Have you noticed that things are more expensive?

[Twalli]

I used to spend close to $150-$175 a week for groceries. A bit more if I was cooking anything big. However, for the past few months I've noticed that my grocery bills are a bit over $200 every time. Since I don't really change what I buy each week, it isn't that I'm buying new more expensive stuff. I'm buying the same things, but they're costing more than they did previously.

[loveslongnails]

That's true for everyone who is willing to admit the truth. I took an inventory of the 15 things I purchased most and what they cost on Jan. 1, 2025. This was just food and drink. The difference in cost now, December 1, 2025, is 18%. So what cost me $100 in Jan 2025 now costs me $118. And that's just food and drink.

Factor in insurance, energy and utilities, services, and health care, and that number goes overall to about 35%. The only thing that didn't change was gasoline, but so what? I only drive 6,000 miles a year anyway.

So what it all means is, if I was making $75k a year and doing alright, I'm now needing to make about $26,250 more to be "doing alright". Well I got about a $6,000 raise and bonus, and my portfolio went up $8,000, so I'm still $12,250 behind where I was but 8K of that is deferred money and not living expense money. Thanks, Trump.

[Sunshinelips]

It’s not just in the US, it’s in the UK too, probably everywhere around the world. Here in the UK they keep putting their prices up every so often by about 10-15p depending on the item. It’s not just food, it’s household bills, rent. Everything. Probably all a plan just in time for agenda 2030.

[Nikki1989]

That is a worldwide problem, but at its worst in Trump's America, if the raw statistics are anything to go by.

[NathanDavis]

yes, but I don't look at it

[beefcakebradybatson]

I'm not blind, pardner !!!

[Twalli]

Not all people notice the changes, especially if their groceries are more varied. I don't take a week or two as a price hike, because sometimes my portions are more, sometimes they are less. However, if every time it eclipses $200, there has to be an increase in prices.

[jahaims]

Everything has been going up for years obviously

[msc545]

Things are definitely more expensive.

[CubaPirate]

Absolutely same here in tbe UK too

[Raydergman26]

Yes do to Trump