Inflation in your area?
 

The buzz in my area (N. Cal.) is how expensive groceries are. I just came from the store and have not noticed any price changes yet. Milk and eggs are the same, in fact I even bought canned tuna fish for .48 cents a can. I expect some inflation may come, but not yet. Has anyone else noticed any changes yet?

Funny, earlier this winter my parents were in SoCal, and they were telling me just how much cheaper food was there than here in Canada...

I can't give you an exact figure, but honestly it's been pretty obvious here. I live alone, and when I moved here I was expecting to be spending maybe $65 or so a week on groceries, but I'm probably spending a good $80 now. I'd say since last year the prices have gone up at least 1.5 times.

I've noticed the same thing here. The price of groceries here has gone up quite a bit. Same thing here. We used to pay maybe $40-$50 a week for groceries for just us two people. Now it's jumped to $70 to $80 for a week supply of essentials. The prices of all the foods, especially stuff like cerial and coffee and milk are skyrocketing here. Not to mention the nationwide yogurt rip off where they started putting all the yogurt in tiny little cans and still charge the same price they used to be when they were in the larger cans. They're doing the same thing with breakfast cerial. Look how many small boxes there are now compared to just a few years ago.. and they're charging more for those small boxes than they used to charge for the larger boxes back then.
That's mostly what we're seeing here. The ammounts are shrinking but not the price so you have to buy more of the product to equal what you used to buy and all the food manufacturers are doing this now.

I have noticed a few select items that have gone up in price. Milk, eggs, etc. Gas has taken a dip for the better. For the most part, we really have not been affected by the gas increase or inflation increase. Sure, we notice some costs on things are just way out of line but we learn how to budget just a bit better. My wife is very good at the grocery store and make it work for basically $150.00/week to feed a family of four. Does not include the weekends as we usually eat out at some inexpensive restaurants. She bases our meals on what is on sale for the week. Do not send me to the store!!! Last time I went I came back with nothing but meats and cereal. No vegetables. It was a sad state of affairs really. But hey, I never had to go again:up:

My wife and I shop together every week. We mostly buy the same stuff and compareing receipts from prior week it flucuates somewhat up and down.

We always look for sales and have found "some " store brands a bargain and equal quality.

So who knows ? We eat good and Healthy at the same time.

On the weekends we either order out or go out to dinner.

Costs must be going up somewhere. My wife just saw that my cost of living increase will be 5.8 percent next year versus 2.3 percent this past year. I know our daughter-in-law complains about the cost of the groceries, but she does a lot of complaining anyway:D

I don't know about in the US but over here in the UK as oil prices were rising the price of petrol at the pump went with it, however the invers hasn't been true, oil prices have dropped steeply in the last two weeks but it is only now that retailers are dropping the price. Certainly not coming down as fast as it went up.

I know what you mean with the gas prices. I walked by a gas station earlier this week and was shocked to see that the price was less than $1/liter. That's something I hadn't seen in a long, long time now :o

Oil vs fuel prices - when oil was $150 a barrel, we paid $1.50 a litre. Now oil is as low as $75 a barrel, and we're still paying on avg $1.50.

please explain??:doh:

Costs for basic foods has also gone up, they blamed the rise in the price of petrol, and until that comes down there will be no change.

I have my own suspicions on the petrol companies though, by not lowering the price they're getting people used to a certain price. Now, when oil rises to say, $100, they'll jack up the price of petrol again and say its because oil is high.

Unfortunately, everyone seems to forget that last time oil prices were at this level we paid roughly $1 a litre.

thieves i say.

Ah yes. The secret to dumping a chore you don't want to do is to never refuse to do it, that just earns you marital trouble, just screw it up badly enough to be declared incompetent. :up:

Note taken guys - my fiancee will hate my newfound incompetence and no doubt it'll lead to a much easier life for both of us :p

I need your help.

Been cleaning the kitty liter boxes [3 of them] for almost 11 years EVERY DAY.

Do I get rid of her or the cats?

I like the idea of keeping the cats since they don't say much and never complain [in English]. ;)

They meow a bit now and then, but I can yell at them to SHUT UP!

A regular sized Snickers bar was .69 3 weeks ago. I saw it at .93 today..... and I remember the days when they were a quarter. Man I'm getting old!

I remember when they were .15 cents at Sophie's corner Grocery Store in Hamtramac. 20 cents for a longneck glass bottle of Pepsi. But Dad was also only bringin' home 80 dollars a week, and Mom would buy groceries for a family of 4 for 15 dollars. Then the oil embargo of 73 hit, and everything went to h-e-double hockey stcks in a handbag after that.

Unfortunately you have established a long term precedent but this may potentially ease your burden:

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