What do you do when??

Cloverdale, Indiana
September 7, 2024 9:59pm CST
hello every 1, how's your weekend going? ours is just going from 1 day to the next, is all I can say, so fast. I just don't know what to think about how things are so high & it takes so much to keep on hand the things you need, i DIDN'T SAY WANT, but truly every week or month need. We went to the store the other day & I couldn't believe what I was seeing, Menard's wanted 30 $ for 50 LB bag of dog food & that's the CHEAPEST, & we buy like 4 bags a month for 6 dogs. Where it USE to be less than 20$ 4 yrs ago, & it's not just that we went to get 10 doz eggs "YES" you heard right 10 doz cause husband eats more eggs than any 1 I've ever seen in a mons X. Potato salad, egg salad, tuna salad, eggs for breakfast, mac a Roni salad, egg sandwiches, I can't stand eggs cause he eats enough for the both of us & I'm on cholesterol meds anyway. But anyway, when I went to grab the eggs & seen the price I about came undone LITERLY ! ! ! they wanted 20$ for 5 doz & we 2 wks ago bought them for 10$ I don't know what to do. I told husband look we're going to either trade our dogs in for chickens or just do with out eggs for awhile till they come down cause at this price & as many eggs as you eat you gonna have to lay off them awhile cause we can't keep buying eggs like that. Well you know he didn't like either 1 of them ideas, but I can't handle the way things are going like they are on a fixed income so if it was me I wouldn't even buy eggs, but the dog food is a whole nother situation, when all my babies have been with us since they were babies we can't just give them away sorry. They're all up in age & I look to lose 1 or 2 of them within the next few mons or within next year some time, but still that won't help to lower the price like it is right now, so what am I to do?? Mind you they only get a bowl of food a day but still they aren't small dogs either, so it's not like they eat a lot but they do eat enough food that 4 50 lb bags last at least a month maybe a little longer depending on how low I get till I buy more B-4 I run out. Drop me a line on what you would do or how to deal with this.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
8 Sep
Send a thank you letter to Biden and of course one to Harris as well. Three things happened to cause all of this of course. 1) The Biden administration felt that inflation was too low and so they took steps to increase it to 2.5%. Inflation began and ran away very quickly. They came out and said it would be "transitory," and of course it wasn't. 2) The Biden administration reversed Trump's energy policies which caused gas prices to skyrocket, and since fuel is associated with EVERYTHING, from keeping the lights on in manufacturing facilities, to transport of raw materials, to transport of finished goods—prices rose on everything we buy fueling inflation even higher. 3) At a time when the economy was recovering the Biden admin passed the American Rescue Plan putting trillions of dollars into stimulus checks and extending unemployment benefits, allowing many people who would otherwise return to work to remain at home, which caused massive labor shortages and supply chain disruptions, which fueled massive wage increases to try to entice workers back, and all of that made things cost more through supply and demand and wages and thus fueled inflation even more. And we're a LONG way from getting out of this. So all I can say to anyone suffering through this is...GOOD LUCK!
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• Cloverdale, Indiana
8 Sep
I totally agree, it's not like I don't know what caused all this mess we're in right now, I'm just wondering how the flip long it's going to last B-4 things start coming back down so we CAN afford stuff.
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@porwest (92589)
• United States
9 Sep
@2ndchances24 I know. Sometimes I write these comments for others to see. Some people do read comments and so...might as well put it all out there.
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• Cloverdale, Indiana
9 Sep
@porwest I do have to say you are good at that.
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@xstitcher (32700)
• Petaluma, California
11 Sep
I am very thankful for my EBT (food stamp) card and the food bank.
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@xstitcher (32700)
• Petaluma, California
11 Sep
@2ndchances24 Food banks are really great, too!
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• Cloverdale, Indiana
12 Sep
@xstitcher they do come in handy that's for sure we go to the senior food bank & we both get 2 box's each so that's even a bigger help.
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• Cloverdale, Indiana
11 Sep
I can't blame you for that, I would be too if I had 1 but we do have a food bank we go to that's how I stock my food pantry I made from a bedroom.
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@RebeccasFarm (90474)
• Arvada, Colorado
8 Sep
Well there is not a lot to do except just starve here. Nah but for real, I have just cut down on a lot of things. I don't buy things much anymore and hardly eat meat.
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• Cloverdale, Indiana
8 Sep
that's about where we are these days, we don't eat but maybe a meal a day, mainly just snack a meal which is a sandwich or a bowl of cereal just something to get us through the day nothing serious.
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@wolfgirl569 (108144)
• Marion, Ohio
8 Sep
Shop around. We buy our dog food at tractor supply. It's cheaper than menards here. Rural King is the same price as tractor supply. We spend about the same on a bag of food but are not buying the cheapest as the dobermans are prone to skin allergies. The same for groceries. Check prices at different stores. I don't price eggs as I get them from the neighbor right now. But some of the other things I buy have steadied in price or even dropped a little. I often change stores when one starts raising prices more than another one
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• Cloverdale, Indiana
8 Sep
I shop at both T S & Menards & neither 1 are cheaper than the other for what gas it takes to get to either 1 where we live & I buy 2 bags from both places I buy 2 from 1 place 1 wk & the other 2 bags 2 wks later from the other place & I keep enough feed on hand where I don't have to worry about running out B-4 I can get what I need. I shop for food as cheap as I can, I don't buy anything out of my range of price, food everywhere is high no matter where you shop at it's how you shop to get the cheapest prices you can get these days.
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@Faster16 (3181)
• Indonesia
9 Sep
Man, it sounds like you're juggling a lot with the rising costs!
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• Cloverdale, Indiana
9 Sep
I am but I seem to manage the best we can with what we have.
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