We REALLY have been spending more but getting less

[Anonymous]

We have had some dramatic increases the past few years. Fortunately we are now done with child care except for summers but it was going up at least 10% per year from 2020-2023.

My homeowners insurance is up $500 from last year. I know insurers are taking a beating with claims so I get it but it's still a higher cost.

Property taxes are going up about $1K this year and that's not factoring in the proposed rate increase. We are paying significantly more in property taxes and while it's good the house is worth more we still have that expense.

Food is noticeably more expensive but that has been beaten to death on this thread.

[Anonymous]

I used a website to shop around for car insurance and am saving $300 off what I paid a year ago.

Results may vary based on your individual situation, but everything other than property tax hikes can be negotiated. Those you have to vote against and good luck doing that around here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is what happens when the government incessantly prints money that’s backed by nothing

Not only that, it's Bidenomics at work. INflation always surges during democratic presidencies. Everything is out of control. OP, I agree with you. Groceries, in particular, have become obscene

There was literally an article in a local media site written by a local reporter that priced and tracked common items in four different grocery stores in the same community in NOVA. He did this for weeks, interviewed the store managers, and determined that people who pay attention to prices are affecting grocery prices dynamically.

Grocery ADHD will cost you a fortune. Being an airhead is far more expensive than inherent inflation due to macro economics is.

If you blame all your personal problems on a political figure or give that figure credit when things go well in your personal life, you’re always one election away from being unhappy and whining.

Further to this point, 5 products are responsible for 30% of grocery store inflation: beef, chicken, fruits and vegetables and snacks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/02/grocery-price-inflation-biden/

I have not read the article, but from what you have posted it appears to be entirely pointless and misleading. The impacts of inflation aren’t impactful over weeks, it’s months and years.

For example I started budgeting and shopping at Aldi in 2021. From when I started shopping there I have seen the following prices rising significantly over 3 years.

Bread $1.75 to $3
Raisins $2.50 to $4.50
Milk $3 to $4.75
Cheese $1.75 to $3
Apples $2.50 to $4
Spinach $1.75 to $3

The internet is so cool. Anyone can search on the Aldi website and see that you're a liar. https://new.aldi.us/

Aldi prices are different in each zip code you imbecile.

[Anonymous]

It’s bad. I only get a 3% raise each year, just sticking it out for retirement benefits. I eat PB&J every day and save the “good stuff” for my kids. Not much else I can reasonably cut out.

Oddly, I recall in my younger days how I used to work to stay thin. Circumstances have changed, and now when I see someone overweight I’m jealous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is what happens when the government incessantly prints money that’s backed by nothing

Not only that, it's Bidenomics at work. INflation always surges during democratic presidencies. Everything is out of control. OP, I agree with you. Groceries, in particular, have become obscene

There was literally an article in a local media site written by a local reporter that priced and tracked common items in four different grocery stores in the same community in NOVA. He did this for weeks, interviewed the store managers, and determined that people who pay attention to prices are affecting grocery prices dynamically.

Grocery ADHD will cost you a fortune. Being an airhead is far more expensive than inherent inflation due to macro economics is.

If you blame all your personal problems on a political figure or give that figure credit when things go well in your personal life, you’re always one election away from being unhappy and whining.

Further to this point, 5 products are responsible for 30% of grocery store inflation: beef, chicken, fruits and vegetables and snacks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/02/grocery-price-inflation-biden/

I have not read the article, but from what you have posted it appears to be entirely pointless and misleading. The impacts of inflation aren’t impactful over weeks, it’s months and years.

For example I started budgeting and shopping at Aldi in 2021. From when I started shopping there I have seen the following prices rising significantly over 3 years.

Bread $1.75 to $3
Raisins $2.50 to $4.50
Milk $3 to $4.75
Cheese $1.75 to $3
Apples $2.50 to $4
Spinach $1.75 to $3

The internet is so cool. Anyone can search on the Aldi website and see that you're a liar. https://new.aldi.us/

Aldi prices are different in each zip code you imbecile.

Do you not know how to use the website, PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what happens when the government incessantly prints money that’s backed by nothing

Not only that, it's Bidenomics at work. INflation always surges during democratic presidencies. Everything is out of control. OP, I agree with you. Groceries, in particular, have become obscene

There was literally an article in a local media site written by a local reporter that priced and tracked common items in four different grocery stores in the same community in NOVA. He did this for weeks, interviewed the store managers, and determined that people who pay attention to prices are affecting grocery prices dynamically.

Grocery ADHD will cost you a fortune. Being an airhead is far more expensive than inherent inflation due to macro economics is.

If you blame all your personal problems on a political figure or give that figure credit when things go well in your personal life, you’re always one election away from being unhappy and whining.

Further to this point, 5 products are responsible for 30% of grocery store inflation: beef, chicken, fruits and vegetables and snacks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/02/grocery-price-inflation-biden/

I have not read the article, but from what you have posted it appears to be entirely pointless and misleading. The impacts of inflation aren’t impactful over weeks, it’s months and years.

For example I started budgeting and shopping at Aldi in 2021. From when I started shopping there I have seen the following prices rising significantly over 3 years.

Bread $1.75 to $3
Raisins $2.50 to $4.50
Milk $3 to $4.75
Cheese $1.75 to $3
Apples $2.50 to $4
Spinach $1.75 to $3

The internet is so cool. Anyone can search on the Aldi website and see that you're a liar. https://new.aldi.us/

Aldi prices are different in each neighborhood. As are organic/non-organic.

Are you really spending your time debating the price of milk on the internet with a stranger who may be 1000 miles away from you?

Why are you some posters here literally triggered by sharing information about inflation. I get that some are Ms. Moneybags and don’t mind paying more, but it’s weird to deny the impacts of rising food costs on working class people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s bad. I only get a 3% raise each year, just sticking it out for retirement benefits. I eat PB&J every day and save the “good stuff” for my kids. Not much else I can reasonably cut out.

Oddly, I recall in my younger days how I used to work to stay thin. Circumstances have changed, and now when I see someone overweight I’m jealous.

This is true and why, famously, low income Americans are so trim.

[Anonymous]

A lot of the inflation whiners on this thread don’t understand what inflation actually is.

A lack of deflation is not inflation. There’s a starting point. Use bing to find out more on this topic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aaaaand yet all of you will vote for Gavin or whoever it ends up being because "orange man scary!"

NO bec "Orange Man" wants to be KING ie Dictator and Lead Criminal of the US and the Consitution says we do not install any of those.

You complete stupid sub human POS>

Yeah that description is for all Republicans still voting for the criminal don the con two bit hustler from Queens.

Well said pp!

[Anonymous]

Everything has gotten exponentially more expensive but the big kickers are real estate taxes. Insurance, and interest rates, sad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aaaaand yet all of you will vote for Gavin or whoever it ends up being because "orange man scary!"

+1, but tbh he is scary. I vote republican but will never vote for him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what happens when the government incessantly prints money that’s backed by nothing

Not only that, it's Bidenomics at work. INflation always surges during democratic presidencies. Everything is out of control. OP, I agree with you. Groceries, in particular, have become obscene

There was literally an article in a local media site written by a local reporter that priced and tracked common items in four different grocery stores in the same community in NOVA. He did this for weeks, interviewed the store managers, and determined that people who pay attention to prices are affecting grocery prices dynamically.

Grocery ADHD will cost you a fortune. Being an airhead is far more expensive than inherent inflation due to macro economics is.

If you blame all your personal problems on a political figure or give that figure credit when things go well in your personal life, you’re always one election away from being unhappy and whining.

Further to this point, 5 products are responsible for 30% of grocery store inflation: beef, chicken, fruits and vegetables and snacks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/02/grocery-price-inflation-biden/

I have not read the article, but from what you have posted it appears to be entirely pointless and misleading. The impacts of inflation aren’t impactful over weeks, it’s months and years.

For example I started budgeting and shopping at Aldi in 2021. From when I started shopping there I have seen the following prices rising significantly over 3 years.

Bread $1.75 to $3
Raisins $2.50 to $4.50
Milk $3 to $4.75
Cheese $1.75 to $3
Apples $2.50 to $4
Spinach $1.75 to $3

The internet is so cool. Anyone can search on the Aldi website and see that you're a liar. https://new.aldi.us/

Aldi prices are different in each neighborhood. As are organic/non-organic.

Are you really spending your time debating the price of milk on the internet with a stranger who may be 1000 miles away from you?

Why are you some posters here literally triggered by sharing information about inflation. I get that some are Ms. Moneybags and don’t mind paying more, but it’s weird to deny the impacts of rising food costs on working class people.

Perhaps strangers that are 1000 miles away can find their own local site to complain about the price of groceries. Hence the name of this forum.

This is such a weird thread…completely not the demographic of DCUM. The prepper post was really off the rails.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t notice it as much as a consumer for my family but I definitely noticed it when buying for a volunteer organization. The nonprofit wasn’t adjusting their budgets for the increasing costs and it became painfully obvious over the past couple years how much higher those costs have become.

I notice it now in my own finances but there was a lag there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what happens when the government incessantly prints money that’s backed by nothing

Not only that, it's Bidenomics at work. INflation always surges during democratic presidencies. Everything is out of control. OP, I agree with you. Groceries, in particular, have become obscene

There was literally an article in a local media site written by a local reporter that priced and tracked common items in four different grocery stores in the same community in NOVA. He did this for weeks, interviewed the store managers, and determined that people who pay attention to prices are affecting grocery prices dynamically.

Grocery ADHD will cost you a fortune. Being an airhead is far more expensive than inherent inflation due to macro economics is.

If you blame all your personal problems on a political figure or give that figure credit when things go well in your personal life, you’re always one election away from being unhappy and whining.

Further to this point, 5 products are responsible for 30% of grocery store inflation: beef, chicken, fruits and vegetables and snacks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/02/grocery-price-inflation-biden/

I have not read the article, but from what you have posted it appears to be entirely pointless and misleading. The impacts of inflation aren’t impactful over weeks, it’s months and years.

For example I started budgeting and shopping at Aldi in 2021. From when I started shopping there I have seen the following prices rising significantly over 3 years.

Bread $1.75 to $3
Raisins $2.50 to $4.50
Milk $3 to $4.75
Cheese $1.75 to $3
Apples $2.50 to $4
Spinach $1.75 to $3

The internet is so cool. Anyone can search on the Aldi website and see that you're a liar. https://new.aldi.us/

Aldi prices are different in each neighborhood. As are organic/non-organic.

Are you really spending your time debating the price of milk on the internet with a stranger who may be 1000 miles away from you?

Why are you some posters here literally triggered by sharing information about inflation. I get that some are Ms. Moneybags and don’t mind paying more, but it’s weird to deny the impacts of rising food costs on working class people.

Perhaps strangers that are 1000 miles away can find their own local site to complain about the price of groceries. Hence the name of this forum.

This is such a weird thread…completely not the demographic of DCUM. The prepper post was really off the rails.

I’m in the metro DC area, not sure where the weirdo who wanted to debate Aldi grocery receipts was from. If you assume that costs are the same across DC, you are mistaken.

And I understand that you are the typical “demographic of DCUM” and are affluent but poor people use this site too and things like food costs matter to us.

So If food costs don’t matter to you, then move along and find a thread more your speed, we are not interested hearing wealthy elites tell us that prices aren’t really rising. Bye now.

[Anonymous]

Food costs matter to me, so we stopped eating out and doing all takeout. I've also stopped buying most pre cooked food, except for bread, at the grocery store. I'm living more like my middle class parents didin the 1970s, and hope that more people cut back their spending so inflation starts to go down.