When I went to my country fair I refused to spend a single dime when I discovered that a small lemonade was $5.00, a can of soda was $3.00, a soft pretzel was $8.00 (without cheese) etc.
ABout that $8.00 pretzel. Was salt included in the price, or was it sold separately?
IMO Pretzels are useless w/o salt. I mean, what’s the point?
We went to the Ky state fair last night. My daughter bought:
Herself spicy hot dog $10
Husband Philly cheese steak $12. They shared a lemonade $8
My oldest grandboy 1 ft long corn dog $10, lemonade $5
Youngest grandboy fries $6, Lemonade $5
That’s 56 bucks and the boys were hungry again in 2 hours and ate again on the way home (cost?—I would say they ate at a fast food place like McDs so another say $30).
I know they bought the boys cotton candy. So say they spent conservatively $100 on food total in 4 hours. $45 tickets and parking. Say $20 gas. Grand total $165.
I bought a pineapple smoothie for $6 and my wife shared it.
Then we went to Cattleman’s steakhouse later (930 pm) and had 2 steaks and all you can eat salad bars for $35. Plus $22 tickets $10 gas. Say $75 total.
They didn’t ride the attractions which would have been $35 each or buy trinkets/gifts which were everywhere.
People can spend some serious money at the fair.
I visit about 2-4 local fair events a summer to support a fire department, Church or private school and I know that the price will be high but I look at it as a donation to the charity.
I'll set an amount that I'm going to spend {donate} and when I hit that number I'm gone.
If you look at the individual price of an article, you will get upset and do what you did, leave.