Gas and Food definitely UP.
Yesterday on my bread and milk run I noticed the chip aisle as I was walking by. The bottom of the line chips that normally sell for 99 cents every day of the year? Now, $1.19, BUT a twist - they were on SALE for 99 cents. I fear it's just the beginning of getting us used to the higher price! A few pennies? Okay, but a 20 cent jump and multiply that by most things in the store? OUCH!
For instance our store brand bread for a small loaf normally sits at 79 cents pretty steadily. Yesterday the same small loaf? $1.09. That was the cheapest loaf in the store.
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"Economy is a poor man's revenue; extravagance, a rich man's ruin." ~~??, frontspiece, The American Frugal Housewife, by Lydia Maria Child, Harper & Row, 1836 edition (dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy).
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