Items/goods/services that recently (last year or two) seem much more expensive? (1 Viewer)

[fantasycurse42]

I hear inflation has been stagnant, yet there are a ton of items I pay almost 50% more today than I did a few years ago, here are my examples, please share yours:

- slice of pizza, can't find for under $3, pie, typically around $20 

- paper towels, CVS used to have weekly specials on Bounty for a case of 12 for $9.99, now they're $15.99

- toothpaste, I was paying $3ish a tube, now I'm near $6

- gas, obviously

- electric bill - comparing YoY, nearly 40% higher on similar usage

- socks, used to by a 6 pack for $8, just bought one last week for $15

- car insurance, somehow has gone up 15% without any incidents

- Nike Air Max, 3 years ago were around $140, now they're > $200

I can keep going, but curious what everyone else is seeing. 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Paper products in general seem to be awfully high for stuff you are just going to throw away. 

 

[nirad3]

Fast food, and fast-ish food.

Going to McD's costs you almost $10, just for a normal meal.

Going to a place like Five Guys creeps up on $20 for one freaking person.  That's nuts.

Fortunately there's places like Carl's Jr. that have those $5 boxes that are about the same amount of food. 

Yin... yang.

 

[Mad Cow]

Graphics cards due to Bitcoin farming.

 

[Zegras11]

Bitcoin.   Up like 50 percent last few months.  

 

[fantasycurse42]

Bitcoin.   Up like 50 percent last few months.  

You're not including Dec/Jan in those few, bc I'd assume some people lost a lot of money on those 50% gains. 

 

[fantasycurse42]

Fast food, and fast-ish food.

Going to McD's costs you almost $10, just for a normal meal.

Going to a place like Five Guys creeps up on $20 for one freaking person.  That's nuts.

Fortunately there's places like Carl's Jr. that have those $5 boxes that are about the same amount of food. 

Yin... yang.

I can't take my family of four to a diner for under $50.

 

[Zegras11]

You're not including Dec/Jan in those few, bc I'd assume some people lost a lot of money on those 50% gains. 

You're not including the people that bought a year ago.  

 

[nirad3]

I can't take my family of four to a diner for under $50.

Yeah, same here....  we went to a local Mexican joint the other night.  Granted my wife did get a margarita, but my son is in a "I ONLY EAT FRENCH FRIES" stage, so his share was only a few bucks.  $68 later, my belly is happy but my brain wasn't and my wallet is obviously much lighter.  

 

[glvsav37]

Going to McD's costs you almost $10, just for a normal meal.

Going to a place like Five Guys creeps up on $20 for one freaking person.  .

I (sadly) joke all the time.  I’m not that old but I remember being able to feed a car full of drunk guys T bell for $10 or so bucks.  

And   posting from a 5 guys. 

 

[Drunken knight]

Yeah, food in all tiers seems to have have risen.

movie pricing.

cell phones.

hotel rooms.

medical insurance (but this has been happening for a while)

 

[Nick Vermeil]

Thanks Obama!

 

[fantasycurse42]

Been harping on this for a long time. 

Inflation is flat? Suuuuure. Ever take a look at what is excluded from the inflation calculations? Pretty much everything you spend money on. 

Food is the killer. Chicken used to be 80 cents a pound. Good luck finding it under $3 now. When was the last time you saw 10 cent, 25 cent wings at a bar? Now they want like a buck each! 

Beef? I stopped buying it... Even the cheap cuts at $6/lb. Good ones are $15-20 at the grocery store. It's hit restaurants... Now when you ask for a medium rare steak, it's blue in the middle. Rare. Because they can't afford to have a steak sent back by some snob for being a hair overdone, it'd blow their profit on a whole table. So they show it to you rare and make you responsible for sending it back for more heat. 

Dollar menus are gone. The $5 footlong at Subway is $8.50 now. A soda with 10 cents of syrup in it is $2. 

It's ridiculous. 

This is kind of what I'm driving at - inflation is everywhere, it isn't getting better... IDK how they calculate that ####, but it certainly isn't on things I'm spending money on. 

Those $1 wings are like happy hour prices now - most bars around my parts are like $12-$15 for an order which is usually 6 wings (8 if you're lucky).

 

[Brony]

HFS this place is old. 

 

[Brony]

but don't get me started on the prices of peanut butter. $6 for a jar?  WhadIlooklike? Mr. Peanut? 

 

[fantasycurse42]

but don't get me started on the prices of peanut butter. $6 for a jar?  WhadIlooklike? Mr. Peanut? 

 

[wikkidpissah]

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[RUSF18]

I buy a few tubes of toothpaste at a time from Shoprite when I see it on sale, usually at about $3/each (for the good stuff).

$6? I'd just rinse. 

 

[Drunken knight]

I remember being able to drive to Vegas and self park at the hotel for free. Now they charge hourly & daily to park there. WTF. You're a ###### casino. You print money around the clock. Why are you making it difficult for people who want to lose money to you? 

hotel parking and daily taxes/fees.

 

[Don't Noonan]

Yachts

Jetfuel

Butlers salary

Xlarge condoms

 

[fantasycurse42]

I buy a few tubes of toothpaste at a time from Shoprite when I see it on sale, usually at about $3/each (for the good stuff).

$6? I'd just rinse. 

I have a CVS around the block, typically where I get a lot of this ####... Used to be $3ish when on sale, now it's like 2 for $11 when on sale. 

Prob gonna shift my toothpaste buying to Prime soon

 

[dgreen]

Dollar menus are gone.

Best deal out there right now are the $1 large drinks at McDonald's. I wonder when that will end. Until then, I'll keep grabbing a large unsweet tea and a $1 sausage biscuit for breakfast. If I'm feeling like I'm rolling in the dough, I might add a hashbrown. It's not on the dollar menu, but I think it's like $1.19.

A soda with 10 cents of syrup in it is $2. 

Yeah, we almost never get drinks at restaurants anymore unless they are part of a combo deal. Some places can be up to $3. I'm not spending $15 on drinks for my family of 5.

 

[dgreen]

I have a CVS around the block, typically where I get a lot of this ####... Used to be $3ish when on sale, now it's like 2 for $11 when on sale. 

Prob gonna shift my toothpaste buying to Prime soon

In suburbia at places like Target, still plenty of toothpaste options around $3.

 

[dgreen]

Was looking at airline prices. $70 for a carry-on bag!? They're as bad as hotels in making it impossible to get an honest answer about cost when trying to compare options. 

I can't remember the last time I flew and they DIDN'T announce that they ran out of carry-on space. Some of the discount airlines charge for carry-ons. I wonder if the bigger boys will start, too, because that's what everyone does now.

 

[sbonomo]

Wine - My god highend reds are our of control.  Mid level bottles have skyrocketed as well.  Beer - How in the world does a 4-pack of sculpin cost 11-12 bucks.  Don't even get me started on the price of drinking when out. I swear i am going to quit drinking at restaurants here soon.  Last night i had two goose IPA's and a pepperoni pizza at burbank airport.  With tip the bill was $49 ($25 for the beers, $14 for the pizza and the rest was tax and tip).  My god!

 

[dgreen]

$1 used to buy actual food. And more than the kid hamburger with a small patty and that's it. Dollar menu burgers used to have lettuce, cheese, tomato... 

Now you feel like you're getting a great deal if the sodas only a buck. 

And coffee used to be a nickel!!!!

 

[Parrothead]

In suburbia at places like Target, still plenty of toothpaste options around $3.

that is not toothpaste 

 

[nirad3]

Dollar menus are gone. The $5 footlong at Subway is $8.50 now. A soda with 10 cents of syrup in it is $2. 

It's ridiculous. 

Subway still has a few $5 footlongs.  Fortunately the one I get - meatball - is still there.

Taco Bell still has a workable dollar menu.  $5 and change gets you plenty.

Went to Burger King yesterday and got out under $6.  10 of their spicy (and they are, actually) nuggets, double cheeseburger and value fries.

Been on a tight budget these past few years so I've been all over the various value menus and definitely don't order a drink unless I'm getting a combo meal.

Places like Buffalo Wild Wings... soda is OVER $3.  

I've actually lost a few L-B's with me not drinking as much soda.  

 

[Cowboysfan8]

Wine - My god highend reds are our of control.  Mid level bottles have skyrocketed as well.  Beer - How in the world does a 4-pack of sculpin cost 11-12 bucks.  Don't even get me started on the price of drinking when out. I swear i am going to quit drinking at restaurants here soon.  Last night i had two goose IPA's and a pepperoni pizza at burbank airport.  With tip the bill was $49 ($25 for the beers, $14 for the pizza and the rest was tax and tip).  My god!

 

[Da Guru]

Noticed all seafood at Costco has gone up quite a bit the last 2 years.

I stopped drinking craft beers at pubs and restaurant's. got sick of 8-9 bucks a pint.  I will drink any domestic on special.

Hotels..just paid 130.00 for a suburban Hampton Inn.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Wine - My god highend reds are our of control.  Mid level bottles have skyrocketed as well.  Beer - How in the world does a 4-pack of sculpin cost 11-12 bucks.  Don't even get me started on the price of drinking when out. I swear i am going to quit drinking at restaurants here soon.  Last night i had two goose IPA's and a pepperoni pizza at burbank airport.  With tip the bill was $49 ($25 for the beers, $14 for the pizza and the rest was tax and tip).  My god!

This

 

[fantasycurse42]

Okay, everyone agrees food/drink/alcohol - what else?

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Eggs 

Oops, sorry Fantasy

 

[Quint]

Wine - My god highend reds are our of control.  Mid level bottles have skyrocketed as well.  Beer - How in the world does a 4-pack of sculpin cost 11-12 bucks.  Don't even get me started on the price of drinking when out. I swear i am going to quit drinking at restaurants here soon.  Last night i had two goose IPA's and a pepperoni pizza at burbank airport.  With tip the bill was $49 ($25 for the beers, $14 for the pizza and the rest was tax and tip).  My god!

it's likely to keep going up:

- smaller labor pools will drive the cost of taking fruit off the vine higher.

- recreational cannabis is gonna take a bite of that market too.

- rents will be going up for wineries with tasting rooms, so that's another factor. for example, the space down  from ours has been vacant for a couple of months. landlord's asking $8k/month, which shakes out to around $6.60/sq.ft. that's nuts, even for downtown Sonoma. 

- wine tourism, at least in NorCal, is seeing a slight uptick, but sales are flat or declining in Napa/Sonoma. gotta make up for that somewhere...better add a couple of bucks to each bottle. 

and don't get me started on shipping costs. it's about $55 to move a case of wine from CA to the east coast. even w/ FBG money, that's gonna get prohibitive real quick. 

 

[Drunken knight]

Wine - My god highend reds are our of control.  Mid level bottles have skyrocketed as well.  Beer - How in the world does a 4-pack of sculpin cost 11-12 bucks.  Don't even get me started on the price of drinking when out. I swear i am going to quit drinking at restaurants here soon.  Last night i had two goose IPA's and a pepperoni pizza at burbank airport.  With tip the bill was $49 ($25 for the beers, $14 for the pizza and the rest was tax and tip).  My god!

Wine- still decent value in European, south American, aus/nz

 

[dgreen]

How do hourly rates for auto mechanics or other repairmen compare to recent years? I dread taking my cars to the shop.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

$6 toothpaste?  $20 per person Five Guys?  Are you guys in Manhattan or San Francisco?

I literally just got back from selecting toothpaste out at the grocery store.  I didn't see a tube from a major brand priced over $1.99.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Here you go

 

[Eephus]

I think the nickel and diming of consumers is getting out of hand.  Service charges, resort fees, various surcharges and my favorite, convenience fees.

 

[dgreen]

$6 toothpaste?  $20 per person Five Guys?  Are you guys in Manhattan or San Francisco?

I literally just got back from selecting toothpaste out at the grocery store.  I didn't see a tube from a major brand priced over $1.99.

If you go all out, I can see Five Guys coming close to $20. If you get the cheapest burger, fries, and drink, I think you're probably in the $11-12 range.

 

[wikkidpissah]

i never asked - how do the prices of legal & illegal pot line up?

 

[fantasycurse42]

$6 toothpaste?  $20 per person Five Guys?  Are you guys in Manhattan or San Francisco?

I literally just got back from selecting toothpaste out at the grocery store.  I didn't see a tube from a major brand priced over $1.99.

Where you in the 1985 store? I haven't seen one for under in over a decade.

 

[James Bond]

Was looking at airline prices. $70 for a carry-on bag!? They're as bad as hotels in making it impossible to get an honest answer about cost when trying to compare options. 

On my way home on a recent trip, I was going to get charged $25 for a check through bag. However, they mis-directed the bag (it went to Honolulu) so they shipped it to my home by Fedex and then paid me $60 for "the trouble." Result was a $85 savings for having my dirty clothes arrive home a couple of days late. Winner winner chicken dinner.

 

[Eephus]

$6 toothpaste?  $20 per person Five Guys?  Are you guys in Manhattan or San Francisco?

I literally just got back from selecting toothpaste out at the grocery store.  I didn't see a tube from a major brand priced over $1.99.

Where you in the 1985 store? I haven't seen one for under in over a decade.

I paid around $2.50 for a 6 oz. tube of Colgate from a corner store in SF last weekend.

 

[Brony]

Eggs are usually a buck a dozen at my grocery store. I had to buy toothpaste this morning and Crest and Colgate were on sale for 1.67 for a medium sized tube at target . 

 

[fantasycurse42]

Okay, toothpaste is disputed... Let's move along.

 

[Brony]

I find it odd that cell phones are more expensive than your average laptop 

 

[Quint]

i never asked - how do the prices of legal & illegal pot line up?

they're in the same ballpark if we're comparing strain:strain. dispensaries moving legal cannabis, at least in CA, are gonna get around 10% over "My Pot Guy" prices....gotta pay to keep the lights on. 

that said, if you want some high-end-biodynamically-farmed-melt-into-the-couch flowers on a consistent basis, then the dispensary is the way to go (along w/ edibles, extracts, topcials, cartridges, tinctures, etc.).

 

[sbonomo]

it's likely to keep going up:

- smaller labor pools will drive the cost of taking fruit off the vine higher.

- recreational cannabis is gonna take a bite of that market too.

- rents will be going up for wineries with tasting rooms, so that's another factor. for example, the space down  from ours has been vacant for a couple of months. landlord's asking $8k/month, which shakes out to around $6.60/sq.ft. that's nuts, even for downtown Sonoma. 

- wine tourism, at least in NorCal, is seeing a slight uptick, but sales are flat or declining in Napa/Sonoma. gotta make up for that somewhere...better add a couple of bucks to each bottle. 

and don't get me started on shipping costs. it's about $55 to move a case of wine from CA to the east coast. even w/ FBG money, that's gonna get prohibitive real quick. 

I have been going to Napa for the last 20 years.  It used to be 10-15 bucks per tasting that would be waived if you bought a bottle (bottles used to be 30-60 bucks for pretty good juice).  Now it is $25-$100 per with no hope of getting anything waived even though the bottles are now $85-$150 for okay wine.  I am buying primarily high quality French White's and Spanish red because that is all i can afford anymore.  Did i really just say that!  How the market has changed. 

 

[nirad3]

If you go all out, I can see Five Guys coming close to $20. If you get the cheapest burger, fries, and drink, I think you're probably in the $11-12 range.

I got the larger of the burgers, fries and a drink and it was just about $18.  In LA area.

I don't think going to the smaller burger would save you $6-7... at least out here.

Five Guys makes a good burger, but there's just no way I can justify spending that much.