What’s something that is a total rip-off, but people keep buying it anyway?

Same! So much better and the printouts can be used in crafting since they aren't water-soluble.

My wife's a teacher, she buys toner once a year. Way better than the $500 she was spending on ink per year.

Same. It just fu$\*#&%ing works immediately every time I turn it on. No calibrating, no complaining about ink, no dried out ink, replacing ink, etc.... No idea how long the trial toner is supposed to last, but I'm at like 2 years on the thing I think since I don't print much.

This. I have one too. You can see the ink measurement any time. Even the Epson refills are not that expensive.

I got my parents to ditch their terrible Epson inkjet maybe a decade ago because I was doing phone support 2-3 times a month for that godforsaken device. I got them a brother laser printer that was on sale. In the 10 years I have 2 calls because the wifi printing wasn’t working, and both times it was because the laptop or iPad had gotten an OS update that for some reason reset the default printer. It was 6 years before they needed a second black cartridge instead of replacing the inkjet ones every 2-3 months (why they seem to use ink “cleaning the nozzle” every time you turn it on seems like scam to use more ink). Brother all the way.

Jesus and I heard England was expensive compared to America

My local coffee shop roasts their own and if you pay $30 for a branded mug it’s free drip coffee every day. I’ve gone basically every work day for almost 2 years. It’s way cheaper than buying and brewing at home. And every free coffee shrinks the cost. I’m like a nickel a cup at this point and it will only get cheaper.

It’s not about the coffee itself for me. It’s about feeling like I have something in my life that’s not just sheer drudgery.

People don't go to Starbucks to drink coffee, they go there to drink milkshakes that saw a coffee bean walk past once

Honestly, im pretty particular with my coffee, and I always prefer my own coffee to cafe stuff. Same with steak. It's really hard for me to find a steak better than my stepdads. Just never quite there.

Unless I am getting it because I am not home I generally get something I can't make at home easily

"I am poor" "Have you tried gambling?" Solid

It's really not worth it because the odds are so low. I still buy them occasionally, because when I buy a l****** ticket because when I'm daydreaming about what I would do if I won the l****** it feels more real if I have an actual ticket.

>If you don't play, odds of winning are zero. The odds of losing and wasting $5 are also zero.

Title insurance actually saved me a bunch of money. 6 months after I bought the place, some law firm from another city sent a letter saying their client has a lien/claim to part of the building. There was some weird transactions that were poorly recorded 40 years ago. I sent it to my realtor and a lawyer and the initial reaction was no one was sure if the claim was valid or not. Wasn’t clear. Realtor sent it to the title insurance company on my behalf and they called me and said I’m not liable regardless and they’ll handle it from there. Like a month later I got a letter saying they settled and the other person got paid $12000.

.99 at Trader Joe's.

The same way Tiger Woods does. Wait...

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A lot of hotel bars are aware that many of the people buying drinks are doing it on a business account. The only time I drink in a hotel bar is on work trips.

We have a tankless reverse osmosis system and while it cost some $300 it ends up saving on the cost of bottled water even with the replacement filters.

Shelving, shirts, even PC components. Unless the different color also comes with additional functionality, the different pricing is very arbitrary. White PC components tend to be more expensive than black when they are otherwise the same exact item. I've seen shelves with different prices. It'd be like 50 bucks for a normal wood finish and like 75 bucks for blue. Same materials used, PCB, but the finish is just a different color. No additional features to them.

On average, you pay more for extended warrenties that you get back. If you can afford to replace it if it breaks, it will usually be better not to take an extended warrenty. But if you need something and cannot afford replacing it if it breaks, insurance or extended warranty may be worth it.

Cash for Clunkers kinda screwed up the used car market for a while, too, since all those qualifying cars had to be destroyed, not resold. Over half a million cars instantly removed from the used car market in a single year.