Stuff that costs more than you think it should....

[can't remember]

OH bought me some Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille scent for Christmas. I really liked it. Whilst in John Lewis I decided to buy a top up. It's roughly £1.50 per milliliter!!!!!

Back to Paco Rabanne for me.

[carreauchompeur]

PurpleTurtle said:

A pint of 'Craft' IPA in a Camden Raaawk bar (Our Black Heart) the other night ... seven quid!

Not their uber-pretentious hard-to-get-hold-of bottled stuff, just a regular 5.8%(ish) IPA on draught.

Fortunately my mate was paying!

Jeeeeeeezus.

You can pay roughly the same if you double up halves, etc at a proper exciting beer pub but just for a pint. Ouch

[Nom de ploom]

Tc24 said:

HOGEPH said:

Shandy.

Half of it isn't bloody alcohol!

And on that note, wherever I go, ordering an orange juice and lemonade seems to translate to "please relieve me of the contents of my wallet"

i remember asking for a lager shandy once in a pub and the bar person was new and said she didn't know how much to charge me half a stella, half a lemonade her boss said, just charge the same for a pint of stella...imagine my reaction.

on a related note a drink at hotel du vin in harrogate a large glass of shiraz needed a £20 note granted I got change but wtf...when i complained the wine was freezing cold i was met with a shrug - this comes from a hotel that has a semellier for each restaurant.....wkers

[Plastic chicken]

Car parts.

[4737Carlin]

Nom de ploom said:

at hotel du vin in harrogate a large glass of shiraz needed a £20 note granted I got change but wtf

Huh? It needed a £20 note but you got change?
That's not really giving us a clue how much we're talking about, except that it was an amount under £20

[The Mad Monk]

opieoilman said:

Water in restaurants. I spent a weekend in NI a few months ago and due to my wife being pregnant, she was mainly drinking fizzy water. In one place, she had three smallish bottles and it came to nearly a tenner. I had a pint and a couple of glasses of wine and it worked out about a pound more. Bottling and adding some fizz to water doesn't in any way compare to the effort involved in growing fruit and producing wine/cider. Soft drinks are almost as stupidly priced as water, but at least there is a bit more to them than water and CO2.

Toilet roll is the other one, not the Value stuff, that is reasonably priced, but the branded ones. For what it's there for, over £2 is just silly for 4 rolls.

I understand that restaurants are required by law - is it different in NI? - to supply tap water free of charge.

Therefore I recommend that you drink tap water rather than fizzy bottled water.

[The Mad Monk]

DUMBO100 said:

I maybe in the minority in experiencing this but will share anyway, I got quoted for kilts and formal wear for my wedding. £900 each! The Grooms party will have to like the hired ones

Why do you want to wear a kilt at a wedding?

[The Mad Monk]

btsidi said:

Ikea solves that one - AA and AAA packs are £2 for 10

In Poundland they only cost, er, um.

Now where did I put that Poundland price list?

[The Mad Monk]

bazza white said:

Any bits for a boat, if it has the word marine in it its even worse.


English breakfast at Cardiff airport. £10 +£2.50 for a small coffee. When they say a slice of toast its a triangle slice a slice and not a lot else. Gatwick wetherspoons is the same price but its a bit nicer and you get a coffee.

It's MUCH cheaper in Wetherspoons!

[The Mad Monk]

lord trumpton said:

Mobile phones. The youngest plopped mine into the loo (within 2 weeks he has put the tv remote, my car keys, my wallet and one of his shoes down the damn loo) so after trying to dry it out I announced I'd go buy a new one. £500.00

Unreal. £500.00 for a smartphone.

Why do you let him put things down the lavatory?

[Oilchange]

Someone mentioned cinema tickets, I think a fair bit of work goes into making films so can live with that but how about the popcorn and drinks! I never pay for that crap, would rather smuggle stuff through in my pockets.

[toasty]

Electric toothbrush heads. £18 for 4 bits of plastic that probably cost a penny a piece to make???

[HTP99]

Electric shavers; you can pay well over £100 for one WTF!!

[irocfan]

Oilchange said:

Someone mentioned cinema tickets, I think a fair bit of work goes into making films so can live with that but how about the popcorn and drinks! I never pay for that crap, would rather smuggle stuff through in my pockets.

Brother in law's local cinema in Devon = £3ish... our's in Essex = £9.50

[groucho]

sjabrown said:

Expensive booze. Just unknowlingly finished a bottle of plonk that tasted not too bad. Was left for me by previous house owners. Google revealed it's £110+/bottle. I thought it was nice, perhaps worth spending a tenner on.

What was it?

[Targarama]

irocfan said:

Oilchange said:

Someone mentioned cinema tickets, I think a fair bit of work goes into making films so can live with that but how about the popcorn and drinks! I never pay for that crap, would rather smuggle stuff through in my pockets.

Brother in law's local cinema in Devon = £3ish... our's in Essex = £9.50

We smuggle too. I once paid £2.75 for 1 litre bottle of water at the cinema in the centre of Reading next to The Oracle (Vue?).

[Flip Martian]

4737Carlin said:

Nom de ploom said:

at hotel du vin in harrogate a large glass of shiraz needed a £20 note granted I got change but wtf

Huh? It needed a £20 note but you got change?
That's not really giving us a clue how much we're talking about, except that it was an amount under £20

...but over £10 I would guess?

[Honk]

Plastic chicken said:

Car parts.

Especially if "Lamborghini" is written on them.

[vikingaero]

Engine oil. It's rocketed in price. Anyone would think it comes from the same stuff as petrol.....

[Fun Bus]

The Mad Monk said:

DUMBO100 said:

I maybe in the minority in experiencing this but will share anyway, I got quoted for kilts and formal wear for my wedding. £900 each! The Grooms party will have to like the hired ones

Why do you want to wear a kilt at a wedding?

I'd assume he is Scottish.