Less than ten per cent of the population has access to the Internet, and, with two-thirds of the population surviving on less than two dollars per day, expensive smartphones and tablets aren't about to replace print media as the news-reading platform of choice.
Batteries that store excess power for night time or cloudy days remain expensive, although costs are coming down.
And a fresh horror: the round robin letter about children's parties which, as we know these days, are expensive and demanding.
These days, the expensive tickets are for maudlin Danish princes, not singing mermaid princesses.Hard times squelched quite a few shows, especially musicals.
Nevertheless, the study suggests there is flab to be trimmed.Manpower in all-volunteer armies, as most Western ones are these days, is expensive.
But with customers thinking twice these days about expensive trinkets, she is helping her boss prepare to vacate the shop and consolidate it with a sister store in a less expensive part of town.
Natural dyes, which come mostly from plants these days, are expensive, require larger quantities to create the same depth in colour, and need mordants (which include heavy metal salts) to stick to the fabric.
The company's actual business was selling computers in those days, mostly expensive servers.
It costs $299 and that's not a lot if you can save days of expensive studio time you would need to record acoustic drums.
Others have been up for days on expensive champagne and speedy diet pills and end up looking like muddy scarecrows.
