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- Useful and ugly preferred to expensive and beautiful. J245
- High wages bring expensive living. J342
- Barber leaves inexpensive village for high wages in city. Finds cost of living more than enough to take all his profit. J342.1
- Points of view. Man to friend who drinks very little: "If everyone drank as you do, wine would be cheap." Answer: "On the contrary, it would be expensive because I drink all I want." J1315
- Any boon desired. Stingy king insists on trickster asking any boon desired. By asking king to perform disgusting act, trickster compels king to give expensive gift. J1593
- An expensive joke. A shoemaker's apprentice greases boots as he would grease a fowl. The owner in anger returns and breaks a window. J1631
- Expensive wood burned to make charcoal. J2094
- Expensive means of being rid of insects. J2102
- Expensive extermination of rodents. J2103
- Dentist duped to pull out two teeth for one because of the expensiveness. J2213.7
- Miser decides to kill his pigs himself. Refuses to pay fee. Chain of circumstances make it infinitely more expensive. W153.9
- Enmity between priests and monks: chickens and eggs. Monks eat eggs and make chickens expensive; priests eat hens and make eggs high. X428