65 Things That Have Gotten Way Too Expensive

Current prices continue to stress out Americans, even as inflation eases from four-decade highs. In fact, 67% of the country's workers say the increasing cost of living is outpacing their salary growth, according to a survey from last month.

Reddit user GuyWhoStillHasNoName got interested in which products and services people have crossed out of their shopping lists, so they made a post on the platform, asking, "What is no longer worth it because of how expensive it has become?"

From live entertainment to various foods, here are the most popular answers they have received.

#1

*gestures broadly at everything*

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#2

Streaming services, we're back at cable like again.

Haven't worn a pirates hat in many years but I can smell the salty air.

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#3

Concerts! By the time all the extras and fees are applied they're out of reach.

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#4

Thrifting has become crazy expensive. All of the thrift stores I used to go to have increased prices. On top of that garage sales are crazy, My favorite is pulling up to garage sales and see the owners have just printed out random listing from ebay. "No Bob, I am not gonna pay $100 dollars for a microwave from 2010 because it sold for that on ebay 5 years ago".

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#5

Getting regular haircuts

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#6

How everything is now a subscription. Ok, I guess I don’t need it.

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#7

movies in the theater

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#8

Air BnB

All of the add-on fees usually drive the cost higher than an actual hotel stay in the same area.

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#9

I used to like dropping by Starbucks for a coffee but f**k the $6 lattes or whatever it is now

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#10

Eating out. Everything is f*****g $50 for two people AT A MINIMUM

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#11

most fast food

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#12

Honestly.. living in general.

#13

Health insurance. We pay about $12,000 year in premiums, and also have an HSA that we contribute about $8,000 a year to. We have a deductible of like $10,000 that we have to hit for the insurance to pickup most of the costs. So in a bad year we are out at least $20,000 for medical insurance. We have 2 kids, and are pretty healthy, but seem to hit this every year now.

#14

Cost of living/housing. We may as well just all f**k off at this point

#15

Boxed cereal. A box of Cheerios for $7+?? Get the f**k out of here with that nonsense. I'll buy the store brand for $2 that comes in a bag instead of a box, at least until that gets too expensive as well. I need to figure out something else to eat for breakfast that's not boxed cereal.

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#16

Junk food. $6 for a bag of Lays? I’ll eat some damn baby carrots and hummus for less. Can’t remember the last time I had a Coke either.

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#17

fixing things, which i used to love doing.

it's often much cheaper to just buy another one.

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#18

Brisket used to be really cheap because it has lots of sinew and connective tissue. Takes a long time cooking to break down and make tender.
Now bbq has taken off brisket has shot up in price

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#19

Buying a new car. Even the c**p entry level models with no options will run you near $30K. Who the hell is buying a $70K Ford F150 ?

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#20

Going out drinking

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#21

Disney trip

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#22

Ordering delivery.. used to be same price as ordering in person with a small fee and tip per item.

Now most places have signed with a "service", so they no longer do it themselves and now your have to go thru Door Dash or Uber Eats.. etc which add on additional fee's, increased prices from menu price and larger tips expected for what in most cases amounts to worst service then back when restaurant or pizza joint did their own delivery.

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#23

Footlong sweet onion teriyaki from Subway and normal drink was 14 dollars at Subway yesterday in Miami. I'm done with them forever.

#24

Rent is the big one- renting should be a decent deal for people who don't need or want to own a home yet. It's a fine deal as long as it's reasonably priced. But if it's eating 50% of your income, then it's just a financial burden that prevents you from saving $ and takes away the hope of owning a home. I have no issue with renting housing conceptually, but the way it's ended up, it just sucks for the most part. It's gotten genuinely unethical.

#25

At this point? Food... Im no criminal, but its getting to the point where I often wonder "If I just walk out the store with a full grocery cart, is anyone really gonna stop me?"

When food becomes too expensive, stealing it becomes a moral obligation. Making food so expensive that its unaffordable is the real immoral and criminal part of it.

#26

Going to live sporting events

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#27

It's wild how many of these answers are food related, that's so scary to me. Past a certain point, what do people eat? Even instant noodles have gone way up

#28

Airbnb. It’s now just as expensive as a hotel with several more downsides. You usually have to complete a list of chores before you leave and when you arrive someone walks through the property with you and goes through a list of rules so restrictive it shouldn’t be on the platform in the first place.

Staying in a hotel is so much more care free and depending on the type of trip, much more convenient.

#29

Streaming services as a whole like Netflix, Disney, hulu, even my Spotify went up in price and it's frankly tiring with these services. definitely dropping my Netflix and Hulu though for a vpn so i can finally sail the seas and use Plex for my media.

#30

Farmer's Markets.
Everything was like 1/4 what it'd cost at the store, grown closer, and by smaller local farms.
Then everything changed when it became trendy; now it's more expensive than stores and I question if it's even from local farms and not Costco.

#31

Children.

The cost of living is so high, and the job market is so volatile, that I wish I didn't have kids because the stress is insane.

I lost my job yesterday cos I work in the games industry and it is genuinely bleak and terrifying.

I love my kids but living in the UK is awful right now.

#32

most all chain restaraunts..way better to go to locally owned places

#33

I honestly don't know how to survive anymore. Everything is getting more and more expensive, yet no one is getting a raise. Something has to give.

#34

Travel. Hotels before Covid were bad but they weren’t awful. Now it’s $300 a night to go to some basic Courtyards in Canada. It’s cheaper to sleep in your car now.

I actually miss travel during Covid when hotels were under $100 for really nice rooms, even if you couldn’t get the whole package like pools, gyms, and restituants.

#35

Uh, literally everything. The greedflation is out of control. People are too stupid and every market is completely insane. It makes me want to just check out of this garbage psychopathic society.

#36

Going out to eat. I just make all of my own food, now. I look up recipes of the dishes I used to get at my favorite restaurants, and I learn how to make them at home (except for sushi, I just don't eat sushi anymore.) It's definitely less expensive, although the cost of food is still higher than it should be. We're definitely living in the Silent Depression, and it's due to Corporate Greed.

#37

Skiing

#38

Junk food. $6 a bag for Oreos? Passsss

$5 for 7 ounces of chips? That’s NOT EVEN A WHOLE POTATO!

It’s time to break up the 10 megacorps that control 95% of ~~what we eat~~ what lines our store shelves.

#39

Cable Television

#40

Very specific, but drumsticks. Early 2000’s you could get a name brand pair for $7ish, now many brands are $19

#41

Concerts.

I went to hundreds of concerts in my teens, 20's, and early 30's. The most I ever spent on a ticket, until recently, was $150 to go to Woodstock '99. I tried to get nosebleeds for Elton John's farewell tour last year and it was $250 to get in the building.

Live music is one of the greatest pleasures known to man and Ticketmaster/Live Nation ruined it. They own the distribution, management, venues, event planning, etc. Its a vertical integration monopoly.

#42

Vacations

#43

Controversial take, college. The return on investment, at least for me, just never seemed worth it even when I tried it 12 years ago. The time, the debt, the long-term impact (you have this degree forever for this specific thing), all of that seems like more baggage than NOT having any of it. The thing I went to school for? I got a job before finishing my courses, hated the industry, then dropped it all entirely, got a cubicle job, and run a business on the side for extra cash.


The things I'm interested in - creative pursuits, mostly - just seem like terrible majors, and the things that ARE worth it don't even help you anymore. I see all these people with degrees, long resumes, and they apply for 100 jobs and get no replies. My brother is like this, he is way more qualified than me in every regard and he struggles to find and keep work - meanwhile I have held down a really solid desk job for a good while and enjoy the lifestyle I have.


If I have to go back and learn anything it's gonna be a trade.

#44

It breaks my heart to say this as a Brit but going out to bars and pubs.
I’m 35 with kids so don’t go out as much these days but I went out in Manchester last week and each beer was costing me £6+
It’s no surprise pubs are closing and people are drinking more at home.
At this rate we’re going to end up like the Scandinavian country’s who drink at home till midnight and then hit the clubs when they’re already pissed and don’t need to buy more than 1 or 2 drinks.

#45

food delivery

#46

My husband and I are dual income, no kids. We make a comfortable salary and spend pretty freely. If you would have told me 2 years ago I would be passing by simple grocery products because of the price I would have been shocked. I was at the store yesterday and saw new Haagen Dazs ice cream cones I wanted to try. $8.99 for a pack of 4? Just can’t do it.

#47

This is gonna sound weird, but store brand butter.

Inflation hit and Kroger ramped up the price for its generic brand, but by doing so made it cost $2 less than Land o' Lakes.

Pre- inflation a $3 thing of Kroger butt looked more reasonable than the $5.50 or w/e for LoL, now it's like I use less butt anyway, might as well spend the extra couple bucks to directly support dairy farmers.

#48

Pizza. $18-22 average for a large cheese is insanity. Pizza is incredibly cheap to make. And $2-3 per topping for a small sprinkling. Making pizza dough is the easiest thing at home, tons of great recipes online for sauces, cheese, oven.

#49

Printer ink

#50

Relationships

#51

Steak as a weekly family meal. Pork is the new Steak.

#52

An iced latte. 7 dollars? A double ipa isn’t that much.

#53

Eating out. Super expensive and tip culture is out of control.

#54

Starbucks. Ridiculous nowadays especially in Canada. I bought an espresso machine and learned how to make their drinks (I prefer my versions more too!) and never looked back.

#55

Living

#56

Going to get your nails done

#57

Bowling

I’m looking at you Bowlero

#58

Owning a home

#59

Cars, for many people.

Although that question is relative because there are always people with more money than others.

#60

Soft drinks

#61

Doritos.

$6.99 USD WTF?

#62

Amazon prime. It use to be the go to for everything. Free 2 day shipping and good quality products for cheap. Now it's just s****y Chinese products with prime increasing their annual fees. Honestly, just not worth it anymore

#63

Chicken wings at the grocery store, at least near me. By weight they're more expensive than bone-in thighs, drumsticks, or quarters but less of the total weight is meat than the other cuts. Unless you really specifically need wings than another cut, I don't know why in the world anyone would buy them. They used to be dirt cheap and discarded as scrap.

#64

Doordash

#65

Beef jerky

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