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Post by coosa on Oct 28, 2007 9:40:45 GMT -4
I could not believe how much money I spent at the grocery store this week and we eat out 6 nights a week! Remember when bread and soup was what poor people ate? Now you can't afford it!
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Post by shortcircuit on Oct 28, 2007 10:50:37 GMT -4
It seems like I can go to the store and spend $100 and only come out with 2-3 bags of things.
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Post by taylor on Nov 27, 2007 9:13:28 GMT -4
After looking at the prices this week, I have decided that Sonny and I are just going to stop eating. Well, not really, but I don't know what I would do if I had the whole family to feed like when the kids were small. It is so hard to believe that a gallon of milk is averaging $4.50! I also noticed that potatoes and eggs had went up tremendously.
Coosa, I know what you mean about the "poor people's food". Used to, cheap meals were stuff like biscuits and gravy, potatoes, soup and cornbread, and dried beans (like lima's) and rice. Not anymore. I remember when chicken wings were just about the cheapest chicken you could buy. You could get 2 or 3 pounds for just a little bit over a dollar, make a big pot of chicken & dumplin's and feed the whole family. Now they are more expensive than drumsticks. I think someone discovered a new phrase and blew the pricing right out of the water! Have you noticed that now, a lot of the foods we ate when we were broke are now called "comfort food"!
Stuff like the really cheap cuts of beef that we would cook all day in the crock pot to tenderize, add some potatoes, carrots, & onion, make gravy and a pot of rice and called it supper. Supper for the whole family might have cost 5 bucks. You can't even buy the meat for that now.
The sad part is that there are many, many people who are struggling to provide for their families and often, food is what will go lacking. If you have small children, do you feed them or keep them warm? If you are elderly, do you eat or take your medicines? The welfare system is so screwed up that many of the ones who are in need will not qualify for help, many of the ones who do receive the help are freeloaders that abuse the system, and all of us have to pay it.
By the way, if anyone decides to make donations to help people out with their grocery situation, please remember that those who receive food stamps can not use the food stamps to buy such everyday things as toilet tissue, feminine hygiene products, laundry items or bath soap & shampoo. The prices of these items has went up too.
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Post by shortcircuit on Nov 27, 2007 9:43:27 GMT -4
Good post taylor, I never thought about getting non-food items to donate.
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Post by queenbee on Nov 27, 2007 10:33:30 GMT -4
I am so thankful my husband hunt's and that we got an extra freezer this year. I always start buying extra grocery and baking items here and there before baking time begins. It does save a little and i don't have to buy it all at once.
Guess we will put in a bigger garden next year and take advantage of the farmer's market.
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Post by coosa on Nov 27, 2007 13:10:11 GMT -4
Yes, Taylor, it is true that people on food stamps can't even buy toilet paper with food stamps.
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Post by sometimeman on Nov 27, 2007 23:14:04 GMT -4
Food Prices?? Food an't gone up. It's the dollar!, It's the dollar!, It's the dollar. The dollar is going DOWN What can I say to get you to understand, MONEY is worth less and it will be worth less and less? Google the Wiemar Republic. They burned their money for heat. The money would give off more heat than the wood it would buy!  Google Zimbabwe. Yes it is happening! As long as we hold the idea of money that we do, the longer it will take us to understand We need Ron Paul. His ideas about economics will save us! |
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Post by coosa on Nov 28, 2007 12:56:56 GMT -4
We stopped at the grocery store last night and bought 3 apples! They cost $2.69 I can't believe it!
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Post by sometimeman on Nov 28, 2007 13:10:22 GMT -4
My Dear Coosa, You must quit thinking this way. It's not the apples, it's not the gas, it's not the milk. Let me repeat. Print this and tape it to the fridge. It's the money!,I t's the money!, It's the money! Its the D-A-M MONEYThe more they print the less its worth!! This is an actual photo of money being burned because it would produce more heat than te wood it would buy!!! |
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Post by sometimeman on Nov 28, 2007 13:24:02 GMT -4
The United States Constitution says the government is to "coin" money. A private corporation, formed by wealthy banking families, called "The Federal Reserve" "coins" or prints our money and charges us to do it.
Our money is backed -only- by, "the full faith and credit of the United States of America" We are in a desperate struggle to gain control of middle east oil so we can sell oil to the rest of the world for dollars-ONLY-.
As a Nation, Our credit is no good. Other countries are loosing faith in us. And I can't blame them. We have to borrow the money to make payment on our debts. We owe 9 trillion dollars.
Tax us Lie mar! TAX!, TAX! more TAX. Union Counties tax base is decreasing. Tax us Lie mar.
The only star on the horizon is Ron Paul. He is the only guy I hear speaking the truth.
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Post by sometimeman on Nov 28, 2007 13:44:23 GMT -4
"Things" are just getting so expensive!
Oh no, no. no! it is that Money is getting worth less and less. The Lie mars of this world chickens are coming home to roost!
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Post by sometimeman on Nov 28, 2007 17:11:23 GMT -4
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Post by taylor on Nov 28, 2007 17:41:22 GMT -4
Ok, ok -
Blame it on anything you wish from the value of the dollar to the price of tea in China, the fact remains it is getting more and more difficult to feed a family.
One other thing that no one has mentioned -
Has anyone noticed the price increases since the minimum wage went up? There is simply no way average working people will ever get ahead. They get .70 cents an hour raise this year, and suddenly the groceries go up, the electric bill, clothing, you name it. How bad do you think it will be when the minimum wage makes it all the way to $7.25 per hour in July 2009? It used to happen every time the military got a pay raise as well. When daddy was still in the military, every single time there was an announced pay raise, it reflected in the prices of everyday goods and services.
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Post by shortcircuit on Nov 28, 2007 19:43:26 GMT -4
It has been that way for years taylor, a close friend of mine who gets social security said that he gets a small cost of living increase every year and every year his insurance goes up just enough to take the extra money.
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Post by taylor on Nov 28, 2007 20:24:17 GMT -4
Yep, my point exactly! Mama has been on a fixed income for several years now. Every time there is a "cost of living" increase on her income, the "cost of living" goes up to take it all away!
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