I know they don't count groceries in the calculations, but my wife and I just spent over $500 at the supermarket. That has never happen in our 38 year marriage with 3 rock solid patriot young adults still at home. Inflation is absurd.
It shouldn't be called inflation, it should be acknowledged as devaluation of the dollar, meaning we all are getting poorer and having to work longer, a slow rolling communist society taking place. Our money ain't worth the paper its printed on!!
Amazingly enough, I lowered my food expenditures in 2021. I'm also eating a lot less food and have lost 5 inches on my waistline since November 2020 after switching to intermittent fasting and then OMAD (One Meal A Day).
We locked in our electricity rates for 3 years and the rest of our bills are fixed amounts (mortgage, etc.) so we're doing pretty well in spite of the insanity.
The main difference is it costs a lot more to fill up the tank, but we switched from T-Mobile to Total Wireless and cut our phone bill by over $100 which about evens it out.
My food bill might be higher now, but it's mostly because of stocking and stacking. The local grocery stores have turkeys in the 30 cents a pound range. 85% hamburger is less than $4. Canned food at some of the stores is well under 50 cents a can. The only thing that's really high is steaks, and I don't buy them anyway, as they've always been too expensive for me.
I'm going to start baking bread next week and see how that goes. I already know how to make biscuits, but I want to try some bread for sandwiches.
As a person who lived 16 years in a country with hyper inflation (Brazil) during the 80’s and part of the 90’s I can tell this is NOTHING not even a tickle. This country and generation is gonna know what hyper inflation is. It’s coming. I remember eating snacks (chips, chocolate, soda, cookies etc) only once a month bc once my mother got her salary, she had to run and shop for the whole month on that day, preferably in the morning bc in the afternoon she wouldn’t be able to buy the same amount of items she could buy a few ours earlier so you can have an idea how fast hyper inflation deteriorated one’s buying power. The whole country had only 2 national paydays, so imagine the whole nation rushing to the stores on the same day. The stores where packed of people grabbing as much as they could and sometimes some products disappeared in minutes. I remember seeing shortages, infinite lines in the stores and at the registers, we used to spend hours in the lines sitting on the store’s floor and going back home exhausted. I remember having constant shortages of many essential items including meat, propane, gas, milk, you name it. Once in a while the government had to change our currency and cut the zeros as the number always sounded too high and also couldn’t fit on a bill, or a price tag and nobody could carry so much useless cash. I grew up believing it’s important to always prepare, learn how to fix broken things and reuse things as much as possible. Prepare psychologically to live a more frugal lifestyle, learn how to replace ingredients of recipes, make your own clothes, toys, tools, food, simplify and invent, be creative and save whatever you can, bc under hyper inflation you might not be able to buy tomorrow something you bought today. It’s this fast. Sorry for my English.
Filled up today. Two people at pumps behind me. Took $50 to do what halt that once did. Told them "I'm guessing you don't care, but I HATE Joe Biden". Got in car, kinda proud of self. Drove away.
I know they don't count groceries in the calculations, but my wife and I just spent over $500 at the supermarket. That has never happen in our 38 year marriage with 3 rock solid patriot young adults still at home. Inflation is absurd.
Gallon??? Here in Greece it's priced by the litre. If it was sold by the gallon the price would be in double figures.
And on our island the price of electricity just increased by 50%. It's going to be a cold winter.
It shouldn't be called inflation, it should be acknowledged as devaluation of the dollar, meaning we all are getting poorer and having to work longer, a slow rolling communist society taking place. Our money ain't worth the paper its printed on!!
Amazingly enough, I lowered my food expenditures in 2021. I'm also eating a lot less food and have lost 5 inches on my waistline since November 2020 after switching to intermittent fasting and then OMAD (One Meal A Day).
We locked in our electricity rates for 3 years and the rest of our bills are fixed amounts (mortgage, etc.) so we're doing pretty well in spite of the insanity.
The main difference is it costs a lot more to fill up the tank, but we switched from T-Mobile to Total Wireless and cut our phone bill by over $100 which about evens it out.
Praise God for taking care of my family.
That will all be covered in the new carbon tax we'll have to pay for eventually.
My food bill might be higher now, but it's mostly because of stocking and stacking. The local grocery stores have turkeys in the 30 cents a pound range. 85% hamburger is less than $4. Canned food at some of the stores is well under 50 cents a can. The only thing that's really high is steaks, and I don't buy them anyway, as they've always been too expensive for me.
I'm going to start baking bread next week and see how that goes. I already know how to make biscuits, but I want to try some bread for sandwiches.
The grocery prices went up here. Oddly enough fuel prices dropped Friday and only by a few cents but they did drop.
As a person who lived 16 years in a country with hyper inflation (Brazil) during the 80’s and part of the 90’s I can tell this is NOTHING not even a tickle. This country and generation is gonna know what hyper inflation is. It’s coming. I remember eating snacks (chips, chocolate, soda, cookies etc) only once a month bc once my mother got her salary, she had to run and shop for the whole month on that day, preferably in the morning bc in the afternoon she wouldn’t be able to buy the same amount of items she could buy a few ours earlier so you can have an idea how fast hyper inflation deteriorated one’s buying power. The whole country had only 2 national paydays, so imagine the whole nation rushing to the stores on the same day. The stores where packed of people grabbing as much as they could and sometimes some products disappeared in minutes. I remember seeing shortages, infinite lines in the stores and at the registers, we used to spend hours in the lines sitting on the store’s floor and going back home exhausted. I remember having constant shortages of many essential items including meat, propane, gas, milk, you name it. Once in a while the government had to change our currency and cut the zeros as the number always sounded too high and also couldn’t fit on a bill, or a price tag and nobody could carry so much useless cash. I grew up believing it’s important to always prepare, learn how to fix broken things and reuse things as much as possible. Prepare psychologically to live a more frugal lifestyle, learn how to replace ingredients of recipes, make your own clothes, toys, tools, food, simplify and invent, be creative and save whatever you can, bc under hyper inflation you might not be able to buy tomorrow something you bought today. It’s this fast. Sorry for my English.
Your English is better than that of most people posting here.
(As a native English speaker and Copy Editor, I'm fully qualified to make that judgement.)
Czesc!
Filled up today. Two people at pumps behind me. Took $50 to do what halt that once did. Told them "I'm guessing you don't care, but I HATE Joe Biden". Got in car, kinda proud of self. Drove away.