What Insane/Crazy Price did You Pay Today?

[IndyJay]

Was trying to be apolitical, by bluntly stating current facts and how presidents of either party dont control fuel prices. You labeling my reply as politcal really only shows your partisan bias while reading it, haha.

This belongs on the Front Porch but let me simply state that while administrations do not control prices, they do control policy.
This statement is also apolitical... I am not calling out or espousing views of either party, just stating a fact.

 

[gstrom99]

I buy local (USA made - hopefully), as much as possible, and don't really fret the prices. If I need it, I buy it.

I bought some frozen (pricy - of course) fish last week. I didn't notice the packages listed them as "Product of China", until I got 'rm out, to cook. Dang it.

 

[tjandrews]

I buy local (USA made - hopefully), as much as possible, and don't really fret the prices. If I need it, I buy it.

I bought some frozen (pricy - of course) fish last week. I didn't notice the packages listed them as "Product of China", until I got 'rm out, to cook. Dang it.

When I want fish I go to the freezer and get out a filet from a walleye I caught on the St. Lawrence River last August. While I can't say the fish didn't wander over into the Canadian side of the river sometime during its lifetime, I definitely caught it on the NY side of the border.

I suppose if you divided the cost of the fishing camp by the pounds of fish brought home, it would be pricey. But then, I don't go there for the fish, I go there so I can spend a week not doing farm work.

 

[tjandrews]

If I need it, I buy it.
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And therein lies the source of inflation. Too many people buying what they "need" no matter what the price. Even if I think I "need" it, if I don't have the money I don't buy it. I find a way to get along without it. My parents, children of the Great Depression, taught me that valuable lesson.

 

[MossRoad]

And therein lies the source of inflation. Too many people buying what they "need" no matter what the price. Even if I think I "need" it, if I don't have the money I don't buy it. I find a way to get along without it. My parents, children of the Great Depression, taught me that valuable lesson.

It costs many folks more to go fishing than it does to buy fish at the store.

Same thing for chicken. When you can buy a fully cooked 3lb chicken at the store, then compare that to the cost of purchasing a chick and raising it to 3lbs of meat... where's the break even point?

 

[IndyJay]

It costs many folks more to go fishing than it does to buy fish at the store.

Same thing for chicken. When you can buy a fully cooked 3lb chicken at the store, then compare that to the cost of purchasing a chick and raising it to 3lbs of meat... where's the break even point?

You left out Venison... that is probably $150/lb meat there.

 

[deezler]

Ya think?

Lol. No, actually I heard the "big-limestone" lobby was suppressing rock crushing operations across the country until the microchip shortage ends. Something about the supply chain for coronaviruses, or whatever.

 

[2manyrocks]

Instead of buying stocks, invest in OSB?

 

[mrmikey]

....it would take 3 months for that to ripple through the supply line...

Except when the price of crude goes up the prices of gas/diesel goes up immediately, when the price of crude drops then the cheaper crude has to filter thru the system, always been that way.........

 

[swines]

I bought a slab of koa wood. It cost $1200. I can hardly wait to see the creative ways I'll screw it up when I work with it...

 

[3Ts]

How and where did you get Koa wood? I thought that was on a restricted list and was not available for purchase except for the trinkets that tourists buy in Hawaii.

 

[Edstir]

I just got an email from our natural gas supplier telling me a therm is going up from .68 cents to $1.11. They are buying now for next years use. So much for 9% increase. When your on a fixed pension it sure hurts. All this on top of Covin. i remember the 70's gas shortage. This is some experience today's kid can tell their kids. Plus another European war in the works. Earliest memory is when my dad came home from the VA hospital in 1946 after surviving WW2. Crazy times.

 

[tjandrews]

You left out Venison... that is probably $150/lb meat there.

Depends. We put about 50 pounds of it in the freezer last November, for free. Guy hit it with his car and didn't want the meat, so we took it.

 

[IndyJay]

Depends. We put about 50 pounds of it in the freezer last November, for free. Guy hit it with his car and didn't want the meat, so we took it.

So good thing there was no damage to the car...

 

[4570Man]

Unfortunately, made in China. Look for. And buy made in the USA.

I’ll buy USA when I can but if the difference is $3 each vs $11 for the same material it’s not happening.

 

[4570Man]

Here’s what I had to pay to fill up my truck today.

 

[orezok]

I bought my wife a Mothers Day card today. Nothing really special about the card, no music or popups, pretty standard card... but it was over $9. I didn't think paper and ink went up THAT MUCH!

 

[2manyrocks]

$1.00 for the card. $8.00 fuel surcharge to deliver it to the store.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We agreed to stop getting each other cards years ago.
Some friends of ours would go to card shop, pick a card for each other, give them the card in the store, than put it back on the shelf.