Has inflation been hitting anyone here at all?

[Heisman2]

Just curious what changes people are noticing. I'm in Ohio and the price of apples in particular has gone up a lot. Milk has gone up too. Not much else that I typically purchases has changed, at least not in a significant enough way to make me really notice.

[paulinkansas]

Food. Tri-tip steak was $4 a pound 18 months ago. Now it's $6 a pound. Rib eye was $12, now it's $18.

Pizza Hut meat lovers was $12, now it's $18.

2 years ago I could buy a house with central heat & air for $9500 (in this town). Now you can't buy a house for under $20,000.

Ammunition has doubled in price, if you can find it. Same with reloading components.

Firearms. Each year I help run a fund raising banquet with about 50 guns. This year Benelli and Mossberg have pulled out nationwide from letting us buy from them for the banquet. Benelli = Ferrari. Mossberg = Ford.

My bulk cable/wifi accounts went up from $72 to $77 a month for each service address.

Pool chlorine, no explanation necessary.

[ManwittaPlan]

EVERYTHING has gone up here (i'm in Chicago).

even a crack head prostitute in the ghetto charges more (i actually ask them).

[air2fakie]

Just curious what changes people are noticing. I'm in Ohio and the price of apples in particular has gone up a lot. Milk has gone up too. Not much else that I typically purchases has changed, at least not in a significant enough way to make me really notice.

I think how much one notices everything has gone up by a little or more in price in the US depends largely on how necessarily tight one's budget is.

[air2fakie]

EVERYTHING has gone up here (i'm in Chicago).

even a crack head prostitute in the ghetto charges more (i actually ask them).

How about the clean & sober ones?

[BeginnerGainz]

Have you noticed the cost of gas in the past 7 months?

[EliKoehn]

Have you noticed the cost of gas in the past 7 months?

However that one has a lot more to do with foreign cartel supply quotas than domestic monetary policy.

[paulinkansas]

even a crack head prostitute in the ghetto charges more (i actually ask them).

How much is a crack head prostitute in the ghetto.

[MilkforBrains]

Add a few more dollars and welcome to western European prices boyss..

[MilkforBrains]

How much is a crack head prostitute in the ghetto.

Cheap enough for your wallet but too expensive for your immune system.

[ManwittaPlan]

How much is a crack head prostitute in the ghetto.

The going rate on chicagos west side was 20…good luck getting anything for even double that now.

[ManwittaPlan]

However that one has a lot more to do with foreign cartel supply quotas than domestic monetary policy.

Has nothing at all to do with the pipeline getting shut down.

[ManwittaPlan]

How about the clean & sober ones?

They’re in the misc section, I can inquire.

[EliKoehn]

Has nothing at all to do with the pipeline getting shut down.

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic... We still import a huge amount of oil. When they cut supply it drives prices up.

EDIT: And if it gets high enough, I doubt resistance to the pipeline and other laws against increased domestic production will win out against the annoyance of higher consumer prices and the allure to politicians of greater lobbying money to carry these programs out. My two cents, at least.

[Heisman2]

I think how much one notices everything has gone up by a little or more in price in the US depends largely on how necessarily tight one's budget is.

Very true but I tend to buy the same things over and over so notice all (or at least most) of the price changes.

[chacha15]

one Honey Crisp apple at Trader Joe's is $1.69

[desslok]

The going rate on chicagos west side was 20…good luck getting anything for even double that now.

Thats crazy! Almost up to EU prices.

[AdamWW]

one Honey Crisp apple at Trader Joe's is $1.69

I just discovered that my new home I bought in April has a Honey Crisp tee in the backyard =o)

[BeginnerGainz]

However that one has a lot more to do with foreign cartel supply quotas than domestic monetary policy.

It has a lot to do with ending oil and gas leases in the US, and fukking over the UAE and the Saudi Arabians.

Biden literally just begged OPEC to up their exports to the US to make up for the shortage.

[air2fakie]

Very true but I tend to buy the same things over and over so notice all (or at least most) of the price changes.

Buy a new 6-pack of those cheap white athletic socks you've been wearing way for too long, and you'll prob notice they're also few bucks more than a couple of years ago.

[EliKoehn]

It has a lot to do with ending oil and gas leases in the US, and fukking over the UAE and the Saudi Arabians.

Biden literally just begged OPEC to up their exports to the US to make up for the shortage.

Yeah, that's embarrassing and exudes weakness IMO. I'm not commenting on the desirability of the situation, but rather the current economic scenario as it is.

Are you saying they're behaving with reprisal towards us for instigating something, or that we should be more belligerent towards them? Saudi Arabia and the UAE have decent relations with the US, relative to the region in general. If you mean the former, I'm not sure what you could be referring to, and if you mean the latter, I don't know what policy would be productive, as pertains oil prices.

[desslok]

Buy a new 6-pack of those cheap white athletic socks you've been wearing way for too long, and you'll prob notice they're also few bucks more than a couple of years ago.

I can definitely feel the pinch of inflation. When I was a kid there was a big chain place called 19 Cent Hamburger stand, later it changed to 29 cent hamburger stand. Tacos and bean burritos were 59 cents at Taco Bell, and they had a 39 cent Fiesta menu. Big Macs were 2 for $2, Whoppers were 99 cents. Ice Cream at Thriftys was 15 cents, 20 cents for double scoop and 25 cents for a triple. When I was 19 I bought my first brand new car, it was a 1994 Toyota truck for $7699. I remember the “scare” of if we went to war with Iraq in the early 90s it was going to push the price of gasoline to over the $1 mark, people acted like it was the end of the world, gas had never been that much.

[ManwittaPlan]

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic... We still import a huge amount of oil. When they cut supply it drives prices up.

EDIT: And if it gets high enough, I doubt resistance to the pipeline and other laws against increased domestic production will win out against the annoyance of higher consumer prices and the allure to politicians of greater lobbying money to carry these programs out. My two cents, at least.

Yes that’s sarcasm….it’s too obvious.

[EliKoehn]

Yes that’s sarcasm….it’s too obvious.

I often miss it over text; always tended to be literal-minded and somewhat gullible.

[friesbruh]

somewhat.

- met someone at some ice cream shop near centerville, ohio and the shop wanted like 6 bucks for 2 a little cup of it or something crazy. not sure what it was before but 6 bucks for like 2.5 scoops of icecream seems stupid high. i was meeting a girl there, was going to just pay whatever but wood not go back with those kinds of prices.

- some of the Thorntons in Ohio (SW Ohio near cincy) used to have self serve ice cream cones that were hnnnnnnnnnnng cuz it let you have all the toppings you wanted (m and m's, sprinkles, etc) for literally just 99 cents, i mean what deal, but now are now $2.49 for the smallest cup, like 4 bucks for the biggest. pi$$ poor shame thats gone srs

- also noticed the 10pc ryobi drill bit set and the 10pc i think it is driver set went up from 14.99 regular to 19.99.

chits getting out of hand srs

[redmelly]

My poke bowl is now $19. Used to be $15.

[ManwittaPlan]

I often miss it over text; always tended to be literal-minded and somewhat gullible.

Ha ha no biggie it sounds different on here

[paulinkansas]

Some of you have probably never heard/seen a corn dispenser. There is one in my town. You put money in the machine and it dispenses a predetermined amount of corn out the tube and into the container that you brought with you. Last year $40 would get 450 pounds of corn. Yesterday $40 gets 360 pounds of corn. You might be wondering why people need to buy corn in 100 pound increments in Kansas. That dispenser is made to look like you are buying corn to feed deer. But corn is the primary feedstock ingredient for making moonshine. General rule of thumb is 50 pounds of corn makes a gallon of 'shine. A friend of mine is an accountant, and he makes 'shine. His vision is pretty bad though.



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[EliKoehn]

That's actually a pretty cool idea. Cut out the middle man and sell grain directly to the consumer wholesale.

[paulinkansas]

That's actually a pretty cool idea. Cut out the middle man and sell grain directly to the consumer wholesale.

The guy that owns the corn dispenser is the largest farmer in this county. He farms about 5000 acres. If you saw him in the way he dresses and in what he drives, you'd think he is dirt poor. His biggest tractor is probably half a million dollars.