This may sound strange since it’s also the most frequent answer in the “What the HECK prices” thread, but, cables.
Example: 6’ HDMI cables for 24 cents!!
You can’t even buy a piece of gum for that cheap!
8" clay flower pots for a buck at the 99¢ or Less store. How can they even ship them for that cheap?
I got my auto registration renewal some time before I actually needed it and then a week or so before the old one expired I went to get the new one and I couldn’t find it. Not anywhere.
I tore apart everything in my office and couldn’t find it. I went through all the junk mail destined for the shredder and I couldn’t find it. I cleaned the apartment completely and thoroughly, thinking I would stumble on it. I didn’t.
So I went on-line to see if I could get it replaced and it was the first transaction listed. The cost of the replacement documents…$3.
I shouldn’t have even bothered looking.
Last semester I got a previous edition of my one textbook for $18 (I think? It might have been less) on Amazon. I think that included shipping.
I agree. Here in the US even when it’s sky high we still get a pretty decent price. My mind reels when I see some dorkus on the news griping about how he has to pay $2.75 a gallon (or whatever the going rate is) that might last him a few days while he’s holding a $5 cup of Starbucks that’s going to last him all of 15 minutes. THINK MAN!
Ditto on the stamps, too. One of the best deals goin’. My only gripe is instead of the USPS being namby-pamby and inching the cost of postage up a few cents every so often because they’re afraid we’ll be super mad just do it for more money less often. I have like nine million stamps of all different denominations I keep trying to use up: “ok 39+2+1+1+1…42+2…and a postcard with an old 27+…what is a postcard now?!?”
Seriously. They should just bump the price up to 75 cents. No skin off my nose. Maybe it would cut back on all the junk mail I get.
Shit, make it a dollar if they need to. Then I could remember how much postage is.
Just looked this up. Oh my word! All these years I’ve been a fool for turmeric. A fool, sir!
Prompted by this, I’ve now had a look for jars to store all my new bulk spices - £1.98 for a half-gallon pickle jar! Preserving jars from one pound ninety-five! Have you any idea how much I’ve spent on preserving jars in Tesco? I could be on a yacht in Monaco doing coke off P Diddy right now.
It probably doesn’t count, but pricing in charity shops always cracks me up, being as they’re staffed entirely by otherworldly old ladies who think “a pound” is some fantastical sum. Shoes? A pound. Trousers? A pound. Complete works of Shakespeare? A pound. Vintage Pierre Cardin crocodile clutch? Oh, fifty pee dear, it’s old.
Can I hire you to write all my posts for me? Please? I don’t care what thread it falls under, somewhere between “wow that’s cheap” and “omg, the prices!” would be nice.
Why the hell wasn’t I born English?
Compliments are insanely cheap.
I was just at lunch with my ex-mother-in-law and the waitress was kind of a smart-ass. I called the manager over and told him to hold on to that waitress. I explained that as a smart-ass myself, I know how easily they generate complaints, so I wanted to make sure he knew that some people appreciate it and that she was doing a great job.
Made two people happy. Cost: $0.
I’ve been buying music at Amazon.com using their MP3 download service. Less than $10 for an entire album, with a very high bitrate.
I haven’t bought a CD in years, but last I checked they were $12-15, plus sales tax. And you have to go to the store to get them or pay shipping. Then I’d just bring them home and rip them to my computer, probably at a lower bitrate.
You can also get single songs for 89 or 99 cents.
Fantastic deal, I says.
A couple of years ago (03 or 04), I got a speeding ticket in Ft. Riley, KS.
It cost me $33. 
I got one 2 years ago in IL… $125. :mad:
My partner and I are going to Europe for 9 days for his 40th birthday. We spent $60 each for round trip and non-stop tickets as we cashed in our frequent flier miles.
The other huge money saver I found is cleaning. In the past two months, I’ve cleaned the front porch and completely enema’d the garage. I’ve started on the laundry room/storage room now. There’s something completely satisfying about spending some time and a couple bucks on garbage bags and finding new space where junk previously was.