Travel costs have soared since the pandemic — with one mode now absurdly expensive

Travel costs have soared since the pandemic — with one mode now absurdly expensive

Ay, car-rumba. A new study shows the cost of travel has skyrocketed since 2019 — with rental car prices far and away the most inflated, compared to pre-COVID. NerdWallet found that the expense of having your own wheels away from home was a whopping 39.3% higher in March 2024 versus five years ago, in March … Read more

You can soon get $780 strawberries and $128 melons delivered straight to your door

You can soon get 0 strawberries and 8 melons delivered straight to your door

These fruits are forbidden no more. Americans no longer need to fly to Japan to taste one of their $90 strawberries. For the first time ever, US customers can get the Asian nation’s famously pricey fruits delivered right to their doorstep, courtesy of a trailblazing Japanese startup called Ikigai Fruits. The supplier is currently offering … Read more

Gold-wrapped steak, bottomless Dom Pérignon: Inside one restaurant’s $20K NYE dinner

Gold-wrapped steak, bottomless Dom Pérignon: Inside one restaurant’s K NYE dinner

This is for the belle of the New Year’s Eve ball-ers. New York City’s Empire Steak House is “blinging” in the New Year with a lavish, $20,000 NYE feast for two featuring gold-wrapped steaks, bottomless Dom Pérignon and other ritzy dishes. “People want something unusual,” co-owner Jack Sinanaj, 53, told The Post of the iced-out … Read more

I accidentally ordered a $2,000 drink on New Years — my husband left me at the bar

I accidentally ordered a ,000 drink on New Years — my husband left me at the bar

A woman has revealed her husband walked off, leaving her to deal with the fallout, after she accidentally ordered a cocktail that had a price tag of over two thousand dollars. Lynsey took to social media to reveal she, her husband and her sister had been staying at a five-star hotel in London for New … Read more

World’s most expensive cheese sells for $32K at auction

World’s most expensive cheese sells for K at auction

It cost a lot of cheddar. Don’t drizzle this on a Ritz cracker: A Spanish Cabrales blue cheese has broken the record for most expensive cheese ever after getting auctioned off for over $32,000 at a local cheese festival. “We knew we had a good cheese but also that it is very difficult to win,” … Read more

Out-of-pocket expenses voted top barrier to healthcare access

Out-of-pocket expenses voted top barrier to healthcare access

Only 34% of Americans have visited their primary care doctor in the past year. A new survey of 2,000 U.S. adults examined their biggest barriers to healthcare access. Out-of-pocket expenses were a major concern, with 53% stating this would impact their decision to not seek medical care if they needed it. Nearly half (49%) also … Read more

One celeb wore an $8M watch to Michael Rubin’s 4th of July bash

One celeb wore an M watch to Michael Rubin’s 4th of July bash

Diamonds, diamonds dancing at Michael Rubin’s all-white party. Chad Alexander Kwiatkowski, a watch influencer on TikTok under the handle @chad.alexander, revealed the cost of watches Hollywood elites wore to Fanatics CEO Rubin’s exclusive, star-studded Fourth of July bash in the Hamptons on July 4. In a 2-minute clip posted on TikTok, Kwiatkowski unveils each flossy timepiece — reportedly scaling … Read more

Bougie burger: Philly’s Drury Beer Garden slings $700 hamburger

Bougie burger: Philly’s Drury Beer Garden slings 0 hamburger

This is one bougie burger. A Philadelphia restaurant that opened on Friday is serving hamburgers with a $700 price tag. The delicacy — on the menu at the DBG, the Drury Beer Garden and dubbed the “Gold Standard” — is made of A5 Wagyu beef, caviar, truffle, lobster flambeed with Louis XIII cognac, gold leaf and … Read more

A $5,400 regimen claims its NYC’s ‘hardest, most expensive workout class’

A ,400 regimen claims its NYC’s ‘hardest, most expensive workout class’

On a recent Saturday morning, the newly-minted 54D fitness studio on W. 25th St. was a hive of nervous and excited energy. The rubber turf was packed with adults of all ages and physiques, jockeying for space, stretching their hamstrings and mentally preparing for their sixth consecutive workout of the week. Latin music pumped through … Read more

Balenciaga selling ‘dirty’ outfit covered in holes for $5K

Balenciaga selling ‘dirty’ outfit covered in holes for K

The bigger the hole, the bigger the dough? Balenciaga is selling “dirty” outfits covered in holes — for over $5,000. The fashion house’s Summer 2023 collection has hit stores and features an “oversize jacket” and “super destroyed baggy trousers” with multiple pockets priced at nearly $3,000 and $2,300, respectively. The front of both pieces has … Read more

Poop-covered van Dyck painting found in NY shed sells for $3M

Poop-covered van Dyck painting found in NY shed sells for M

It seemed like a lot of money for such a crappy painting. An Anthony van Dyck piece found in a shed in upstate New York has sold for a staggering $3.1 million at auction. The long-lost work was auctioned off at Sotheby’s “Master Paintings Part 1” sale on Thursday, alongside pieces by Agnolo “Bronzino” di … Read more

Roxy Jacenko defends daughter’s extravagant Christmas wishlist which includes $6K handbag

Roxy Jacenko defends daughter’s extravagant Christmas wishlist which includes K handbag

Roxy Jacenko has hit back at critics who slammed her 11-year-old daughter’s “extravagant” Christmas wishlist – which includes a $6000 handbag. The Sydney mom said the people who found issues with her daughter Pixie’s Christmas wishlist had “too much time on their hands”. “Clothes and swimwear. Hardly unreasonable for a tween,” she told News.com.au. “Ask … Read more