Tractors are getting more costly every year

[masseyrider]

Not just tractors. I stopped at a food truck today. A single burger without cheese or fries, $11. $4.5 for fries, and $4 for can soda.

Dont think so.

Walked over to taco truck. They wanted $15 for 3 tacos.

Dont think so

Went to Red Robin, ate in air cond restaurant and had full meal for way less money. And alot better food.

Was going to hit buffalo wild wings for their lunch specials for about $10 which include drinks, but was on opposite side of town.

What happened to cheep food trucks

There's a local independent "ethnic" grocery that has an in store coffee shop/pizza fast food area.
Their add had a picture of a double stack burger (looked great, Big Mac done right) and fries for $8.99.
I was ready to go until I read the smaller print.
$8.99 for the single burger. Upgrade to double stack, $4 = $12.99.
Fries are extra. Small fries are + $4. Is there anything they can sell you much cheaper than a medium potato?
$12.99 + $4 = $16.99
Beverage, medium $3.50.
$16.99 + $3.50 = $20.49 + 13% sales tax.
At a different store they had lean ground beef on for $5/lb
2 lbs plus buns, bag of fries, I already had the condiments and soda.
No sales tax because it was groceries, not a prepared meal.
Cost less to feed 4 of us than 1 order at the other place.
And some left overs for later.

 

[D&D]

My tractor costs now €7500 more than it did when I bought it in 2017. Indeed prices have been going up.

The dealers are paying the mechanics 3x as much

 

[D&D]

There’s NO WAY wages are keeping up with prices.
Only way manufacturers are selling is through more gimmicks, like “0 percent financing” or 7-10 year loan terms, leasing, etc.
Tractors aside, Look at housing in most parts of the US. Young people are having trouble buying a shoebox home now.
A 3/4 ton crew cab truck is $85,000. Heavy duty Trailers are $15,000.
I’ll be OK as I can probably keep cobbling my stuff together, but I have no idea how a young man can start a business today without outside capital.

Mommy and daddy or in-laws providing outside capital from their nest egg. Somebody I know gave up their whole nest egg (only 30k) so their kid could buy a house. At 69, he and wife both still work part time to make ends meet.

 

[grsthegreat]

Theres a new local sit down restaurant here that has $10 lunch specials. Great, fat hamburger, small order of tasty fries and refillable drink included.

Way, way better than mickyd or other chains. Dont know how they do it, but the place is packed.

 

[masseyrider]

From a young age Pa used to involve me with the transactions connected to the farm.
It was either 1975/6 in the Fall.
One of the local Massey dealers was clearing out his stock of new MF135s.
He asked me If I thought he should buy one. What did I know at that age. I was more interested in the sprouting bosoms of the girls at school.
Well he ended up buying 2.
They had the heavy rear ends and single remotes. The front axles were also heavier to be able to accept a FEL. 8x2 transmissions which were an upgrade over the standard 6x2.
$7000, all in for the pair.
Never one to stand pat on equipment a few years later he went to trade them on a pair of MF245s, the new equivalent. $8500 each.
He got almost double on the trades than what he had paid just a couple years earlier.

 

[bigtiller]

Perkins Restaurant & Bakery has 300 locations in 32 states and 2 Canadian provinces. Their special is burger, fries & pie for $9.99.

 

[WinterDeere]

There’s NO WAY wages are keeping up with prices.

I have spent a lot of time thinking about this over the last few decades, and even still can't find an easy way to compare, because the standards of daily life have changed so much.

Things like smart phones, wireless plans, and data plans all cost us a fortune, and are yearly expenses our parents just couldn't have imagined or even thought about budgeting. On the flip side, we can buy a pretty darn nice television on an hour or two of salary, whereas our parents or grandparents had to save weeks or even months for a new TV.

Many in my grandparents generation lived in houses of only 1500 square feet, but I can't even remember the last time I saw a new house under 6000 square feet built around here. Standards have obviously changed toward the more expensive.

So, looking at these things, it's hard to say standards haven't improved. But of course, now dual-career families have become the norm, in an effort to support all of this. So, how do you settle with that?

 

[5030]

Show me somthing that don't cost more today please?????

 

[WinterDeere]

Show me somthing that don't cost more today please?????

Televisions. For as much as six decades, the average "large" family room television had cost very roughly $700. But what you would get for $700 improved dramatically over that time, and the value of said $700 kept decreasing over time.

Yeah, I've paid double that for leading-edge TV's (e.g. 75" LED back in 2011), but the greater trend is the masses of 45" and 50" LED TV's that can now be had for $250 - $450... an amount most make in a single day. Your father probably had to save for weeks to buy a TV... for $700.

Computers are an even better example. I remember my father buying three computers in the mid-1980's, each close to $5k. Today, I buy $800 computers for my wife and kids, which work quite well for basic home chores. Even my high-end engineering workstations are under $10k... roughly $2k-$3k in mid-80's dollars, and these can do more calculations in a few seconds than my father's computers did in a full day.

 

[masseyrider]

Televisions. For as much as six decades, the average "large" family room television had cost very roughly $700. But what you would get for $700 improved dramatically over that time, and the value of said $700 kept decreasing over time.

Yeah, I've paid double that for leading-edge TV's (e.g. 75" LED back in 2011), but the greater trend is the masses of 45" and 50" LED TV's that can now be had for $250 - $450... an amount most make in a single day. Your father probably had to save for weeks to buy a TV... for $700.

Computers are an even better example. I remember my father buying three computers in the mid-1980's, each close to $5k. Today, I buy $800 computers for my wife and kids, which work quite well for basic home chores. Even my high-end engineering workstations are under $10k... roughly $2k-$3k in mid-80's dollars, and these can do more calculations in a few seconds than my father's computers did in a full day.

My parents first refrigerator was $500.
Pa and Ma working brought home aboot $140 a week.
Ma worked for the Parks Department and Pa for Ontario Hydro.
The fridge was a return. The original owners couldn't keep up with the payments.
Store gave them the full warranty because it was only 6 months old.
White and not even self defrosting.