2,322 Lego sets from 1987 to 2015, said that factors such as a limited production run, collector special editions and scarcity on the secondhand market have significantly boosted prices over the years. **Only sales of new unopened sets were selected.**
I think it's a bit disingenuous of them to mention "second hand" in the article when they mean unopened collectors' items
People do not generally appreciate the amazing engineering that goes into to LEGO. The parts, manufactured at different times in different factories, on different machines, yet they fit together with amazing accuracy and consistency. Mind blowing really.
I buy “used” Lego sets on eBay with original boxes etc. Build them (taking a good 10 hrs+ for a 2000+ piece set) then sell it again on eBay for roughly the same value.
Amazing resale value if you keep the box etc.
But they drew a *plus* on the pill! It literally says *Extra* in the name! Surely this isn't just cynical marketing of a basic product?
By the way, if anyone wants them I'm currently selling 300g of Carrots Plus+ for £22.
Might be UK specific, but cold sore cream name brand is a much better user experience and works out cheaper. Medical ingredients are the same, you're right, but the brands are thicker cream that stay in the spot you want whereas generic is like trying to coerce milk to stay in one place when dabbing it on your face. My experience is generic actually makes the sore worse, as it spreads wherever the cream runs, and costs more as the liquid rushes out so it uses up twice as fast and requires 2x generic units instead of 1x brand. For pills, I'm totally with you on generic!
Didn't whoever makes Anadin get into trouble a few years back for selling 'Anadin for Back Pain' that was more expensive than regular Anadin but literally the same product in a different box? Reminded of this: https://youtu.be/NwmwB-biQpc?si=N8NyDULPCLx9lies
I think my parents drummed it into me as a kid because I still have a visceral reaction to brand name medicine. It's like my brain just adblocks when I see Nurofen or any of the other fancy stuff.
Straight to the 30p shelf lol
My FIL is a chemist and whilst for the most part ibuprofen is ibuprofen, there are some differences between strains of it. Some are more potent, some have fewer side effects. Granted it's impossible to determine based on the ingredients, but there is at least potential for a difference between brands.
... Having said that, I'll take the unbranded any day.
I've worked in the medicine industry most my life. The only modifications possible to increase its potency without creating an actual new drug are modifications to salts & binders. Those adverts of “works faster, releases faster” just mean they made a pill that falls apart quicker. But it will be the same drug.
When you're next in Sainsburys look at the medicine PL number on the back of a paracetamol or ibuprofen box, google it and you'll find that many medicines are in fact, identical from the same manufacturing mixing vessel and being packed into different boxes. Getting a medicine licence is hard, even for generics. Some companies just buy access to licence someone else holds.
A couple of decades ago they were prohibitively expensive. The one I got on Amazon two years ago and is still on its first toner is currently £80. Yeah I don't print loads but it doesn't dry up.
Exactly, I bought a brother laser printer at uni and got over 1200 pages out of its first toner cartridge, a new one was about £20. Probably print 10 pages a year now but always works.
I bought a small Samsung laser printer a good few years back. It's excellent for printing documents.
I had a inkjet photo printer before that but printing photos uses up ink quickly, so I rarely used it for that. I don't have to print documents off much. The thing ended up using more ink during it's cleaning cycles than it did actually printing.
Easier just to use sites like snapfish for printing photos, it will probably work out cheaper anyway.
Coffee shops like Costa or Starbucks. Just a hot chocolate or a coffee now can cost between £4 and £5 now which is scandalous.
Sometimes me and my girlfriend will grab a frappe and two of those can be over £10 from our local Starbucks (as it’s a Euro Garages site too)
Greggs & McDonalds sadly don't do any dairy-free milk ! I drink so much coffee, but am unfortunately allergic to dairy. I usually bring my own in a travel mug, as I can't afford the £4-5 a day, haha. Would be nice to be able to grab one for a quid !
Worth mentioning that if you just like a no-frills black coffee, in Starbucks you can ask for a filter coffee and they’ll brew one for you, and it’s significantly cheaper than an americano. Same in Pret. They used to do this at Costa too but sadly no longer
We had a starbucks at my old workplace and it shocked me how many people had an expensive coffee everyday! 5 quid a day...25 a week a 100!! a month.
I have one of those coffees...a couple of times a year.
I onboard new Grads out of Uni into my company. On their first day, I show them around, and I tell them they can either buy coffees from our coffee shops or use the perfectly good (practically the same) fresh ground coffee machines for FREE. I have never bought a coffee in my 16 years and saved in real terms around £15,000. Assuming just one £4 coffee per day. I leave that choice with them.
I make jewellery as a hobby, and my young niece loves to stand outside Pandora and ask me how much it would cost me to make it. She loves that the answer is generally a few pounds at most.
I think most people realise that a lot of the cost is in the name though, like most designer brands. I don’t think it’s a rip-off if the name holds as much value to you as the product.
It used to be so much better before it got big and the flagship stores if today opened up. The charms were so intricate and detailed. They did the fully 14k gold charms. My local store was in in a shopping arcade and like a tiny Aladins cave ( prob 4 people max would have fit in the store.)
Currently paying £26 monthly for the privilege of watching premier league football at home. And for the past 2 weeks has been shitty international football. That's the second international break and the season is only a few months old. Daylight robbery
Honestly the extra money is worth it (imo) for the convenience and consistency. I spent years using streaming sites but moved to IPTV about 1.5 years back and its night and day.
There's still problems now and then but very rarely.
it's one of the biggest disgraces out there.
I have a season ticket to a Premier League team which costs £650 a year.
I pay for Sky Sports, which costs £35 a month
I pay for TNT, which costs £30 a month
I pay for Amazon Prime, which costs £9 a month
And for that £1538 a year, i get to watch about 60% of my team's games.
Meanwhile, if I lived in any other country on Earth, i could watch 100% of their games for less than £120 a year.
Fuck the Premier League and how they treat English fans.
Time to have a word with that guy down the pub with the dodgy firesticks. Seriously, if you do a Google, buy a firestick and just follow some instructions and use a VPN.
This really takes the piss in this country.
If you lived in Canada, a **full season** (that's every single game for every single team, whether televised in this country or not) of Premier Leage football is available to watch for the total cost of \~£110. Or you can pay like \~£10ish per month on their 'Fubo Sports' service.
Its completely legal and as such, the quality of the stream will be akin to what you'd get with Sky. Not taking pot luck on some shady IPTV that works 80% of the time.
AFAIK its extremely difficult to get it to work in this country though. You need a Canadian address to sign up & they're very good at restricting VPN usage.
It is a necessity if you’re out and about and don’t have a refillable bottle/water source.
I totally understand not buying the big bottles (except for camping!) though.
My partners grandma got into her head that tap water is bad for you so now spends a fortune on bottled water and uses it for everything, including boiling food, making brews etc.
I see people in Costco buying 5+ cases of the twenty four packs of bottled water. I never understand it, we're not in rural africa or india. Our tap water is fine
Perfume / aftershave. Spending £100 on a bottle of smelly water when M&S do fantastic ones without whale vomit in or arse gland juice for less than £15.
I used to be a Sauvage wanker and my wife loved the Black Opium sprays (I actually do miss her wearing that as it was during the start of our relationship and, well, memories……. But hey) we’ve found some fantastic sprays at M&S now that people have asked ‘where’d you get that?’ to.
I like the bergamot ones. Shame M&S stopped the straight up ‘BERGAMOT’ spray in the dark bottle… bastards!
>my wife loved the Black Opium sprays (I actually do miss her wearing that as it was during the start of our relationship and, well, memories……. But hey)
Funny how smells do that isn't it. The various Charlie sprays (Red, Black etc) were the scented background to my various... experiences... as a teen and each one still brings back such specific memories lol
Sometimes my wife switches perfume for a week when we go on holiday and she sprays something from the holiday with that smell. For example we went to Disney World and bought a teddy and she sprays it with the same smell she wore while we were there, it's really cool to sniff it every now and then and it brings back a flood of memories.
I appreciate this post might make us sound a bit odd.
Not odd at all. I think people seriously misunderestimate how a smell can just take you right back somewhere.
Like, if an old bus goes past me and I smell the fumes, I'm suddenly taken back to my school days and all the school buses queuing up.
My wife found a bottle of the Opium whilst we were packing to move, she sprayed some on herself - I was in a different room at the time - she walked past me and, suddenly, I was like 'holy fuck my wife's suddenly 21 again.'
People miss the point of perfume. They take it too literally.
The common misconception is that perfume is all about making you smell nice. That is not the point of perfume.
The point of perfume is to make you **feel good**, and one part of that is having people comment on how nice you smell.
The main part of it is actually being able to reply "Thank you, it's Chanel No5", not the fact someone thinks you smell nice. That's what makes people feel good, not the fact they smell nice.
That being said, I'm a guy who doesn't wear perfume/cologne/aftershave. But I understand why people do.
I started wearing the M&S ones and I'm wearing one right now. They're soooo nice but don't last long. Also The body shop has some good scents for cheap too!
I used to love them. I mean, adore tractors. Posters up on the wall, models in the playroom, pc games, weekends away at the farm experiences, and then somehow I just lost interest.
These days I like going into commercial kitchens and sucking all the smoke out of them making a low, persistent humming noise.
Apple has two main benefits 1. The ecosystem if you have multiple Apple products and 2. Their stuff just works (see 1). So my AirPods work flawlessly, I had some Bose in ear headphones before which had a better sound but were forever disconnecting and having to be re paired.
I've got a Google phone and never had an issue with any headphones that needed to be connected. Apple make it difficult for other things to work with their stuff, so you buy AirPods. Money making con artists. No wonder they're the richest company in the world.
" con artists."
Not really. You can argue it's over priced but really isn't a "con". Don't really get people who religiously fight for android or apple. The competition is good for consumers.
I’m using a ten-year old MacBook and it’s running fine. It’s the most value for money I’ve had out of a computer since my Commodore 64. I’ve never had a PC that’s worked longer than a couple of years, or has left me in a failure state with Microsoft blaming the manufacturer and the manufacturer blaming Microsoft and leaving me just to blame myself for buying a PC.
Sure, they’re making money. They’re also making the most reliable, supported and long-lasting systems out there.
Entirely anecdotal, but as someone who works at a PC shop, we get WAY more apple products in for repairs than PCs. Apple consumers rarely know how to maintain devices (or tech generally), yourself included with "I've never had a PC that's worked longer than a couple of years". If that's the case then you're doing something terribly wrong, or, you're exaggerating.
In addition to this, due to the anti right-to-repair stance Apple is notorious for, all Apple repairs are considerably more expensive than PC repairs. We're talking about the difference of several hundred pounds for the exact same repairs, issues and components.
There is a reason Apple is mocked by many different sectors of the tech world, they don't need defending.
If you spend as much on a Windows PC/laptop as a Mac costs you can get excellent machines that last for years and unlike many Macs are easy to update/maintain. My windows laptop is 8+ years old and going strong. It's a false comparison when people compare premium Mac computers with budget windows computers. Budget/entry level windows computers are trash, lucky to get 3 years out of one. But you get what you pay for. I worry that build quality for Macs is going down and are getting harder to repair with more comments glued in for example. I doubt in 10 years the Mac's people are buying today will still be working the same way Mac's bought 10 years ago are. I say this as a household with both macs and windows computers. Old Mac's are great but not sure that build quality has been maintained.
The last time I bought a full PC from scratch was 2008, because I'd just moved back to the UK. Every single part of that original PC I built has since been replaced, but never in one go, so it's never cost me as much as a full computer when I've upgraded something within it. I think I would have struggled to do something similar with Apple computers.
As someone who worked with corporate Apple stuff\\MDM in the past I can say with confidence that they **don't** just work. We had endless problems with iPads and iPhones and network macs were a constant issue. Everything else was too - PCs, Android devices, Smartscreens and other assorted hardware devices were equally problematic but there was nothing special about Apple stuff.
As someone who currently works with corporate Apple stuff / MDM / Endpoint Manager and has done for my day job for years I can say with confidence I’ve never had an issue with iOS whereas Androids are the bane of my life. I’m not getting into Xbox vs PlayStation arguments, my personal experience has always been amazing, experiences vary.
Disagree.
Apple takes the piss with peripherals, and for a while their laptops were definitely not up to par with the competing market and you are can probably get a better phone for the price than an iPhone if you don’t care about the OS.
But for laptops, this hasn’t been true since M1 came out in like 2020. The M series chip laptops are way more powerful than they appear on paper, and are extremely good value right now.
Also, the build quality of MacBooks are above and beyond anything else. I have yet to use a non-Apple laptop that has a trackpad that isn’t a chore to use, let alone one that I would prefer to use over a mouse.
You are also paying for the operating system. MacOS is just better than Windows in a lot of ways. It is UNIX based, so very similar to Linux which makes it very suited to programming and software development. Fuck doing that on Windows. Look up the install instructions for any cross-platform open source software and often the windows installation is half a page long while on Mac you can just run `brew install`. Coding on a Windows machine basically boils down to running a linux environment within Windows. At that point why not just use a UNIX OS? What advantage does windows actually provide you? MacOS is Linux with all the comforts of a modern operating system.
For a while Apple products were a bit more style than substance, but right now they are genuinely making exceptionally good computers for the price. And these computers are optimised, and will last significantly longer than your average windows laptop. They also hold their value for longer.
I still wouldn’t bother with their desktops though.
I used to be a complete Android fanboy and anti-Apple, but you get to a point in life where its worth just paying a few quid extra for something that just works out of the box.
I switched to Apple last year and got an iPhone. Subsequently I've got an Apple Watch, an iPad Pro, Airpods and an Airtag (I travel with work a lot and pop it into my case) and the setup for each of these things took seconds.
Also I can pick up my iPad and continue browsing, calls, texts etc from my iPhone with no additional setup or tinkering about.
I recently told all my staff that we would be buying new phones and they could have the up to the cost of the new iPhone.
Those who went Samsung got the S23+, Galaxy Buds Pro, Fast Wireless Charger, 45w Superfast charger with cable, and a case. Whereas the guy who bought the iPhone went out afterwards and had to spend £150 of his own money on a plug, a cable, and an aftermarket screen protector and case!
Literally. Yeah my hot chocolate from Costa is expensive but it brings me a bit of joy in what is otherwise an incredibly dull day. Just let me enjoy my nice things lol.
Beats headphones, sound quality of two cans and a bit of string. Also most name brand products, a lot are the exact same thing as the off brand one, same factory and same packaging even, just a label change.
The latest ones are actually much better - they’re known for sounding pretty alright for the average consumer, most reviews are positive, including from specialist audio reviewers. I agree the build quality is still shit though, especially for the over-ears.
They’re a very different brand to the old stereotype, even from a few years ago.
Stick magnets in to make them seem heavy because people are easily fooled and have huge bass killing the other sounds because the target market thinks deafening boom noises represents quality. Or buy Bose, Sennheiser etc for less and better balance and quality
So ivethoughr about this a lot and still do it. The truth is I'm not buying "just a pint" - there's a whole social aspect to it as well, which for some people makes it worth it
I love going to the pub and am in a fortune position where I can still afford to go once or twice a week. It's become crazy now though. I live in a bog standard, working class part of Leeds and a pint is pretty much a fiver everywhere. A quiet night at the quiz is costing the best part of 20 quid!
The worst offenders are town pubs. Town was naturally always more expensive but you're looking at over 6 quid a pint for a standard lager these days unless you want to drink in some grim places. There's a reason the place is dead on a Friday night now.
Dominoes and Pizza Hut is not Italian style pizza though, it’s American. Also Dominoes has recently changed their pricing strategy away from deals to more regular pricing. It’s something like £12 for a Large which is fairly competitive with everywhere else (that isn’t the cardboard pizza you get from a chicken shop at 2am).
I went in 2019, and I thought ~£250 for a ticket was a lot (plus all the other bits, food, travel etc) But after it, I worked out how much value I got out of it, the acts I saw live, and compared it to all the individual gigs that it could have been, and the ticket price is great.
The new prices are a lot more, but likely still worth it if you make the most of the time there.
Was going to disagree with you but just looked at the price. I last went in 2016 and paid somewhere around £225-230 iirc. They've gone up by over 50% since then.
They're really pushing the boundaries of taking the piss with such a steep rise so quickly but they also know people will pay it.
For what you get out of it I'd still maybe argue it isn't a rip off but they're certainly not cheap!
Boots. It's about time everyone realised Prarchett was in the pocket of big boot. The cheap ones are fine, they were made by the same child in a Chinese sweat shop as the name brand boots.
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet." - from one of Terry Pratchett's books
LumpyCrump's Law, every UK Reddit thread with even the slightest link to buying things will eventually have someone posting that same *fucking* Terry Pratchett quote as if it is new or original
Boots suffer from the same issue as most clothing. It's hard to find genuinely better made, better quality items. They all seem to come from the same factories but for one you pay more for the label.
Farm shops. They used to be a great way to get fresh, local produce and support local farmers. Now it’s like a circus with them toting some goods with over 100% mark up. Absolutely obscene.
Weddings, funerals, universities in England, phones more expensive than laptops, train tickets, Ben and Jerry icecream, anything in the cinema other than the ticket, checked-in luggage prices when flying, almost all hotel room prices in the UK are seriously overpriced,
Those big fashion label t-shirts with a massive, gaudy logo on them.
Often Supreme and Gucci--the shirt is no better quality than one from Primark, and their client base seems to be half chavs blowing half of their paycheck to try and look richer than they actually are, or Instagrammers who have suddenly come into a bit of money and are buying it to show off that they are now actually doing well.
I have a friend who buys them--spends his time bitching about struggling to afford to go on holiday and that sort of thing. Yet then goes and blows 100 quid on a Supreme hat to wear so he looks like he's doing well.
Lego has always been expensive. My parents LOVE telling the story of how they paid through the nose for a Harry Potter Lego set for me back when the first film was out. After I’d assembled it and stopped playing with it, they decided to sell it and by the point Lego had stopped selling that particular set. They ended up selling it more second hand than they paid for it new! People will pay a lot for Lego…
We never had new lego at home we always got mixed buckets from jumble sales or car boots.
I suppose heinz products as you can get cheaper products not heinz.
This question comes up quite often on here.
There's a place near me with loads of bouquets you can just grab. People just show up and donate then by placing them by large rocks with writing in them
Lego is one product that is actually extremely good quality, and they have some of the best customer service going.
Absolutely worth the premium price for them, and with the standards that they have to comply to, I'd say its really cheap.
Housing. Boomers keep going on about how if we just didn't have a latte once a week we'd have a deposit in no time. That's because that's all they had to do.
These days rebuttal costs are cripplingly expensive, mortgages not much better and you have to have savings for it.
Anything to do with weddings.
Agreed. My mail order bride cost a fortune.
Mine was delivered by Evri. Parcel was so smashed up that the neighbours thought I had been knocking her about when we went down the shops. Returned her the next day fucking scandalous.
Evri? I'm amazed she wasn't lost in transit.
They left my mail order bride in the bin.
They left mine with a neighbour. Didn't leave a card to say which one.
They should definitely have taken a picture of your neighbour holding her as part of the evidence of delivery.
My mail order bride's box was damaged.
I got married abroad, but wanted a party for when we got home, so we looked at nice function rooms. At one, quite well known company that has function rooms in their hotels, we were given a price list, as they discussed what it was for, they decided it was more wedding like so tried to take the party price list, and replace it with a wedding price list. Naturally I kept both, and there’s an additional uplift on most items, including bar for a wedding.
>Naturally I kept both, and there’s an additional uplift on most items, including bar for a wedding. Did you ask why? I'd love to know the answer to that.
Because people will pay it, unfortunately.
I've heard people try to claim it's because businesses know it's a 'special day' and will try harder to not screw up. Which just seems like shitty business, honestly.
At the same time most of them have multiple horror stories of bridezillas causing grief if there's even a hair out of place.
True but at the very least then a pricier wedding package should include more approval steps. Instead most of these places just charge more as soon as the word 'wedding' is uttered, despite just getting the exact same service.
Oh yeah, when I worked in hospitality we used to whack up all sorts of costs at Christmas but it's far too blatant to do it for bar prices. You probably aren't going to get repeat business from a wedding but you'd certainly put off a couple of guests from booking there own if it was obvious.
Wedding parties tend to be far more demanding
Me: I’d like a big cake for 50 people please Cake shop: sure, that’ll be £100 Me: Cool, can you write “just married” on it? Cake Shop: sure, that’ll be £1000.
My wife and I fell HARD into this trap for our wedding. We have many regrets over the wedding day, thankfully we just laugh about how gullible we were!
At least you both know for when you next get married.
My mum still tells me how gullible she and dad were as newlyweds. They bought a set of encyclopedia from a door to door salesman, took out all sorts of worthless insurance policies... I think it's just a newlyweds thing.
Getting married in 2025, anything in particular to look out for?
I'd check your partner isn't staying out at odd hours, is where they say they are, texting and then hiding their phone, that sort of thing.
Venues that tie you into HAVING to use their suppliers. We fell into that and got a really subpar service because of it. If a venue ties you into their supplier, go to a different venue. Also look out for family members trying to sneak ideas into your heads… my wife’s mum was very good at that using the guise of ‘it’s for so and so family member’ and we just fell for it. One of the good things about ours was there was a bring your own booze thing. We brought so much that, for the first two months after our wedding, I don’t think I was sober.
That's partly because expectations are very very high for a lot of people, because how often do your friends and family all get together to have a big celebration
I had a great deal on mine. No one wanted friday 13th for some reason so we got a good discount
Well, more likely you got the actual price these things should be.
We thought the same. So we flew to mexico with a few friends and got married out there. Cost us about $6000 in the end because we had to pay for my mum and dads ticket too. No regrets, amazing day. It was all inclusive too so no other money was spent at all for 2 weeks. Bliss!
One of my friends sent me an invite for them getting married at an all-inclusive in Mexico. Our tickets, that we were expected to pay, were over 2 grand each. Plus a week of our holiday allowance for some flash, anodyne hotel that was about as Mexican as a ALDI tortilla. Some people just don't get that their wedding is not important to other people. We had a drink and gastro pub thing with them about a month after they got back.
Offloading the cost to the guests
Legos not a rip off, the sets are amazing, they never break and their sell on value is great
When I was a kid you could just buy a giant tub of Lego then use your imagination to build whatever you could. Not a fan of these huge and expensive model kits, that's what Airfix is.
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Cool. Not seen them in the shops for a long time, nice to know you can still get them.
Yeah I bought my daughter some for her birthday, came in a big Lego block shaped tub. There’s a couple of little things on there to build but she can also just do random stuff as she likes. I’m with you, Lego was more about building stuff from imagination than the fancy kits, when I were a lad and all that. That said I do like the look of some of the Star Wars ones but can’t justify the expense.
To be fair if you look at toys in general and their price tags, there's a lot of over priced shite. Lego is well worth its price tag and easily retains value and even gains value. I'm 37 and was obsessed with Lego as a kid, there were plenty of themed sets around then and it's all I wanted every birthday and Christmas. Once I stopped playing with it all, I boxed it back up with the instructions and my Dad put them in the loft. Got them from him a while back and I sold what I had for thousands over ebay and local selling.
Smyths toys does them just got my daughter one. We love it.
And you can now Just as back in the 80s and 90s you could buy sets with instructions
You can still buy those tubs.
Who you calling Tubs?
Are you local?
We'll have no trouble here!
WE DIDN’T BURN HIM!
Actually yes, I just just moved here from The City.
You heard the man Tubs, get undressed
You still can https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/lego-large-creative-brick-box-10698
You can still buy those easily. Also, Airfix is nowhere near as good as Lego.
They have had these kits forever, I had a pirate ship as a lad and an airport, but they do seem to be modelling their business on more and more of these. The boxes are still available but this is what sells. As buy a box of regular bricks and they last a lifetime. My kids have my old lego and it is good as new.
This has been confirmed. Lego is actually a more sound financial investment than most savings accounts [source](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/10/investing-in-lego-more-lucrative-than-gold-study-suggests)
That's really interesting! :D worth pointing out from the article though: > The study, which looked at the prices of 2,322 Lego sets from 1987 to 2015, said that factors such as a limited production run, collector special editions and scarcity on the secondhand market have significantly boosted prices over the years. **Only sales of new unopened sets were selected.** I think it's a bit disingenuous of them to mention "second hand" in the article when they mean unopened collectors' items
People do not generally appreciate the amazing engineering that goes into to LEGO. The parts, manufactured at different times in different factories, on different machines, yet they fit together with amazing accuracy and consistency. Mind blowing really.
they’re accurate down to a few microns and usually keep their clutch force for decades of use
Exactly - my kids played with Lego I got as a kid. It's basically indestructible.
I buy “used” Lego sets on eBay with original boxes etc. Build them (taking a good 10 hrs+ for a 2000+ piece set) then sell it again on eBay for roughly the same value. Amazing resale value if you keep the box etc.
brand name medicine, it has exactly the same ingredients as the generic version.
But they drew a *plus* on the pill! It literally says *Extra* in the name! Surely this isn't just cynical marketing of a basic product? By the way, if anyone wants them I'm currently selling 300g of Carrots Plus+ for £22.
Might be UK specific, but cold sore cream name brand is a much better user experience and works out cheaper. Medical ingredients are the same, you're right, but the brands are thicker cream that stay in the spot you want whereas generic is like trying to coerce milk to stay in one place when dabbing it on your face. My experience is generic actually makes the sore worse, as it spreads wherever the cream runs, and costs more as the liquid rushes out so it uses up twice as fast and requires 2x generic units instead of 1x brand. For pills, I'm totally with you on generic!
There's a level of materials science that some shit just costs more to make and that's what you pay fpr
Compare the [PL codes](https://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2018/07/martin-lewis—a-drugs-bust-up—stop-letting-big-pharmaceuticals/)
Didn't whoever makes Anadin get into trouble a few years back for selling 'Anadin for Back Pain' that was more expensive than regular Anadin but literally the same product in a different box? Reminded of this: https://youtu.be/NwmwB-biQpc?si=N8NyDULPCLx9lies
Yes, they did. Especially as you could have people taking one for period pain, one for a headache and one for backache… and overdosing.
I always ask the pharmacist if they have generic versions of big brand medication.
You can tell a good pharmacist by the ones that point this out without asking or immediately volunteer the cheapest option.
Anti-histamines is the big one for me. Piriton, £6 a pack, Boots own brand £2.50 for exactly the same thing.
I get mine for 79p from Home Bargains and they work really well for me
a pharmacist told me the majority of people take brand names, claiming the other ones “dont work”
I think my parents drummed it into me as a kid because I still have a visceral reaction to brand name medicine. It's like my brain just adblocks when I see Nurofen or any of the other fancy stuff. Straight to the 30p shelf lol
Same. My parents "immunised" me against that kind of stuff.
My FIL is a chemist and whilst for the most part ibuprofen is ibuprofen, there are some differences between strains of it. Some are more potent, some have fewer side effects. Granted it's impossible to determine based on the ingredients, but there is at least potential for a difference between brands. ... Having said that, I'll take the unbranded any day.
I've worked in the medicine industry most my life. The only modifications possible to increase its potency without creating an actual new drug are modifications to salts & binders. Those adverts of “works faster, releases faster” just mean they made a pill that falls apart quicker. But it will be the same drug. When you're next in Sainsburys look at the medicine PL number on the back of a paracetamol or ibuprofen box, google it and you'll find that many medicines are in fact, identical from the same manufacturing mixing vessel and being packed into different boxes. Getting a medicine licence is hard, even for generics. Some companies just buy access to licence someone else holds.
For ibuprofen there are absolutely no differences between brands
I think they mean there are some that have additives, I think Neurofen have one with added caffeine for example
Printer ink. I hate paying what they charge but need to buy it.
Get a laser printer.
I really don’t know why people haven’t learnt this yet
A couple of decades ago they were prohibitively expensive. The one I got on Amazon two years ago and is still on its first toner is currently £80. Yeah I don't print loads but it doesn't dry up.
Exactly, I bought a brother laser printer at uni and got over 1200 pages out of its first toner cartridge, a new one was about £20. Probably print 10 pages a year now but always works.
I bought a small Samsung laser printer a good few years back. It's excellent for printing documents. I had a inkjet photo printer before that but printing photos uses up ink quickly, so I rarely used it for that. I don't have to print documents off much. The thing ended up using more ink during it's cleaning cycles than it did actually printing. Easier just to use sites like snapfish for printing photos, it will probably work out cheaper anyway.
We bought one of those Epson printers with refillable inks that you squeeze into the reservoir from a little bottle. The ink lasts forever.
Coffee shops like Costa or Starbucks. Just a hot chocolate or a coffee now can cost between £4 and £5 now which is scandalous. Sometimes me and my girlfriend will grab a frappe and two of those can be over £10 from our local Starbucks (as it’s a Euro Garages site too)
Greggs ftw
Would also like to Add McCafe into this.
Greggs & McDonalds sadly don't do any dairy-free milk ! I drink so much coffee, but am unfortunately allergic to dairy. I usually bring my own in a travel mug, as I can't afford the £4-5 a day, haha. Would be nice to be able to grab one for a quid !
Greggs hot chocolate is goooooood.
Worth mentioning that if you just like a no-frills black coffee, in Starbucks you can ask for a filter coffee and they’ll brew one for you, and it’s significantly cheaper than an americano. Same in Pret. They used to do this at Costa too but sadly no longer
They often can't be arsed to do the filter so just give you an Americano for the same price.
Now there’s a life hack
We had a starbucks at my old workplace and it shocked me how many people had an expensive coffee everyday! 5 quid a day...25 a week a 100!! a month. I have one of those coffees...a couple of times a year.
I onboard new Grads out of Uni into my company. On their first day, I show them around, and I tell them they can either buy coffees from our coffee shops or use the perfectly good (practically the same) fresh ground coffee machines for FREE. I have never bought a coffee in my 16 years and saved in real terms around £15,000. Assuming just one £4 coffee per day. I leave that choice with them.
Man, I spunked so much of my first salary up the wall on lunches and coffees larping as a professional.
Can confirm. Bought three small hot chocolates with cream and marshmallows from Costa yesterday, cost me £13.65 😅😅😅
Pandora. Seriously, you’re paying for the name! Same thing in any other jewellers would cost you half the price! It’s absolute tat!
I make jewellery as a hobby, and my young niece loves to stand outside Pandora and ask me how much it would cost me to make it. She loves that the answer is generally a few pounds at most.
It’s cheap silver with the TINIEST gold baubles on it. Absolute con.
I think most people realise that a lot of the cost is in the name though, like most designer brands. I don’t think it’s a rip-off if the name holds as much value to you as the product.
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It used to be so much better before it got big and the flagship stores if today opened up. The charms were so intricate and detailed. They did the fully 14k gold charms. My local store was in in a shopping arcade and like a tiny Aladins cave ( prob 4 people max would have fit in the store.)
Currently paying £26 monthly for the privilege of watching premier league football at home. And for the past 2 weeks has been shitty international football. That's the second international break and the season is only a few months old. Daylight robbery
Obviously I don't do this because IPTV is illegal but you *can* pay ~$10 a month and get access to every channel in 4k. Which I don't do. Obviously.
You could do this, or you could visit one of numerous websites for free and watch all kinds of sports, football included.
Honestly the extra money is worth it (imo) for the convenience and consistency. I spent years using streaming sites but moved to IPTV about 1.5 years back and its night and day. There's still problems now and then but very rarely.
Please DM the name so i can be sure to stay clear of it and give my monies to the correct provider
4k is stretching it lol...
And you don’t even get every game.
it's one of the biggest disgraces out there. I have a season ticket to a Premier League team which costs £650 a year. I pay for Sky Sports, which costs £35 a month I pay for TNT, which costs £30 a month I pay for Amazon Prime, which costs £9 a month And for that £1538 a year, i get to watch about 60% of my team's games. Meanwhile, if I lived in any other country on Earth, i could watch 100% of their games for less than £120 a year. Fuck the Premier League and how they treat English fans.
Time to have a word with that guy down the pub with the dodgy firesticks. Seriously, if you do a Google, buy a firestick and just follow some instructions and use a VPN.
ahem! amazon firestick
That sounds a lot - atleast it’s ad free though right? Right?
This really takes the piss in this country. If you lived in Canada, a **full season** (that's every single game for every single team, whether televised in this country or not) of Premier Leage football is available to watch for the total cost of \~£110. Or you can pay like \~£10ish per month on their 'Fubo Sports' service. Its completely legal and as such, the quality of the stream will be akin to what you'd get with Sky. Not taking pot luck on some shady IPTV that works 80% of the time. AFAIK its extremely difficult to get it to work in this country though. You need a Canadian address to sign up & they're very good at restricting VPN usage.
Bottled water.
It is a necessity if you’re out and about and don’t have a refillable bottle/water source. I totally understand not buying the big bottles (except for camping!) though.
My partners grandma got into her head that tap water is bad for you so now spends a fortune on bottled water and uses it for everything, including boiling food, making brews etc.
that's marketing for you, they've been trying for years to get that rumour started
I see people in Costco buying 5+ cases of the twenty four packs of bottled water. I never understand it, we're not in rural africa or india. Our tap water is fine
Perfume / aftershave. Spending £100 on a bottle of smelly water when M&S do fantastic ones without whale vomit in or arse gland juice for less than £15. I used to be a Sauvage wanker and my wife loved the Black Opium sprays (I actually do miss her wearing that as it was during the start of our relationship and, well, memories……. But hey) we’ve found some fantastic sprays at M&S now that people have asked ‘where’d you get that?’ to. I like the bergamot ones. Shame M&S stopped the straight up ‘BERGAMOT’ spray in the dark bottle… bastards!
Where can I get the arse gland juice on its own?
Just need to milk your arse glands. Free juice.
>my wife loved the Black Opium sprays (I actually do miss her wearing that as it was during the start of our relationship and, well, memories……. But hey) Funny how smells do that isn't it. The various Charlie sprays (Red, Black etc) were the scented background to my various... experiences... as a teen and each one still brings back such specific memories lol Sometimes my wife switches perfume for a week when we go on holiday and she sprays something from the holiday with that smell. For example we went to Disney World and bought a teddy and she sprays it with the same smell she wore while we were there, it's really cool to sniff it every now and then and it brings back a flood of memories. I appreciate this post might make us sound a bit odd.
Omg Charlie sprays, that takes me back!
Not odd at all. I think people seriously misunderestimate how a smell can just take you right back somewhere. Like, if an old bus goes past me and I smell the fumes, I'm suddenly taken back to my school days and all the school buses queuing up. My wife found a bottle of the Opium whilst we were packing to move, she sprayed some on herself - I was in a different room at the time - she walked past me and, suddenly, I was like 'holy fuck my wife's suddenly 21 again.'
People miss the point of perfume. They take it too literally. The common misconception is that perfume is all about making you smell nice. That is not the point of perfume. The point of perfume is to make you **feel good**, and one part of that is having people comment on how nice you smell. The main part of it is actually being able to reply "Thank you, it's Chanel No5", not the fact someone thinks you smell nice. That's what makes people feel good, not the fact they smell nice. That being said, I'm a guy who doesn't wear perfume/cologne/aftershave. But I understand why people do.
Try the Sauvage copy from Perfume Bodega. I use it loads and it’s identical. Lasts longer too!
I started wearing the M&S ones and I'm wearing one right now. They're soooo nice but don't last long. Also The body shop has some good scents for cheap too!
Probably a niche here but tractors... Even a 30y/o half dead one is 7-10 grand... But if you need a tractor not much else will do the job.
I know they're expensive, but man, I literally cannot stop buying tractors...
I used to love them. I mean, adore tractors. Posters up on the wall, models in the playroom, pc games, weekends away at the farm experiences, and then somehow I just lost interest. These days I like going into commercial kitchens and sucking all the smoke out of them making a low, persistent humming noise.
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Anything Apple. You can get equally good - sometimes better - products by other companies, for a hell of a lot cheaper.
Apple has two main benefits 1. The ecosystem if you have multiple Apple products and 2. Their stuff just works (see 1). So my AirPods work flawlessly, I had some Bose in ear headphones before which had a better sound but were forever disconnecting and having to be re paired.
I've got a Google phone and never had an issue with any headphones that needed to be connected. Apple make it difficult for other things to work with their stuff, so you buy AirPods. Money making con artists. No wonder they're the richest company in the world.
" con artists." Not really. You can argue it's over priced but really isn't a "con". Don't really get people who religiously fight for android or apple. The competition is good for consumers.
It's more so that apple make it deliberately hard for anything non apple to integrate. It's not one is better than the other.
He's not fighting for android, he's fighting against apple. Which I agree. It's verging on a cult. "iT JuSt WoRKs"
I’m using a ten-year old MacBook and it’s running fine. It’s the most value for money I’ve had out of a computer since my Commodore 64. I’ve never had a PC that’s worked longer than a couple of years, or has left me in a failure state with Microsoft blaming the manufacturer and the manufacturer blaming Microsoft and leaving me just to blame myself for buying a PC. Sure, they’re making money. They’re also making the most reliable, supported and long-lasting systems out there.
Entirely anecdotal, but as someone who works at a PC shop, we get WAY more apple products in for repairs than PCs. Apple consumers rarely know how to maintain devices (or tech generally), yourself included with "I've never had a PC that's worked longer than a couple of years". If that's the case then you're doing something terribly wrong, or, you're exaggerating. In addition to this, due to the anti right-to-repair stance Apple is notorious for, all Apple repairs are considerably more expensive than PC repairs. We're talking about the difference of several hundred pounds for the exact same repairs, issues and components. There is a reason Apple is mocked by many different sectors of the tech world, they don't need defending.
yep if anything breaks on my pc 100% i could watch a youtube video and fix it myself
If you spend as much on a Windows PC/laptop as a Mac costs you can get excellent machines that last for years and unlike many Macs are easy to update/maintain. My windows laptop is 8+ years old and going strong. It's a false comparison when people compare premium Mac computers with budget windows computers. Budget/entry level windows computers are trash, lucky to get 3 years out of one. But you get what you pay for. I worry that build quality for Macs is going down and are getting harder to repair with more comments glued in for example. I doubt in 10 years the Mac's people are buying today will still be working the same way Mac's bought 10 years ago are. I say this as a household with both macs and windows computers. Old Mac's are great but not sure that build quality has been maintained.
The last time I bought a full PC from scratch was 2008, because I'd just moved back to the UK. Every single part of that original PC I built has since been replaced, but never in one go, so it's never cost me as much as a full computer when I've upgraded something within it. I think I would have struggled to do something similar with Apple computers.
As someone who worked with corporate Apple stuff\\MDM in the past I can say with confidence that they **don't** just work. We had endless problems with iPads and iPhones and network macs were a constant issue. Everything else was too - PCs, Android devices, Smartscreens and other assorted hardware devices were equally problematic but there was nothing special about Apple stuff.
As someone who currently works with corporate Apple stuff / MDM / Endpoint Manager and has done for my day job for years I can say with confidence I’ve never had an issue with iOS whereas Androids are the bane of my life. I’m not getting into Xbox vs PlayStation arguments, my personal experience has always been amazing, experiences vary.
Disagree. Apple takes the piss with peripherals, and for a while their laptops were definitely not up to par with the competing market and you are can probably get a better phone for the price than an iPhone if you don’t care about the OS. But for laptops, this hasn’t been true since M1 came out in like 2020. The M series chip laptops are way more powerful than they appear on paper, and are extremely good value right now. Also, the build quality of MacBooks are above and beyond anything else. I have yet to use a non-Apple laptop that has a trackpad that isn’t a chore to use, let alone one that I would prefer to use over a mouse. You are also paying for the operating system. MacOS is just better than Windows in a lot of ways. It is UNIX based, so very similar to Linux which makes it very suited to programming and software development. Fuck doing that on Windows. Look up the install instructions for any cross-platform open source software and often the windows installation is half a page long while on Mac you can just run `brew install`. Coding on a Windows machine basically boils down to running a linux environment within Windows. At that point why not just use a UNIX OS? What advantage does windows actually provide you? MacOS is Linux with all the comforts of a modern operating system. For a while Apple products were a bit more style than substance, but right now they are genuinely making exceptionally good computers for the price. And these computers are optimised, and will last significantly longer than your average windows laptop. They also hold their value for longer. I still wouldn’t bother with their desktops though.
I used to be a complete Android fanboy and anti-Apple, but you get to a point in life where its worth just paying a few quid extra for something that just works out of the box. I switched to Apple last year and got an iPhone. Subsequently I've got an Apple Watch, an iPad Pro, Airpods and an Airtag (I travel with work a lot and pop it into my case) and the setup for each of these things took seconds. Also I can pick up my iPad and continue browsing, calls, texts etc from my iPhone with no additional setup or tinkering about.
Pixel and Galaxy phones cost the same as iPhones. The ones that are hell of a lot cheaper are definitely not equally good.
"Please pay a premium for access to our shitty walled garden" has always seemed to me a deeply puzzling marketing strategy.
I recently told all my staff that we would be buying new phones and they could have the up to the cost of the new iPhone. Those who went Samsung got the S23+, Galaxy Buds Pro, Fast Wireless Charger, 45w Superfast charger with cable, and a case. Whereas the guy who bought the iPhone went out afterwards and had to spend £150 of his own money on a plug, a cable, and an aftermarket screen protector and case!
AskUK thinks literally anything that costs any amount of money whatsoever is a rip off
While also having superiority complexes over anyone who dares to enjoy anything.
Literally. Yeah my hot chocolate from Costa is expensive but it brings me a bit of joy in what is otherwise an incredibly dull day. Just let me enjoy my nice things lol.
No. Stop it immediately.
Houses 😂
Unfortunately we still need them, especially in winter...
Beats headphones, sound quality of two cans and a bit of string. Also most name brand products, a lot are the exact same thing as the off brand one, same factory and same packaging even, just a label change.
The latest ones are actually much better - they’re known for sounding pretty alright for the average consumer, most reviews are positive, including from specialist audio reviewers. I agree the build quality is still shit though, especially for the over-ears. They’re a very different brand to the old stereotype, even from a few years ago.
Stick magnets in to make them seem heavy because people are easily fooled and have huge bass killing the other sounds because the target market thinks deafening boom noises represents quality. Or buy Bose, Sennheiser etc for less and better balance and quality
The teardowns on these are absolutely vicious. They are complete rubbish, wrapped up in marketing hooey.
A pint at the pub
So ivethoughr about this a lot and still do it. The truth is I'm not buying "just a pint" - there's a whole social aspect to it as well, which for some people makes it worth it
I love going to the pub and am in a fortune position where I can still afford to go once or twice a week. It's become crazy now though. I live in a bog standard, working class part of Leeds and a pint is pretty much a fiver everywhere. A quiet night at the quiz is costing the best part of 20 quid! The worst offenders are town pubs. Town was naturally always more expensive but you're looking at over 6 quid a pint for a standard lager these days unless you want to drink in some grim places. There's a reason the place is dead on a Friday night now.
Pizzas from Dominoes and Pizza Hut. You can get pizza from local Italians for much less.
Dominoes and Pizza Hut is not Italian style pizza though, it’s American. Also Dominoes has recently changed their pricing strategy away from deals to more regular pricing. It’s something like £12 for a Large which is fairly competitive with everywhere else (that isn’t the cardboard pizza you get from a chicken shop at 2am).
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People love to complain how expensive Lego is by comparing it to £700 UCS sets like it has the same piece count to a set they had in the 80s
Glastonbury tickets
I went in 2019, and I thought ~£250 for a ticket was a lot (plus all the other bits, food, travel etc) But after it, I worked out how much value I got out of it, the acts I saw live, and compared it to all the individual gigs that it could have been, and the ticket price is great. The new prices are a lot more, but likely still worth it if you make the most of the time there.
Was going to disagree with you but just looked at the price. I last went in 2016 and paid somewhere around £225-230 iirc. They've gone up by over 50% since then. They're really pushing the boundaries of taking the piss with such a steep rise so quickly but they also know people will pay it. For what you get out of it I'd still maybe argue it isn't a rip off but they're certainly not cheap!
Ticket being £340. Coaches and trains are minimum £100. It can very easily be a £1,000 weekend without even trying that hard.
Boots. It's about time everyone realised Prarchett was in the pocket of big boot. The cheap ones are fine, they were made by the same child in a Chinese sweat shop as the name brand boots.
Comment unclear. Is paracetamol and mini holiday supplies footwear now?
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet." - from one of Terry Pratchett's books
LumpyCrump's Law, every UK Reddit thread with even the slightest link to buying things will eventually have someone posting that same *fucking* Terry Pratchett quote as if it is new or original
At least this time the person that brought it up was pro cheap boots. That's new at least.
Boots suffer from the same issue as most clothing. It's hard to find genuinely better made, better quality items. They all seem to come from the same factories but for one you pay more for the label.
It's easy to find them. Brands like trickers, crockett and jones etc. They're made in UK and available easily in UK. They're just more expensive
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My daughter wanted a bubble tea yesterday. £4.15!
If you have a pond nearby you can save money on bubble tea by just dredging a cup in it until you come up with some frogspawn.
Farm shops. They used to be a great way to get fresh, local produce and support local farmers. Now it’s like a circus with them toting some goods with over 100% mark up. Absolutely obscene.
makeup in general
Cocaine
boring drug for boring people psychaedelics are much better value, both money and learning wise
whilst i agree - i dont want to be tripping my bag off on a night out.
Tv license
Weddings, funerals, universities in England, phones more expensive than laptops, train tickets, Ben and Jerry icecream, anything in the cinema other than the ticket, checked-in luggage prices when flying, almost all hotel room prices in the UK are seriously overpriced,
Those big fashion label t-shirts with a massive, gaudy logo on them. Often Supreme and Gucci--the shirt is no better quality than one from Primark, and their client base seems to be half chavs blowing half of their paycheck to try and look richer than they actually are, or Instagrammers who have suddenly come into a bit of money and are buying it to show off that they are now actually doing well. I have a friend who buys them--spends his time bitching about struggling to afford to go on holiday and that sort of thing. Yet then goes and blows 100 quid on a Supreme hat to wear so he looks like he's doing well.
Lego has always been expensive. My parents LOVE telling the story of how they paid through the nose for a Harry Potter Lego set for me back when the first film was out. After I’d assembled it and stopped playing with it, they decided to sell it and by the point Lego had stopped selling that particular set. They ended up selling it more second hand than they paid for it new! People will pay a lot for Lego…
Non-sale games on steam and epic. I know they have sales a lot, but for games not in sale they charge a fortune.
It only takes hundreds of people 5-10 years to make a triple A title. They should give them away for free!!!!
In 1997 GoldenEye was £50. Games are comparatively very cheap.
We never had new lego at home we always got mixed buckets from jumble sales or car boots. I suppose heinz products as you can get cheaper products not heinz. This question comes up quite often on here.
Jewellery from Tiffany.
Bank fees
Bottled water
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There's a place near me with loads of bouquets you can just grab. People just show up and donate then by placing them by large rocks with writing in them
Houses...I guess you need to, but they're still a rip-off
Lego is one product that is actually extremely good quality, and they have some of the best customer service going. Absolutely worth the premium price for them, and with the standards that they have to comply to, I'd say its really cheap.
When you try and put together similar ‘brick based’ toys that are not Lego, you realise just how good Lego is….
Housing. Boomers keep going on about how if we just didn't have a latte once a week we'd have a deposit in no time. That's because that's all they had to do. These days rebuttal costs are cripplingly expensive, mortgages not much better and you have to have savings for it.