What Products Have Priced Themselves Right Out Of Your Shopping Cart?

I very rarely buy prepared food. When one frozen meal is almost $10, that’s just ridiculous. I spend more money on dog and cat food than on my own. I try to cook almost everything from scratch and I freeze a lot of stuff so it lasts longer.
 
Twostep said:
It takes minutes to put a pot of stock on the stove. Freeze it in portions.
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When I was a kid which seems like 100 years ago one of our friends grandmother lived with them and she would make matzah ball soap from scratch and the chicken broth from scratch to this day I remember how rich and delicious that soup was .


Edit- I posted this in wrong place but have no idea how to delete it .
 

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This is priced more than I want to pay for transportation.

The Mercedes-Maybach 6
Drivers will have two options to choose from, each with a different starting price. Here are the entry prices for both Mercedes-Maybach trims: 2024 Mercedes-Maybach S-580 4MATIC®: $198,300 Starting MSRP* 2024 Mercedes-Maybach S-680 4MATIC®: $234,300 Starting MSRP*

I'm thinking more along the lines of a convertible like this.

isinwheel U1 Electric Bike for Adults 500W Motor, 20 mph Folding Ebike, 14" Adults Electric Bicycles with Smart Uphill, 28...isinwheel U1 Electric Bike for Adults 500W Motor, 20 mph Folding Ebike, 14" Adults Electric Bicycles with Smart Uphill, 280.8Wh Battery, 25 Miles PAS Range, Mini E Bikes for Adults and Teens.
Price, product page$299.99 List: $349.99
 
I haven't stopped buying any of my week to week purchases due to price increases, though I do notice the increases.

What I am struggling with right now is a new car. The last few years I have been telling myself my next car will be a luxury SUV, but I sure am hesitating. The pragmatic side of me is not letting me pull the trigger, though I want it, I earned it, feel I deserve it, but that just isn't good enough to justify excessive and unnecessary spending.

Also my hesitation is over more than just today's cost of that luxury SUV, it's the thought of tying up money that could be better used cushioning the impact of steadily rising cost of my daily life.
 
I went through something similar... mine was a new SUV.
I did end up pulling the trigger and bought one last November.
Still trying to learn all the tech, as my old SUV had none!
 
George1959 said:
OMG, as I read this I automatically stopped reading with "it's" and thought "... a girdle".

Wasn't there such a Playtex ad "I can't believe it's a girdle" several decades ago.

As I was a boy, at first I wondered why my mother needed quite some time getting ready for formal events. As I noticed this thing in the bathroom I knew the reason :ROFLMAO:

To be serious: I don't remember one single product my wife and me had to cut. We were always living frugally, hence nothing to cut. But we don't miss something.
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That's funny. :D I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Playtex product with that name. My girdle days are long gone! 😅 if there's nothing that you and your wife needed to cut that means you are super frugal. 🤑
 
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C50 said:
I haven't stopped buying any of my week to week purchases due to price increases, though I do notice the increases.

What I am struggling with right now is a new car. The last few years I have been telling myself my next car will be a luxury SUV, but I sure am hesitating. The pragmatic side of me is not letting me pull the trigger, though I want it, I earned it, feel I deserve it, but that just isn't good enough to justify excessive and unnecessary spending.

Also my hesitation is over more than just today's cost of that luxury SUV, it's the thought of tying up money that could be better used cushioning the impact of steadily rising cost of my daily life.
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I wrestle with things like that and am more likely to spend money on others than on myself.

I’ve been debating with myself on the need for a new vehicle or just limping along with my old hooptie until I have to give up driving.

Some morning I’ll probably wake up and say to hell with it YOLO! 🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗
 
wcwbf said:
EGGS! yesterday, XL (maybe jumbos?) were $7.98/doz at Shoprite here in NJ. gonna take a while to recover from this bird flu thing.
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Do you have a Lidl's, Aldi's or Amazon Fresh near you? I'm in northern N.J. and all those stores are fairly close. I'm told that all those stores have eggs for under $4 a dozen. In fact, last week I was surprised that my son was able to get a dozen organic, cage free eggs for me for $3.21 from Amazon Fresh, which I would have thought would be more expensive.
@NotCompSavvy
 
OneEyedDiva said:
That's funny. :D I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Playtex product with that name. My girdle days are long gone! 😅
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I remember that there was a playtex product line with that name. It even exists till today.
I Can't Believe It's A Girdle Shapewear

That the days of wearing girdles are long gone, seems being the case with most of the women nowadays.

My mother (born 1922) always wore girdles until her death in 1997. All of my paternal aunts did (born 1910, 1915, 1920, 1923), the wife of my maternal uncle (born 1924) did. Even my cousin's young wife who was a little chubby and after childbirth, in the beginning 1970s did. But she did obviously stop it being in her 60s.

Younger women (born 1960 and later) mostly nope. None of my girlfriends did wear one.

Interestingly enough I spotted the garter tabs of my aunt, who was born in 1923, in the late 1980s. Always being quite frank, I asked "but aunt Else, you're still wearing stockings instead of pantyhose?". She smiled and answered: "I don't like pantyhose, these are way too plebeian!" :ROFLMAO:
 
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