Food.
Lumber. I was planning out a project with teak wood and noped out as soon as I saw the prices.
Generally everything.
Have you seen how much you pay for “nothing special” groceries? $30 and you didn’t buy anything.
Couple cuts of meat $6, cheese $4, a loaf of bread $4, a gallon of milk $4, carton of eggs $5, and some random greenery and maybe some sweets $4.$6 for cuts of meat? Ground beef is like $8/lb near me.
Smith’s private selection ham, 1lbs is $9on sale nothing special just store brand deli meat.
Edit: updated with actual numbers
The pre-made ice coffee jugs like SToK/Starbucks/Califia etcetera. Feels like they’ve doubled in price over the last few years. I keep a couple in my fridge at all times.
I used to love SToK, but their prices became unacceptable to me
the 32 oz yogurts have been steadily climbing, if you want the goods one like fage chobani, expect 7-8$.
Sounds weird but, chocolate chips.
Oh, and a $70k Toyota Tacoma. $70,000, for a taco. The fuck is Toyota smoking?
A SR5 5x5 still cost 36K. The 4x2 is 32K.
The 70K one is Pro level one that’s full of incredibly expensive add-ons. The seats alone in that car cost like 5K. It’s basically a factory modded vehicle, nobody with any sense will buy that one. It used to top out at 50K, but that was before they offered it as racing truck from the factory. It’s basically trying to be a Ford Raptor.
They buy the mid-range ones that are around 40K, which is right in line with the average new vehicle cost.
Agreed on chocolate chips.
I found getting the small bags of ready-made cookie mix is more affordable at this point.
I bought two individual russet potatoes, came to about $5.50. In the past Ive always bought bags of potatoes, but they go bad sometimes before they get eaten, so Ive just been buying individual potatoes lately.
I’ve found transferring potatoes, onions, and other produce from the default bags to Ziplog bags and leaving them in the fridge helps to preserve them.
I haven’t seen someone say yet but used good. Like garage sales and thrift stores and auctions, everything is hiked up to be almost the same price as if you’d buy it new.
The non-Goodwill thrift stores around me are still affordable and they support local nonprofits
Prices in restaurants, cinema, and the fact im being laid off
I stopped buying chips when prices doubled. I stopped buying minced meat and chicken. I only buy eggs and coffee when it’s finally discounted. Now frozen vegetables doubled in price. I can’t just stop buying things.
Also, came back to Netherlands after a few years. Cigarettes over €10 and €7.50 for a beer wtf
literally everything. I stopped getting fast food and lottery tickets because they were no longer inconsequential amounts. I mean its not exactly a bad thing for my health and well being but its kinda crazy. Ironically. Relatively speaking. Healthier stuff is cheaper because less and less people can afford it. I even see soda companies desperately trying to raise prices but folks don’t have it. Every sale the shelves get cleared because everyone is stocking up to make it to the next sale. when no sale then none of it moves.
Computer parts and computers.
Eggs are back to 1.90-2 per dozen, but velveeta slices are $6 and a gallon of milk is $5-6 also
Scallions are still cheap but fish and shrimp, chicken and beef are way up. I cook most of my family’s food but if we want Uber Eats it’s always like $60-100. We are in Manhattan, but honestly when I visit family in FL or GA it’s not much better. Coffee is double what it was 2 years ago.
Politicians, they used to be expensive. Now it’s almost downright affordable.
Oh, you!
they still are the “bribes are just small cash donations” they dont account things like million dollar RVs, homes, yachts or investments(stocks, or real estate) which the public cant get the full scope of and other backdoor deals they do.
College. It was so much easier paying for my college education as a broke kid, then it is trying to pay for my kids college education at what’s supposed to be my prime earning years
wierdly 18 yos have to pay full tuition, unless they got scholarship right after the bat. this, or that you graduated already and wanted to go back as a post-bacculaureate, or saw a grad program that you only need a handful of classes to apply. at the time i wanst able to go back as post-bacc(dint have the money to afford more classes, and since its more expensive per class as “extended learnign student” and not undergrad, plus grad program i was looking at got more competitive than before. because you had to apply for graduation quite early in the final years of yuor college career, like the beginning and they dont allow you to rescind the graduation, if you needed more experience or more classes. i was tempted to purposely “not” pass a gwar class or another essential class, just to rescind it. post bacc and grad students pay more per semester than undergrad students of the same classes.
undergrad you can get grants and scholarships, post bacc or grad, mostly LOANS. If you are still an undergrad, you probably should apply to your states grant, scholarships for undergrads.
Apparently getting corrective eye surgery. Not that I ever had the procedure. How could I when I’d be dropping $7000?! I even tried applying for financial assistance, but my application was denied.
You are not rich enough not get financial aid. It’s only applicable to people with $$$, not plebs like us.
