What cheap purchases are significantly better or more satisfying than the expensive counterpart?
My example: I enjoy the far cheaper Totino’s Pizza and prefer it to the expensive brands.
Electric Hair clippers. I buy a 16-20 dollar set from Walmart once a year instead of getting a good pair and replacing the blade.
My grocery store sells a superior tasting fat free store brand saltine as compared to Nabisco. Their store brand counterpart to Cheerios however, is pure unadulterated squirrel shit.
You can buy really thin “liner” gloves for running at sports stores for anywhere from $15-$25 a pair. I buy the little cotton gloves that come 3 or more to a pack for less than $1 a pair at Target. They seem to do the same thing.
No-name spicy tomato clam juice, as opposed to Mott’s Clamato.
And right now everyone outside of Canada is going “what?”
I’ll have the Mountain Dew.
Stop and shop spinach and artichoke hummus. Mmmmm - esp. with Red Oval Farms, Stoned Wheat Thin crackers (you can leave them out for days without getting stale).
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Our local grocery offers the best baked goods at one half the price of fancy bakeries.
Which explains why all fancy bakeries that open in my town close soon after.
In Thai cinemas, the seats toward the back cost more. (It’s all assigned seating here.) But that puts you right in the midst of the unwashed masses, who like to chat about the movie and call their friends on the phones. We always sit WAY down front in the cheaper seats to get away from that. Ah, peace.
Man I used to live on those things. 2/$3.00, often on sale for a buck apiece.
I have a friend who prefers fake maple syrup over the real thing.
The cheap diaper wipes that come in bulk from Costco are better than any other diaper wipes I’ve ever tried, including expensive name-brand ones.
(Wow, I am so glad that I don’t actually have to buy diaper wipes anymore. 
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Is Clamato Canada-only? I’m from Michigan, but have lived for a year in Ontario, so I guess I just didn’t notice.
Heck, even Wikipedia says that the country of origin is the USA.
Giant (well, relatively speaking) plastic bags of spices from ethnic grocery stores instead of teeny-tiny McCormick’s bottles.
I don’t remember where I heard this and have no cite, but supposedly when Ralston-Purina sold the Chex brand to General Mills, they sold the name but kept the original formula. Ralston still makes store-brand “Chex” for a number of grocery chains, so if you buy the store brand that is actually closer to the original Chex than what you get if you buy brand-name Chex.
I have yet to buy a set of $15+ windshield wipers that have lasted more then a year or so. But I always get a few years out of the $7.00 blades.
Sadly, I keep buying the more expensive ones.
Good question. I know that the Bloody Caesar cocktail is way more popular in Canada than the U.S. I guess I assumed that the virgin drink would be the same. I’m unsure now!
Clamato is readily available all over the U.S.