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

[Condi]

HTP99 said:

Condi said:

jas xjr said:

Thankyou4calling said:

Condi said:

Takes the piss. 3 streets from the central station in Rome you can get 600ml of Peroni and a pizza in a sit down cafe for 10 euros. Makes Dominoes seem very expensive.

Realistically though you can't compare the prices in other countries and draw any conclusions though can you?

those prices do not sound like rome to me you sure it was not poland or somewhere ?
trick with places like rome is to search out places . when i went there many moons ago the tourist trade depended , it seemed , on people not being able to calculate correctly.this was in the days of the lira. an example of this was the price of a can of coke. it varied from approx. £4 to 50p

Um, fairly sure.

Awesome little Romanian cafe, as stereotypical as you get. Football on the TV, fills up at 10pm with the owners friends and family, rounds of bread and olives appear. Everyone leaves about 2am. The guy spoke no English, I spoke no Italian. Pointed and gesticulate. Definitely not only the tourist trail, but the best way to travel.

Sardinia this year in a pizza restaurant; three freshly made big pizzas, large local beer, half a bottle of wine and two Sprites, €25, they even gave us a couple of bottles of after dinner drinks; Lemoncella (sp?) and the local liqueur, both of which we were allowed to have as many shots of as we wanted.

Limoncello, yeah. Good food doesnt have to be expensive. Sounds like a cracking restaurant.

[irocfan]

Condi said:

Um, fairly sure.

Awesome little Romanian cafe, as stereotypical as you get. Football on the TV, fills up at 10pm with the owners friends and family, rounds of bread and olives appear. Everyone leaves about 2am. The guy spoke no English, I spoke no Italian. Pointed and gesticulate. Definitely not only the tourist trail, but the best way to travel.

Romanian? You were in Bucharest weren't you?

[Miocene]

Golf balls... Okay, I play with fairly cheap ones but you can pay over £3 each for some quite easily. Actually, most things to do with golf now I think about it.

[typer0612]

okgo said:

Have we said cocaine yet?

Only if it costs more than £50 a bag

[Adam B]

AndyNetwork said:

Newspapers

Very odd, bargain given the effort and professional journalists and editors behind the scene (I am not talking the daily star)

[rex]

The Vambo said:

rex said:

When I pointed out this was a ridiculous amount for a charger he informed me it's Berlin so is top quality.

I'm so shocked by that, it took my breath away.........

Edited by The Vambo on Sunday 26th October 17:42

Very good. Predictive text. As poster above pointed out. Belkin.

[RB Will]

andygo said:

On that basis coke at a pub, made from a concentrate,is more expensive than petrol. In fact, I'd guess its more expensive than rocket fuel.

• I realise that you are paying for the luxury of being served by a disinterested spotty oik in a grubby pub with threadbare seating.

A friend of mine who has run a few pubs told me it cost 9-10p for a pint of Coke from concentrate and it's normally sold for £2.50+ that's why places are happy to offer free refills as you have to drink about 26 pints before they are losing out lol.

Also the cinema popcorn one. I make my own at home for watching movies. 2 1kg bags of the corn was about £2.50. These are similar in size to a 1kg bag of sugar. 1 heaped spoon of the raw corn becomes enough to fill a salad bowl! It must cost the cinema. So when you pay £6 for the popcorn and drink in the cinema it's costing them about 20p + cup and bucket so must be 50p tops

[BlackST]

Anything to do with weddings.
I was quoted £4000 just to rent a room the other day. That is before food and drink and all the other bits.

[897sma]

BlackST said:

Anything to do with weddings.
I was quoted £4000 just to rent a room the other day. That is before food and drink and all the other bits.

Tel them its for a birthday or anniversary celebration and the price will be MUCH cheaper.

[Flip Martian]

HTP99 said:

Sorry my mistake, when I worked out both I wasn't taking into account the "standing charge" so my revised figures from 1st Jan 2014 up until today are:

Gas: £299.81 which is £1.00 per day.

Electric: £345.59 which is £1.16 per day.

A relative bargain if you ask me.

I live with the wife and 15 year old daughter in a 2 bed semi, the wife works part time, the daughter is in from 15:30, there is someone about all weekend and neither of them are alergic to putting the heating up way too high, chatting on the doorstep with the front door wide open for a great length of time or leaving windows open before the heating goes on.

When I get home though I am a nightmare for turning the heating down to an acceptable level and making sure windows and internal doors are shut.

They are very good about switching lights off though, it is amazing how many people leave lights on all evening in the hallway or landing or even rooms that aren't occupied; my dad for one.

Edited by HTP99 on Saturday 25th October 11:08

Fair enough, fella; that is indeed very cheap. I try and be careful too but not had bills that low in a long time!

[NAS]

g3org3y said:

irocfan said:

HTP99 said:

Anything to do with a wedding.

oh fk ME fkING RIGID YES!!!!!!!!!!! Getting married next year and the second any fking parasite hears the 'W' word it seems a licence to wallet rape them

Wedding planned 2016.

Next year

[HTP99]

NAS said:

g3org3y said:

irocfan said:

HTP99 said:

Anything to do with a wedding.

oh fk ME fkING RIGID YES!!!!!!!!!!! Getting married next year and the second any fking parasite hears the 'W' word it seems a licence to wallet rape them

Wedding planned 2016.

Next year

Apart from not liking being the centre of attention, another reason for a quiet wedding for us was the cost, we probably spent less than £1k and had a gfantastic time, my sister spent over £20k and is still paying it off now; 5 years later.

[menousername]

Bradgate said:

Coffee!

It amazes me how so many people are prepared to pay £2.50-£3 for a cup of coffee, several times a day, every day.

Buying 2 coffees per working day @ £2.50 each is £25 per week.
Or, £110 per month (22 working days).
Or, £1175 per year (47 working weeks).

Adds up, doesn't it?

my company has a 2 free coffee machines that put out fairly decent cappuccinos, hot chocolate, etc but my colleagues buy rounds at the canteen which I think has a Costa coffee deal as well as breakfast from the canteen and lunch from the local Eat, Itsu etc.

I would understand if the machines dished out dish water but apart from the tea that nobody drinks, the coffee is pretty good. The Costa stuff onsite has that bitter taste that I can only describe as the taste you get when you use those old fashioned filter coffee machines that keep the coffee warm. Would say the machines are better. No idea why anyone would physically walk by the machines and go buy inferior coffee.

In the 3 years I have been in the current role, using free coffee and brinking packed lunch - guess I am about 3k or 4k better off. In the 6 or 7 years I have been doing this - 7k or 8k. Just coffee and lunch. My current car cost 10k - so that was funded almost entirely by that decision.

Crazy

[irocfan]

HTP99 said:

NAS said:

g3org3y said:

irocfan said:

HTP99 said:

Anything to do with a wedding.

oh fk ME fkING RIGID YES!!!!!!!!!!! Getting married next year and the second any fking parasite hears the 'W' word it seems a licence to wallet rape them

Wedding planned 2016.

Next year

Apart from not liking being the centre of attention, another reason for a quiet wedding for us was the cost, we probably spent less than £1k and had a gfantastic time, my sister spent over £20k and is still paying it off now; 5 years later.

well we're on to the expensive stuff at the moment and I'm getting to realise some of stuff in itself isn't hugely expensive... it's the cumulation of everything.

reception - £500 to secure the room (wanted £500 to hire it so I just pointed out that we're likely to be spending at least £3,500/£4,000 on food/drink so the £500 did seem to be taking the piss somewhat - thankfully he agreed!)
photographer is way under what a London snapper would charge (even allowing for paying extra for her to come up to London!)
groom's car? Using my own car
bride's car? may use Mrs Irocfan's
covers and table flowers? Bugger that, buffet (given that the wedding takes place at 16.00 it does make sense for a buffet)

That being said it'll still end up costing a chunk

[Chris Type R]

Train travel.

I live 30 odd miles from London, but rarely need to travel in. Whenever I buy a ticket it's a bit of a shock. The annual price increases feel pretty steep.

Also, family outings. Things like London Aquarium, Madam Tussaud's etc.

[Flip Martian]

Something to be said for quiet weddings. We booked the registry office, took parents/step daughter along as witnesses, then went for lunch in a country pub. Didn't tell anyone until afterwards.

Mind you, it wasn't the first time for either of us. Total cost? Whatever the registry office and certificate cost, rings, lunch. All under 1k in total.

[irocfan]

Flip Martian said:

Something to be said for quiet weddings. We booked the registry office, took parents/step daughter along as witnesses, then went for lunch in a country pub. Didn't tell anyone until afterwards.

Mind you, it wasn't the first time for either of us. Total cost? Whatever the registry office and certificate cost, rings, lunch. All under 1k in total.

I am impressed with that! I suspect that most weddings could be quite cheap were it not for the expectation of a huge piss-up being thrown afterwards

[Flip Martian]

We both took the view that it was our day, not anyone else's. Then again we were both late 40s and had been married before. Perhaps that would have been different 20 years ago if it was our first.

[ecsrobin]

Chris Type R said:

Also, family outings. Things like London Aquarium, Madam Tussaud's etc.

Agreed and trips to the theatre aren't cheap (although can understand why with such a huge production team)

But theme parks these days charge a bomb and now they've all started charging for car parking??? That really annoys me for the vast majority of them it's not like your going to get there any other way and it's often nothing more than a gravel car park.

[deanogtv]

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