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From: shediditagen
Date: 04-06-2005, 08:55 AM (1 of 15)
| I was shocked at the grocery store yesterday! Everything costs more, each item had gone up, especially fresh produce.......this is brought on by the cost of gas, everything is shipped by truck now.....where will it end? Betty |
User: shediditagen
Member since: 03-15-2005 Total posts: 28 |
From: Hogmami
Date: 04-06-2005, 11:44 AM (2 of 15)
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Never...........
Carolyn
Michigan |
User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800 
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 04-06-2005, 12:21 PM (3 of 15)
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They are talking about cutting down our Meals on wheals program for seniors here in town. Some of these people have no other way to get their food.
Barb
Happiness is having time to sew!! |
User: Mom of Six
Member since: 11-03-2001 Total posts: 1115 
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From: Hogmami
Date: 04-06-2005, 12:32 PM (4 of 15)
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That isn't very good. My mom gets meals on wheels but they haven't said anything about that yet. My mom lives in a senior apartment complex. Some of the people there don't have any family and can't drive anymore. The ones that do drive seem to take care of the ones that can't. In the winter when my mom won't drive very much I do her shopping and have also picked stuff up for other people there.
Carolyn
Michigan |
User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 04-06-2005, 03:44 PM (5 of 15)
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The prices of EVERYTHING are going up...not just gas, food, services, housing. It's not going to end, it's going to keep going and NONE of us are going to be able to afford anything. (the middle class will decline and there will only be the haves and the have-nots....thats been happening for the past 20 yrs.) Most of us already can't afford housing. Medical. Food. Gas. Power. My parents and grandparents would croak at the prices we pay for things. Back in 67 my grandparents bought a new Dodge for $2600. cash. THAT was a big thing. Now to own a decent car it's $20,000 or more. Bread back then was .50 cents a loaf. Now we're lucky if it's $3.00 My in-laws house was built in 71. They bought it new (in CA) for about $70,000. It's now worth (and who can pay the price) between $700,000 and $800,000. My sister can't afford a house. (a 'condo' shes been looking at 960 sq ft is going for $130,000) My house was bought in 95, for just over $80,000 (1500 sq ft brick) There are NO houses being built right now, so my house is in such demand, they come to the door, wanting us to sell it. Last week a builder sold 257 townhouses in my town, in -3- days. NONE of them have been built yet. NO models, no nothing. Just the roads they're being put on. They went for $150,000 each. In the past 2 yrs my house has 'appreciated' to the point that if we had to buy it today, we couldn't afford it. It's weird and getting weirder....it's not just gas..... Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414 
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From: plrlegal
Date: 04-06-2005, 04:52 PM (6 of 15)
Hey ladies think of it this way -- they're tring to turn the U.S. and Canada into third world countries so that the poor have to live like the poor in those other third world countries (hand outs by the governments) and the rich get all the money and live like "fat cats". We allow it to happen by the people we elect to run our governments.  Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: plrlegal
Date: 04-06-2005, 10:12 PM (7 of 15)
Speaking of the price of things in the grocery store -- this evening on the way home from choir rehearsal, DH decided to give me a lecture about how much I spend at the grocery store for groceries, Wal-Mart, etc., for laundry products, toiletries, etc. Well, guess who is going to be doing the grocery shopping, etc. at my house from now on.  Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 04-07-2005, 08:08 AM (8 of 15)
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I spent $74 just on vegetables last week. Well, there was a new Threads magazine. But other than that, fresh vegetables and a few canned like tomatoes and beans. And I have a 30 mile round trip to get them because our little market has limited choices. Almost makes you want to go back to meat and potatoes. They have plenty of that across the street. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Bama
Date: 04-09-2005, 10:40 PM (9 of 15)
It is getting awful. My grocery bill has gone up by about $30 a week in the past few weeks. And hubby's and my paycheck are the same.  EVERYTHING seems to be going up. We got a bill for our home owner's insurance today and it went up about $250 more a year for a THREE year old house. We didn't expect it to go up til the house was 10 years old. I suspect we're paying the insurance company for all the money they've paid out for the houses wiped out in the Florida hurricanes.  Hubby has started a large vegetable garden. He said the way our 16yo eats, we had better fill up the freezers this summer. We won't be able to afford to buy all our food from the grocery store if something doesn't give. |
User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000 Total posts: 2116 
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From: Hippiegirl
Date: 04-09-2005, 10:49 PM (10 of 15)
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Speaking of the price of things in the grocery store -- this evening on the way home from choir rehearsal, DH decided to give me a lecture about how much I spend at the grocery store for groceries, Wal-Mart, etc., for laundry products, toiletries, etc. Well, guess who is going to be doing the grocery shopping, etc. at my house from now on. Patsy IF you have Big Lots where you live, it's the best darn place to buy laundry products. $2 for liquid washing machine soap (forget cascade) $3 for Sun detergent instead of $7. It's the best place. However, It would be a dream to be able to buy a house for 150K. Here in Scal, the 1 bedroom condo I live in appraised for 178K 2 years ago, now the one bedroom condo next door is selling for 475K. I think a few Yurts will be nice. That I can afford. The drag is that people think Scal residents make more money...we don't. Not in my field. My same position pays the same no matter what city I chose to live in, so if I moved to Oklahoma, I'd be wealthier than living here. But the weather is the best in the world here. HG |
User: Hippiegirl
Member since: 03-21-2005 Total posts: 77 |
From: Hogmami
Date: 04-09-2005, 11:31 PM (11 of 15)
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We do most of our shopping at Sav-Alot. It is cheaper than the grocery store. I haven't been to a BIg Lots yet but there is one about 40 miles from here.
Carolyn
Michigan |
User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800
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From: DorothyL
Date: 04-10-2005, 08:38 AM (12 of 15)
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Prices are going up because it costs so much more to ship stuff with the gas prices. But when the gas prices go down, will everything else? I doubt it. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: SummersEchos
Date: 04-10-2005, 10:32 AM (13 of 15)
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Patsy, Back when I had a husband and 5 younger active kids, the H made the same kind of remark to me. So I let him decide what we should have and let him do the shopping. We did this for a couple of months, and finally he had enough. He tried to say I wasn't cooking his choices right, but he soon got over that. He couldn't believe how much cereal, milk and bread we went through in a week. I made him clip all the coupons (during that time we were in the coupon war) for the things he wanted to buy. If we ran out of something he had to stop to get it. We kept a notebook of the expense of all of it. Needless to say he soon understood I was not spending HIS money on needless things. He soon understood that fresh was more expensive than canned or pre-made. I said what give up flavor or money? I wasn't happy with the cost of groceries, but you need to eat and eat right! Sorry I didn't put DH, he wasn't all that dear, after #4 child. Summer Summer
FREE FALLIN |
User: SummersEchos
Member since: 09-29-2004 Total posts: 884 |
From: Serenity
Date: 04-15-2005, 09:30 PM (14 of 15)
Sav-A-Lot, Wonder Bread store, beans, rice....Gas up, stock market falling, hmmmm sound almost like the depression days to me..  Arub "The struggle is not greater than the goal". Be blessed. Stay encouraged.
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User: Serenity
Member since: 01-12-2005 Total posts: 85
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From: Onehunga2002
Date: 05-03-2005, 03:49 PM (15 of 15)
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It isn't just the US and Canada with the price problem, New Zealand is just as bad. Each time I go to the supermarket I am amazed at the cost and I buy the specials when ever possible. Our gov't in April put the gas up 5 cents a litre to help pay for roading costs. It is now 1.30 a litre for unleaded 91. They couldn't have picked a worse thing to put up as it does effect everything. Also as the prices go up people are buying more and more imports because they are so much cheaper especially from China. That in turn effects jobs. Don't see any end to it we just have to use our skills as money managers and make it stretch as far as possible. Anne NZ Anne
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User: Onehunga2002
Member since: 02-01-2002 Total posts: 6 |
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