It's funny what people rate as "good value" or as a "rip off" in these straitened times we're living. I've never heard so many moans about the price of a sausage at Manchester Christmas Markets this year, yet I've also never seen so many people out scoffing the £7 treat.
Meanwhile I was agog to discover last week that it can cost up to £50 a ticket to watch a Premier League football game, and yet thousands upon thousands head out to do that every weekend. I see plenty of moans on social media about the results, the team selection, the managers - but rarely about the price of the ticket.
Then there's the thousands of us who clamoured to buy Peter Kay tickets in October for the rather bargainous price of £35. Yet thousands more gritted their teeth and ended up spending up to FIVE times that price for the SAME TICKET on resale sites - just to be there at his big Manchester homecoming gigs.
