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Things you think are far too expensive.

#82
Footballers (or soccer players, to avoid confusion with all you Americans)
I know that value is what people want to pay, but I find it absurd that there's people being payed that much to kick a ball around for 90 minutes when there's millions of unemployed and homeless in Britain who are probably of more worth to society :(

Rant over, sorry :)
Good choice of thread, I'm loving the discussions on here
 
#84
i_got_a_mohawk said:
People love to play for entertainment.

It'll either keep supporting itself or crash in on itself (like what is happening with the SPL these days). The up side about footballers and the amount they are paid, think of all the tax money :p
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True :)
It still irks me though, and our glorious government has recently been doing a wonderful job at f***ing up their plan to re-employ people (with tax money)

This is fun, I've lost my 'political rant on the internet' virginity :D
 
#85
Movie prices don't bother me. It's not something i subscribe to that I have to pay every month. I only go maybe 2times a year. Even if I went once a month. It's not that bad. I mean you really CAN wait 2-3 months and get it for a dollar at redbox...
 
#88
SteveC said:
Food. Healthy food. Our grocery bill has gone up at least 40% over the last year or so. We don't buy Hamburger Helper or other processed foods. It's crazy. We hear how the country is so obese yet eating healthy is out of reach for many.
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It's far cheaper to buy bad food in quantity than good food in ANY quantity. Even buying ingredients for a decent salad is insane. If it's someone only wants enough for one serving, they don't sell in that quantity unless it comes from the salad bar for $5-$6/pound, open to dehydration, people's bad hygiene and flies all day. A bag or bunch of lettuce (other than iceberg), carrots, peppers, mushrooms, broccoli/cauliflower and other stuff will cost over $20. I can go to Taco Bell to have a soft taco & chicken burrito and be filled for $2.53- it's not the best or worst fast food but it's portable and quick.
 
#89
Lowactnsatsfctn said:
For $3.59, I can take my self, another person and a short pour trailer with 2500 pounds of concrete 14 miles away.
Gas isn't expensive when you consider what it takes to process it. Trucking in drilling equipment to a field, Workers to pump it from a very deep hole. Then truck it back to a plant to be refined and then trucked back to a store to be sold to the end consumer.
Mayonaise, Now that's expensive stuff. Its $4.50ish a quart. That puts it at over 15 bucks a gallon. That gallon of gas can get you set up to make a stamped concrete walkway, while that gallon of mayo will get you.....Better sandwiches
Other expensive items
Gallon of Casting resin
House paint
but my biggest complaint...... Printer Ink....
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Your gas makes money for you- for basic transportation, it adds up fast. As I wrote- the cost of the gas is minimal, it's the taxes that raise it to the point of being excessive. Well, that, and the ethanol that's being forced on us, under the guise of "being better for the environment". That not only yields worse gas mileage, it damages fuel systems in some vehicles, has caused farmers to grow corn for ethanol instead of food- changing the whole supply/demand dynamic and raising food prices. Granted, the damage to fuel systems helps those who service these and sell parts, but the cost to users is, once again, excessive. I worked on boats and the cost of a fuel pump can run from less than $100 to more than $500 + installation. Fuel lines, fuel senders, fittings and seals/gaskets are all fair game when they weren't originally designed to be exposed to ethanol. MTBE was even worse- it was another compound that was forced on those of us in areas where air quality is a problem and we had absolutely no say in whether it would be in the gas. Once they found MTBE in California's groundwater, its use was stopped immediately. Then, there's the cost increase from the EPA mandating different fuel formulations in different parts of the country, causing the manufacturers to design engines/fuel systems for fuels they can't be certain of because the EPA often changes their mind when the vehicles are near release.

Now, if I could only get my van to run on mayo.
 
#99
1958Bassman said:
It's far cheaper to buy bad food in quantity than good food in ANY quantity. Even buying ingredients for a decent salad is insane. If it's someone only wants enough for one serving, they don't sell in that quantity unless it comes from the salad bar for $5-$6/pound, open to dehydration, people's bad hygiene and flies all day. A bag or bunch of lettuce (other than iceberg), carrots, peppers, mushrooms, broccoli/cauliflower and other stuff will cost over $20. I can go to Taco Bell to have a soft taco & chicken burrito and be filled for $2.53- it's not the best or worst fast food but it's portable and quick.
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If you have an Aldi's store near you, I would suggest buying your salad ingredients there. I was in an Aldi's on Thursday and they had pre-packaged, bagged salads for 69 cents to $1.99 and separate items such as a head of lettuce for 99 cents, a couple tomatoes for less than $1.00, a bag of carrots for 69 cents, two broccoli heads for 99 cents, and other items. They also had a 3 lb. bag of onions for 99 cents, 10 lb. bag of Idaho potatoes for $1.99, and bananas for 29 cents a lb. compared to 59 to 79 cents a lb. elsewhere.

Another item that is expensive is automobile anti-freeze.
 
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