Great 'What do you hate spending money on the most?' Hunt

tabitha67

Nope - am old gimmer and can never remember being charge extra for accidental damage cover for things like bottle of ink spilled on carpet or hammer dropped in bathroom sink and cracking it. Contents cover always used to take into account stuff like this.

As to low seat prices and higher wages at airports etc - offspring worked at coffee shop in Edinburgh airport and was paid exactly same as her counterparts in city shop. also do not agree that £11 for cinema seat is a low price, or £60.00 for theatre ticket.

mireiacassou

Definitely TV licence. BBC programs are quite rubish and are many repeats. I don't know why I have to pay the presenters wages.They get more than the Prime Minister.

MrGumby

Supportspice wrote: »

Council Tax - when I was renting, I didnt resent paying council tax but it shouldnt be based on the value of an asset that belongs to someone else, that I couldnt afford to own.

Agreed. It shouldn't be based on the value of an asset at all, as far as I'm concerned. It's to pay for local services and should be based on use of those services. People, not houses, use services, so council tax should be based on the number of people in a property, not the value of the property. As it is, a pensioner couple whose children have gone still pay the same as they did when their children were at home. Bring back Margaret Thatcher's poll tax.

Supportspice wrote: »

Council Tax - I get a single person discount of 25%. How can I be three quarters of a couple?

Can't entirely agree with that. One person in a house will probably, for example, fill their bins and use the roads almost as much as a couple. They may be a single parent with children at school. And so on.

Supportspice wrote: »

MOT - paying over £40 to tell me that my car is fine, I have already paid for servicing and repairs to know this.

Servicing and repairs, even if carried out professionally and according to the service schedule (many people DIY or just don't bother) cover few of the checks in an MoT test. Perhaps the way to look at it is that the MoT test keeps dangerous cars off the road, dangerous cars that may cause an accident involving you, and it's probably worth paying for that. You should be able to find someone doing MoT's for £25 or so (try the local paper) or even free with servicing.

Imelda

Delivery charges for items bought online- how else are they going to get the products to me? Should be included in the price.

Ditto with charges for using debit/ credit card over the internet- how else am I going to pay? Cash? (I know there are the odd loopholes eg electron/ pre paid cards but I don't have either of these)

Ditto booking fees

Recently I wanted to transfer a large sum of money from my HSBC account to my First Direct account. Both owned by HSBC. But they wanted to charge me £25 for a CHAPS payment! Between their own accounts. So I refused and wrote myself a cheque- ridiculous.

BitterAndTwisted

Agreed but a CHAPS payment is same-day and a cheque could take up to a week to clear so I reckon it just depends on how quickly you need the funds to reach the other account

Equity

What spending do I hate most? Tipping and gratuities of all kinds.

It'a about time this outdated practice was banned, especially now that minimum wages have been established. I would rather pay extra for a service, knowing that the employee is receiving appropriate wages, than have to endure the uncomfortable feeling of should I tip? if so, how much? what will the recipient thnk of me if I leave too much or too little?

I have not used a taxi for many years, largely because I do not know what an acceptable level of tip should be. Why should I tip a waiter/waitress for doing his/her job but I don't tip a shop assistant for doing his/hers? Why should I tip a hotel employee for bringing a snack to my room or ringing for a taxi? Aren't these tasks what they are paid to do?

Britain should lead the world and become a tip-free country!

Ibex

1. I just can't bear to buy salt for our water softener, £40 for a few lumps (blocks) of salt.

2. Vet bills.

3. Beauty products.

Garns7

babyshoes wrote: »

Anything I don't have a choice about - council tax, road tax etc etc. Got around TV licence by not having a TV and just using catch up services online for anything I want to watch.

I'm afraid you need a TV licence if you're using the BBC Iplayer as it's funded by the licence fee. So you are actually braking the law by not having one and its easy to catch you as your ISP will have all the info about your browsing history.

soozywooz

Garns7 wrote: »

I'm afraid you need a TV licence if you're using the BBC Iplayer as it's funded by the licence fee. So you are actually braking the law by not having one and its easy to catch you as your ISP will have all the info about your browsing history.

Actually that's not quite true. You only need to pay for the licence if you are watching live streaming not for stuff you are watching things that are not on live. the TV licencing website says the following

"Computers and laptops

Many TV channels are now available to watch over the internet. If you’re watching programmes on a computer or laptop as they're being shown on TV, then you need a TV Licence. However, you don’t need to be covered by a licence if you’re only using ‘on-demand’ services to watch programmes after they have been shown on TV. So, you need a licence to watch any channel live online, but you wouldn’t need one to use BBC iPlayer to catch up on an episode of a programme you missed, for example"

fayelee1974

tankgirl1 wrote: »

Oh yeah - and hospital car parking! Last time I visited the hospital the parking bays were incredibly narrow, and flanked by steel(?) poles, which made it REALLY difficult to park....and I am expected to pay £3 for the priveledge! Not only that but I want / need to visit my poorly relatives - hey I know, lets stick an extortionate parking fee on the NHS funded hospital's car park!
Grrrr

Hi, if you think you have problems with the parking whilst visiting a hospital, try working in one - 5 days a week, scrapping over car park spaces and over charging us :mad: