10 things for which we are overpaying most

1. Popcorn in the cinema

The leader of the hit parade overrated things. Just compare: a small cup of popcorn in a cafe at the cinema costs about 200 rubles, 100 supermarket grams of grains of corn with dressing from which you prepare a large bowl of crunchy goodies - about 50 rubles. Loose the same product would cost 10 rubles per 100 grams. Even if we assume that popcorn the cinema initially weighed in the same 100 grams, obtained 20-fold margin.

How not to overpay

If you can not nothing to chew on for two hours, grab a snack with you. This can be a home-cooked popcorn and useful carrot sticks or an apple.

2. Wedding paraphernalia

If you are eyeing at least once a wedding goods, then you know how expensive they are. And in most cases, unfounded. The price of the bride dress and graduate may differ twice, although the difference is only in color. Cost cutting tulle will be less than in the same piece of cloth with the label "veil" at least 10 times.

How not to overpay

This is a task with an asterisk, as an alternative to "do without the traditional wedding" is suitable not for everyone. Pay attention to non-specialized stores: white shoes at once from massmarketa cost less than bridal salon, and probably will appear more relevant. Also, many of the elements of the wedding can be done with your hands, if they are, of course, grow from the right place.

3. Bottled water

Tap water costs about 35 rubles per 1000 liters of water in a bottle - 35 rubles per 1 liter. The difference is impressive.

How not to overpay

Install a water filter at home and take it with you in a reusable bottle - will save significantly in the long term.

4. Expensive brand clothing and shoes

In a cheap price segment and quality is most often directly related. You can easily tell shoes for 1000 from shoes for 10 thousand. However, between pairs of 10 and 100 thousand difference may not be so obvious. But one of them will be a recognizable logo or soles of a certain color.

There is no secret here: buying branded itemsYou pay for the name of the expensive advertising, rental of premises for the best boutiques and so on. But not for the thing itself, and it is important to understand.

How not to overpay

Branded items, you can buy at a discount on the sale or run-off, but of course, they will not be from the latest collection. Another option - to become a supporter of sustainable consumption.

5. Printer cartridges

Printers sufficiently durable equipment, and virtually no where to queue lined up for the new model. It is logical that the producers decided to make not on the unit, and consumables. So do not be surprised when buying a printer cartridge costs.

How not to overpay

There are several simple ways reduce the consumption of ink or toner when printing. For example, to adapt the web page to be printed, eliminating all unnecessary elements.

6. Alcohol and cigarettes

On the bad habits in most countries are fighting, artificially raising the price of alcohol and cigarettes. For example, in Russia, the minimum priceOrder of the Russian Ministry of Finance dated 4 April 2017 № 57 half a liter of vodka is 205 rubles, cognac - 371 rubles for a bottle of the same volume. The final cost is also added to the excise taxThe tax rates for excise taxes on excisable goods on alcohol and tobacco.

How not to overpay

Drink less and stop smoking. Not least because it is harmful not only for the purse, but also for you.

7. "Healthy food

Energy bar, which you have taken in the department of the alleged beneficial health food, chocolate is more expensive than its counterpart. Although, if carefully read labels on the label, you can find out what the calorie and they have the same, and fats with carbohydrates they contain about the same amount.

Similarly, the situation with yogurt with high protein content, which is written in small letters, that they only compared with other products of the same manufacturer.

How not to overpay

cook healthy food themselves: so you do not spend too much, and you will know for sure in the composition of dishes.

8. Paper books

Many love the classic book format to the leaves rustling and smelled of printer's ink. For the pleasure of having to pay several times more expensive than the electronic version.

How not to overpay

Install on your device convenient reading program and buy books in electronic version.

9. flowers

Prices for bouquets depend not only on the type of colors that are used in them. You pay for the work of the florist, rental space and, of course, all the buds that will wither and waiting for a buyer.

How not to overpay

One hundred roses found in Instagram so often that have long since become commonplace. You do not want to pay - to include fantasy and come up with another show. Perhaps to save money and not work, but will not bite your elbows, referring dorogushchy bouquet in the trash a week later.

10. Salt

Salt, the absence of which can ruin the taste of refined dishes - is sodium chloride (NaCl). Commercial benefits of the salt is not much, because it is very cheap. And on the shelves appears salt with different additives, which costs several times more expensive, and on the assurances of producers, is much more useful. But there is one "but": the more the product of foreign impurities, the less there is in fact NaCl.

How not to overpay

Simply put food on less salt.

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