What Are Some Unfairly Expensive Items?
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What is unfairly expensive? I’m going with houses, especially with the crazy the last few years when we were buying and they were going crazy amounts over asking.
Auntielettie I haven't used fabric conditioner in years now and I've switched from washing powder to laundry sheets and I'll never go back.
Car insurance, mind went from £350 to £650 this year and I’ve not had any accidents and have another years no claims bonus. Apparently the insurance prices are due to rise again.
What makes it worse is you insure your car for a set amount and pay based on that. Then if you do have an accident they try to pay out less. They have it both ways
So many things! Everything has just gone up in price so everything seems unfairly expensive these days. Insurance and interest rates probably the biggest two.
MrsCraig Interest rates for sure. And you need insurance for everything! Life insurance, pets if you have them, buildings and contents, car etc
Council tax absolutely bonkers amount. We live in a village with no street lighting no public transport basically nothing and have to pay just over £200 a month.
sallylester1 and we are meant to be using public transport. Great when there's either none or its rubbish. If I bus to work it's 2 hour journey with hanging around in between buses and having to leave mine just after 6am. In the car both ways is less time then one journey I can leave nearly 90 minutes later. Its crazy. 4 hour journey and £10 a day on travel not be able to do a food shop on the way home or less then 2 hour journey park outside work. Run errands and food shop on the way home I know which I'm going with
sallylester1 Many councils are bankrupt with huge debts and lets face it in those circumstances council tax can only go up and services reduced. We are basically paying the interest on their debts.
The only good thing I guess is with less disposable income we will import less and our trade deficit might reduce.
At some point we will have to accept there is an economic crisis in this country and come up with a radical budget to restore us to trading surplus and live within our means.
Pinkspirit Yes! I've had to go private this year and it's astronomical with a lot more work needed in the future
At the moment everything. My list would go on and on. But my real pet hate is healthy foods are so expensive compared to a multi bag of crisps.
Rent, food, electricity, gas, bills. Basically life is expensive. It's crazy. Went out for dinner the other day. Literally rarely do it but one of my siblings is over so we went out. £60 for 3 of to eat and 3 drinks. One of my other siblings paid £80 for 4 to eat. We are meant to be having a takeaway tomorrow I'm seriously wondering if we can afford it
Jerseydrew both your examples work out to £20 per head which would be considered reasonable or even cheap to most people. It depends if the drinks were alcoholic and how many courses. The last meal I had out was just before xmas, £17.80 for ribs and chips with coleslaw, no drink (tap water) and one course.
Lynibis it was one course we had each. Nothing fancy. It was lovely and glad we went. We got 3 soft drinks the other day in a pub after a walk with friends. £10 for them. It's just a lot even there's a lot that are giving to choose between heating and eating
Jerseydrew drinks are extortionate, sometimes dearer than spirits. I did a bit of bar work many moons ago and a 'Florida orange' cost more than a pint of beer!
Food, energy the list is endless and it ain't going to get better anytime soon, prices will never go back down
Everything Is unfairly expensive. There Is too big of a list. We live In rip off Britain and that says It all.
Imnotcheap get your prescription and go to select specs or any of the cheap ones advertised. Between me and my children I think we have had glasses off most of them and there has never been a problem at all
Imnotcheap I'm still using my glasses from a couple of years ago and my sight continues the same, thankfully.
A couple of weeks ago on my dad's farm I accidentally hurt my right eye with barbwire (didn't think it'd strike my eye specifically) and I was afraid I was gonna be blind of one eye, but after a week or so it got back to normal. During those first days it was red as heck and it actually hurt to open and look at daylight.
I didn't go to a hospital or anything as I didn't want to wait hours and then be told just to put some ice and lay back or whatever.
Yes glasses expensive. My mum bought my last ones for me as a birthday present because I can't afford them. Toilet rolls. Gas and electric is silly no wonder so many people are ill. You struggle to keep warm. Breathing in cold air all the time is bad for your chest.
Wi-Fi! It’s part of our lives and yet so expensive. I’ve moved house and have a 2 week wait for sky to be connected, just so my daughter can do her ONLINE homework I’ve had to pay 02 £24 for 8GB bolt on
My mother's cat and my brother's cat have both had medical treatment recently and the costs have been ridiculous. I saw a video on youtube where someone had a pet treated in Poland and it was about a third of the price of in the UK, a huge difference. So I would definitely say vet bills in the UK. I'm certainly hoping my cat Conker remains healthy for as long as possible.
Free from food. I have allergies and my food is almost triple the price of non allergen things . But we have to buy them so they get away with selling them for those prices
Whenever I fill up the car with gasoline I feel my wallet shrinking and that kinda hurts. haha
For that reason I prefer LPG (pretty popular around Europe, but in America they don't have it because of "safety" concerns yeah right if people knew how cheap it is they'd want it too.
As far as I am concerned, everything in the supermarket is way over priced these days.
Birthday cards are so expensive now, I still buy them but £3.50 for a small card is a rip off.
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