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False ecomomy - What do you refuse to buy budget versions of?

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  • #92
    Frynge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    braddun wrote: »




    parachutes

    You know the aul saying about parachutes.....

    If at first you don't succeed, skydiving's not for you!


  • #93
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Mayonaise has to be Hellmans, that's it really. Everything else can be a budget version.

    Oh and butter, now has to be Kilkeely Gold. So so good.


  • #94
    AndonHandon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭AndonHandon


    Gym membership. I pay more for the quiter gym, nicer changing rooms, lounge area and no scumbags.


  • #95
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    Consumer electronics. Anything with a reasonably trustworthy name like Siemens, Breville, Kenwood, Phillips, Bosch, Samsung etc is a much better investment than crumbly, poorly wired no-name crap from god-knows-where. You'll also have a decent chance at contacting customer service if things go wrong.


  • #96
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,568 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Its worth the extra €20 or so to fly aer lingus rather than ryanair. Apart from the extra comfort and lack of nastiness, the ryanair aiports are usually so much further away that it will cost you the €20 to get the 2 hour bus to get where you wanted to go.

    At a pinch, fly ryanair out aerlingus back. After a long crazy boozy holiday, boarding the blue and yellow tube of death gives me nightmares.


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  • #97
    Brien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭Brien


    I'm amazed that this thread has gotten so far with no mention of Cola! Some cheaper lemonade can be alright, but cheap Cola tastes like watered down filth.

    Also, Heinz baked beans are the best by far

    B-)


  • #98
    BreadnBuddha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭BreadnBuddha


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    I'd hate to be your housemate. Different strokes and all, it doesn't matter as much to them as you. Don't ever say this to them, petty in the extreme! If you have a kitty going currently, just get out of it and buy your own stuff if it bothers you so much.

    Having read this....

    Advice.

    Instead, invest in the following course of action:

    1. Evict your cheap assed housemates with their newspaper squares on a spike....little bastards probably grew up in KVI nappies.
    2. Advertise their rooms and prepare to interview.
    3. Get applicants to bring their preferred toilet paper for you to approve.
    4. Write it up in the contract that ISO9001 quality control systems are in place to ensure their inner muck savages don't revert to wiping their arses with dock leaves.


  • #99
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,463 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Bread, Soft Drinks, Refuse Bags, Pasta, Chocolate, Tuna.


  • #100
    sblythe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭sblythe


    Car maintenance of any sort whatsoever. I work at a garage and I see this pretty much daily. It angers me but at the same time it is frightening because I know I share the roads with these people. Some examples:

    Me: "both your rear tyres need replacing, they are well below the legal limit"
    Customer: "oh, I didn't know that. What are the cheapest tyres you have, do you do part worns"
    Me: *internal sigh*

    -

    Me: "you need this, this and this sorted. They are vital components to your car and play a paramount role in the safety of you and others when on the road"
    Customer: "oh, well I'll come back in a few weeks and have that done then"


    >.>
    <.<


  • #101
    frankyboy1986
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 115 ✭✭frankyboy1986


    cars! feck your dacia and hyundai gimme an audi and bmw anyday!


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  • #102
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Shoes

    My runners cost 140 euro and they are a brand few have heard of (not a hipster! :p). Got fitted in a running store and they videotaped me running up and down

    Like walking on air and I wear them most every day. I tried an old pair of Reeboks I paid 40 euro on sale for and the soles are rock hard like concrete!

    And even when I'm broke I buy Head & Shoulders. The own brand anti-dandruff shampoos ain't worth a cuss


  • #103
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    The only two things that come to mind are razors and some soft drinks. The soft drinks only really because the cheap stuff always contains sweeteners, making them taste like baby sick.

    Well, and tea bags. Has to be Typhoo or Tetleys.

    For everything else, I'm happy enough with cheap stuff. Funnily enough, I often find the cheap stuff nicer than the brand names anyway.


  • #104
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,683 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Sports gear, each to their own sport but the fellas with the ultra budget shoes, shorts, gloves etc never look happy/comfortable. Cycling shorts has to be the most vital as it involves the vital bits lol


  • #105
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    smcgiff wrote: »
    thought I'd pick up a pack of disposable BIC razors and shaving foam on the way to work. Sweet Jesus they are terrible, ended up dumping the rest of the pack in the bin.

    Bic disposable razors are the devils work

    If they were free I wouldn't use them

    If you are stuck though Tesco disposable razors are daaaaycent.
    Larianne wrote: »
    Tomato Ketchup or Mayonaise. Has to be Heinz Chef and Hellman's.

    Fixed ;)


  • #106
    Gyrocream
    Site Banned Posts: 7 ✭Gyrocream


    sblythe wrote: »
    Car maintenance of any sort whatsoever. I work at a garage and I see this pretty much daily. It angers me but at the same time it is frightening because I know I share the roads with these people. Some examples:

    Me: "both your rear tyres need replacing, they are well below the legal limit"
    Customer: "oh, I didn't know that. What are the cheapest tyres you have, do you do part worns"
    Me: *internal sigh*

    -

    Me: "you need this, this and this sorted. They are vital components to your car and play a paramount role in the safety of you and others when on the road"
    Customer: "oh, well I'll come back in a few weeks and have that done then"


    >.>
    <.<

    Would you prefer if people just didn't pay you? Sometimes people just don'the have the money.


  • #107
    Gyrocream
    Site Banned Posts: 7 ✭Gyrocream


    Grafton Barber for haircuts.


  • #108
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Tea bags - lyons gold blend
    Chocolate- Cadbury
    Washing up liquid - Fairy

    After that I'm lidl


  • #109
    sblythe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭sblythe


    Gyrocream wrote: »
    Would you prefer if people just didn't pay you? Sometimes people just don'the have the money.

    If you don't have the money to maintain your car, don't drive it, and put others lives at risk driving your poorly maintained car.


  • #110
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,683 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    efb wrote: »
    Tea bags - lyons gold blend
    Chocolate- Cadbury
    Washing up liquid - Fairy

    After that I'm lidl

    Cadbury choco might as well be budget lol


  • #111
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Mehaffey1 wrote: »
    Cadbury choco might as well be budget lol

    but it isn't. I'm not into 80% cocoa stuff


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  • #112
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,774 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There are very few things I buy the budget version of, despite people's claims they are almost always inferior to the proper branded products imo. This goes for everything from clothes to food to electronics etc.


  • #113
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    sblythe wrote: »
    Me: "you need this, this and this sorted.

    It was the dodgy mechanics who ruined this for you.

    Does anyone trust a garage when they provide a long list of items that need fixing?

    Even if they are true professionals like yourself sblythe many will be thinking I'm being scammed here.

    Maybe they went off to get a second opinion

    I do agree with you on the tyres though, too many people skimping here and relying on cheap Chinese crap. It's worth paying extra


  • #114
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Washing powder (aeriel gel sachets)
    Fabric Softner (Lenor)
    Washing up liquid (Fairy)
    Shower stuff (alternate but never lidl/aldi)
    Deodorant (Dove or Nivea)
    Toilet roll (Andrex)

    Then anything Id give to other people, coffee, tea, biscuits, ect.


  • #115
    sblythe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭sblythe


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    It was the dodgy mechanics who ruined this for you.

    Does anyone trust a garage when they provide a long list of items that need fixing?

    Even if they are true professionals like yourself sblythe many will be thinking I'm being scammed here.

    Maybe they went off to get a second opinion

    Maybe they have done, I don't particularly mind if someone does - I still get paid at the end of the week.

    I do work for a very reputable garage in Dublin and most of our custom is down to the reputation anyway.

    I know what you mean though.


  • #116
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    sblythe wrote: »
    Maybe they have done, I don't particularly mind if someone does - I still get paid at the end of the week.

    I do work for a very reputable garage in Dublin and most of our custom is down to the reputation anyway.

    I know what you mean though.

    I wouldn't go into garages on my own anymore because I find if they think you don't know what they're talking about, they'll get up and ride you.
    I've had so many bad experiences with mechanics that if they told me today was Monday I wouldn't believe them. My OH or my brother deals with anything car related now, and they're never messed around, over charged or bullied into things, funnily enough.

    One garage tried charge me 250 euro for taking locknuts off my tyres. When my brother went in to ask them wtf, they said it took them 3 hours, and dropped it from 250 to 100.


  • #117
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Ketchup - it tastes really bad, never found a good own brand ketchup, has to be heinz.
    Shampoo and washing things - I used to buy shower gel and what not from the £1 shop, gave me a rash all over and terrible itching, never again.
    Stuff for the kitchen/bathroom - doesn't ever bloody work.
    Tea bags - has to be the yellow ones from marks and spencer.
    Shaving razors - cos the cheap ones just wreck your skin, leaves you with little red bits all over, awful they are.


  • #118
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Marketing is a powerful thing!


  • #119
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Rose Repulsive Tailwind wrote: »
    There are very few things I buy the budget version of, despite people's claims they are almost always inferior to the proper branded products imo. This goes for everything from clothes to food to electronics etc.

    Ah, marketing.


  • #120
    seventeen sheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭seventeen sheep


    braddun wrote: »
    pregnancy test kits

    Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure most people who've used these more than once would disagree with you there.

    The ones you buy in Dealz for €1.49, or for even cheaper online, are actually more sensitive than the Clearblue digital tests that you could spend €15.00 or more on in a chemist.


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  • #121
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Clothes

    Washing machine powder or liquid

    Avoiding Ryanair if reasonably possible


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