Shoes. You don’t end up saving money and it’s not worth the pain. I tried for years back when I couldn’t afford a thing and concluded that there’s simply no such thing as cheap good shoes.
Exactly. I’m cheap but won’t buy cheap shoes. First they are a slip hazard that will cost you in pain and medical bills. Secondly, they don’t last for shit and are uncomfortable. Also, they make your feet smell bad.
My expensive shoes last so they end up being way cheaper.I wish there was any consistency or correlation in the shoes I buy and how long they last. I agree that generally higher price means better quality. But I decided to spend on some nicer hiking shoes from REI and they both have holes in them, while an $8 pair of business casual shoes I expected to be a throwaway have lasted years now
Damn right. My backpack is >25 years, my jacket is >40.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
Always an up vote for the Boots theory!
Any safety certified equipment tends to cost an a and a leg. Nearly monopoly controlled.
Irn-Bru. The store brands are passable and I would accept them if offered, but the real thing is much better.
Anything that you need to have working when you need it.
Yep. Protective equipment, safety related car parts, survival gear, anything where failure will have grave consequences.
Botox. I got paralyzed from the waist up. Everyone calls me Riverdance now.
Soy sauce, Kikkoman isn’t going to be beat by a store brand. Likewise with Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce.
Store brand Worcestershire sauce is even harder to pronounce
Kikkoman is some of the worst soy sauce I have ever had. Yeah store brand is a step down but that is a step into negative territory
Settle down there hipster. Most peoples’ taste buds werent ruined by having tasted 15 dollar an ounce artisan organic free range no cholesterol soy sauce made by a secretive order of Japanese monks using only the finest water from the fountain of youth. Realistically they’ve got 3 options: store brand, Kikkoman and whatever overpriced soy sauce brand their local store begrudgingly put on the shelves. Theyre not cheap enough to get the store brand but lets face it, in this economy, nobody wants to shell out a dollar an ounce for something theyre going to drizzle over instant rice.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting getting soy sauce made by someone with a handlebar mustache. Just that other brands tend to be way better than the Kikkoman you would find in a grocery store.
Lee Kum Kee for example is often in grocery stores and is way better for about the same price. Kimlan is pretty good. Sempio is way way better if you can find it, which shouldn’t be too hard if you live somewhere decent.
No need to attack them.
Love Lee Kum Kee Premium Soy Sauce and Sempio for standard use. I agree that they are so much better then Kikkoman imo
It’s usually pretty easy to find other better soy sauces at most Asian grocery stores around the same price as Kikkoman
I mean Lee Kum Kee isn’t some magic hipster brand but it’s vastly superior
Made the mistake of buying Kikkoman a few years ago when I couldn’t get my regular brand.
Amoy (dark) is way better. M&S was close though.
La Choy is where its at but i feel you
The prices have become insane, but I will never cheap out on toilet paper. This is a Charmin household gdi.
Also JIF peanut butter, and Hellmann’s mayo.
When it goes on sale at Costco, it’s just like Christmas
blasting shit from ass It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
get yourself a butt showerhead or a bidet
Paper towels. Nothing quite compares to bounty.
The quilted quicker picker-upperrrrr
Pop tarts. I’ve been burned by too many off brand toaster pastries to ever trust any other brand.
Q-Tips. Every alternative I’ve ever tried fucks it up somehow. too much cotton that it comes off, not enough and it’s scratchy, cardboard sticks that dissolve the second a single drop gets on them, or plastic ones that don’t hold onto the cotton (which is, as discussed, almost certainly already inadequate), and the weight and balance are always off too. Now, I ain’t trying to impact my earwax here (which is very annoying BTW), but nobody only cleans the outside with the Q-Tip.
The plastic ones are super flimsy. So annoying.
They’ve been banned in europe for at least two years now, I only wish they did this with more plastic products. It’s easy to figure out alternatives for most of them
Mountain Dew. Fuck Culver’s and any other restaurants switching to Coke products
Chunky peanut butter - generic creamy seems to be fine, but I’ve never had a good store brand of chunky. They are always just slightly off somehow. Most often they’re too dry, but I’ve had some where it tasted like the peanuts were burnt.
Chicken… Very nasty, rubbery chicken meat when I bought the cheapest brand. Barely edible.
Cottage cheese. Store brand has a bunch of additives and odd things in it.
Additives and preservatives are usually my decision maker. Yuka app is pretty handy.
Dr. Pepper.
It’s the only thing I can think of that has tons of copy-cats but not one of those copy-cats comes even remotely close to replicating the original.
Fellow Dr Pepper enjoyer here! 😃 same here, it just has such a specific and indescribable taste and I’ve yet to drink anything that is even remotely close to the flavour of Dr Pepper
Did you know that Dr Pepper was once marketed to also be drunk hot - a bit like mulled wine? Search for “hot Dr Pepper” on YT and prepare to look at your drink in a whole new light.
Barbeque water
I still haven’t gotten over the loss of the original Mr Pibb flavor
Cream cheese. If it’s not Philadelphia, it just isn’t quite right. I’ve tried every other brand, and I’ve, so far, always been disappointed.
I’ve had good luck with Aldi
