Definitely noticed the eggs the other day. Also the soda. I've slipped back into my diet soda habit and the price of a 20 oz bottle at the convenience stores keeps creeping up so I tell myself I'm going to buy the 6 packs at the store. But even those have gone up too! I used to get 5 packs for $11, now it's like 3 packs for $17.
Post by karinothing on Dec 23, 2022 13:56:53 GMT -5
Everything? But what is annoying me mostly is activities. I wanted to go to this harry potter experience thing. It is 70pp! That is more than I paid to go to busch gardens or hershey! It is a flipping trail.
DS and I also love diet coke, it's our "treat". The price of a pack of coke is crazy, even on sale. Gum is also getting expensive, a 99 cent pack is now $2.39.
Soda is insane! We don't really drink it much at home, for me it's a rare treat when we get fast food or go out for something like wings. But I wanted to buy some to have on hand for Christmas guests, and holy lord it was $8 for a 12-pack. I did find a 3/$12 sale at Walgreens so I'm all stocked up, but most stores were way more.
We don't buy it for home either, so my H will usually get a coke when we order food or go out. Lately it's been $3-3.50 everywhere for fountain soda! That's just insane to me. I don't drink it much anyway but the price has meant I've stuck to water even more frequently now.
I think prices for drinks at event venues are shocking. No way should we be paying $15 for a draft beer at a concert.
Everything? But what is annoying me mostly is activities. I wanted to go to this harry potter experience thing. It is 70pp! That is more than I paid to go to busch gardens or hershey! It is a flipping trail.
And it's at the time where the itch to do so many activities that we missed out on in 2020-2021 is there so strongly, which sucks.
Post by Doggy Mommy on Dec 23, 2022 14:09:35 GMT -5
Hotels. One hotel we've stayed at a few times cost 150/night with free parking in 2019, and in 2023 it'll be 270/night plus parking. Another hotel we stayed at in 2019 was $235 a night with $15 resort fee. In 2023 it's $380/night (that's the spring break "sale" price), $25/night resort fee, $34/night parking fee.
Agree about takeout. Our same orders that were around $35 in 2019 are now 50-60.
ETA: Concerts. If you want good seats, be prepared to part with approximately a thousand bucks....
Everything? But what is annoying me mostly is activities. I wanted to go to this harry potter experience thing. It is 70pp! That is more than I paid to go to busch gardens or hershey! It is a flipping trail.
And it's at the time where the itch to do so many activities that we missed out on in 2020-2021 is there so strongly, which sucks.
That is probably how they get me lol. I paid 15pp for my kids to ride bumper sleds for 3 mins the other day!
Airport parking. It’s like $20/day for a work trip I’m going on in Jan, and that’s not even the closer covered parking.
Groceries in general. I don’t know how the news is reporting 5-7% price increases when our grocery bill has easily gone up 50%. And we don’t buy a ton of prepared food.
Our electricity has almost doubled. They closed a plant and sent a letter saying that you may see prices rise 7%. I make a real effort to lower our electricity usage, and we are using less then compared to the same month a year ago, but our bill is $100-150 higher. No little 7%
Post by steamboat185 on Dec 23, 2022 14:41:45 GMT -5
The price of natural gas has tripled. I know there are reasons, but seeing our bill go up by over 225 dollars in a month was a shock. We keep the temperature at 66-68 during the day and 54 a night and only have a gas furnace and hot water heater. Per our bill last year was 2 dollars a therm and now it’s over 6. Edit and it’s going up again in a few days.
I’m a huge Coke Zero drinker. The best deal is usually Walgreens, and it wasn’t that long ago that I’d scoff at that 3/$12.99 because anything over $3 a 12 pack was not a good deal.
My personal WTH is frozen waffles. DS eats them two at a time and usually goes through 4 in a day. I’d buy 6 boxes at a time at Aldi for $.95/box. They’re now $1.95, doubling in price in less than a year.
And it's at the time where the itch to do so many activities that we missed out on in 2020-2021 is there so strongly, which sucks.
That is probably how they get me lol. I paid 15pp for my kids to ride bumper sleds for 3 mins the other day!
We recently paid like $35 for 3 of us to play minigolf. I thought that was insanity. I’m glad I lied and said DS2 was under 3 so he was free (flame me! 🤷♀️) because after 5 minutes he was more interested in just running around.
Everything. I keep googling about inflation and articles keep saying it is going down and I'm looking around like, where? I priced out something at IKEA (a bookshelf project) maybe 8 months ago and it was $570. Today it's $890. I was using wrapping paper from just maybe 2019 and it was 3.99 for a huge roll. Now it's $5 for something that barely wraps a few boxes. Most noticeably lately for me it was body wash. I was thinking it would be $3.50 or $4. Nope, $10.
ETA: We slept on Aldi until the pandemic. That's where we buy 80 percent of our groceries now, with Sams, Target and Trader Joe's also in the mix. I also look for deals on Amazon for shelf stable things like tuna.
Just fruit and veggies in general. I spend probably $75 just on produce each week for three people. And we do Lidl, which has better prices than most of our other local grocery stores.
That is probably how they get me lol. I paid 15pp for my kids to ride bumper sleds for 3 mins the other day!
We recently paid like $35 for 3 of us to play minigolf. I thought that was insanity. I’m glad I lied and said DS2 was under 3 so he was free (flame me! 🤷♀️) because after 5 minutes he was more interested in just running around.
Now I just checked how much mini golf costs here since we last played on vacation this summer. DH, DD1 and I would cost $9 each and DD2 would cost $7. It's an outdoor, no-frills spot though. I bet some of the indoor places in the area would charge way more.
Everything? But what is annoying me mostly is activities. I wanted to go to this harry potter experience thing. It is 70pp! That is more than I paid to go to busch gardens or hershey! It is a flipping trail.
I will say, it was pretty magical but ONLY if you're super into HP. We all loved it and would probably spend it again, but it wasn't anything super special.
If you go to McDonald's even just occasionally it's worth getting the app. They have a lot of deals for BOGO and the points add up quickly for free stuff.
If you go to McDonald's even just occasionally it's worth getting the app. They have a lot of deals for BOGO and the points add up quickly for free stuff.
Thanks for the reminder. We do a weekly Wendy's dinner and I see they have similar deals.
Everything. I keep googling about inflation and articles keep saying it is going down and I'm looking around like, where? I priced out something at IKEA (a bookshelf project) maybe 8 months ago and it was $570. Today it's $890. I was using wrapping paper from just maybe 2019 and it was 3.99 for a huge roll. Now it's $5 for something that barely wraps a few boxes. Most noticeably lately for me it was body wash. I was thinking it would be $3.50 or $4. Nope, $10.
ETA: We slept on Aldi until the pandemic. That's where we buy 80 percent of our groceries now, with Sams, Target and Trader Joe's also in the mix. I also look for deals on Amazon for shelf stable things like tuna.
Reports have not been that it’s going down. It’s slowed down, so hopefully leveling off. I’d honestly be shocked if it ever went back down (but I’m not like an economist or anything).
Health insurance. I shouldn't be shocked but I just received notice today that my insurance premium is going up 65% from last year. No change in coverage, everything is the same.
Soda. I drive through McDs several times a week just for a Diet Coke because it’s cheaper and better than getting it at the grocery store.
Rental cars - I know it’s not super new, but I priced out a rental through Costco and it was over $1000 for a week for a compact car! I checked what we paid a few years ago, and it was like $400 for an SUV for the same location. I ended up renting an awesome jeep through Turo for around $800.
Kids activities. Most things used to be around $7-$12 per kid, and everything is now $20+. Before Covid, I paid $100/kid for an annual pass to the trampoline park. It’s now $22 per visit, per kid. No annual passes.
Consumer prices rose 7.1% in November from a year ago, the government said Tuesday. That was down sharply from 7.7% in October and a recent peak of 9.1% in June. It was the fifth straight decline.
Soda is insane! We don't really drink it much at home, for me it's a rare treat when we get fast food or go out for something like wings. But I wanted to buy some to have on hand for Christmas guests, and holy lord it was $8 for a 12-pack. I did find a 3/$12 sale at Walgreens so I'm all stocked up, but most stores were way more.
We don't buy it for home either, so my H will usually get a coke when we order food or go out. Lately it's been $3-3.50 everywhere for fountain soda! That's just insane to me. I don't drink it much anyway but the price has meant I've stuck to water even more frequently now.
I think prices for drinks at event venues are shocking. No way should we be paying $15 for a draft beer at a concert.
My husband drinks one can of soda a day (he doesn't drink coffee, so this is his caffeine for the day and his one main vice, so I hate to complain about it), but he really prefers name brand Coke, Cherry Coke, or Dr. Pepper only. I try to only buy it when it's on sale, but the sale is usually 3 12 packs for something, and I HATE having to put 3 12 packs onto my cart that is usually already full (even the bottom) at that point of a shopping trip, plus fit it in my trunk and unload it, but I also hate pay $8 for one 12 pack. Sometimes I make a separate trip just for the soda.
Eggs and grapes are ones I haven't actually noticed and I buy those regularly though. They still seem reasonable where I am at least, or at least reasonable enough for me not to notice and keep buying them every week without issue.
Bowling and escape rooms are both ones I've complained about recently though. I don't mind paying to do these things, but as a family of 4 I feel like it shouldn't cost $200 for a one hour activity.