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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7650 on: April 15, 2017, 03:25:55 PM »
It's still cheap as dirt when compared to the rest of the world.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7651 on: April 15, 2017, 04:00:43 PM »
Gas is about $2.14 at the local station.  Went up 15 cents overnight.

  I remember the time we went to Cape Cod, sometime in the late 70s, and I was surprised by
   how expensive gas was there --- 60 cents per gallon.  Sometimes I really miss the 70s.  :apondering:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7652 on: April 15, 2017, 06:30:39 PM »
When I first got my licence (1996), I paid 68¢ a litre.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7653 on: April 15, 2017, 07:21:42 PM »
12 moving boxes, some packing tape, pens, air freshener

Cleaning out the house and organizing things that remain.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7654 on: April 15, 2017, 07:23:17 PM »
12 moving boxes, some packing tape, pens, air freshener

Cleaning out the house and organizing things that remain.

  Are you moving to a new house, or just putting some things in storage?  :orly:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7655 on: April 15, 2017, 07:26:51 PM »
12 moving boxes, some packing tape, pens, air freshener

Cleaning out the house and organizing things that remain.

  Are you moving to a new house, or just putting some things in storage?  :orly:

I've been gently told by 3 social worker types  NELLIE HAD A TURKEY YESTERDAY AT BOWLING  THREE STRIKES IN A ROW   :asthing: now she'll let me finish the post in peace that I need to get the house cleaned out and straightened out or a) no services and/or b) be reported to Old Age Protective Services.

While the house isn't an absolute hoarding situation, it really, really, really could be better.   
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7656 on: April 15, 2017, 07:29:05 PM »
12 moving boxes, some packing tape, pens, air freshener

Cleaning out the house and organizing things that remain.

  Are you moving to a new house, or just putting some things in storage?  :orly:

I've been gently told by 3 social worker types  NELLIE HAD A TURKEY YESTERDAY AT BOWLING  THREE STRIKES IN A ROW   :asthing: now she'll let me finish the post in peace that I need to get the house cleaned out and straightened out or a) no services and/or b) be reported to Old Age Protective Services.

While the house isn't an absolute hoarding situation, it really, really, really could be better.

  I'm sorry, I know you'll get it done. :hug:


   Congrats to Nellie.  Now I want a turkey sandwich.  :laugh:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7657 on: April 15, 2017, 07:30:00 PM »
12 moving boxes, some packing tape, pens, air freshener

Cleaning out the house and organizing things that remain.

  Are you moving to a new house, or just putting some things in storage?  :orly:

I've been gently told by 3 social worker types  NELLIE HAD A TURKEY YESTERDAY AT BOWLING  THREE STRIKES IN A ROW   :asthing: now she'll let me finish the post in peace that I need to get the house cleaned out and straightened out or a) no services and/or b) be reported to Old Age Protective Services.

While the house isn't an absolute hoarding situation, it really, really, really could be better.

  I'm sorry, I know you'll get it done. :hug:


   Congrats to Nellie.  Now I want a turkey sandwich.  :laugh:


The PR says one with bacon is on the way.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7658 on: April 15, 2017, 07:34:01 PM »
12 moving boxes, some packing tape, pens, air freshener

Cleaning out the house and organizing things that remain.

  Are you moving to a new house, or just putting some things in storage?  :orly:

I've been gently told by 3 social worker types  NELLIE HAD A TURKEY YESTERDAY AT BOWLING  THREE STRIKES IN A ROW   :asthing: now she'll let me finish the post in peace that I need to get the house cleaned out and straightened out or a) no services and/or b) be reported to Old Age Protective Services.

While the house isn't an absolute hoarding situation, it really, really, really could be better.

  I'm sorry, I know you'll get it done. :hug:


   Congrats to Nellie.  Now I want a turkey sandwich.  :laugh:


The PR says one with bacon is on the way.

  Thank you, Princess!  :bacon:  My local supermarket carries "bacon lover's turkey."
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7659 on: April 17, 2017, 10:02:50 AM »
It's still cheap as dirt when compared to the rest of the world.

Maybe, but I had paid one dollar eighty nine cents last summer on occasion. This is quite a rising cost in my book.

Fresh eggs have gone to around four dollars per dozen, pork is around three dollars  per pound, bacon closer to five dollars for decent cuts. Half decent bread is three to four dollars per pound.  (yes, I can still bake my own for around a dollar per loaf, but that takes time and effort, the main reason that prepared bread became so popular in the mid fifties era)

The reason they say we have minimal inflation is because they include the "way down"  house market in those numbers.

Do not know about you but I have only bought four houses in my entire life and each one I traded up to a better house, resulting in me only having one house at a time. Most people are lucky to buy one and yet the "numbers"  include this major, once in a lifetime purchase to calculate inflation.
I am not fooled by this.

We are experiencing massive inflation and this fact is kept from the general public using Magic Math.

As far as gasoline, we could be self reliant for many years (price would go up a bit, but the  "politics"  would be more navigable) if we could only use our own stores and resources until a better solution that fossil fuels is presented.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7660 on: April 17, 2017, 02:27:14 PM »
The bowling alley increased their salad prices by $1 because of the rising price of lettuce.  I know there are/were massive shortages in Europe. 

I'm fortunate to be able to stockpile some bargains.  Without that we'd be up goose creek.  Today I bought 24 cans of tuna for 50 cents each.  And it wasn't that long ago that tuna came in 6 1/2 ounce cans.  Now it's 5 ounces.  Most can goods have been down sized to 15 ounces at best.

I was able to get about a dozen cans of minestrone soup for 46 cents a can, instant oatmeal for about 6 or 7 cents a packet, etc. from the grocery salvage store.  The best score I did was 4 dozen heat in the bag sliced carrots for 12 cents a bag.  They are 16 ounces each.  Just toss into some soup, mash into potatoes, etc.  Great tummy filler.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7661 on: April 17, 2017, 03:15:59 PM »
The bowling alley increased their salad prices by $1 because of the rising price of lettuce.  I know there are/were massive shortages in Europe. 

I'm fortunate to be able to stockpile some bargains.  Without that we'd be up goose creek.  Today I bought 24 cans of tuna for 50 cents each.  And it wasn't that long ago that tuna came in 6 1/2 ounce cans.  Now it's 5 ounces.  Most can goods have been down sized to 15 ounces at best.

I was able to get about a dozen cans of minestrone soup for 46 cents a can, instant oatmeal for about 6 or 7 cents a packet, etc. from the grocery salvage store.  The best score I did was 4 dozen heat in the bag sliced carrots for 12 cents a bag.  They are 16 ounces each.  Just toss into some soup, mash into potatoes, etc.  Great tummy filler.

Sounds like some bargains!

I generally "stockpile"  meats when I find them at a bargain. I found some pork loins for a dollar twenty nine per pound recently. I bought forty pounds. That is like one third or one fourth  the normal price.
I am not opposed to fruits and veggies, I just never see anything like that around here.

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7662 on: April 17, 2017, 05:40:42 PM »
  I keep buying food and drink amd it keeps disappearing.  :autism:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7663 on: April 17, 2017, 07:58:02 PM »
  I keep buying food and drink amd it keeps disappearing.  :autism:

You sure?  Look in your toilet.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7664 on: April 17, 2017, 08:13:34 PM »
 :poop:
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