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Wastes of money.........that are best avoided

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You know. Madness and all that. Either at a personal level or a Governmental level. And if you pay for these then you are incurring a 'stupidity-tax'. Thus earning zero sympathy from the rest of us.

1. I once knew a young lady who didn't like the fast train from Victoria to Norwood Junction, at rush hour. Her solution, hop into a black cab. On her own. Well that didn't last long.

2. Owning a holiday mobile-home on a caravan park. The illusion of it being cheap. Management fees, administration costs, compulsory purchase of a new rig, ground rent.........it will break your heart.

3. Restaurants on the Costa Del Sol. Take a 2 quid supermarket soup, microwave it, and hey presto....charge a tenner. Dopey tourists are too hungover to even notice themselves being robbed blind.

4. A pint in the West End. The equivalent of large crate of booze at a Supermarket in Hungary.



what others ?
 
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ready meals from supermarkets...pretty photo on box ("this is what you could have had") followed by a garlic laden mean portion, hunt the tiny pieces of meat.
youve paid a fair percent for just the box and alluring photo.

tiny boxes, tins, cartons of spices & pastes that are a fraction of the price for a larger plain bag in most indian / pakistani mini markets.
 
Expensive watches. I own a very fine Tag Heuer that was a gift and cost just over £5k. It has to be wound and I have to manually change the date and adjust it when the clocks go forward or back.

I also own a Casio solar powered Edifice that cost £330. It keeps perfect time and it automatically adjusts with the dates and changes to winter and summer time. To be honest I prefer it.
 
Expensive watches. I own a very fine Tag Heuer that was a gift and cost just over £5k. It has to be wound and I have to manually change the date and adjust it when the clocks go forward or back.

I also own a Casio solar powered Edifice that cost £330. It keeps perfect time and it automatically adjusts with the dates and changes to winter and summer time. To be honest I prefer it.
they do tend to keep their value though POG.
wife bought me a TAG for my 40th, 25 years later its still like new (only wear it weekends due to my mucky job though)
Certainly agree with the battery & date etc point.
 
Expensive watches. I own a very fine Tag Heuer that was a gift and cost just over £5k.

I read an article a few days ago about status and it said that no watch however good it was cost more than £500 to make however the status conscious wouldn't buy it at that sort of price which is why they charge prices in the thousands or even tens of thousands in some cases
 
I read an article a few days ago about status and it said that no watch however good it was cost more than £500 to make however the status conscious wouldn't buy it at that sort of price which is why they charge prices in the thousands or even tens of thousands in some cases
I have an Omega watch which I paid about £400 for in the Eighties. It is a nice watch but today I think a new one would be about £5k which I don't have.

My main bug bear is the service costs. The last time I asked it was over £200 just to replace the battery and give it a quick clean. I expect the cost is probably closer to £400 now. To avoid the costs I just ask a jeweller to replace the battery which they do but will not take responsibility if it doesn't work. I haven't had Omega service it in 20 years at least so my Christmas present to myself will be to do that.

In hindsight I should have asked at the time about service costs.

Because it is expensive I rarely wear it, my go to watch is a Casio which cost about £15 and the battery never seems to run down.
 

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