Can we afford to go shopping anymore?

IF you are in the USA...just wait. It will get worse. Gas going up to $5 a gallon her soon...truckers and transporters won't be able to pay that price so they wills stop trucking/shipping which means products won't be going to stores as often...all stores, from grocery to electronics etc. What people don't realize...is that when gas goes up....product prices go up because the trucking industry is the back bone of this country. It comes to the country at the coast and is trucked/trained or other fuel wise shipped into the various states. Or if it produced in this country, it is again...trucked/trained to other parts of the country. Gas goes up, companys can't afford it...so they dont ship.

hi there. everything's going up now except for my money. i cant find a job because i still have a lot of things to take care of! :( even the salary doesn't increase. i am trying to save my money, but sometimes there is nothing to save because we have to buy things that are very important like food and things for the baby and also pay the bills. i haven't even bought anythings for myself for a long time already. oh i have but it is on a lay away plan LOL now i dunno how i can come up with some money for the remaining balance hehehehe. well that is life, everyone has to struggle in order to survive. but i hope i can find a job soon after my exams. now that is the reason why i can find a job yet, too many things to take care of (papers,babysitting,household chores, etc)then i still have to review at night.

I just went grocery shopping and I think everything on my list has gone up at least a few cents. It adds up fast. I'm going to have to cut back on buying groceries. Thank heavens summer will be here in a few months and there will be fresh produce from the garden - if the weather cooperates. The last two years have not been the greatest for that. I guess we do what we have to do. I plan on growing as much as I can and not buying from the grocery store. Other than that, I will do without some things that are not necessary, spend more time making and making do and finding ways to make a little extra.

Prices do keep going up, and hubby cannot get a job and there is not much to apply for for me. I guess we will be eating a lot of beans. We are already pretty frugal. We just will have to see what turns up. I am on unemployment, but it will not last forever.

Yes it is awful here today the gas prices are $3.19 a gallon!!! And tomorrow I am sure they will raise again!! The price of coffee has gone up here as well as all foods!! Fruits, Sugar, Meat, I mean everything!! I have been counting pennies for so long and I feel your pain I am sick of it too!! Every time I try to save a dollar it ends up I have to use it and I am so tired believe me!! Why do they keep jacking with the prices of gasoline? That really irritates me!! Do the gas and oil companies really think that raising the prices is going to help us? God if I only had some kind of control over that nonsense!!! It is hurting us not helping us in this teribble economy!! I can't get why on the way to work it is $3.09 a gallon and on the way home it is $3.19 a gallon and the next morning the price is up again!! Why can't they just leave it alone and at a lower much lower price? We can not afford this nonsense!!!! I feel your pain!! Well good luck out there, and Take Care.

hello friend! yes now everything's price increase day by day.it is impossible for us to do shopping.i am a student it is really not so easy to manage everything.yes here also every things price increase day by day.i feel so sad friend.have to do plan too. thanks a lot.

This is what we call inflation. And it is here to stay. Every year, prices of good and services that you consume will go up. In my country the inflation rate for last year was about 3-4%. There is a need for us to hedge against the rising inflation rate. One way is to invest our money that will generate higher yield compared to the inflation rate.

yes everything has gone up here in texas to everything but wages and i dont know how i can make ends meet it get's harder and harder i have stop going extra place and i dont say i will do the driving anymore because nobody wants to help with the gas i have quit eating out and i buy fresh vegs and that is the food i live on mostlly potatoes but i noticed that the weight is coming on so i will have to change my habits and fined something else to eat i am thinking about starting a graden to see if that helps with the weight and the money

now,everything is going up,but the salary is never go up. However,we still can find that the numbers of people to go to supermaket are highly,no matter how rich or how poor are.maybe one day,we can't afford our daily materials. but,we should believe that the market have their own rules,it can adjust itself. and ,we can work hard to earn much money to buy what we need.