The price of stuff ...

[Terminator X]

We all moan about how much things cost today however I just opened an old CD only for the receipt to fall out, £12.49 for an album back in July 1991!

TX.

[caelite]

Wait, people used to PAY for music? Man the past was wierd.

[trickywoo]

I remember a blank 90 minute VHS tape being £10, and that was when they were cheap having come down from £50.

[Wacky Racer]

My first VHS Ferguson video recorder was £575 in 1975.

Probably around £2500 today.

Asda were selling new ones a few years back for £40.00

[imdeman87]

Conversely, we bought a 3 bed detached house in 1991 for £23k.

[Allanv]

My first HDD in 1989 for 20MB was £500 ish

My house a 3 bed semi was £55k in 1997

[LarJammer]

A cant comprehend how 75ml of toothpaste can cost £3.50. Thats over £45 per litre! For fecking toothpaste!

[MitchT]

I think the point is that we moan because essentials have rocketed in price. Discretionary purchases used to be relatively expensive compared with today's prices, but you could refrain from buying those. You can't refrain from purchasing food and shelter.

[MX5_Nuts]

LarJammer said:

A cant comprehend how 75ml of toothpaste can cost £3.50. Thats over £45 per litre! For fecking toothpaste!

This!! Really fks me off and they make TONS of the stuff at a time. I only buy it when on offer but still £2.50-£3 a time.

[WestyCarl]

LarJammer said:

A cant comprehend how 75ml of toothpaste can cost £3.50. Thats over £45 per litre! For fecking toothpaste!

Bottled water is what gets me. It's really free, but they manage to charge up to twice the cost of petrol which gets mined from the center of the earth, transported to a refinery, processed, transported to a garage and then dispensed (at the same place they sell the "free" water!!!). Madness

[98elise]

Wacky Racer said:

My first VHS Ferguson video recorder was £575 in 1975.

Probably around £2500 today.

Asda were selling new ones a few years back for £40.00

I remember buying a cheap one at £299 in the 80's because I could not see them getting any cheaper!

[Condi]

MitchT said:

I think the point is that we moan because essentials have rocketed in price. Discretionary purchases used to be relatively expensive compared with today's prices, but you could refrain from buying those. You can't refrain from purchasing food and shelter.

Have they? Food, fuel, etc seem to be cheap. Cheaper than 4 or 5 years ago anyway.


Our first computer, in about 1998, cost £2k. In today's money that is £3180. A reasonable top/mid range computer today would set you back less than 25% of that.

[98elise]

WestyCarl said:

LarJammer said:

A cant comprehend how 75ml of toothpaste can cost £3.50. Thats over £45 per litre! For fecking toothpaste!

Bottled water is what gets me. It's really free, but they manage to charge up to twice the cost of petrol which gets mined from the center of the earth, transported to a refinery, processed, transported to a garage and then dispensed (at the same place they sell the "free" water!!!). Madness

Agreed. If petrol fell out of the sky, or was on tap in your house for pennies, then petrol stations would go out of business overnight.

[Goaty Bill 2]

WestyCarl said:

LarJammer said:

A cant comprehend how 75ml of toothpaste can cost £3.50. Thats over £45 per litre! For fecking toothpaste!

Bottled water is what gets me. It's really free, but they manage to charge up to twice the cost of petrol which gets mined from the center of the earth, transported to a refinery, processed, transported to a garage and then dispensed (at the same place they sell the "free" water!!!). Madness

Not to forget, something in the order of 60-70% of the price of petrol in the UK is tax (duty plus VAT).
The water isn't taxed at point of sale at all.

It still amazes me that people will buy bottled water.
I just can't get past knowing how badly I would be being skinned if I were to buy it.

I admit that I bought a bottle of Perrier once, back in the 70s, just to see what the fuss was about.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

LarJammer said:

A cant comprehend how 75ml of toothpaste can cost £3.50. Thats over £45 per litre! For fecking toothpaste!

Most well know brands of toothpaste can be bought in Poundland, and that's 125ml tubes. Stop buying your toothpaste in Harrods.

My grandparents bought me a pocket calculator when I started secondary skool in 1974, and it cost £125. It didn't even have a square root button, just the basic functions. You can get a really good scientific one today for well under a fiver.

Edited by TwigtheWonderkid on Sunday 26th February 19:46

Edited by TwigtheWonderkid on Sunday 26th February 19:46

[LivingTheDream]

Goaty Bill 2 said:

WestyCarl said:

LarJammer said:

A cant comprehend how 75ml of toothpaste can cost £3.50. Thats over £45 per litre! For fecking toothpaste!

Bottled water is what gets me. It's really free, but they manage to charge up to twice the cost of petrol which gets mined from the center of the earth, transported to a refinery, processed, transported to a garage and then dispensed (at the same place they sell the "free" water!!!). Madness

Not to forget, something in the order of 60-70% of the price of petrol in the UK is tax (duty plus VAT).
The water isn't taxed at point of sale at all.

It still amazes me that people will buy bottled water.
I just can't get past knowing how badly I would be being skinned if I were to buy it.

I admit that I bought a bottle of Perrier once, back in the 70s, just to see what the fuss was about.

Well - I guess it depends what water you mean, fizzy is fizzy so I guess people like that.

But, we buy bottled water in bulk for the home. 6-8 2 litre bottles a week I guess, costs about £2 a week.

Our tap water is awful! Even with various de hardening things in place, we will eventually get a water softener which, I hope, will help.

We have a Brita water filter but it's still awful. Even water from this causes our kettle to scale up.

The only thing drinkable is bottled and therefore, bottled water is worth the small cost.

[StuTheGrouch]

Goaty Bill 2 said:

Not to forget, something in the order of 60-70% of the price of petrol in the UK is tax (duty plus VAT).
The water isn't taxed at point of sale at all.

It still amazes me that people will buy bottled water.
I just can't get past knowing how badly I would be being skinned if I were to buy it.

I admit that I bought a bottle of Perrier once, back in the 70s, just to see what the fuss was about.

I drink between 2 and 4 litres of sparkling water each day. San Pellegrino is my water of choice.

[milu]

I'm pretty sure food isn't cheaper than it was 4-5 yrs ago. It's either smaller for same money or more expensive.
2 bags worth is £50 I find.

[crankedup]

Terminator X said:

We all moan about how much things cost today however I just opened an old CD only for the receipt to fall out, £12.49 for an album back in July 1991!

TX.

No wonder bono et al are multi multi millionaires.

[eldar]

LivingTheDream said:

Our tap water is awful! Even with various de hardening things in place, we will eventually get a water softener which, I hope, will help.

It won't. You'll still need to drink the unsoftened.