X3 so fluffeh

I feel that effect on my salad too. No shopping goes below 2 digits anymore yet that was regular even 1 year ago.

I feel the pain hun.

my wallet is sad too

the kitchen may be full but the wallet is empty!

moood....

Milk used to be less than 1€. Now it's 1,15€.

Such a mood. x:

A couple years ago when I was a cook for my job I struggled to make it paycheck to paycheck now I'm in a different profession that actually pays a living wage but still living paycheck to paycheck because of this inflation. Sucks

I actually quit my last job (one I liked) because inflation made it such that I was making essentially the same at which I was hired. Still living paycheck to paycheck. I feel the pain.

One of the real problems that one must keep in mind here where I live is that even tho we're trying to save money when doing purchases of food and such.. we cannot be tempted to buy the cheap and such stuff.. the junk that's REALLY bad for us if we eat too much of it.. Sure it costs less, but our health in the long run will thank us for staying away from it.

it's just not that easy any more.. thanks to everything that's shot up prices.. we're supposed to have stores of lots of stuff... from what I am lead to believe, it's that we don't have the BODIES to move it from storehouses to ways to get it TO the stores for us to get.. thus prices go up because it's in short supply.. ** sighs** dang stupid C-19 junk.

A lot of that at this point ends up being because the employers don't treat workers fairly, but the workers started to notice. With the inflation (and min wage not keeping up) people are forced to go wherever the pay is good, making it difficult on industries when employers don't want to change. Aka I blame capitalism and publicly traded companies.

protip: don't go and learn how our monetary and banking system works
it'll just result in depression much deeper than your current views on economics can provide

Cute artwork!

yea well inflation hits everyone hard....

I usually buy two or three 4L bags of milk for my Mum, brother and I a week, and it's almost $6 here in Canada for just a standard, non-premium bag of skim, 1% or 2% (homogenized is approaching $8 now, even though I always considered it standard, basic milk type) compared to around $4.00-$4.25 in local currency three years ago.

On the rare occasion a grocery item we get regularly actually goes down in price, briefly or even stays there for the time being, it's a strange but heartening feeling. In a way it's hard to take seriously; is it actual reduction in raw material and production costs by the food company or grocery corporation, or is it a smokescreen to make you think that for the company's 'cost' of 30-40 cents less per unit?

I suppose if anything I'm glad we can afford enough food to eat that we also enjoy, within reasonable frugality and the limited budget I have and my family shares. We're doing all right so far and at the very least not near the edge of any cliffs just yet.

-2Paw.

Yeah... Yeah.

I feel this

It is relatable. My indoor plants are now lettuce and other comestible stuff like that. I will save whatever I can.

Everything sucks T-T

especially when it's a Kirby vacuum

I always like seeing your artwork becuase it be supper cute fun, and then you get t-boned with a reality check that hits the feelings a bit to hard...its nice to see someone do this, so I hope to continue seeing your work.

England is very much in the same boat right now

I just came from the store bought like 3 bags of food which was just a few steaks, eggs and some veggies and it was about 115 dollars ._. so I feel ya

It's like this over in the UK too.
I showed a friend living in Finland the price of a 6 pack of eggs and he was horrified....

I am a picky eater (my tongue just hates most food, no matter what I try) and I've grown up learning to be careful with money, so I've been spared the worst of it, thankfully.

Ever since we both moved out, it's been a mini tradition to call up my brother every week, telling him of exciting upcoming sales of usually expensive foods (since he always forgets to check the papers himself, ha). But lately it's been closer to once a month than once a week, sadly.

Best of luck to everyone, especially those who were already in tight spots before.

And yet, seems like every company keeps posting record profits year after year, while saying they just can't afford to pay people enough to live... Especially the grocery stores.

Profit is usually after exenses like paying employees to, so they very well could. Although publicly traded companies are required by US law to make money for shareholders, makes it hard to justify any expenses.

I remember going shopping with my mother in the 90s and she could get a cart of food for 3 people for ~$100 a week. Now for wife and I, even not going extravagant it feels like we always spend $200 without any effort. I can only imagine how hard it is for other people not making anything but minimum wage or stuck in the USA with tip cultures.

i have been down this road many times, its embarrassing and depressing, you work hard to make money to survive, but then prices go up and now you gotta work even harder to just survive, this one hits really close to home, i feel this one

So very true.

can only agree, everything has explored up to 700% around here, food, power, gas, insurances, tv, electrics gadgets, and no help to get nor, only the riche people gets more and more, one litre of milk cost a insane 2,3$ ( 1 gallon 8,58 Dollars ) gas is even higher, last year 1 gallon of fuel cost 27,49$

I started stocking up on seeds to learn to grow at home, hopefully put a dent on the food bill.

Really does! Got a few beds out back. Look up some "weed" plants you can eat though, be surprised how many people pull up good food without realizing (ex: dandelions).

Inflation is the most punitive of taxes on the lower end of the economic spectrum.

When the world payed people not to work, printed trillions, inflation was set in motion, and here we are. We took away the short term pain.

We all knew it was coming, but everyone collected the checks merrily, elevated their life style with the new money coming in, and lack of paying student loans.

The piper will be paid. All that short term pain turned into long term pain. And its just waking up.

What was annoying for me was the stimulus checks were forced into my bank account, received emails saying I wasn't allowed to say no to them, then later forced to pay back almost all of the stimulus money by having money deducted from my paychecks, with again me not being allowed to speak up against it. The whole stimulus thing just seemed so weird and not right.

Wait... they FORCED you to take the stimulus? ...Why not just leave it in the bank, let it earn interest, then send it back when they started demanding to be repaid? It was extra money over what you were earning, and you were doing fine without it, and you tried to refuse it. Couldn't you have just not touched it?

I've learned from working for the government that anything "free" from the government is a trap in one way or another.

As for letting it build interest, it was less than half a year before they made us pay it back on top of bills.

I men if you didn't want it though, why not just not use it? It sounds like that story I heard of a man who suddenly found millions of dollars in his bank account. He asked the bank where it came from and they told him it was his. He said he was pretty sure it wasn't, and the said they had checked, and it definitely was. This went on for months, with the man refusing to touch any of it and repeatedly demanding the bank find out where the money was really from, with the bank telling him over and over that they didn't know why he was complaining and that as far as they could tell through multiple investigations, the money belonged to him.

The minute he caved and spent some of it, the FBI swooped in and arrested him because it wasn't his money.

I feel like if you really, *really* didn't want or need that money, you shouldn't have touched it and left it there until they asked for it back. Then it wouldn't have affected you at all; just been in your account for a while, ready to return without putting any strain on you.

Yea, same here. Have to put limit on how much I can spend daily, living from paychek to paychek....

Hope things improve for all of us.

2 bits of info for y'all:
1: fresh wheat kernels are much less than baked bread. Find a cheap grinder and a local wheat dealer and you can save a lot not buying bread or pre-ground flower (healthier too).
2: Billionaires exist. It would take a man earning $10,000,000 ($10 million) per year for 100 years to earn $1 Billion. Why is this disparity permitted?

Agreed. I'm lucky to have a Shoprite near me that always has store brand bread at 2 for $3. I haven't eaten potato chips in forever because the large bags are $5 each, and they've taken to filling anything smaller to less than half full... 'to protect against crumbling/crushing'... right. And slowly, one by one, other things are getting to the point where I'd rather starve than spend the amounts that are being asked for them. Of course, that kind of stubborness only lasts so long before your stomach starts rumbling...

Agreed.

And yet the wealthiest people and the largest corporations are doing better than ever. Funny, that.

It hurts how true this is. Even worse sometimes you're paying more for less food than what you used to get.

yes.... i feel it. I just did this week's shopping. $100.. pre covid, this was less than $80.

=^.,.^=

I feel this so hard... was given $120 for SNAP per month, for two people. That barely covers a weeks worth of the cheapest food for meals.