Upate: Thanks, I’ll Pay Full Price
Just back from New York, where I have collected many new funny and strange anecdotes that will be appearing on this site soon. Here’s a list I made on the plane, of things for which, in my opinion, it is better to pay full price. Things for which, frankly, the cost of NOT paying full price far outweighs the savings. You be the judge.
This just in: Ashley Powell, who has a lovely new website, has pointed out that haircuts are yet another thing where you wouldn’t want a discount, and I’m going to have to agree. Just think of how much that $25 you saved at SuperCuts is costing you in lost executive jobs, bad first impressions, and people scratching their heads, going “hey, is that mullet supposed to be edgy, or is that guy just special needs?” Seriously.
1. Sushi. I’m guessing the medical bills from the food poisoning are going to offset any savings you might have enjoyed from the Sushi sale.
2. Anesthesia. Yikes! The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder!
3. Surgery of any kind. Yeah, I know– it’s a fraction of the cost to get a hip replaced in India. I don’t care. This also goes for plastic surgery in Mexico. Gah.
4. Oysters. Should never. Be on sale.
5. Condoms. Good luck with that.
6. Hypodermic needles. I have two words for you. Hep. C.
7. Wine. You know who drinks discount wine? Winos.
8. Travel. By this I mean specifically hotel rooms. I have nothing against Expedia, but listen, if all of New York City is sold out and you find an AMAZING deal on a hotel room right on the park for $99, I’m just going to tell you right now— someone died there, and the body is probably still there. We had this experience once in Paris, with an amazing deal on a room by the Louvre in a hotel I can only now describe as “Hotel SLAM!”
9. Real Estate. Unless you actually know someone who can get you a pre-foreclosure deal or something, there is probably a reason the “Old Jenkins Place” on your corner has been abandoned for twenty years, and it’s not just that someone didn’t pay their real estate taxes. There is for sure an Indian Burial Ground under there, or radioactive isotopes in the kitchen, or a really, really badly clogged drained. I’m not even going to say what it could be clogged with, dude. You leave that up to your imagination.
wise thought about expedia. 1. Expedia cannot be trusted. EXPEDIA ruined my trips and tried to keep (steal is the right word) the money for services that they failed to provide. Just search for “EXPEDIA complaints” in Google or Yahoo and you will read horrible stories (including mine, click on my name to read about my case) from people that used EXPEDIA.
Good luck