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QUESTION: What’s one thing you’ve had to cut back on due to the rise in inflation??
Talk about it….
Restaurant Dining !!
Did a family survey and we cut back on nothing at all.
Nothing, if I need or want something, I buy it. I’m far from being rich,
but it’s only money and I can’t take it with me, so I may as well spend it.
I paid off my home a long time ago, and after I retired I paid off my credit
cards, so now the only bills I have are phone and utilities. I have a little
more money to spend, and even though I don’t like the higher cost of
everything, at least I’m able to pay for it.
Kind of the same here.
House & Auto are another thing on our list.
I go dining out about 50% less, use food trucks instead. After I paid $28 for one sirloin steak at the grocery store, I pretty much quit getting that anymore. To me, when stuff gets expensive so fast it’s not fun anymore.
What food trucks are you spending money at that are that much cheaper than restaurants?
Dining out and red meat. We eat so much less red meat now that it is crazy expensive. Also we really try to use less air/heat/power due to the scumbag criminals PG&E
I’m with you. The real Scumbags are California Utility Comission and CARB.
PG&E.
It gauls me to pay those bills.
Eatting out….
Eating outside the home … although it’s almost a wash looking at the cost of groceries these days
Cutting way back on eating out, and heating/ cooling the house too much.
Frankly, for two of us to eat breakfast out with tip is coming close to $50, which is ridiculous! We can go to Trader Joe’s and buy 2-days worth of nice meals for that. At home we close off a room or two from HVAC and keep the thermostat at barely warm in the winter and barely cool at the summer. Can’t have more of those $700 surprise PG&E bills! Things have really deteriorated in the last 4 years and we’re having a harder time getting by for the first time. So, you ca guess who we voted for! We’re doing the ‘Trump dance’ now!
Oh I’ve been corrected, we cut out all the stupid news outlets. Now I hear the new stupid weather term “bomb cyclone” wtf is that another made up nonsense term for rain and wind for the USA.
There is nothing worse than watching the stupid weather forecasters anywhere on any channel trying to put a spin on their weather report.
We haven’t been hit hard by inflation given our dual income. What’s killing us, however, is our PG&E bills. My wife works from home, so the AC is used all summer and the heat is used all winter, albeit as sparingly as possible. Our monthly PG&E bills are infuriating.
Bought a new Cadillac instead of a new Mercedes.
Does that count?