Things you can't go cheap on

[Crash]

I was just thinking, there are some things that you just can't go cheap on.... the obvious ones are like, condoms, parachutes, etc....they are all different for everyone so what are yours?

Cereal - can't stand the generic cereals... suck
Bread - can't stand the hard, dry crappy bread
Chocolate Milk - hershey syrup, and nesquik only!!!
Paintballs - They break if you go cheap, so dont
Writable Cd's - the paint chips off, dont go cheap
tooth paste/ tooth brush - dunno why, just can't do it
DVD players - can't do the cheap thing, picture quality DOES suck with the $30 ones


that's all I can think of for now... what about you?

[Ginkasa]

Dr. Pepper. Dr. Thunder and other cheap incarnations suck. The only replacement for Dr. Pepper is Mr. Pibb.


/me shrugs and walks away

[Crash]

oh yeah, good one... mt. dew imitations blow!!

[Dyne]

Cheap Sushi. Definitely be wary of that. But then again, over-expensive sushi is also bad.

Really cheap used video games. It's not like the old era where everything was cartridge. Now you can get some mighty-nasty scratched games that don't work. I bought Halo for $5 and it doesn't load the Pillar of Autumn, but that's about it.

I guess it was worth it for $5.

Oh and clothes. Especially pants. Having pants rip open to start your day is one of the greatest feelings in the world. Thank god for gym strips.

[DimHalo]

Cola - Pepsi is best, Coke is ok
Reese's peanut butter cups - the other brands are NO comparison
Frozen pizza - it is hard to do pizza right anyway

[Typhoid]

I cant go cheap on:


Sushi
Coffee
Sub Sandwiches
Clothes
Pizza
Cereal Bars, the cheap ones are disgusting.

[Dyne]

I cant go cheap on:


Sushi
Coffee
Sub Sandwiches
Clothes
Pizza
Cereal Bars, the cheap ones are disgusting.

Yeah, instant coffee that comes in packets is disgusting. I don't even know why they make that stuff.

[Typhoid]

Yeah.

Hence Starbucks.

And I cant go cheap on clothes....I just cant.....Its horrible. I payed 92 bucks for my pants....And 25 bucks for my Corona hat.



But I also cant cheap out on dates. Like, not...the fig....but the thing where you go out with a girl. I cant cheap out on those. I have to buy everything. Unless its one of those "cute stay at home in the backyard because its purdy" kind of dates.

[Crash]

i buy my clothes pretty much exclusively at JC pennies... because I love arizona jeans

[Dyne]

Well I've gone dutch on dates plenty of times and it hasn't affected me. My karma is good.

It's all in your attitude.

[Typhoid]

No no no....I just mean I cant not buy things. Nothing to do with impressing her. When I go out anywhere with people I have to buy stuff. Like it kills me to not offer to pay for your ****ing coffee....haha.



****, I shouldnt have said that.

[Dyne]

There there. My unlimited change box understands.

[Swan]

I'm sure their are things that I don't like to cheap out on...but I can't think of any.

The closest would be not buying second hand pants.

[Jonbo298]

Mayonnaise - Cheap mayo iis just horribly nasty
Cheese - It doesn't have the flavor the more expensive ones have
Dr. Pepper - Only one passable is Mr. Pibb but the original is so much better
Computer Parts - Sometimes I can but I buy name brand usually for a reason

[Bube]

Almost everything I buy, I tend to go for the silghtly pricier ones.

Not that I've got money to spend...if I can't buy the pricier one, then I don't buy it at all.

[gekko]

Sunglasses I won't buy cheap, but I won't go overboard (as in designers).

Soccer equipment I usually buy near the most expensive in everything. Can't stand anything less than the international match balls (usually get the latest FIFA, U.S. Soccer, or MLS ball). Goalie gloves under $100 just tend not to provide the grip, and the go bad quickly. I tend to buy Adidas newest cleat for the year, but it's just I like them, not my fault they're so expensive. Have to buy the molded shin-guards.

Computers I usually won't go cheap, but that's because when I buy new, I want something new, not a year old. So I tend to always buy the latest and greatest.

Home theater I don't go crazy, but I won't do cheap either. I don't spend $10,000 because I want an HDMI-switching receiver, but I would if I had the money. I usually go for the mid-level, that is still affordable, but provides the features I want.

[The Germanator]

I'm a pretty cheap bastard, so I'll go the cheap way most of the time... I buy all of my clothes at Salvation Army and Goodwill. I mean, I got three pairs of pants for $8.50 the other day, it's just unbeatable..

There really isn't much in my life that I wouldn't try to look for the best bargain on..

[manasecret]

I hope you don't mind, I figured I'd respond to each of ya and in the meantime I would answer the question for myself.

Crash:
Agreed
Cereal - agreed, tried cheap cereal once about ten years ago, never again
Bread - Good bread is good bread, especially fresh baked stuff from standalone bakeries, but the good thing is even good bread is cheap! :)
Chocolate Milk - Hershey's definitely my one and only
Paintballs - Is that true? Oh well, I always end up buying the expensive ones from the paintball place anyway
tooth paste/ tooth brush - definitely, teeth are important! But I only care about good toothpaste...

Disagreed
DVD players - I'm not with you here, you're probably right about quality, but my TVs all suck anyway
Writable Cd's - I've never experienced paint chipping but cheap CD's do seem to die immediately, I burn a CD and during the first playing it already skips! But I'm still a sucker for 100 CD's for $10


Link:
Agreed, Dr. Pepper is the one and only besides maybe Mr. Pibb. However, I am not very picky about cheap knock-off cola brands in general, though I have recently come to realize that the real brands do taste better. Maybe it's subconcious though, like I know it's more expensive so my mind thinks it can taste the money...


Dyne: I'm not picky about sushi, but that's because for me it all tastes the same. Please don't kill me... it's just I'm a dumbass sushi eater, but there are many other types of food that I won't go cheap on, like Chinese or Mexican especially, or even barbecue. But I also don't go the ultra-expensive, they're often just as bad as the cheap stuff I think.

Cheap videogames I eat up, as long as it's something I want. As for clothes, I agree good pairs of pants are a must. If you get a good pair of jeans that fits you well, they're worth the money. They'll last you for years and you'll get more use out of them than anything else. However, I go to thrift stores for my shirts. $5 for a T-shirt that IMO has more personality than any store-brand is waaay worth it. T-shirts only last a couple years anyway. Sometimes you also get nice shirts from good brands like Tommy for $15 when normally it's some $65.


jeepnut's slave
Is this a contest over Pepsi and Coke? :) Ummm, I gues they both cost the same, so hmmm.. I often go really cheap on pizza, though the Roman stuff is the best for me.

Reese's are Reese's. There ain't nothing else. Though truthfully I've never seen a knock-off brand of Reese's.


Typhoid
I think I already said the rest, but Sub sandwhiches I go can go cheap on. I think I'd agree about coffee, though I don't drink it much.

As for clothes, $92 is worth it for good pants if you like them, though I won't go over $50 (Levis is my brand). I only have one hat that I wear and I paid close to $25, so yeah, it's worth it because I don't like most hats, so when I find one I like I will pay extra for it. But thrift stores for shirts...

I'm also usually bad about always offering to pay for everything wherever I go, that's the way my whole family is so I've picked it up. It's not a bad thing, but it's not always a good thing when you're amongst friends. I think you gotta know when to simply offer to pay and when to offer to pay and then not take no for an answer, in a kind way.


deejzguy
Definitely don't go cheap on the pants. (Have I said that enough? :))


Jonbo
Mayo and cheese I definitely don't go cheap. Just ain't the same flavor and taste to the cheap stuff. I think for all simple foods like bread, cheese, cereal and the like, there's no need to go ultra-cheap because it's all pretty cheap anyways... though I guess that depends on who you ask...

For computer parts, I've built a few computers, and I don't know exactly which parts you can go cheap on--they all seem expensive to me! ;)

Bube
There are lots of things I would agree for that, like good food and good electronic stuff.


gekko
Soccer equipment and home theater equipment I don't have the money for at all, so I don't know. But I'd imagine those are things you need to spend extra money on. I have spent good money on Klipsch computer speakers, and I can tell a huge difference after using my laptop to listen to music for a year and then coming back to those wonderful things.

I go cheap sunglasses, though, or nothing. I usually end up losing them within a couple weeks so it ain't worth it for me to go expensive! :)



Germanator
I love thrift stores for the great deals, but even they don't get as cheap as $8.50 for three pairs of pants.... hmmm... I need to start going to Salvation Army and Goodwill.

[DimHalo]

I thought of another thing I don't tend to go cheap on, sort of.

When I am shopping for a dress I usually gravitate towards the more expensive stuff. Jessica McClintock is my favorite designer. So the dresses I own tend to have been pretty expensive.

but...

My mom and I are really good at finding deals so although they started out expensive, I usually get them on sale so I have not actually forked out the big bucks for the dress. In fact, my newest cocktail dress started out at $80 and I got it for $13.

[jeepnut]

99 times out of 100 I won't go cheap on electronics. It's rare that I skimp on electronics because I consider my electronics to be my favorite possessions and I want something that I spend a lot of time with to be something I really like.

Video game controllers and accessories. Generic sucks. I only buy official controllers.

Soda. Pepsi all the way. Nothing else will do.

[Typhoid]

Soccer equipment I usually buy near the most expensive in everything. Can't stand anything less than the international match balls (usually get the latest FIFA, U.S. Soccer, or MLS ball). Goalie gloves under $100 just tend not to provide the grip, and the go bad quickly. I tend to buy Adidas newest cleat for the year, but it's just I like them, not my fault they're so expensive. Have to buy the molded shin-guards.


I forgot about sports...


I cant have cheap cleats for Soccer.....playing in such a *cough* high level that I played in (U21 Premier :D) cheap cleats just dont do it.....anything under 150 wont do you good for the season. Shinpads I dont much care about, I use the same ones I've used for 4 years, its sort of grown into a superstitious thing. I always wear the one thats cracked down the middle on my right leg.

And for hockey, I cant go cheap on anything. The mouthguards I buy are 20 bucks a piece, and I get a new one every so often, Sticks are about 100 bucks, I need new gloves soon, and those will be close to 120. When I bought my skates, they were 550.

Damn sports.

[The Germanator]

Germanator
I love thrift stores for the great deals, but even they don't get as cheap as $8.50 for three pairs of pants.... hmmm... I need to start going to Salvation Army and Goodwill.

Yeah, well yellow tags were 50% off and all the pants I wanted happened to have yellow tags, so it worked out great that day.

[Krypton]

CANDY


CANT GO CHEAP ON CANDY!

:D


my childish intentions.

[GameMaster]

Stamps. You can't go cheap on stamps. Even though they are quite inexpensive to begin with (like 33 cents or something), I always buy the premium stamps which go for a $1.50 each. And if they have a picture or theme I like, I go for the $3.00 stamps.

[Jonbo298]

Jonbo
For computer parts, I've built a few computers, and I don't know exactly which parts you can go cheap on--they all seem expensive to me! ;)

What I meant was that there are some brands that people don't mess with. example: Power supplies. There are a few very respected brands that do well, then there are ones that burn out after a month.

When you get to know computers as much as I do, you take reader reviews for granted and follow the brand(s) that are respected everywhere ;) :p

**Add another thing to my list. Insanely cheap toilet paper: I can go a little cheap but like...the ones where its like "20 rolls for a dollar!" *shudders, I will never do something similar to that again. Lets say just 95 cents was wasted :p (Theoretically, not $1.00 for 20 rolls but you get the hint ;) )