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The vehicle we bought cost over 10% what the same vehicle would have cost last year. Groceries are 40% more than they were. Utility bill is up nearly 50%. Cl
by bluedino 4y ago
The vehicle we bought cost over 10% what the same vehicle would have cost last year.
Groceries are 40% more than they were.
Utility bill is up nearly 50%.
Clothes and shoes don't seem to be more expensive, they just don't seem to go on sale anymore.
Our neighbors had a new roof installed and spend almost double what we did 3 years ago, we have nearly the same house and the same contractor did it.
Fast food has gone way up, sit-down restaurants don't seem to have changed much.
Homes in the area have went up 100% in the last two years.
We won't even talk about gas.
- dawnerd 4y agoCat food has almost doubled and they’re still having problems stocking it.
- h2odragon 4y agoWe've stared buying the cheapest "people" tuna cans for our elderly cat; I think they've cheaped out too far on the cat food and its not really "food" anymore.
- illegalsmile 4y agoI was shocked when I went to buy my last 3.3lb bag of cat food and found it had gone up $4. My cats eat a 50/50 mix of baked chicken and dry food. At $3/lb chicken breast is way less expensive than the $7/lb dry food. I can only imagine how much people are spending on their medium to large dogs to feed them.
- slaw 4y agoWhere did you get a vehicle only 10% more expensive? New Jeep Cherokee Latitude 4x4 was $21k in January 2021. The cheapest new Cherokee now is $35k. 3 years old is $25k. Seattle,WA.
- thatfrenchguy 4y agoJeeps aren’t really a good benchmark for cars though, they’re an aspirational car, even the Cherokee.
- slaw 4y agoCan you find a car which price increased only 10%?
- ahahahahah 4y agoLiterally the first car I searched for to answer your question (audi s5) had starting prices: 2020 $51.9k 2021 $52.5k 2022 $55.3k So, yes I can find such a car and it was quite easy. You should reconsider how likely people are to over-estimate the changes in prices compared to a systematic approach to tracking inflation like the BLS performs.
- slaw 4y agoDid you know that MSRP is not the price you pay? The cheapest Audi S5 I can buy now in Seattle is $69,465 with dealer markup.
- bluedino 4y agoIt's a wee bit more than 10% With a $38,635 starting price, the entry-level Odyssey now costs $4300 more than last year
- slaw 4y agoThere were manufactures and dealer rebates before. My coworker bought Odyssey years ago for $6k off MSRP. I am not in the market for a minivan, so I don't know what rebates were year ago.
- rr888 4y ago> We won't even talk about gas. Well that went down in price in July, and is one of the reasons inflation was flat in todays CPI.
- HideousKojima 4y agoStill more than double what it was 2 years ago, and even throughout the last decade (2010-2020) gas prices never broke $4/gallon
- roflyear 4y agoMore than double what it was during the covid low? yes. But hopefully you see how dumb that is to compare it against.
- kombucha13 4y agoIt's weird. I've only seen my natural gas bill increase about 30pc and groceries are only up 5-10pc...everything else has remained the same.