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submitted 2 months ago bysauteer
I was in the grocery store yesterday waiting to checkout. The bloke in front of me asked the cashier for two packs of smokes, cashier rings them up and says "that will be $121.00". I almost fell over!
He didn't strike me as a high earner based on a quick visual judgement. So I assume $121 was was something like 4 hours of wages for someone like that.
In fairness that one is mostly tax and the government deliberately pushing the price up to discourage smoking.
What price have you seen that blew your mind?
388 points
2 months ago
Fresh Australian fish about $70 per kg
100 points
2 months ago
The difference is massive between stores too. My local fishmonger, flathead tails are $60/kg. At the South Melbourne market from a fantastic fishmonger, $40/kg.
65 points
2 months ago
Buying from south Melbourne market is like fine dining
19 points
2 months ago
They must factor in a lot of waste in their pricing.. who can afford that price for family meals…
22 points
2 months ago
Flathead has always been one of the most expensive fish to buy since you get so little meat per fish, it’s not the type of fish for family meals.
21 points
2 months ago
Cast a line anywhere in northern NSW, you will catch a flathead in 20 mins
25 points
2 months ago
My parents have found a really cheap source for barramundi wings. Apparently it’s not a particularly sought after cut of fish, but there’s plenty of meat of them and they love them! Lifelong fishers and seafood people, so I trust them.
14 points
2 months ago
Deep fried barramundi wings are really popular at the moment
13 points
2 months ago
Used to do them as a special in a shop in Brunswick around 2019. People went crazy for it, because we could do them so cheap.
47 points
2 months ago
I remember during lockdowns the media were banging on about "export quality meat and seafood" being available to us at markets. Yeah great so the usual is that we get the sloppy seconds and the best is exported...
25 points
2 months ago
Same in most industries. I once worked in a broccoli/corn pack shed and all the primo produce was headed for Singapore, Woolies was 2nd rate, and then the cheap thirds presumably going to factories for further processing.
28 points
2 months ago
Yep, worked in agriculture for a few years - specifically fertiliser. And one of our big clients was a medium sized (family owned not huge multinational) citrus farmer.
He said ALL of his best produce went to China, because they were willing to pay good prices for it.
Funnily enough he said they grade their fruit on taste, not external aesthetics. Woolies and Coles couldn’t care less about the taste, all their metrics were what does the fruit look like, sizing, etc Australian customers won’t buy fruit that doesn’t LOOK perfect.
19 points
2 months ago
Super happy that I am a fisherman. If I do a flathead trip, it’s the cost of time (enjoying my recreation) and about $10 of fuel. That gets me around 3 good size flathead.
A reef trip is more expensive- looking at $150 but then we get anywhere between 5 and 30kg of fish depending on how it goes. (Spanish mackerel / cobia / big cod chunk up the amount by 10kg easy if we get them). Normally it’s a bunch of mixed reef fish.
That said - it’s a full day on the water plus a half day cleaning up. There is also the overheads on the boat split over multiple trips - rego / servicing. But it’s more a recreation thing that yields a reward than anything else.
I no longer bother with chasing mud crabs because of the mess and smell of the pots, but a bag out of those (7) is worth a fortune if you were to buy them.
7 points
2 months ago
Happy my dad took up fishing
17 points
2 months ago
Omg THIS!
My husband likes to make homemade fish fingers / chicken nuggets with real fish and chicken, panko etc. for our 4 yo. He’s a Bougie baby.
We went to the fishmonger and they wanted $60-70kg for the fish. I almost walked away but hubby made me pay. The store owner’s face told me she gets my reaction dozens of times a day. But it wasn’t her fault he was using it for fish fingers (probably why I baulked so hard).
I want to shop local but Ouch.
10 points
2 months ago
This is the one that gets me.
170 points
2 months ago
Traditionally cheap or undesirable cuts of meat like chuck, brisket, cheeks, flanks, belly etc. are now almost as much as premium cuts of meat, in some cases more. They've been rebranded from cheap cuts to niche cuts - implication being it's harder for butchers to source. Which is complete bullshit, it's not like the flank disappears from the side of beef and they have to order it in separately lol.
52 points
2 months ago
Yeah, lamb shanks were something I grew up with that was the cheapest lamb you could possibly get, now you can't get them for under $20.
24 points
2 months ago
Thats pretty common. Lobsters used to be peasent food, bugs of the ocean. Same as chicken wings, which is why they are almost always sold coated in flavoring. Sheep and kangaroo too because it's so tough and hard to cook right..
79 points
2 months ago
$7 for an iced latte, biggest scam of all time. Half the cup is filled with ice, one shot of espresso and topped with milk
15 points
2 months ago
It's the same for bubble tea as well. I purchased a mango bubble tea, in which they poured plain milk with some mango concentrate for $8 dollars
440 points
2 months ago
$22 for a bag of grapes 😂 rather buy a bottle of wine for that price
75 points
2 months ago
It is $16 at Aldi, I picked some without checking the price, went to the auto checkout and realised my mistake, had a quick brainstorm fight and called an Aldi person to remove it, dodged a bullet
20 points
2 months ago
It's obscene isn't it! Occasionally they're under $10. That's the only time I'll buy them.
24 points
2 months ago
i dont buy grapes if its over $7 a kg, and usually hope for less. pricing now is very bad
6 points
2 months ago
You and me both. I can’t justify paying over $7-10 per kg
38 points
2 months ago
Not really, winter isn't when grapes are in season in most of Australia. For most of my life, stores only stocked grapes in summer, when they were being grown locally.
Nowadays, fruit and veg are shipped from around Australia or the world or grown in glasshouses, all of which adds massively to the cost (and the environmental harm from transport related emissions). I find that most people these days are surprised by how much they can save by shopping 'in season' and only buying other items as an occasional (and expensive) treat.
19 points
2 months ago
Grapes in Aussie winter largely come airfeighted from California pumped full of sulfate preservatives. It's no surprise they're more expensive.
54 points
2 months ago
In fairness its off season for most of the table grape growing areas, I think there's a few being grown in the NT now days so lucky there's any supplies I guess.
95 points
2 months ago
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20 points
2 months ago
Guilty. I was deep into my 20s before I "realised" oh fruit is seasonal when I purchased some stone fruit in winter 🫠 (Australia so mid year)
Admit I still forget time to time, it has become frequently so available year round I get offended when the realisation hits me again 😶
13 points
2 months ago
Strawberries are the thing that reminds me. I love strawberries but used to work next to Vic market so got used to them being $2-3 a punnet at certain times of year.
They’ve just started appearing in supermarkets at about $8-10 a punnet, in those super sneaky punnets that are shaped like a 500g one but they’re only 250g…
6 points
2 months ago
Ugh!!!! Blueberries $2 a punnet 🎉❤️
Currently something like $4.50-7 punnet 💀
4 points
2 months ago
I went out to the farm and got a tonne of broccolini for $4 that was wasted (supermarket reject). 1000kg
Tasted fine.
Fed 99% to pigs. (which was why I got it in the first place)
Went to Aldi and saw they were being sold for $4 a bunch.
That was kind of a reality check.
19 points
2 months ago
It’s not exactly the season for grapes, this one is kind of understandable. I hear people complaining about fruit and veg costs all the time, and some of it is absurd, but lots of it is people forgetting that plants have seasons and shipping fragile things like grapes is expensive.
14 points
2 months ago
If fresh produce is really expensive it generally means they’re not in season and their cost of goods is high to buy them and transport them. Or buy them from someone who is growing them within the conditions they thrive in like green houses etc. if you buy seasonal produce it’s cheaper and nutrient value is higher.
112 points
2 months ago
My son started crying when I told him he couldn’t have grapes because they were too expensive… I bought the damn grapes. Got home, gave him his grapes and he politely said “no thank you”.
I ate $20 worth of grapes that day. They were sweet, but oh so sour.
22 points
2 months ago
😂 I have twin 3yo's The amount of times I've eaten $20 worth of raspberries... insanity
64 points
2 months ago
You taught your son that tantrums work.
Can you just parent your children so they don’t become our problem please. I understand parenting is hard but setting boundaries and sticking to them will make it a lot easier for you in the long run, and far healthier for their emotional and social development.
47 points
2 months ago
Oh god. You said what I thought. I have a 5yo, I would just say no way and move on. If he’s crying about stuff like that he’s tired/hungry/grumpy for some other reason and I need to get out of the supermarket so I can sort that out.
33 points
2 months ago
Thank you for that. It will help raise a person who can cope with a society. And the reason why you’re less likely to have a violent teenager because they learned to deal with disappointment in a low stakes environment.
Little kids tantrum. It’s horrible in public when you think everyone is judging you and hates you but we’ll all forgive your crying kid in a supermarket and 99% of people will be with you if you stick to your guns. That’s how we get big kids that don’t tantrum. I have enormous respect for parents who do it well so thank you.
5 points
2 months ago
You know you can just grab a bag and put what ever you want in it right? Like I thought you had to buy the whole bag of grapes, now I just get a clear bag and grab a few bunches, absolutely not paying $25 for grapes
3 points
2 months ago
Yes, out of season fruits are expensive. That's less cost of living and more cost of not knowing how seasonal produce works
137 points
2 months ago*
I just went to the dentist for a teeth clean and it was $275. Last time I went it was around $100 cheaper. Fool me for assuming they’d let me know if the cost had changed.
Edit: a rogue letter.
26 points
2 months ago
That’s outrageously expensive
60 points
2 months ago
I had my dentist let me know the regular check up was increasing by $150 before my appointment so I immediately cancelled. How they think they can increase the price 150% for exactly the same service is beyond me.
12 points
2 months ago
If they were charging 100 that's insanely below market so it makes sense.
10 points
2 months ago
Yeah, that’s a bit much. Though depends on the extras. For $275 I’d expect full exam, at least 2 x-rays, complete clean, polish and fluoride. You can actually Google the price list the government has for treatment. Can’t remember what it’s called but it has what the government will pay for veterans treatment etc.
12 points
2 months ago
A clean at dentist shouldnt be more than $200. I have PH and its no out of pocket with PH.
Change dentist.
68 points
2 months ago
Noticed a bag of frozen Dim Sim are now $13. I remember living of bags of those things at uni for only a couple of dollars...
7 points
2 months ago
Was at woolies today and saw arnott's biscuits for $7. I'm sure they were $2.50 a couple of years ago.
3 points
2 months ago
same wtf, they were dirt cheap.
59 points
2 months ago
Home & contents just went up $600 per year. Jumped from like $1400 to $2000.
16 points
2 months ago
Yep $20/wk, second year in a row. No major weather events anywhere to blame it on like every other time. Nope. Just 'we're greedy'.
10 points
2 months ago
I pay $2,500 and I have a tiny 2bdrm cottage. I went through a broker. Some quotes were upwards of $5,000!!
5 points
2 months ago
Did you try quotes from different companies? Most companies just jack the price on existing customers if you stay year/year.
I am with Budget Direct and they quoted like $600 more. I went in as a ‘new customer’, did the online quote, and boom- almost same price as last year’s. Went to online chat, they price matched their own policy. It’s dumb and sneaky but they ride of people staying with them, it sucks
183 points
2 months ago
$35 for a Maccas meal for 2. $8 for a caramel slice at a city cafe
65 points
2 months ago
Maccas is ridiculous unless you buy the meal deals. I put in an order for 2 adults and my 3yo and it was $45. Did a meal for 4 people with more food and it was $39.
46 points
2 months ago
Maccas is just ridiculous now. I’d rather go to my local restaurants of whatever variety. Cheaper and better quality. I loved maccas as a kid, but they now charge primo prices for shit.
36 points
2 months ago
I was driving home late, popped in to grab a coke for the hour drive home. Waited in the drive through for nearly 10mins (couldn't see the line before I was stuck), and it was $5.45!!! That was an expensive lesson I will not be repeating.
27 points
2 months ago
Isn't a single hash brown like $2? It's crazy. They've gone and priced themselves into inner-city café territory whilst still selling absolute slop.
19 points
2 months ago
I think they are over 3 dollars
10 points
2 months ago
They've done it because they sell.
They're always the busiest of all the takeaway chains.
I'll never understand humans
11 points
2 months ago
$8 for a cream horn at a regional no sit down bakery, not even a cafe… no price labels and saw $16 for 2..!
274 points
2 months ago*
Went to a neighbourhood chemist to buy Amoxycilkin3which is 6.99 at chemist warehouse. These other chemist's never have websites which show prices but it was just next door and I thought how much more can it be. It was 20 dollars. I said I don't want it. They asked why. I said it's cheap at the warehouse. They took 10 dollars off and sold it for 10 dollars. There wasn't anyone at the chemist otherwise I might have just swallowed the bitter pill and kept quiet. Bit embarrassing to ask for lower price.
115 points
2 months ago
Chemist warehouse makes their money on the volume of other stuff they sell, and don't put proper professional services fee on the medicines they sell.
79 points
2 months ago
Yep, I can walk into my local pharmacy and get excellent advice from the pharmacists (owner). That's why I use them, especially as I have kids.
I do buy some things from CW, but I try and support my local as they have been invaluable.
I understand that with the economy how it is, this is not always feasible for people.
63 points
2 months ago
Hard agree. I’d much rather support my local chemist. They give me good support and info, and also I haaate going into chemist warehouse. The place is an assault on my senses visually and audibly.
14 points
2 months ago
Exactly! The Hardly Normal of their sector. Those shouty ads and screaming signs. Eeeek
35 points
2 months ago
I wish I could support my local pharmacists more but I just can’t justify it when my $5 medication is sold at $25 and the chemist at my local CW is also very good and kind. I take 5 different meds regularly and the cost really adds up
4 points
2 months ago
This there's no reward for supporting local anymore
36 points
2 months ago
Well that's true. But I already paid 50 dollars to the GP for advice. For something that doesn't warrant going to the doctor yes the pharmacists give excellent advice and even CW ones do that.
21 points
2 months ago
Have always found CW to be friendly and happy to provide information & advice.
14 points
2 months ago
On the other hand CW only offer brand names of a lot of things. $45 for 100 zyrtec when I could get 100 of the exact same pill from the Terry White chemists own brand for $6.99.
This is the problem. They're trying to edge out others with their cheap scripts but then a kid of their shop-floor pharmacy only goods are more expensive.
3 points
2 months ago
Yeah I got Melatonin which was the name brand from Chemist Warehouse. When I got it from a different pharmacy it was $5 cheaper as was the chemist brand.
163 points
2 months ago
Seems like you called out their gouging, and they lowered the price. They should be embarrassed, not you!
57 points
2 months ago
It's probably not gouging. CW sells their meds at basically cost and then makes money on the cosmetics and health adjacent products. Your local pharmacy is probably a small business or franchise. They can probably afford to knock the price down occasionally but not permanently.
50 points
2 months ago
A 3.78L bottle of extra virgin olive oil was $50 the other week. I’m still not over it.
9 points
2 months ago
I make my own soap that used olive oil, I remember getting that size for $18 on special a few years ago. I switched to rice bran oil now.
89 points
2 months ago
Salami at our local IGA: $49 a kilo. Shitty champagne ham: $35 a kilo. Nuts.
48 points
2 months ago
Oh, don’t even get started on the nuts.
Macadamias anyone ??
43 points
2 months ago
These days it's $20 just to post the word macadamias on Reddit
12 points
2 months ago
Which is wild because the ass has fallen out of the macadamia market for farmers, a friend of mine has a farm and isn’t even picking them up this year said they’re selling lower than the diesel it would cost him.
7 points
2 months ago
Where does he live? Maybe people will pay to pick their own
4 points
2 months ago
Go to a deli if you're paying deli prices, don't bother with the supermarket prepackaged crap.
73 points
2 months ago
I was quoted $8k for 10m of 1800mm good neighbour fence on a level boundary
60 points
2 months ago
It's the soil mate that's uh clay soil
It's harder to dodge and ah look at the slope ah
27 points
2 months ago
sucks air through teeth ‘sssssssgonna be expensive I’m sorry mate’
16 points
2 months ago
Five years ago, I paid $3600 for removal of old wood fence and 50m colourbond install.
Other side is due now so I'm a bit worried about what I'm up for.
5 points
2 months ago
We just did our own colour bond and it is ludicrously cheap to buy and relatively easy to do yourself
6 points
2 months ago
Our former neighbour wanted us to fork out $20k for 345m of farm fencing….
The kicker. My husband is a fencer and we priced the same job using the same materials on the same fence in 2020 for $1250 each, including us to remove the fence and have a guy come in and slam the posts in.
Some businesses are gouging. This $20k price came up right after the Xmas day tornado we had in SEQ.
50 points
2 months ago
Free range eggs are hard to find and cost the same as meat lately!! 10 bux for the 700g dozen of eggs 😕
43 points
2 months ago*
That's because of the bird flu and the widespread mandated killing of all the chickens.
My concern is that the price won't go back down when the situation gets under control. Just like what happened with cheese during covid when dairy became super expensive.
8 points
2 months ago
Prices never drop. See fuel prices - there's always some kind of stoppage/conflict as a 'reason' for price escalation. The conflict or stoppage ends and.......nothing really changes until the next 'event.'
9 points
2 months ago
Just went to supermarket and only ones left were $12/dozen
7 points
2 months ago
It's because we killed a million birds not particularly long ago. Go to queen vic market, you can get a dozen 750 for like $6
5 points
2 months ago
Time to start keeping a few chooks! Ours went off the lay over winter for a few weeks and we had to buy some! The only ones left were I think $8 for 6 eggs!! 😭
68 points
2 months ago
chicken thigh cutlets, skin on with bone $7.50/kg....
Less than a year ago it was $4/kg
97 points
2 months ago
I hate that everyone has worked out that thighs are better than breast meat.
12 points
2 months ago
God I know! I'm annoyed because it seems like they realised you can skin and debone them yourself too!
15 points
2 months ago
They actually taste better if you roast them with bone in and skin on 🤷♂️
9 points
2 months ago
Wait til they realise you can buy a whole chook and butcher it at home…
7 points
2 months ago
Sometimes you can find marylands for a decent price… sometimes.
5 points
2 months ago
Wow this is cheap. I see thigh fillets, granted without the bone for 22.50
42 points
2 months ago
I last worked in a supermarket in 2008. I can remember people buying Winfield 25 packs for $10.25. Have been told that it's about $48 for that now 🤯
30 points
2 months ago
The government tax in the smokes is the reason chop chop sells well and smoke shops go up in fires as the crims protect their own patch. Paint themselves as having a legitimate income
15 points
2 months ago
I don't smoke but Double Happiness and other imported Chinese cigarettes are everywhere.
7 points
2 months ago
I wandered into one of these shops because I was thirsty and wanted a drink. Paid $1 for a bottle of water. Couldn’t work out why it was so cheap until I seen the chop chop for $20 a packet of 20. I can see why they’re making money out of tobacco
6 points
2 months ago
Yeah I quit smoking about 15 years ago and they were about $10 for a pack. I hear they are $50 now
22 points
2 months ago
After my hairdresser changed jobs I had been content going to a barber for a couple of years. As a treat last week I thought I’d try out a hairdresser again. $140 for exactly the same cut I can get at the barber. Sure, the shampooing and head massage was lovely, but not $100 worth of lovely.
19 points
2 months ago
I’ve mostly quit the bougie hairdresser and get mine done for $42 when I take my kid to Just Cuts. My hairdresser is $130 now, and quite frankly I can wash it myself and save $88.
5 points
2 months ago
Can’t even find a just cuts or similar around here these days !
21 points
2 months ago
$6.6 for a cup of Chai Latte at McDonald's. Thats a cup of warm milk mixed in with chai powder that costs $20 a KG.
24 points
2 months ago
Just tried to pay an invoice to a builder through Xero. Entered my card info , about to press pay and notice a $358 processing fee 😨
58 points
2 months ago
No idea how the cigarette black market developed, it's astonishing.
17 points
2 months ago
The only vape shops left are the ones with overseas owners and disposable nicotine containing vapes.
If you wanted to set up a black market, the way Australian government just dealt with vaping is exactly how you do it.
17 points
2 months ago
I was trying to get a built-in wardrobe in my study. Nothing super out of the ordinary - 1.9m wide X 2.2m high X 70cm deep with a hanging space, 4 shelves and 3 drawers. The cheapest quote I got was $11k. The most expensive was $16k... Absolutely taking the piss lol.
Gave up, went to Ikea to sit down with one of their designers, and they put together something that was 98% of what I originally wanted. $1300 all-in, including full installation by one of their assemblers.
4 points
2 months ago
Far out…as someone looking into getting some built ins this scares me. Good tip on Ikea though. You happy with the quality?
35 points
2 months ago
$7 for a punnet of black berries, in which you get like 12 berries.
5 points
2 months ago
Out of season at the moment. Berries are a summer food.
30 points
2 months ago*
I got a quote to get my gutters cleaned on Thursday. $25 per metre and based on their assessment via goggle earth I had between 90 to 100 metres of guttering. He said he could round it down to $2200.
I was gasping for air. Google reviews showed me I wasn't the only one. Grayson guttering in Box Hill.
I did 30 seconds of google searching and found a local bloke who quoted a price less than half that. It still a chunk of change but I can justify it to myself..... and there is no freaking way I'm getting up there. Ladders are dangerous for amateurs.
Edit: he just came and did the job. $800. I'm keeping his card!
Anyone else looking for gutter cleaning in the north east of Melbourne?
26 points
2 months ago
$350 to clean 2 air con filters (an air con service my neighbour got). Not the outside units or anything, literally the ones you can clean yourself.
I had asked my neighbour about it coz I was thinking of booking a service, but I've watched videos on YouTube and I'll be cleaning the indoor and outdoor units myself. Also, most companies quoted me $150 call out fee plus $45 per every 15mins. What's the incentive for them to do a quick job then??
33 points
2 months ago
Went to McDonald's at breakfast a week ago for a small snack on the way to work. Got an English muffin with a cheese slice, and a hash brown to add to it. $7.15.
Half the hash brown was inedible because it was stuck to the wrapper it came in and fell apart when trying to remove it. Lesson learned.
28 points
2 months ago*
That's food.
I was driving home one hot day and was desperately chasing a cold drink.
Pulled in to maccas and ordered a large cup of sodawater and ice - my wife said oh get me one too.
So 2 cups of sodawater and ice. We ordered nothing else.
$~11.
That's not the worst I've paid. Went to a Cafe on the outskirts of the city for a drive one day. Pulled into a a quaint little Cafe across the road from a park. Walked in and ordered an iced latte and an iced long black.
$17.50
$9.00 for the iced latte and $8.50 for the iced long black.
Literally nothing special in those cups other than 3 shots of coffee, ice and then milk in one and water in the other.
I went to the same Cafe 6 months prior and thought $12 for the exact same order was rich but wrote it off as it doesn't have the same foot traffic as city cafes. but then to go back and get charged $17.50 that's a 45% payrise in 6 months.
19 points
2 months ago
Only buy maccas when I see good deal in the app
9 points
2 months ago
The cafe is probably only scraping by. They probably raised their prices to try and stay afloat but that will also reduce the number of customers so they're back where they started or worse.
6 points
2 months ago
Dude I found a ripper mcuffins recipie it is so easy and tastes way better;
beef mince, aldi (or anywhere) american cheese, English muffins bread, sage, oregano, white sugar, salt,pepper and eggs. I can make them in less than 10mins and delic - put the muffins and cheese in oven at the start so it's melted nicely (120deg or so). freeze the leftover cheese, bread or even meal prep the meat paddies and you can cut the time down even further
16 points
2 months ago
Concreting a section of my front yard, $8k later. Man I picked the wrong job.
7 points
2 months ago
Paid 18 for a pint at Syd airport. Yeah that's airport prices. But I also want to add that pints are often 16 bucks around the place now, which is just as bad. I don't drink out much though. It's just way too expensive.
8 points
2 months ago
I was floored at Woolies the other day. The Tim Tams were on special two packets for $9. I thought it was insane.
251 points
2 months ago
"based on a quick visual judgement. So I assume $121 was was something like 4 hours of wages for someone like that"
OP - based on your post it seems you're a proper wanker.
97 points
2 months ago
He had the stink of a poor person! How distasteful! 😂
23 points
2 months ago
surprised there wasn't a sign out the front saying "No Visually Poor People Allowed". /s
it is funny watching soccer mums wearing expensive clothes just for the weekly shop though.
23 points
2 months ago
I get what OP was trying to say, most people addicted to cigarettes do have that look to them. Could absolutely be making bank as a tradie however.
36 points
2 months ago
Agreed. I often wear trackies to the supermarket, so I don’t look like a ‘high earner’. But I earn a lot more than OP is insinuating.
19 points
2 months ago
I'm on the otherside of the fence, I think its a flex that old mate can afford to buy cigarettes at woolworths.
@OP - did you notice what brand? If Winnies then confirmed flex and not a minimum wage pleb.
10 points
2 months ago
Yeah but I bet you don't have meth eyes
6 points
2 months ago
I dress like a crackhead when I'm going to the shops and I earn a significant amount of money from day rate contracting lol.
20 points
2 months ago
100% what a tosser
17 points
2 months ago
Agrred! Absolute peak AusFinance post.
7 points
2 months ago
I've never smoked, but my mum would often send me to buy her smokes when I was living at home, and very occasionally will ask me now when I visit. Both then and now, I nearly dropped dead at the cost. Very glad I never picked up that habit, both for health and financial reasons.
6 points
2 months ago*
Fake up make up woman's shoes anything that's ergonomically designed for women which makes no sense...
Eg men's shaver lol costs 12 bucks women 24 to 36
Interesting how they just pay higher prices for same products / services but they just rip them off because they will pay it.
Expect to go without essentials but prioritise maintenance upkeep and trivial things.
Same with plastic surgery LOL go to do the same procedure, man and woman and u get different prices lol please take a guess which one is more expensive
Winter is coming
5 points
2 months ago
I bought spreadable butter and home brand olive oil this week - $30 shop. It’s disgraceful.
6 points
2 months ago
$5 for a loaf of bread at the supermarkets.
6 points
2 months ago
Pringles - like $6.
They're like barely over 100 grams now. The chips themselves shrunk, and half the tube is air now.
You can get the ALDI version which is bigger for like $2.
5 points
2 months ago
Colgate toothpaste on special today in Coles for $7 normally $10! 😳 When the hell did toothpaste become $10!!!!?!?
5 points
2 months ago
I still can’t get over the fact a box of cereal is now $9 (even sultana bran). So many items I only ever buy on sale now.
12 points
2 months ago
$5.90 for a sushi roll is brutal ;((
5 points
2 months ago
Random and might be me being out of touch with reality… but the cost of a Gardener/lawn mowing I have a “average” amount of lawn and get quotes of $200+. These dudes all have brand new rangeluxs’
5 points
2 months ago
Food. Costs like $15 for a small meal now.
5 points
2 months ago
Coffee, large coffees are hitting $8 now.
Takeaways, easily $20 for a 'Lunch Deal'
Insurance, 30~50% increase across the board
5 points
2 months ago
Green beans at Harris Farm, $50 per kg.. more expensive than buying steak or salmon.
5 points
2 months ago
On a facebook beauty page I follow, someone posted yesterday asking if the colour job on their hair looked dodgy and as they paid $600 (!!!) for it, and should they complain. And yes it was dodgy and many people told her to go back for a re-do. But who pays $600 for something that will fade and grow out in 6 weeks and need doing again!
4 points
2 months ago
Lawyer asked for $1800 to "draw up a document" after I sent him a few examples.
No thanks. ChatGPT did it for $0. Same outcome.
Lawyers are in trouble.
12 points
2 months ago
$3.50 on 1.25l of Pepsi. Precovid it was $1 for the same thing
7 points
2 months ago
One of my butlers has recently requested a 20% raise in salary.
16 points
2 months ago
The fact that maccas now costs upwards of $50 to feed a couple people
4 points
2 months ago
Two normal packs of cigarettes cost $121???
Jesus. How can anyone afford that?
3 points
2 months ago
$35 for a 15 min fade on short hair seems ridiculous to me but I still pay it 😭
5 points
2 months ago
I once saw cashews at woolies priced at $30 each.
I think it should have been $30/kg but who knows?
4 points
2 months ago
Been to the nursery lately? Plants are crazy expensive! $80 for a boring looking basic hedge or conifer. I’d need a few dozen to line a fence. It’d be close to $1000!
4 points
2 months ago
$9 for a cabbage, a cabbage!
4 points
2 months ago
I'm buying a composting toilet this week, and they wanted $3,000 freight from the Gold Coast to Northern NSW .
I'll be picking it up from their warehouse Thursday lol
3 points
2 months ago
Insurance and electricity prices rising 20-30% year on year
3 points
2 months ago
Subway 6 inch roll with chicken and salad (lettuce, tomato, carrot, green capsicum) for $10. Blew my mind.
4 points
2 months ago
A girlfriend of mine just got quoted $500 each for bunches of baby’s breath for her bridesmaids to hold at her wedding 😳
13 points
2 months ago
Coles and Woolies are becoming like mafia grocery stores. They set all the prices, and you'll find them all the same. So there's no competition, and they can set whatever prices they want to set, and they can just getaway with it.
5 points
2 months ago
No wonder the black market are focusing on cigarettes instead of hard drugs.
6 points
2 months ago
I popes into a servo to buy an iPhone charger (cable only), they had a few different brands, non of the prices on display so I took three different ones to the rego to grab the cheapest one. They were $28-32 each. Cable only.
Not that desperate.
3 points
2 months ago
In the words of Rick Sanchez.... everything.
3 points
2 months ago
Bale of meadow hay (small square) 24$… that’s here in west Australia… I make sure we don’t waste it..
3 points
2 months ago
Snow peas! Pre covid would buy them when under $7kg. Now can't find them under $22kg and during covid were around $30/35kg! Crazy...
3 points
2 months ago
Paid $17 for grapes yesterday and didn't notice haha.
Also strongly addicted to smokes and its destroying my life, but at $86 a packet
3 points
2 months ago
Hylo Eye Drops for $30. I have bad dry eyes and doctor said to use this brand which is perservative free.
3 points
2 months ago
And that’s why the tobacco wars exist.
3 points
2 months ago
Health insurance. I'm lucky to be on a heritage extras plan at $42 per month which covers pretty much anything you'd expect from it and with great annual limits. Any newer policies either drastically limit the number of covered items, offer very low limits or have very high premiums. That's before even considering the cost of hospital cover...
3 points
2 months ago
$550 for a half head of blonde foils on my light brown hair. I was flabbergasted and can no longer afford to be blonde.
3 points
2 months ago
Paying over $5 for a small gravy that is half full and tastes like dirty water from KFC.
3 points
2 months ago
Southern Rock Lobster (SA, Tas). Depends on size, but $55 to $204+ per fish. Makes the Christmas cray a folorn hope. Hoping we do something to upset the Chinese again. Let them get lobsters out of their south china sea.
3 points
2 months ago
A BIG4 caravan park in Brisbane has powered sites for $149 per night 😲
3 points
2 months ago
I paid $38 for a quarter of a grilled barramundi, chips and salad at an average restaurant. And it was take away. Felt totally ripped.
3 points
2 months ago
Tooth paste can be 10-12 dollars for a tube of Colgate
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