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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

By this time everybody knows that bottled water is a rip off. In our naive youth (ten years ago), we thought that bottled water was extra pure, double filtered, mountain spring goodness. Now we know that we are paying between 99 cents and $1.50 for tap water. But there are other places where you are getting ripped off every day and you probably don't even know it.



Today's Random Fact:

Although it costs less than ten cents per ounce to produce, popcorn in movie theaters will typically cost you around $5, which ounce-for-ounce is more than filet mignon! Movie theaters mark up pop corn and many other concessions over 1,000 percent!

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Bonus Fact:

It costs a carrier about one-third of a cent to deliver a text message. Users, however, generally pay between 10 to 20 cents per text. That is a markup of over 6,500 percent!