"Lyft / Uber aren’t nearly the deal they used to be."
"Concert tickets. It’s gotten to be over $100 to sit on the grass, in August, in Houston."
"Just getting a drink at a bar."
"My sons’ college tuition was 10 times what mine cost. I have a grandson coming up in a few years. Will it be 100 times more than mine?"
"Fabric. When my daughter was little, I sewed clothes for her myself. Now, fabric is so expensive that it’s just cheaper to buy the clothes already made."
"I’m only just coming to terms with this, but potato chips. I remember when the extra super cheapo bag was 89 cents. Now they’re 2 bucks and the premium chips are like 6 or 7 bucks.
It’s outrageous"
"Second hand clothing stores. Some of the things in there I can buy for same price, if not less, for brand new!"
"Fast food. Used to get 3 soft taco supremes from Taco Bell for 4-5 bucks back in the day. Same order runs $10 now. I’ll spend the extra 2 bucks and get good tacos if I need now"
"I love jerky but hate the price. $10 for store brand jerky, name brand prices are outrageous."
"Candy bars
69 cents? I’ll grab one from time to time. Full grown adult.
$2.69? Lol wut? That’s like actual money. For a candy bar? How are they still in business?"
"F@#kin cereal man. Some grade A bullsh#t"
"Netflix, Prime, all the streaming services are too much these days."
"A house, and I’m lucky enough to be a homeowner. Housing prices are out of f@#king control. Our house has increased over $200K in value since we bought it 6 years ago. That’s almost double what we paid for it in six years.
We couldn’t afford to buy our house today. I’m glad that our house has turned out to be such a sound investment, but we didn’t buy it to be an investment; we bought it to be our HOME.
Other people deserve homes, too. I don’t want to live in a society where 2 hardworking people can’t afford a modest home of their own."
"Replacing the windows for your house.
Obviously, if you need to replace one… you need to replace one. But there was once a time where replacing your windows for the energy savings over 15 years + increase in potential resale price was well worth it.
Now? You’re looking at $20k-$30k for what? $20 a month savings in energy usage? In a market where there could be a body in the basement which the potential buyer would let you leave so long as they got the house?"
"Starbucks. A medium soy latte costs 7$ now."
"Flank steak for a carne asada barbecue. It used to be really inexpensive and you could feed a lot of people if you had a party or a get together. I remember it being $2.99 a pound. I’ve seen it as high as $15.99 a pound. No thank you."
"Soda. I could buy a 12 pack for $2.50-3.00 back then. Now theyre $12+. Like f@#k that sh#t. I switched to drinking coffee mixed with chocolate milk now cause of it."
"This may be a bit weird…I still buy it, but not as much as I used too…Gum. I used to buy 2 packs for $2.50 now it’s almost $4.50 for 1 pack."
"Fresh fruit."
"Movie tickets. Matinee is where it’s at. Especially with the complete lack of social etiquette from evening crowds now."
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Industry in various sectors got out of control and is running wild for years, but people still are told that the market will fix that and any attempt to control the situation is labeled as communism. The "freedom" people fight for is mainly the freedom of the wealthy and mighty enterprise companys, not the freedom of the average person. So, it will obviously get worse.
oh so you're a lefty.. typical mixing up political stances with just plain old consumerism. you act like we can just say, Government help! when the government actually partnered with these large corporations. You literally asked for it. go do research on federal grants, regulations, etc. the companies have No Power. it's the government who make and then enforce the rules.
I'm just bitching about the cost of toilet paper!!
Not the Unilateral Vertical Market Strategy When Penetrating An Inverse Economic
Price Vector and Static Consumer Policy!
Hell!! Just looking for a good deal on 2 Ply!!!