Went grocery shopping yesterday to try and catch some post-Thanksgiving turkey sales. Didnt really see anything spectacular, but I did notice that my favorite ice cream…Breyers…was at…wait for it…..over $7 for a not-a-half gallon. Merciful Crom, when the heck did $7 for grocery-store-quality ice cream become normal?
This is one of the reasons I feel a bit pleased with myself in terms of being a survivalist. When food, fuel, and other staples start getting out of control, and wages don’t keep up, I can dilute the effect by relying on my rather prodigious stash of supplies.
But, also, my survivalist lifestyle and its non-stop concern for consequences has led me to a life where, when ice cream hits $7 and gas hits $5, I can absorb it without too much difficulty because i’ve lived a life of financial moderation. No mortgage, no student loans, no car loans, no bank loans, no medical debt. Doesn’t mean I’m indifferent to the mess that the economy is being made into, just means I can weather it better than Joe Sixpack who spends it as fast as he gets it on stupid stuff like big screen televisions, jet skis, and chrome wheels.
But, dang it, $7 for ice cream is just ridiculous. And it doesnt stop there… I hit Wendy’s for lunch and a double cheeseburger, fries, and a coke is $12. What the heck??? I don’t want to be one of those guys from my childhood who, when confronted with a price they didnt like, would say “When I was a kid, this cost a nickel”, but that same combo was $7 just a couple years ago.
Being a survivalist is more than a basement full of MRE’s and 5.56mm. It’s thinking about the potential possibilities of what the future may bring. As they say, “the dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed”. And thinking about consequences is a really large part of what being a survivalist is really about.
Being forced to choose between food and gas, rent or medicine, or an emergency room visit versus shoes for the kids, is no way to live. I feel bad for people who are in that strait, but most people have had just as long to get ready for this sort of thing as I did…and they had better income during that time. So, yeah, I feel bad for you but you’re the one who played your mandolin all summer while Ii was getting ready for winter.
Commander:
Don’t blame the lazy – the left have been telling them how right they are.
Facts will only confuse “Joe Sixpack” and the left!
Truth should NEVER get in the way of prejudices…..
How else would Biden be elected President?
Ceejay
“How else would Biden be elected President?”
I’ll take Election Fraud for $100, Alex.
Well now. You can bet that Joey Dumb ass gets his free. Maybe he needs to jawbone big ice cream about the price. As soon as he gets back from vacation. Whenever that might be.
Yeah – McD’s hamburgers for 11 cents and cheeseburgers for 15 cents … Quarters had silver in them. Those were the days.
Sorry – my inner old geezer just came out.
My friend there’s nothing wrong with memories of when we were young. As things stand now. We grew up in a very unique time. You indeed could buy a lot with a quarter. Two Hershey’s bars with almonds 5 cents each. A Coke for a dime and still 5 cents left over for penny candy. Which was actually a penny. Times and the culture was a hell of a lot better.
Sure, try buying a pre-1965 quarter now. See if you can do it under $6.
That $12 ‘combo meal’ used to be $0.50
But it was always a $12 value by today’s standards.
Remember asking your dad for a quarter? You had to actually explain what you were going to do with it.
If it’s any comfort, the hot dog and soda combo at Costco has remained $1.50, and they say they plan to keep it that cost. Likewise, their rotisserie chicken is still $4.99. Of course, just about everything else has gone up in price or down in size, but it’s really nice to be able to rely on SOMETHING not being ridiculously inflated.
Where I live the Costco is over in Komiekazoo. AKA Little Chicongo. Don’t go near the place. To much Communist sponsored crime. Place has gone straight to hell.
Zero I also bemoan some of these egregious price hikes all around us. On the Wendy’s or other fast food fronts I suggest downloading their app(s) and jumping on the deals they offer when you order thru those apps for food and then pick up from the drive thru. You also accumulate points to get free food when you reach certain thresholds. It’s also convenient because you just roll up and give a code or your name and your stuff is ready or almost ready. Try it I’ve saved a bunch using ot at my favorite fast foods. Of course you have to have a smart phone to do this and many preppers I realize don’t like them for various reasons.
Pro tip:
I downloaded the Subway app for my phone.
When I go to meal, I ask my co-workers if they want anything from subway.
They give me their sandwich orders and I plug them in on my app.
I go pick up my humungous order, return to work, collect money, distribute food and keep a massive amount of points because I just placed my 3rd $100+ order of the week.
Free food tastes best!
Amen, to the entire article
Tired of watching stupid not doing anything for the future of hard times
Always buying the latest gadget
Stupid is as stupid does – FG
Stupid ? You mean Biden. Was a time you could vote stupid out. No more. Not with the state’s where honest elections go to die. Two in a row.
As a student of the US Civil War. The Democrats started that one. And they will start the next. In my humble opinion. It’s already started.
“I don’t want to be one of those guys from my childhood who, when confronted with a price they didnt like, would say “When I was a kid, this cost a nickel”
We’re all Grandpa Simpson now, aren’t we?
Better Grandpa Simpson then Joey Biden loser.
“So, yeah, I feel bad for you but you’re the one who played your mandolin all summer while Ii was getting ready for winter.”
Or more likely, watching sportsball…………
It sure will be Fun when real, ‘Wiemar inflation’ hits the grasshoppers in the face. I had been running down my Diesel Fuel storage and then buying another 200 Gallons at a Bulk Discount Station in the area, but now he’s only 5-10 cents below ‘Retail’, and on some Days, the corner gas station is cheaper. So now I refill the Truck as I use it, and the 5 Jerrycans for the Tractor get filled each Week. Don’t want to be caught ‘Low’ when Fuel starts getting Rationed….
Joey Dumbass admitted today that inflation is going to around for awhile. Well no shit dummy. What happened to the New Green Deal…Build back better…Inflation reduction act bill? Oh yeah. It doesn’t do a thing to reduce inflation. Like all the stupid other names they come up with.
Like the Affordable Care Act. If accurately named it would be the Unaffordable Don’t Give a shit Act.
I ate my way through college on double cheeseburger fries and a coke for lunch for a dollar those were the good old days LOL
Small fries at Wendi’s are now $3.17
Oh well wtf?
I’m fortunate(?) enough to be in a relatively recession/depression proof racket: nursing.
I make an adequate wage and with bonuses and unlimited overtime (technically I’m capped at 112 hours per week(7 days x 16 hours)) I do OK. Since medicaid/medicare foots the bills, the facility will (hopefully) keep getting paid from .gov.
My issue will be less about having funds to buy resources and more about -finding- the resources to buy.
Will $10 per gallon suck? Massively. However, I will be able to pick up a couple extra shifts on my days off and, presto, couple hundred gallons in the tank.
The retail folks in consumer electronics, auto sales (and manufacturing), baristas at Starbucks, some ‘non-essential’ public employees (remember the ’75 layoffs in NYC), and lots of niche small businesses are the one’s who are going to be in a real jam as well as pensioners.
Speaking of Wendy’s (and Arby’s), I go through the drive-thru and usually just order the sandwich and a LARGE soda and skip the fries. Unskilled laborer hands me a cup that I would have previously considered a MEDIUM. Told him I ordered a LARGE drink. He claims that that is the large. Ask to see the medium cup and he shows me a smaller cup that wasn’t quite medium, although I never order medium so I can’t say for sure. I’ve been eating at Arby’s for many years and especially look forward to the summer when they offer their Pecan Chicken salad sandwiches. I ate there that once, and then had the same situation happen at Wendy’s. No LARGE cups. Didn’t go back.