Prices in vending machines have always been outrageous, that's nothing new! I don't buy from vending machines unless I am desperate (which is pretty well never). It would be more nutritious and cheaper to bring a snack from home, like fruit or homemade muffins.

My Lincoln. My beloved old TBird gave up the ghost after four hit and runs in three years. I bought this Lincoln. First time I've had car payments/full insurance payments for 20 years. Everyone oohs and awwwws over how nice it is, what a great deal I got on it. I hate it. It's a POS! And I'm paying 371.00 a month for a car I HATE that I can't even drive 6 months a year (winter). It burns me up just thinking about it.
I thought about trying to get rid of it, but I owe more on it than the blue book says it's worth. And when I went online to see what they were going for, there were ads for more than a dozen of them that are newer than mine and cheaper than what I even owe on the darn thing.

I buy Clinique brand face cream (it's called Moisture Online face cream) - I have to use this because I have extremely (unusually) dry skin. I've tried every other face cream made (it seems like it anyway) but none make my face feel as hydrated or smooth without a sticky, leftover residue as this particular face cream does. Not even the higher end brands.

For dept. store face creams, this is really quite an inexpensive brand.

It now costs nearly $50 a jar. This drives me just batso. I know darn good and well that it probably costs the company no more than two bucks - tops - to make that amount of cream, and two bucks might be a gross exaggeration. It goes into a glass container - which is a needless expense to me. I buy a jar every two months, I am very careful with how much I use. I started using this cream when it cost $12 a jar and have watched it's price increase - it's become a real *thing* with me. I'm angrier every time I buy a jar and become more resentful of the cost they will charge me for it.

If a generic company came out with products containing exactly the same ingredients as these higher end products contain in cheaper packaging, they would make a FORTUNE, I swear. It's the only higher end face product I buy. I've dug in my heels.

Vending machines are bad. The one at our movie theatre gets $2.00 for a soda or a bottled water. I smuggle my own into the theatre in my purse. It's bad enough paying $8.50 for a movie.

Cat and dog food/treat prices seem to have really went up too. It kills me to pay $3.50 or $4.00 for a small bag of dog treats.. I could be making my dog hamburgers or chicken fingers for that price.

I usually buy Revlon or similiar brand of lipstick but saw a pretty shade of Lancome and checked the prices. $ 25.00 to $ 29.00 for a tube of lipstick. I quickly thanked the clerk and walked away. I had no idea it would be that expensive.

My daughter's Ford Explorer had two problems this year- brake light stuck on- cost $773 to fix, and her rear tire was wobbling, threatening to fall off, that cost $890 to fix. Both are "too much". The poor kid's a college student, living at home. She can barely afford gas, let alone repairs.

Motor oil: $4.89/qt for Valvoline. I needed oil, so I bought the "cheap" stuff for $3.29/qt. I'm used to paying about 79¢/qt.

And charging $8 each for 800mg Ibuprofen when I was at the hospital several years back. I said I have bottles of the stuff at home. I'll take 4 OTC instead of 1 prescription pill.

Coffee that used to weigh three pounds and now it's not even two...but the can is the same dang size.
Four-pound bags or sugar that are the same size as the five-pound bags. Etc.
JoanMN/FL

I get ticked off about the price of milk here. At Safeway a 4 Litre is $5.99, at 7-11 it's $5.59 and at Shopper's Drug Mart it's $3.99. I try to buy it at Shopper's when I can but it rots my socks that Safeway's price is higher than 7-11.
Suzan J

LOL @ sjarz. I've never heard that expression "it rots my socks"
Leslie

I don't use vending machines. I usually lose my money in them.

Suzie in her jarz,

Don't take your shoes off around us, O.K.?

o j

P.S. Bag of 2% has been $3.87 at Shoppers in this area for a couple of months, I think.

2-litre carton choc. $1.99 fairly frequently around here - but doesn't keep without developing a bit of an off-taste more than about 10 days

also o j

Dog food. If I pay $14 for a bag of food - it should be hard to carry.
I can get two, 50 pound bags of horse food pellets for $17.

Clubm, that's funny about losing money in a vending machine. I just love it when I get all my money in, hit the select botton, then it's empty so I don't want any of the other choices, so I hit coin return and it doesn't work. A swift kick is in order.
One day I bought 3 peppers. When I got to the checkout, they were over $7. I actually argued with the checker, saying it just couldn't possibly be. My friend suggested I get out more.

I used to buy a soda from the vending machine in the lobby every few months. It was $1.25 but since it was a rare thing, it didn't bother me too much. About a month or two ago I went down with $1.25, put in my money and then saw that they had raised the price to $1.35 but the machine was poorly marked and it wouldn't give my money back (does the coin return ever work???). The security guard lent me the dime but I was PO'd and swore I wouldn't buy another soda. Last week I had the craving again and decided to pay the $1.35 and I went down there and they were $1.50! No more sodas for me. Ever.

paula_pa, LOL, I know what you mean. I refuse to pay that. It just bugs me, and fountain pop is worse yet. And people mock me for paying 11¢ for a bottle of water!

BTW, angelaid, why can't you drive your car in the winter? Won't it start?

It just doesn't handle as well in the snow or on icy roads as my old car. And it doesn't sit high enough to see over/around the snow berms when they start piling up.