I've always worked and supported myself and my daughter, never got child support got food stamps a couple times when I lost a job, but never stayed on it for more than a couple months. Now she's grown and we share a house and the bills, we both work hard and share the responsibilities of taking care of my granddaughter, we also make sure she spends time with her dad who lives an hour away. We both have good credit and I'm financially stable, but not enough to retired. Grocery prices keep going up and up, so much so that for us it pays to buy gas to drive an hour out of town to go to the nearest Walmart instead of shopping locally, and prices have even increased there. We can tough it out, I've cut back on extra things, but when are we going to start seeing prices lower. Gas here has gone down by about 50cents a gallon but they still hover around three dollars.
Yeah inflation may have stopped increasing but prices haven't been decreasing. I'm not dooming or anything just stating the reality of it all. We are holding on for things to trickle down and get better, but it's rough sometimes.