Posted on 01/04/2024 7:20:45 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
I still remember the “One dollar a gallon” ads in the summer of 1979.
We went shopping at Publix a last week. Miracle Whip was $8.79 each. If that is not inflation, I don’t know what is! I can see the inflation with every grocery bill, every time I go to the gas station and that $4.89 for a 2-liter bottle of Coca Cola at Walmart! We buy a lot of hamburger because we can’t afford any real steaks or roasts. Our county taxes went way up this year. They wanted more (double) but were voted down and they did this right after the hurricane and claimed it was for “emergency services” due to the hurricane but it would remain permanent hereafter.
Oh yeah...and we don’t go out to eat and we kept our 1997 Ford Expedition because there is no way we want a monthly car payment!
And don’t even think about the cost of a 50’ roll of Romex.
Guess we all need to go paperless then. /s
You don’t have to pay the increased amounts on your bills. Those are just paper.
We should thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to 20 grams.
Who are you going to believe, the New York Times or that lying cash register?
I am told by really old people that when our Quarters and Dimes were made of silver, gas was around 25¢ .
But then LBJ debased our currency.
Tell a diabetic his blood sugar is only high on paper.
A carton containing 4 one gallon jugs of resin bed cleaner for the softener use to be $30.00. It is now $150.00 FJB!!
Yeah, as a farmer/rancher here in central Kansas my input costs to grow commodities have nearly tripled since Biden took office. The price I receive when I sell my commodities have not increased in anywhere near a commensurate fashion. Hard red winter wheat is flat today at $5.96 per bushel. Live cattle and hog futures are up a whole nickel! I still have to pay the same price you do at the grocery store, but it’s only on paper right?
I agree...i pumped gas in 1977, it was 58-cents....
I can remember in the late Sixties, filling stations would have “gas wars”. Dad would drive twelve miles round trip to Belvue, KS from Wamego to fill up the car because it was more economical than to buy gas in town. Damn, does that date me or what?
When they say that, do they mean a receipt?
I have my records back as far as 1963.
I do not live a high style life...really pretty simple.
I can pull out Wal_Mart receipts easily prior to 2008 when the Kenyan Fakir gained power.
I can do a matching shopping trip TODAY & prove that his AUTHOR (???) is nuts.
In both time periods, I was living on Social Security.
Hamburger has tripled-—and I use it for patties & for chili.
Make a huge batch in turkey roaster in oven-—cook over 8 hours-—freeze into smaller containers.
Stretch it as best I can.
BY your measurements-—I am a ‘really old person’-—84.
I bought a 1957 Pontiac in 1957 & I remember gas was about 25 cents/gallon.
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