You do know you’re not supposed to drink it, right?
That’s pretty cheap. I pay between $20-$30 every month for water.
Not really – I pay $20 a year for water.
And, of course, there are places where you are not billed for water at all (though, of course, it’s paid for in taxes).
Speaking of big ol’ jugs, the fact that you can buy a box of wine for not much more than the equivalent amount of “premium” water is pretty amazing.
There are also places (like around here) where I pay between $30 and $50 per month for water. I get charged more for the service being available (in the form of “service charges”) than for what I actually use in both potable and reclaimed water. I would say that at least $20 of my monthly bill is in service charges alone.
Basic food: rice, grains, beans, etc. Surely there’s no time in history when the minimum cost of feeding a person was anything like as low as it is now.
And fresh veggies. Sure, what you find in the supermarket in winter doesn’t match what the farm stand will sell you in-season. But to be able to buy decent tomatoes in December for $1.99/lb is remarkable - 100 years ago, you couldn’t have that for 100 times as much.
I am a single person household, though. My dad reports that his dual-person household is about double my bill.
Also, Reality Chuck and I live near the Great Lakes, so fresh water isn’t as hard to come by as it is in Florida.
So I will change my answer to “I can’t believe water is so cheap, for those of us living near large fresh water sources” 
Do you know what it takes to make a pineapple? That plant grows one (1) pineapple, and it takes it more than a year to do it. They have to be planted and harvested entirely by the human hand. They are spiky and protective garments need to be worn. Hot ones, in the tropics. Then they fly it from some paradise island to your local grocery store, and the whole thing costs you a couple bucks at the absolute most. Crazy! (I believe that means somebody is getting fucked up the ass in this chain of events.)
This is what I came in to post. All hail the U.S. mail!
Five-dollar crack whores.
I’m not sure I’d want even cheap foul.
I was going to post the mail system as well.
Not to take away from the USPS, but compare that to email…
Anybody who was around during, or before, the days when VCRs were first introduced has to be at least a little impressed at the wealth of cheap video entertainment available nowadays.
And I can imagine a person from a century or two ago being impressed by a ball-point pen of the sort you can buy for a dollar or two for a package of 10.
Hard-drive storage space. I can remember when my computer had less than half a gig, and that was plenty…
Ballpoint pens.
Complex yet very simple design, defect/failure rate extremely low, contains and controls dispensing of what can be a very messy substance, seem to last forever, everybody uses them, yet they extremely cheap (a dozen bics for $2).
That’s extremely cheap when you consider that, when Christmas lights were first sold to the public, at the beginning of the 20th century, it cost $12 for a strand of 12.
12 bucks was worth more than half an ounce of gold back then.
Yes, and isn’t “humus” soil/compost? What the hell is going on with the typical Saudi diet?? 
Yeah, but only if you drink it really, really cold.
It’s a trade-off. My SO takes long showers, but we don’t really water our lawn all that often. Maybe every other week in the winter, and more often in the summer.
Florida is one giant swamp, and our water supply is the underground aquifer and various lakes. I had to explain to a friend who’s a native of Phoenix what the “boil water” warning was the other week because something had gotten into a local city’s water supply.
I can’t believe how cheap 11 year-old Cambodian factory workers are! I used to be amazed how incredibly cheap socks and T-shirts, watches and DVD players were.
But then I went out and bought myself a stable full of third-world child labor! And not only do they make that stuff for me personally at 10% of the already dirt-cheap price it was before, but I also make extra cash renting them out as bed-warmers and mine-sweepers!
It’s also much cheaper than bottled water.