Where are you noticing inflation the most?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Costco and felt like I had to skip my yearly tin of Walkers Shortbread. At $24 it’s just too much of a splurge.

Baked goods in general seem to be super high. I’m guessing because of wheat prices and the Ukraine situation. I went to buy a mini cake for a friend’s birthday and I remembered them always being $9.99. This tiny cake is now $15 and full size cakes are nearly $30 when they used to be $19.99.

[Anonymous]

It’s not just good. It’s car insurance, home insurance, personal property tax (in Fairfax this was a killer year), property tax, utility bills…I mean just everything. I am hemorrhaging money just to pay all of the bills that come with owning a non-luxury car and house on a single income that hasn’t increased much in the last 5 years.

I just got a water bill that is higher than ever on top of everything else and I wonder…where does it end?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Childcare. I say this as a nanny who used to babysit through and agency for $25-30/hr in Los Angeles. Sometimes even $20. Now all the jobs are $35-45 and I regularly turn down families who will only pay $22-28.

I would rather stay home than babysit toddlers for $28/hr. I know it’s bad and I’m trying to not think like that, but I don’t want to work daytime anymore for little kids for less than $35/hr. There’s so many jobs, when I turn down one, another pops back up and someone will always pay my inflation rate. In the past year I’ve made over $20k babysitting on the side, outside of my regular nanny job.

Um, where are you babysitting at? I have never seen $35/hour. I could use a side job!

[Anonymous]

I've noticed inflation at the grocery store. I don't like to limit what food I buy so I just pay, except one day when Cheerios were $7 a box at Safeway I had to say no.

I've noticed a big increase in travel costs. We have cut back on taking trips and are planning more driving instead of flying vacations. I feel like hotel and airfare prices have increased dramatically. We recently had to travel to a funeral and paid $250/night for a room at a Fairfield Inn in a small-ish city with no daily cleaning, limited breakfast hours, and from the looks of it a lot of deferred maintenance. It would have been $100 less pre-COVID.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not just good. It’s car insurance, home insurance, personal property tax (in Fairfax this was a killer year), property tax, utility bills…I mean just everything. I am hemorrhaging money just to pay all of the bills that come with owning a non-luxury car and house on a single income that hasn’t increased much in the last 5 years.

I just got a water bill that is higher than ever on top of everything else and I wonder…where does it end?

It ends when people stop paying for it. But the economy and job situation is so good that we just keep rolling along.

I’m not surprised that this answer isn’t represented on DCUM, but rent is the biggest problem out there, because housing traditionally takes up the biggest % of spending. So, per usual, it is the youth and lower income folks that get screwed the most.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not just good. It’s car insurance, home insurance, personal property tax (in Fairfax this was a killer year), property tax, utility bills…I mean just everything. I am hemorrhaging money just to pay all of the bills that come with owning a non-luxury car and house on a single income that hasn’t increased much in the last 5 years.

I just got a water bill that is higher than ever on top of everything else and I wonder…where does it end?

It ends when people stop paying for it. But the economy and job situation is so good that we just keep rolling along.

I’m not surprised that this answer isn’t represented on DCUM, but rent is the biggest problem out there, because housing traditionally takes up the biggest % of spending. So, per usual, it is the youth and lower income folks that get screwed the most.

Well, practically - how does this work? I can be upset about it, but I can’t just stop paying my bills without repercussions I am not willing to suffer. Plus, it doesn’t make any sort of point. So I am not sure what you mean.

[Anonymous]

Groceries
Fast food and restaurants
Hair salon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Childcare. I say this as a nanny who used to babysit through and agency for $25-30/hr in Los Angeles. Sometimes even $20. Now all the jobs are $35-45 and I regularly turn down families who will only pay $22-28.

I would rather stay home than babysit toddlers for $28/hr. I know it’s bad and I’m trying to not think like that, but I don’t want to work daytime anymore for little kids for less than $35/hr. There’s so many jobs, when I turn down one, another pops back up and someone will always pay my inflation rate. In the past year I’ve made over $20k babysitting on the side, outside of my regular nanny job.

Um, where are you babysitting at? I have never seen $35/hour. I could use a side job!

NP
She said LA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Childcare. I say this as a nanny who used to babysit through and agency for $25-30/hr in Los Angeles. Sometimes even $20. Now all the jobs are $35-45 and I regularly turn down families who will only pay $22-28.

I would rather stay home than babysit toddlers for $28/hr. I know it’s bad and I’m trying to not think like that, but I don’t want to work daytime anymore for little kids for less than $35/hr. There’s so many jobs, when I turn down one, another pops back up and someone will always pay my inflation rate. In the past year I’ve made over $20k babysitting on the side, outside of my regular nanny job.

Um, where are you babysitting at? I have never seen $35/hour. I could use a side job!

NP
She said LA

I think those rates are only in major cities like LA. My sister who moved to an exurb hired a nanny from care.com and told me there was an abundance of them with rates as low as $11.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've noticed inflation at the grocery store. I don't like to limit what food I buy so I just pay, except one day when Cheerios were $7 a box at Safeway I had to say no.

I've noticed a big increase in travel costs. We have cut back on taking trips and are planning more driving instead of flying vacations. I feel like hotel and airfare prices have increased dramatically. We recently had to travel to a funeral and paid $250/night for a room at a Fairfield Inn in a small-ish city with no daily cleaning, limited breakfast hours, and from the looks of it a lot of deferred maintenance. It would have been $100 less pre-COVID.

Yes, I have noticed travel costs have skyrocketed. We are cutting back as well, though it is painful because we love to travel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not just good. It’s car insurance, home insurance, personal property tax (in Fairfax this was a killer year), property tax, utility bills…I mean just everything. I am hemorrhaging money just to pay all of the bills that come with owning a non-luxury car and house on a single income that hasn’t increased much in the last 5 years.

I just got a water bill that is higher than ever on top of everything else and I wonder…where does it end?

It ends when people stop paying for it. But the economy and job situation is so good that we just keep rolling along.

I’m not surprised that this answer isn’t represented on DCUM, but rent is the biggest problem out there, because housing traditionally takes up the biggest % of spending. So, per usual, it is the youth and lower income folks that get screwed the most.

Well, practically - how does this work? I can be upset about it, but I can’t just stop paying my bills without repercussions I am not willing to suffer. Plus, it doesn’t make any sort of point. So I am not sure what you mean.

Companies will stop changing so much when the demand declines. That’s it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not just good. It’s car insurance, home insurance, personal property tax (in Fairfax this was a killer year), property tax, utility bills…I mean just everything. I am hemorrhaging money just to pay all of the bills that come with owning a non-luxury car and house on a single income that hasn’t increased much in the last 5 years.

I just got a water bill that is higher than ever on top of everything else and I wonder…where does it end?

It ends when people stop paying for it. But the economy and job situation is so good that we just keep rolling along.

I’m not surprised that this answer isn’t represented on DCUM, but rent is the biggest problem out there, because housing traditionally takes up the biggest % of spending. So, per usual, it is the youth and lower income folks that get screwed the most.

Well, practically - how does this work? I can be upset about it, but I can’t just stop paying my bills without repercussions I am not willing to suffer. Plus, it doesn’t make any sort of point. So I am not sure what you mean.

Companies will stop changing so much when the demand declines. That’s it.

Okay,
I will cancel my insurance companies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not just good. It’s car insurance, home insurance, personal property tax (in Fairfax this was a killer year), property tax, utility bills…I mean just everything. I am hemorrhaging money just to pay all of the bills that come with owning a non-luxury car and house on a single income that hasn’t increased much in the last 5 years.

I just got a water bill that is higher than ever on top of everything else and I wonder…where does it end?

It ends when people stop paying for it. But the economy and job situation is so good that we just keep rolling along.

I’m not surprised that this answer isn’t represented on DCUM, but rent is the biggest problem out there, because housing traditionally takes up the biggest % of spending. So, per usual, it is the youth and lower income folks that get screwed the most.

Well, practically - how does this work? I can be upset about it, but I can’t just stop paying my bills without repercussions I am not willing to suffer. Plus, it doesn’t make any sort of point. So I am not sure what you mean.

Companies will stop changing so much when the demand declines. That’s it.

Okay,
I will cancel my insurance companies.

Its the travel costs. Increased so much and still the demand is high. The companies will not lower prices because DCUM still takes 5 trips a year. My family hasnt done a flying trip for years. Still do some very short driving trips couple times a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Daycare was $1750 in 2019, currently $2400
Car Insurance - Monthly premium went up 20%
Car payment -- Cost to buy is up, cost to borrow for a loan on them is up
Property Taxes -- My assessment went up significantly over the past two years (not a bad thing for my bottom line), but increasing my PITI by a couple hundred wasn't planned
Food, Food, Food -- my grocery bill is so high that we have essentially had to cut out any restaurant/take out eating all together except for very special occasions.

But hey, at least the price of avocados is down?!?!

Yes, my family of six eats 10 avocados a day, the kids eat two a day each while my wife and I each eat one a day. I noticed that Avocados at Lidl used to be 92c each. It is now 88c each.

Boy that is a lot of avocado eating. Is it for health reasons or just like the taste. are your kids teens?

[Anonymous]

Heating oil.