Another inflation observation

I have cut quite a bit my spending on things like oh Coffee, at a coffee shop

So today I decided to go get some coffee.

I had my new laptop and did not feel like fighting the kids (birds)

So I order my Latte... and I am told the price... unfrigging unbelievable this has gone up from 3.50 to 3.99

I guess I will continue to drink coffee at home.

But that was another one of those... we have no inflation folks, and no wallet is tight really

:sarcasm:

Because in the real world we don't deal with food and energy. :sarcasm:

these are the kinds of observations we all need to make

was 2.39 in January, now it's 2.99 at Stop & Shop.

soon

By the way, I buy my vegies these days at the swap meet directly from local farmsrs

Believe you me, that has cut my spending quite a bit

I'm stunned at the farcical charade that persists in the mainstream business media that inflation is under control.

It has been bad for some time, but wait until the dollar drop sinks in and the implications of this become more manifest in our trade imbalance. By that time, it will be impossible to ignore.

It is very serious, and we are losing our buying power, dollar by dollar and day by day.

we had the money... and I know that once the dollar crashes it will be worthless

By the by, we were at the game store the other day... and talking to an employee

A particular brand has been going up every month, in fact matching the Euro vs Dollar perfectly... ok they were off by 2% one month

He insist they have a factory in the US, they don't just checked on the web, so the product comes from the UK.

I mentioned this little factoid, and he had a deer in the headlights look.. like what does this matter?

for about ten years. Just buying stuff I know I will use in the future, particularly things like clothes, shoes, and about a year or so worth of food and water. I have shirts purchased twenty years ago that are coming back into style--lol--and they were thirty bucks when I bought them and sixty bucks now.

Anyway, I'm trying so hard to stop buying anything I don't need. It's an experiment, because I think it's hard to just sit still with nothing to distract me, no new books, music, movies. I allow myself one movie and one CD a month, whereas I was spending approximately a thousand on books a month previously.

What inspires me is knowing that I'm very fortunate compared to many people in this world. Some days seem very hard, because I am having a lot of personal losses right now, but I just keep remembering how few my troubles are compared to many others.

but apart of that, my windows machine is dying, and I didn't want to fight a second windows machine, so got an apple.

That will be good for eight years

My budget "was blown" with the two or three pieces of sofware I needed to get for it....

At least Painter will work on it as well

:-)

And writing and painting are my escape

They all laughed, but I've had my Newton for about fifteen years, and it works just fine for most things. Even the handwriting recognition is acceptable.

Everyone laughs about the Newton the way they used to laugh about the AMC Pacer, but Apple was the first company to produce the PDA with handwriting recognition, and those damned things still work!

LOL

That is when I went the way of the Window HPC... and the first one is absolute best one I ever had,

I kill my hardware

By the way, rumor has it that they may be working on a newton

:-)

:rofl:

...as they take their laptop to the latte shop - lol :D

:-)

Milk prices have gone through the roof. Chocolate syrup too. I own a coffee shop and I'm closing the doors at the end of the year.
It's going to be sad, we have quite a few really nice regulars, but, sadly not enough to make it.


forgot the 't' in a the.

but at this point I cannot afford to be a regular at my local haunt

I wish you luck on any future endevaours you may pursue

Not to be so maudlin, but it is going to be the end of something that was really fun and exciting.

I will and I won't miss it, the position, the people, the lifestyle, but in all honesty I'm not good enough at business to compete against Starbuck's and the other regional franchises.

I serve just as good if not better espresso, I just don't do it as efficiently as they do.

I had to accept that fact before the situation got to the point where I could no longer get out from under the risk that I had assumed.

I did, and hence I'm closing up at the end of the year, I've already sold the building, might be lucky enough to sell the blue sky.

I will wholesale whatever I don't keep from the shop equipment, take a little respite, figure out which direction I want to go in and then, go.

Thanks again for the kind words.

$4.39 a box last month, now $5.29 tonight. I was shocked, but I found the old price sticker still hiding behind the new one, to confirm.

They contain milk. 'Nuff said.

Hubby is living on cheese omelets and milk these days(long story, off topic), so I buy about a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs every several days. Milk here has gone up around $1.00 since the spring, and eggs about 75 cents. And we are talking about food from relatively local sources (within 150 mi... "local" for California anyway). At least the local Bartlett pear crop is still selling for 3 lbs for 99 c.

Sure looks like inflation to me.

I get a lot of stuff for my occupation via UPS and Fed Ex & freight carriers. And also have to ship stuff out.

Unbelievable price hikes...cost of oil, y'know....