Things That Cost To Much. Video Games.. Medical Care.. Hair Cuts..

[DEM FAN]

Cd's..A Vehicle.. Razors.. Some Magazines.. Air For Tires..
What Can You Come Up With.

[CarlBallard]

1. I haven't paid for a haircut in years

First my hair was long, and I just let it grow, and now I just keep it really short with my beard trimmer.

[short bus president]

6. yeah, my "haircuts" involve

dragging a razor over my scalp every other day. If I do let it grow for more than a week or so, I head out in the yard with the clippers, then come in and drag the razor over it. No $20 scissor work for this guy!

[CarlBallard]

9. I used to drag a razor over my scalp

Then I realized that being a white guy with a shaved head is bad enough. But add to that that I have dark skin for a white guy, a unabrow, and a gotee, and I realized I looked like Mussolini's evil twin from anonther dimension. So now I just keep it short.

[short bus president]

14. Yeah,

I'm probably more of a "fester" than a mussolini, but the shaving keeps me away from that awkward point where all the hairs that initially started out at zero length have somehow grown back at wildly varying rates.

[ameriphile]

2. How could you forget

Health insurance!

[Maddy McCall]

3. water, water filters, excedrin, required textbooks,

and any items made specially for us southpaws, the most discriminated against minority on earth. :-)

[nuxvomica]

4. I recall from my college days that textbook publishing was a racket

At least back then. I remember being a late addition to a German class and the campus store was out of the latest edition of the textbook. I found a used previous edition, meaning from the previous year. I thought how different could it be? I mean it's first-year German, after all, and I bet the language fundamentals hadn't changed much. Well they totally switched around the exercises, making it tough for me to follow the class.

[Maddy McCall]

5. Same thing with the text our department uses...

primary source articles' page numbers are changed. A paragraph is added hither and yon, and then it becomes the "third edition."

My students pay $125 for a required text for my class. Sometimes, if they take the 101 section, the book they buy for that class will be outdated by the next semester, and when they enroll in 102, they have to buy another edition of the same text.

And that doesn't include the accompanying reader or guide. Books for 12 hours of classes can be as expensive as tuition itself.

Oh, and add tuition to PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES to that list of things that are TOO expensive.

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Oh don't remind me!

I have to buy 12 credits worth of textbooks in 2 weeks, and I'm dreading it!! 2 of which are 4 credit Science classes, sure to be accompanied by big, heavy, $100+ textbooks. :mad:

[SweetZombieJesus]

8. Yet another reason I'm glad I dropped out of college

Higher learning my ass.

[lpbk2713]

10. Cable TV.......

.......waaaay overpriced.

[SweetZombieJesus]

11. Yeah, I'm basically paying 75 bucks a month for Comedy Central

I wish I could pick what channels I want and pay for them and them only.

[pizzathehut]

15. Amen, What good is 100+ channels...

when all but 4 or 5 are cool. Junk like cspan, home shopping network, and all their clones just waste bandwideth.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. Food. Gasoline. VEHICLES.

Water, natural gas, movie tickets, new eyeglasses (WAY too expenisve!!), a good, sharp pocket knife, laptop computers, and IHOP breakfast.

[sam sarrha]

13. I hear that video games in England cost about 20% of what they do here.

:wow:

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Root canals, soda pop, paperback books, cereal, new vehicles

and children's shoes, you should be able to turn them in for a deposit because they grow out of them two weeks after you buy them.