Recently, I came across a post from Reddit user Triceline on the popular Ask Reddit page wherein they asked, “What’s the most overpriced thing people buy just to flex?” and OMG, reading the answers was kinda cathartic. I’m curious to see if people agree with these, so I thought I’d share! Here are some of the best answers:
1. “Luxury clothing for babies. They’ll grow out of those $600 Fendi baby booties before they can even figure out how to not use every piece of furniture as a Kleenex. Only the parents who fuss too much care.”
— u/BookLuvr7
2. “Food topped with edible gold. I’ve heard that it has no flavor.”
— u/12345_PIZZA
“I’ve had gold leaf steak tartar and ice cream. It looks cool. You feel rich. It has no flavor at all. Doesn’t even make your poop sparkle. Not worth it.”
— u/sumthingawsum
3. “Labubus.”
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— u/Direct-Isopod2094
4. “Designer sneakers that look exactly like $40 sneakers but cost $800. It’s basically paying rent money just to say ‘look at my shoes!'”
— u/Public-Win426
5. “Natural diamonds are wildly expensive when you can get a nearly flawless lab-grown one for a fraction of the price. And no, no one can tell.”
— u/worstpartyever
6. “Bottle service.”
— u/Mike_ZzZzZ
7. “NFTs. LOL.”
— u/deleted
8. “Clothing. Paying hundreds or even thousands for a cotton T-shirt that has a certain logo on it. Fashion brands in general. They make some of the ugliest shit, and people eat it up.”
— u/shoogshoog
“I have to admit, when I was 16, back in 1967, I used to think wearing a T-shirt like that was really cool. Then, when I started to buy my own clothes, I realized: Why am I spending extra money to advertise a shirt for some other company? They should be paying me for doing that.’ That’s the last time I ever bought a shirt with anything written on it.”
— u/Upstairs-Radish1816
9. “Tesla Cybertrucks. They fail at trucking, and the car wash can destroy the electric system.”
— u/verminiusrex
10. “Stanley cups.”
— u/kittenshavecutepaws
11. “In a lot of cases, expensive brand tools. The weekend warriors don’t need Snap-on.”
— u/BelugaBilliam
12. “Lifted trucks.”
— u/DrummerBob10
“A $100k diesel 4×4 quad cab lifted pickup to drive on the freeway back and forth to the office.”
— u/TraditionalBackspace
13. “Watches!”
— u/AardvarkStriking256
“As somebody who BUYS these types of watches, I totally agree. I could 100% buy something that looks and performs similarly at a fraction of the cost.
In some cases, it’s a flex, but honestly, I have watches that nobody even knows are expensive, which I enjoy even more than the ‘obvious’ ones. It’s weird.”
— u/thedarklordxenu
14. “Cars in general. They’re the number one thing that keeps people in debt more than anything, at least in the US.”
— u/JohnElectron
15. “Homes on golf courses. I worked at a course years ago. It wasn’t a super upscale place with mansions lining every fairway, but it had like 20 houses on it. Out of the 20 homeowners who lived on that course, exactly three of them actually played golf.”
— u/Phobia117
16. “Video game weapons and character skins. Flex your gameplay, not the pixels you just purchased.”
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— u/wolfeerine
17. “Aesop handsoap.”
— u/Ill_Zookeepergame300
“I don’t care how poor I may become; the amount of joy washing my hands and hair with Aesop brings me is worth the price.”
— u/BrainOfMush
18. Lastly, “Printer ink!”
— u/lionsdude54
So, what do you think? Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments. You can leave your own example if you want! Or, if you want to say something but prefer to remain anonymous, you can write in to this anonymous form.
