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Things you think are far too expensive.

#21
Another vote for groceries, movie tickets, health care.

I also find new cars to be too expensive. I doubt I'll ever buy a new car again (only had one in my life).

I actually don't find cable/satellite outrageous. It's a luxury, not a necessity.

As for cell phones and cell plans, they just irritate me in general. I was perfectly happy with just a land line and now I have to have this Got-Danged electric leash on me at all hours of the day and night.
 
#25
Ziltoid said:
Really? The expensive ones here, say pastrami, roast beef, thai chicken and whatnot are about 3.00$/100g. Regular ham or turkey is about 1.10$/100g I think.

That's if you get it cut at the counter, pre-packadged is about half more or double.
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good stuff where I'm at is $7-10 a pound

groceries are definitely too expensive. I'm getting less in my cart for the same prices weekly.
 
#26
Tony Flow MMMM said:
See I can't say I find groceries to be outrageous..

It's one of the few things you MUST have to live..

But then again maybe that's why it should be cheaper? .......... Idk
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Im with you on groceries. I pay about $20 a week, same as I have for the last 5 or so years.

Marial said:
As for cell phones and cell plans, they just irritate me in general. I was perfectly happy with just a land line and now I have to have this Got-Danged electric leash on me at all hours of the day and night.
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Well, you dont have to. Its still a choice. You could have been retro and stuck with your landline. :)
 
#27
Staying with my wife is a choice too... She will not allow me not to have a cell and gets royally PO'd when I don't have it on. It's the one thing about her that truly irritates me.
 
#29
MatticusMania said:
Im with you on groceries. I pay about $20 a week, same as I have for the last 5 or so years.

Well, you dont have to. Its still a choice. You could have been retro and stuck with your landline. :)
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20$? What do you eat? :eek: I spend about that just in fruits and vegetables for a week.
 
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#31
Cable/Internet - ridiculously expensive for the lack of quality program. Then you need to rent their cable box and dvr for each tv. Can easily run up $200 for a house with multiple tv's.

Cell phone with data is right! - especially for single people. First phone is almost $100 the. Multiple phones can share the same minutes and data for only like $30 or so. But these days it's almost a necessity unfortunately.

Tolls - insane. Originally designed to pay off bridges, they're surely paid off by know especially the 75+ year old bridges. $13 to cross a river into or out of NYC? Insane!

Train tickets - used to be $11 round trip in and out of the city. Now it's bordering on $25 a person. The above tolls are a bargain if you have 2 or more people.

Oh and parking. Some places charge about $10 an hour to block your car in a private lot.
 
#33
Ziltoid said:
20$? What do you eat? :eek: I spend about that just in fruits and vegetables for a week.
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Mostly vegetables, with a little meat substitute thrown in.
I can make a bell pepper last 3 days, and onion a week.
Last week I spent $30 on groceries, and I still have enough to get through the next week.
When I move into my own place Im going to set up a vegetable garden and save even more.

Marial said:
Staying with my wife is a choice too... She will not allow me not to have a cell and gets royally PO'd when I don't have it on. It's the one thing about her that truly irritates me.
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Fair enough. It would irritate me as well. I keep my cell on me, but I only answer it when I feel like it.
 
#35
MatticusMania said:
Mostly vegetables, with a little meat substitute thrown in.
I can make a bell pepper last 3 days, and onion a week.
Last week I spent $30 on groceries, and I still have enough to get through the next week.
When I move into my own place Im going to set up a vegetable garden and save even more.
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I have a family of 4 and spend about 85-90 a week, which some would consider very low...but we don't buy crap food, and the majority of the expense is the lunchmeat and meat in general for dinners...and I STILL think it's too expensive. I tried my hand at growing peppers and tomatoes last year...learned a few things I will carry over to try to triple my modest yield...should help save more too, and it's heirloom seeds...good stock. We love stir fry and have it very often...

Everything in general is for the most part more expensive than it needs to be, but I'd say cable / internet is probably the most annoying...the provider doesn't even produce anything, they are not personally adjusting satellites that they are footing fees for to you, line maintenance fees, spread out over the subscriber base, should probably triple or quadruple what is actually used annually, so they are fleecing you blind. I hate that I am even in bed with Charter for 'net, but I don't have cable, just Roku boxes...
 
#36
Marial said:
Kind of off-topic, but how do you get fresh vegetables to keep for any length of time?
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What I do is buy vegetables that keep well, and only buy enough to keep for about 3 days at a time.

hover said:
I have a family of 4 and spend about 85-90 a week, which some would consider very low...but we don't buy crap food, and the majority of the expense is the lunchmeat and meat in general for dinners...and I STILL think it's too expensive.
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Yeah, Im lucky enough to only have to buy for myself. Im not saying groceries are cheap, but I also tend to only buy what I need, and I dont buy extraneous things like snacks.

Everything in general is for the most part more expensive than it needs to be
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Id agree with that.
 
#37
hbarcat said:
Attending professional sports games.

Parking, tickets, food and drink, souvenirs, etc...

I have to work for 3 days to afford the price of taking just my daughter and myself to a game. :scowl:
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Not if you're a Raider fan! A decade of terrible seasons have rewarded the fans with dirt cheap tickets. I was eight rows from the Buc's bench and got to yell obscenities at Vincent Jackson! He's been terrorizing us for years... hehe... Childish but fun!
 

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