I’m in an expensive small town on the San Francisco Peninsula. At my favorite coffee shop, simple breakfast of two slices of French Toast, three strips of thin bacon, coffee and a glass of milk is now $25! And I know the owner of the coffee shop is barely hanging on. She can’t get anybody to work and has worked seven days a week for two years to keep her business going. What used to be an affordable treat two or three times a week to meet with the other regulars is now a once-every-two-weeks luxury. Before long, it will be a once every two months luxury.
Suffering through inflation on a fixed income really sucks.
Ha ha my twice a week doughnut used to be $2 a time for $4/wk
Right now it’s $3.25 for my precious doughnut. I buy one a week now and cut it in half!! So my doughnut budget is $3.25/wk
My budget is lower but I am at half rations :(. Not that I need doughnuts for my health…
We have almost given up eating at any sort of restaurant. Last time I didn’t buy one, a lousy Egg McMuffin was $5.29.
We keep buying some extra staples to put up. Not all-out zombie-apocalypse prepping, but we could go a couple of months even if our diet got a little monotonous.
Which town are you in? I was raised in Belmont. At the time, the worst high school in the nation, so bad that they made a movie about it: Dangerous Minds with Michelle Pfeiffer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Minds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlmont_High_School