How much? The price of what stuff surprises you?

callgirl don’t know if you have one nearby, but Morrison’s have 30 Birds Eye cod fishfingers for £6.
A bit better, but not much.

No Puzzler61, our nearest Morrisons is 16 miles away, and I don`t drive. What is annoying is that the same size pack with omega oil costs £4.90, but we hate the taste of omega oil.

Food in general. Every week when we visit the supermarket, the cost creeps up and up! I commented to one of the staff recently and she agreed adding that management think the public are stupid and won't notice a couple of pence here and there! Bloody nerve!

The cost of car parts is astronomical plus labour charges if you continue to use the main dealer! A recent bump (my fault - reversed into my wall!) resulted in needing a rear light cluster - new £600, but bodyshop easily got me one for £250 - car looks as good as new.

Noticed the price of petrol and diesel is rising too but we all know that’s just a ripoff at the best of times.

Has anyone actually had a printer damaged in this way?

Yes, me, rubysong. It ground to a horrible screeching halt and I found the compatible black toner had leaked everywhere. Tesco refunded the price of the cartridge, but I thought I’d have to get a new printer. They’re dirt cheap, but I absolutely hate waste and throwing things to landfill, so took it apart and gave it a thorough deep clean, following a YouTube video. Very messy, but it worked!

I have just been looking at Jo Malone scented candles for a gift. £65!!!,! I know you’re paying for the name, but, come on.

I’ll stick with Aldi at £3.99 for myself, and buy a bottle for the gift.

I have just seen the competition!

It’s £9.15 for a prescription in England these days . Extortionate and way beyond the reach of many.

As Elegran said upthread Printers are sold cheap and they recoup the money from the inks . I buy a lot of ink and never buy the branded names .

The cost of fish fingers and a box of cereal , just crazy . As my son would say “they’re having our pants down”

I am constantly appalled at the cost of nearly everything ??‍♀️but especially any work on the car, garage bills are astronomical and the smaller the part the higher the bill?

Cath Kidston’s new carrier bags popped up on my Facebook feed. Made from a very attractive reinforced paper. £18!!

Of course I’m now quoting my frugal relative. ’Ow much? I could make that for next to nowt!-

If I hadn’t already got a surfeit of bags, I might even do that.

Dh bought a cordless hedge trimmer for £48 only to find it didn`t come with the charger,when he went to buy the charger the cost was over £90.
Suffice as to say he returned the trimmer.

Daddima

I have just been looking at Jo Malone scented candles for a gift. £65!!!,! I know you’re paying for the name, but, come on.

I’ll stick with Aldi at £3.99 for myself, and buy a bottle for the gift.

It's not even Jo Malone these days, she was bought out by Estee Lauder.

We had to have one new tap fitted and we both thought 'Ow much'?

TV's Our first flat screen TV cost over £7,000 ,now I see bigger ones advertised on TV for a few hundred .Mobile phones though are still extortionate,we had our first "car phone" in the early 80's and it cost a lot.My GC all have I-phones and it 's scary how much money is spent on them ,our 9 year old GD had her Dads old one passed on to her recently and was quite miffed she didn;t get the new model the same as her older siblings .
I dont have a mobile now I got rid of it a couple of years ago and never regretted it

Everything seems to be going up in the supermarket, each week I notice something else has gone up.
Re postage stamps, the very nice woman at our village PO told me not to bother getting 1st class as 2nd and 1st are processed the same these days.

Do you manage ok without a mobile paddyanne?

Just curious, as I only have a really old one, DH and I ‘share’ his I phone, works well for us, but I wouldn’t have thought you would be without one, don’t know why I think that!

The price for prescriptions - is that per item or per prescription?
Here in France some of the prescription cost is paid for by the health service and the rest by a top up insurance. You receive statements every few months showing how much everything costs. I had one arrive today and each prescription I have had cost almost €100 - that is an average monthly cost - Blood pressure, a low dose heart meds (after effect of sepsis) - Oméprazle and a new type blood thinner. All things such as scans etc are costed too. Interesting to see the prices the health service pays.
On normal shopping I find cauliflowers and melons are expensive this year. - one type of melon is almost four times the price it was last year!

The price of Lurpak butter. I will only buy it when it’s on offer. Some or other of the supermarkets always has it on ‘offer’ so I just buy 2 then and freeze one. My husband likes Kitkats but I refuse to pay a non-offer price and he just has to wait until they are on offer. Same applies to soft drinks

HI, Spangler,

Prescriptions can be a rip off. As you say, nowadays they are over £8, but when your doctor prescribes your treatment you are not given a choice, you have to pay the prescription charge. By choice I mean paying over the counter for the same treatment.

If you can purchase something over the counter for less than the prescription, what's stopping you just purchasing it?

Of course we have a choice.

Most GPs and chemists will point out if something is cheaper to purchase OTC as well

But just because you have a prescription does not mean you have to use it

I am having roof repairs done. You should see the price of lead. I might nip down to the Church roof tonight.

The price for prescriptions - is that per item or per prescription?

It’s £9.15 per item Welshwife and I know there are people who ask the pharmacy which item is the most important . Shocking .

The price of branded cereals, unless on offer, is one grocery item that I'm surprised by.

DH came home with 8 pairs of M&S underpants and a receipt for £36 ?

I never complain about the cost of fish. I would not be out in the middle of the Atlantic in a winter storm in a tiny boat just to bring a catch in. I am just grateful someone goes and catches it for me.

Gaviscon advance £9 pounds plus, I now get it Free on my prescription as over 60.

How do you manage that Jaxjacky? I have psoriasis, and for years have had shampoo for it on prescription. However, I`ve been informed that as it`s available over the counter I have to buy it from now on, at over £7 a bottle. I`m 77.