We don't eat out, and we started planting like crazy. We don't spend unnecessary money, but this month, I just don't know what happened. We get a tax return this week, so we won't suffer a lot, but I have to keep track of spending money next month.

I bake my own bread, cook my own food, don't go to the movies, no newspapers, nothing.

When it comes to gas in Germany: a liter is @ €2, so a gallon is €7.56, $7.88. This is insane, I have to fill two cars once or twice a month.

We will survive this, and I know it will be harder in late summer, early fall. As I said: things will escalate quickly. Europe will suffer hard, the markets are gonna crash, we won't have enough heating gas in winter, food shortages will come.

We're prepared, I stocked up food a while ago, my mother in law bought a lot of wood for her oven to heat her house, so my guess is, in winter we will gather at her house, sit around the oven and cook meals over charcoal in a dutch oven. Let's see what happens. Maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt.