Amen and Amen.  I don't know how to use an ATM machine.  I used to but I lost the card and the credit union gave me a new one but I cannot find it.  So if I need cash I will ask for 20 dollars over at Walmart or at grocery stores when writing a check.  Baggage fees on planes??? Not on your life.  I prefer to carry a back pack and cram it full of stuff like clothes that are rolled not folded.  I carry my camera around my neck.  Or only fly on carriers that do not charge for baggage fees.  Next thing will be is the aircarrier will surcharge you by your body weight.  If you are 280 pounds you will pay more than the 98 pound damsel.  Movie theatres?  Not a chance.  Theres too much to see on A&E and Discovery, National Geographic, TLC, DIY, True Crime, Masterminds, Snapped, TCM, other free movie channels.  And buying food at a theatre you have to be nuts.  I bring my own snack even if i had to put in my underwear rather than pay the greedy prices.  Im used to visiting a shop in my home town named  "The Coffee Shop".  A cup of coffee was always 10 cents cup and a coke at the drug store was also 10 cents glass.  If you figure it out coke still comes out to close to 10 cents glass if you buy a two liter bottle for less than $1.  I refuse to buy any brand name soda that is over $1 a bottle.  Now walmart is charging $1.06 for a two liter bottle of Pepsi so I pass it up.  If it were $1 even I might buy it.  Save on toothpaste by only using one quarter of an inch.  Its a waste to fil the whole brush. You are only going to spit it out anyway and it makes plenty of suds as it is.  Mouthwash is a ripoff unless you are going out on a date.  Breath mints should always be carrie when going on a date anyway. Never just use them up.  Use them when you really need them.  If you followed all that red tape about changing the oil in your car you will quickly get discouraged.  Its a lot simpler to go to advance auto and buy a purolator pure one oil filter $6.49 ( a top quality filter by the way ) and 5 quarts of 5W-30 or 5W-20 depending upon what you car or truck says.  It does not matter what brand of oil you use as long as you change it often enough.  You need perhaps a cheap 3/8 inch drive rachet and a cheap oil filter "cap" to put it on te end of the filter and turn the cap counterclockwise to loosen it. The oil drain plug requires a cheap box end wrench of the corect size.  All you need to do is ask the guys at Advance auto what size of anything you need they will know.  A cheap oil pan from walmart and to be safe from hot oil and to be clean buy a box of "BLACK" nitrile gloves from NAPA.  Youcan go in the house and wash them with liquid ajax or palmolive and reuse them many times , the same pair.  They come in a box of 50 but a box of 50 can last for years.  And yes drop off your old oil in two milk jugs at a gas station that sells oil or jiffy lube or valvoline or quicklube.  They have to take it and really love to take since they sell the old oil.  Buy a cheap plastic funnel to dispose of the oil in the milk jugs.  The last thing needed is a roll of paper towels for cleaning up the surface where you purt the oil drain plug back and clean up the surface where you hand tighten the oil filter on and then reverse the rachet and turn the oil filter cap clockwise at least one and a quarter to one and one half turns.  Never ever buy any oil filters or other common parts from a car dealer parts department.  They can be triple priced and are not as good as brand name after market parts .

HI america, how ya doin? tired of being ripped off for everything you enjoy? Well quit enjoying so much?? atm- go to bank withdraw yo money, movie tickets- 1.00 theatres or wait for video. movie popcorn- sneak candy in. drinks at restaurants- carry a flask u lush. Starbucks coffee- if you shop here you deserve 2 b ripped off. oil changes- cmon it takes 20 minutes to change oil, drop used oil off at night when store is closed ,they have to recycle it. airport food - stop on way to airport at fastfood. event parking and ticket master!!!  Dont go!!! they charge 100.00 because u r willing to pay it, buy the cd or watch game at home on bigscreen?? water is free at any tap u morons!! atm fees honestly people I havnt had a bank account or credit card for 14 years, I make $70,000 a year own 4 houses, travel the world as often as i can, What does a bank do for your money that u cant??? If you dont have a credit card you will learn to spend only what you have. people who go in debt with credit cards are alwys blaming someone else for their debt?? the bank forced me to purchase that item??? its greed people.

Fees are everywhere, and they arent going away.  I bought a greyhound bus ticket online once.  I was given two options; I could print out the ticket myself or print it out at will-call.  If i chose will-call, there was a 1.50 materials fee (cust service said to cover the cost of ink, paper, etc).  If i chose Online Printout, there was a 1.50 CONVENIENCE fee.

 

My questions is, why not just add a 1.50 to the price if you really need that extra cash.  Fees are just a sneaky way for big business to advertise a price lower than what it actually charges.

everything belongs here except oil changes. So what  if you have to spend 10 or 15 more than it would cost. Think about your time, getting under the car, getting greasy, probably leaking oil and having to dispose of used oil and filter etc,etc.... I will and can fix most anything on my car and an oil change is a bargain

what bugs me the most is (and this almost never happens to me)is paying an overdraft fee of 33 bucks. I once took out twenty to eat,and it put me in the red.  They gave me the twenty and charged me 33 bucks extra, CROOKS!

BORDERTOWN w/ Jennifer Lopez and Martin Sheen - watch it! 

I cannot stand the fees imposed by so many....especially ticketmaster/live nation.  I even went directly to the concert location to purchase my ticket and the box office was run by....you guessed it.....live nation!  So I STILL had to pay the exhorbitant fee.  I refused and did not go.   Once when I was signing up for a long distance service I kept asking the service rep if there was a monthly fee.  I was assured there was not, but when I got the bill there was a monthly charge on it.  So I called to complain and was told "that's a monthly charge, not a monthly fee!"  Gimme a break!

@ KrisK111  It's not your health that everyone is complaining about paying for it's your lard@$$ weighing down the plane and making it suck more fuel.  Read the posts alllll the way through next time.

Too the ppl who feel the need to attack over weight ppl get a life. It's not fair that anyone has to pay a bag check but that's life deal with it. If you don't like it than drive to your destination, it will be much cheaper than flying.

Airlines began charging baggage "handling" fees, because of all those people that can't travel light and normally checked 3, 4 or more bags. My rage is that I could easily just take a normal carry-on with all my clothes for a two week trip, but I can't take my shampoo, lotion, and cologne since I need more than 3 oz for two weeks and can't get that through !%@#$%^@ security, forcing me to check the bag in, and thus having to pay.

Damn Ticketmaster charges the "convenience" fee, but my question is "What convenience?" Can I still go down to the venue and buy my tickets at the box office directly? I've seen that even the box office will charge you a "convenience" fee if you purchase the tickets online versus physically going to the box office, but a lot of times I've seen that the only way to get a ticket is through Ticketmaster and that's when I ask "what convenience?" since they are the only ones selling tickets.