Is everything expensive today?
@TrinityDownpour (790)
Liechtenstein
March 16, 2013 3:23am CST
You can still find some cheap pastries under a dollar or only a few dollars in Malaysia. But last time a bowl of noodles used to cost 20-50 cents and now a bowl of noodles cost like RM4-6. What about your country? Do you find food expensive? Do you at least have some restaurants/stalls that offer low price food?
Also I most stuff that I wanted from foreign countries always seem to have outrageous shipping price. I prefer if the seller combine the shipping and the item price together so I don't need to checkout and only to immediately find the shipping fee is twice the price of the product I'm buying. I find that irritating because they always tell you the shipping after you said you wanted to buy or after you pay then realize they take a huge chunk from your Paypal for shipping. (That's why Book Depository is the best)
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14 responses
@microengineer (587)
• Indonesia
16 Mar 13
Yes everything is expensive even in Indonesia.
The food price climbs slowly but sure. I can not notice unless it is already more than 6 months.
I think it is better to buy from your own country, unless you really need some stuff from other country. Sometime it is not the shipping fee that is high, but import tax that might increase the fee.
@TrinityDownpour (790)
• Liechtenstein
16 Mar 13
But there are things that I want is not available in Malaysia. So I probably have to pay the shipping fee anyway.
@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
17 Mar 13
In America, there are things like McDonald's or candy. There are discount groceries, but I don't go to them much because I prefer to eat organic as I'm more concerned about my insides with pesticides and God knows what than the amount in my wallet.
@jkct02 (2874)
• Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
16 Mar 13
The cost of living is getting higher and higher in Malaysia. Compared with prices of about 10 years ago, it is double or more now. A plate of rice with a vegetable dish and a meat dish cost three Malaysian Dollars 10 years ago but is costing five to six dollars now. The petrol, rice, wheat flour and sugar are still heavily subsidized by the government - I am shuddered to think what the price of food will be if all the subsidies are to be taken away eventually. The salary is falling behind the inflation rate and the gap is widening. We should be prudent to spend our hard-earned money.
@else22 (4317)
• India
16 Mar 13
Yes,everything even including the god gifted ones are costly.And not only in your country,prices are skyrocketing everywhere across the world.I am from India,and growing prices have become an issue in the forthcoming general elections here.We have to suppress our desires to keep ourselves managing with our income.Train fares have been increased.The charges of transportation have also gone up with the rise in the prices of petrol and diesel.Everything,each and everything is going beyond our reach.
@gavenkatesh (32)
• India
16 Mar 13
Hey trinity,
It is not just in your country that food items have become expensive. But around the world as incomes of families are increasing, but the supplying of goods and services is not keeping the same pace. Thus as more money is chasing lesser goods and due to inflation as well. The purchasing power of the currency is decreasing. And I do not know what else will happen in future?
@camomile07 (1420)
• Germany
16 Mar 13
Rates are rising every year and sometimes even twice a year, many items are becoming expensive already. That's why I don't buy all I need in only one supermarket. Here nearby, I have three different supermarkets. So every time I go shopping, I make a list of what I need and I go to the three different supermarkets, as I divide the list into those shops. Comparing the prices, quantity and quality is very important. I also look for offers and I usually buy many items from the no names. That's one of the ways I have to save money.
@Mavic123456 (21893)
• Thailand
16 Mar 13
well at least from your earning you can still buy something even if you are willing pay the shipping. That's why I don't like to buy on line. and besides it is really difficult to buy on line when you don't see the product and touch the product yourself.
Yes everything is expensive... the only thing that is not increasing is the amount of money I have in my bank account lOL
@gamyam (530)
• Hyderabad, India
16 Mar 13
Coming to the point of certain expenditure of home purpose, here in India also the prices are rising day by day without giving any gap through out the year.....
Here, the local government has failed to control the prices of daily needs like common food, drinking water, daily used vegetables, milk.... and so on.
In India there are so many people those who are not able to eat food daily even a single time....
The Government should take the strong action to control the rising prices of daily used-home needs in order to sdave the poor people those are living in slum areas....
@extremefun4fun (2908)
• India
16 Mar 13
I think it is a matter in all over the world that prices is increasing by time. in my country, prices are increasing so fast and that is why we storage, I mean we buy for all the year, here in India, country of my husband, prices increase too but lower than in my country.
@kingyrvee (17)
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16 Mar 13
As crisis go higher, prices goes higher ang higher also.. Every single of peso(i'm from philippines)is really important.. About food pricing-there is cafeteria or canteen selling lowprice food. Here,usually expensive foods are those which is imported..
@kingyrvee (17)
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16 Mar 13
As crisis go higher, prices goes higher ang higher also.. Every single of peso(i'm from philippines)is really important.. About food pricing-there is cafeteria or canteen selling lowprice food. Here,usually expensive foods are those which is imported..
@catchpazuzu (99)
• Portugal
16 Mar 13
Food is expensive. Shipping is expensive. Books are expensive. Everything today is dozens, or even hundreds of times more expensive. Inflation goes up and money goes down, which seems to sound... wrong!
@dagami (1158)
• Rome, Italy
16 Mar 13
unfortunately, everything is expensive these days. when i arrived here in italy ten years ago, a pack of marlboros costs 2.50 euros, now it costs 5. the prices of food however haven't doubled. i haven't really kept track but i can still buy a kilo of oranges for less than an euro.
