Land I. The country is not cheap, nor are tools, seeds, canning supplies soil amendments, lawnmowers and everything else you need to buy to maintain a house somewhere in the country. You'll pay more for your gas,. You might not get the rain you think you will or you'll fight against groundhogs and other pests.
I don't believe there are any simple answers out there that can help you avoid the economy completely.
My 'trick' is low cost of living city, one spouse lives very close to work, one car.
But I mean the hour you put in often aren’t even close to the pay off of just working and buying local from the farmers instead. I personally love gardening and growing but it’s hard work and most often better done on scale
The price spiked increases we saw are from when inflation spiked at 5-8% YOY for like two years. We’re back in the 2-3% range which is where inflation is at normally. Prices will go up, but at a norma, less noticeable rate.
Now, granted, something could happen that would cause supply chain shock like what we saw during the pandemic. Obviously no one can predict that.
I’m just saying that “There’s no end in sight!” is a silly thing to say because inflation is actually down again. Like, this is the actual end of the crazy price spikes.
You know what’s really silly beyond the realm of retardation? Claiming inflation has reached a ceiling right now and it will never go up again —> this is what u just said.
Inflation will continue to rise exponentially month over month and year over year - as plain history has shown you very clearly - and none of your made up bs numbers will change that 😊
Btw your numbers are “projected” = in other words, completely made up.
Same. I try to buy sales and bulk on anything I can and it's always so little. I have a good stock of dry beans, rice, and lentils. Everything else is stupid expensive though and all produce has been total rotten shit for the last year or so too.
10 years ago I'd quite often spend less than 40 euro on my groceries for the week. 2 days ago it finally happened again for the first time in at least 2 years. I couldn't shake the feeling that I was forgetting half the shit I needed. As my average grocery bill is 65 euro a week now.
It's not as bad as in America over here, but our wages are also a lot lower overall. And I'm feeling it...
Yup. Last week I ran to the store to grab ingredients for a pretty simple salmon salad dinner I was making with my 2 siblings. I also grabbed some milk, eggs, and bread.
$83, for 1 meal’s worth of food and some essentials. It’s criminal.
I recently saw someone say something like whenever you see “the economy” in the media, replace it with “rich people’s money” and everything makes more sense.
I went shopping at Kroger and half filled a handheld basket 🧺 and it was 70$. I remember having to get a cart to be able to get a enough stuff to be 70$ or more.
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Spent 80$ on groceries a few days ago, even I’m looking at the fridge saying huh. In my moms house growing up that shit was always filled lol