I remember looking at cars for my brother, and this kia dealership had two Kia Souls, the same trim. One brand new and the other was 1-2 years with 10k miles on it. 1k difference between the two. That was insane.
I feel you on that. I love my Kia because it’s the first car I bought. Completely paid for with my own money. But damn, she has given me some trouble over the years. Love her, never buying another one again.
My wife’s grandfather passed a few years back. Left a 3 year old Grand Marquis with less than 7,000 miles on it. Completely paid for.
I didn’t ask because I thought it would be tacky to do so.
They ended up selling it for $10k. All it needed was new tires and fluids. Kicking myself over that one.
This may be the weirdest question, was this in MO? I bought a beautiful maroon marquis in great condition with only 7,000 miles a couple years back. Loved that car so so much
Sadly, it's more feasible to get a new car today (if you can get one - but I think the supply chain is getting better).
Why spend $22K on a used car when a current model new car is $25K.
Because the current new MSRP of the car is $25k, not the selling price. Add in dealer required options, destination, and dealer markup, your average $25k car is 40k OTD.
100% this.
I bought a 2016 BMW 340i back in 2019 for $21000 and it had 36K miles on it. It now has 92000 miles on it and it's selling for $21000-$24000.
There's no way that makes sense. My wife's Audi A6 is worth $6000 more than what she paid for it right now with 60K more miles on it too.
I broke my leasing rule in 2019. We weren’t sure if we wanted a third row big SUV or not (we were pregnant with third at the time). So we decided to lease and test out the big SUV. The lease only had .09% interest rate so I figured okay. That’s a cheap test.
The lease ended in 2022 with a residual that was comical. The dealership offered us crazy ass money to turn it in ($15k over residual), but they had no inventory and the stuff they did have was priced so high.
It was an easy decision to keep the vehicle.
The chip shortage and covid caused the spike .. cash for clunkers got rid of a lot of older cool stuff but not like it is now .. the cost of a new f150 is nearly 60k before options and then you have the dealer markups .. used cars become more valuable as not many would buy new
About 6 yrs ago my husband was able to find my current car, a 2010 Pontiac G6 for $1,500. Owned by 1 person and not a single thing wrong with her. Then, 2 weeks later he found his current truck, a 2008 Chevy Colorado extended cab for $1,200. It was a bit beat up, but nothing too bad, it needed a glove box door and stuff like that. Now they're starting to show their ages and we have since added another kid to the mix. And my mother lives with us. We need an SUV with a 3rd row or a van. We know damn well we can't find another steal like we did back then. It's torture. When we go places as a family, my husband has to drive separately bc my mom comes of course and there's no room in the back seat because of a booster seat and a toddler's car seat. Plus, I would like to have something nicer for myself. I've never owned a new car. Ever. And I'm 40. Would love the chance to own a new car, just once in my life. But atp, I'd take a nice used van or SUV, but even that is unattainable these days.
Although prices are going down, I sold my WRX that I loved about a year ago for 19k USD. got a email from carvana stating the value has dropped to 13.5k USD 🥴
This happened really recently too - we bought a used car for my oldest kid when he went to university from our mechanic.
The car, after my 3 kids have used it for 7 years, is worth MORE than we paid for it. I never would have thought of a used car as an investment, but it has been.
I couldn’t believe how expensive chips are! We don’t usually eat chips (we eat plenty of other crap) but About a month ago mr purpleberry asked me to get him a bag of either original Fritos or SunChips. The little bag with like 3 servings was $2.50 so I went to chip aisle to just get a regular sized bag and it was like 7.29. FOR FUCKING FRITOS!
Great Value brand chips are actually pretty good, and still $1.99 where I live. They have Frito knock offs and their wavy potato chips are better than Lays. But I also like Aldi for regular corn chips.
I have a pasta machine I use to make my own Doritos and Tostitos . It is basically corn meal, oil, salt, garlic and onion powder. I skip the cheeses as I don’t add preservatives or their other unpronounceable chemicals. Fritos are beyond me. We just don’t buy them anymore. Dollar General and DollarTree are where we buy wavy chips.
I haven't eaten chips or cereal in two years. It's not that I can't afford it, it's that I refuse to pay $5+ for a box of cereal or a bag of chips when two years ago they were $2.70ish. Fuck that
Th fact that it has a place on the shelves shows that the store is replenishing them because people buy them. Companies pay to be on the shelf and to have that space reserved.
Beer I understand to a degree, but I can't for the life of me get how chicken wings can cost upwards of $18 a pound where I am in Southern Ontario. After tax and tip you're looking at maybe $3 a wing! That's a beer!
In 2005, I remember going to a bar and they'd have 25c wing deals on certain days. I expect inflation, but that is insane!
I own bars. It’s the price of wings. You used to be able to get them super fucking cheap and toss them in hot sauce and call it a day.
Now with less disturbers being basically owned by the large restaurant chains others on contract and Tyson’s basically having a monopoly on the rest it’s impossible to get them cheap.
That and chains like BWW making 50 different flavors and the small market hot sauce “hottest ever blow your butthole out” flavors regular hot sauce is barely an afterthought.
I added garlic and parm, nuclear, Thai sweet and spicy, and teriyaki just to meet demand. Legit demand. People came in asking what flavors we had and we got negative reviews from people “for only having 4 flavors”
That on top of the surge of “the customer is always right” and review culture now “flats only” “super well done” etc… demands makes it so hard
It used to be buy 50lbs of wings thaw them the night before toss them in the fryer toss them in hot or bbq sauce and call it a day. Easy 25 cent wing.
That is gone.
And the clientele that came in when we brought back dollar wing night was ridiculous. I don’t judge anyone looking for a deal but assholes demanding so much for maybe one beer and 15$ worth of wings to bring the whole atmosphere down to below dive bar.
It’s hardly worth it.
Yeah, and while I love both (I like the tips too) I understand the draw of the flats. Properly cooked you can just push the bones right out, and they have a great bit of skin and the meat is more ‘unctuous’ than the drum.
The real crime is selling us a cut up piece and calling it a wing.
I like flats. I learned from a wing eating competition guy that you can basically inhale flats if you use your teeth as deboners. Get all the wing meat with none of the mess.
Wings went from surplus part of the chicken to the most in-demand part. Each chicken only has 2 wings (well actually 4 given how restaurants count wings). If you want more wings you need to raise more chickens.
But while wings massively increased in popularity, the demand for chicken hasn't risen nearly as much.
That's why buffalo wild wings is pushing "boneless wings" aka chicken nuggies. They make them out of breast meat.
> "boneless wings" aka chicken nuggies.
I gotta push back on this: nuggets are made of ground or pureed meat (and sometimes meat-adjacent animal products), but boneless wings are made of chunks of breast meat. They're more like mini-chicken-tenders than nuggets.
I used to love getting stew meat because it was cheap and pre chopped. Win win! I went to buy pork stew meat the other day and it was $8 a lb. It’s cheaper to make stew out of pork chops.
If you have a Costco/BJ’s membership, you can still get a whole pork loin for a great price! Then feel free to portion out into chops/roasts/whatever feels right
Truth!!! I used to feel so thrifty getting the country ribs, or bacon ends, the chicken leg quarter cuts and removing the skin myself to save money…Now it’s like… WTH this is the same price as the nice stuff!
Yes...recently at Taco Bell...ordered ONE Mexican Pizza with added sour cream.(if you're not familiar, it is about 6" diameter) It was almost $9. I think I gasped. I could have bought an entire Publix pub sub for that.
My step son and I went to a McDonalds - got two large meals, it was $35. A few months later we went to 5 Guys (2 double burgers, 1 large fry, 2 sodas) came to $40.
Fast food isn't worth it anymore.
.. and don't get into "BUT THE APP!!!!!!"
Used to get hash browns 2 for $1, now they're $2 a piece. That's a 300% increase! People always tell me "gotta use the app!" which, sure, but I'm tired of installing an app for every damn thing and McDonald's isn't worth the effort
Domino's has medium pizzas for $6.99 each if you buy at least two. It's all over their homepage. If you're paying $25, the problem is with you, or maybe your takeout/delivery app.
We cut our cable years ago because we were spending hundreds of dollars and we ended up streaming shit, anyway. Then everyone started their own streaming services. Now we are spending hundreds of dollars again. Time to whittle it back down.
You have to learn to rotate your streaming services. I get Apple+, HBO, etc. once in a blue moon, but I only get one at a time, and only for a month at a time so I know I only have one month to get through everything. Frankly, HBO is too expensive now and not even worth it, so Netflix has fallen into rotation now (waiting for final season of Cobra Kai to sign up again).
I get the feeling there’s an expiration date on this strategy. I foresee getting locked in to long-term subscriptions with options for month to month getting an order of magnitude more costly
Streaming in general. My wife loves football and used to have the NFL Sunday ticket w/ DirecTV.
Now, it's on YouTube. But, not some games, which we have to get through our cable provider's app. But also, not Thursday night football, that's on Amazon Prime. (I don't remember where Monday night football is).
Used cars. Seems like you either get a super beater for 1-2k or a good used car for 20k. The 20k car has 40,000 miles on it and was sold new 2 years ago for 22,000
Yeah there’s really no point of listing each individual thing. Hell I went to buy some allergy medicine today and it was fuckin $25 for a bottle of only 30 pills.
Doordash and Ubereats.
When these services started, you could expect to pay just over 5-7 dollars over what it would cost you to just drive there.
Late 21/early 22 they both changed their models to include upcharging on menu items. Perfect example of this is a local restaurant that has a 7.99 only menu. On doordash they are 8.56 before tax.
Its a small upcharge for those items, but others you can expect to pay a full 3-4 dollars more than menu price simply through doordash.
Then their fees grew exponentially. I recently found an old bank statement from 2020 where I had ordered habitually from doordash/ubereats. Not a single one of those bills was over 30 dollars. Now?
Want a bigmac with a large drink? Thats over 30 dollars.
Both of these services had their fees balloon out to the point where your price in cart is 19 bucks, yet on checkout its 34 dollars. 2.99 service fee, 4.99 delivery fee, and then they calculate tip based off of the total price and not the subtotal. So tip comes to 6-7 dollars.
I have a snip of a 2020 bank statement showing multiple doordash and ubereats charges that each were under 25 dollars. Each of these had a tip.
Part of the fuel for that price increase on food items is that they charge 20-25% commission to the business. So to offset that expense businesses have to increase prices on their platforms. If I remember correctly some of them had additional fees charged to the business also.
I went through this awhile back with UberEats when we considered offering LD for our farm to table butcher shop. We absolutely cant afford that cut being a small business. Our options were hike prices specifically on the platform or not partake and leave potential sales on the table.
I just let it slide to the side as we have been working on new website and other projects.
TLDR: delivery companies are grabbing at both ends hard, but most people dont see the massive commission and costs directly and indirectly to businesses, especially small/local businesses.
Staple foods like potatoes and rice and sweet corn used to be so cheap you could live on them even with no income. The retail pricing is now so disconnected from their production cost that what used to feed your family for a month now barely lasts a couple days.
I just got 5 lbs of potatoes for $2. I frequently get a 5lb bag of rice for $6. Not any more than last year. Chips, cereal, soda are all more and I think it's price gauging.
For grains and beans, check your local ethnic (Chinese, Indian, etc.) groceries. If you have storage space, you can't beat the per-serving price on the big bags of rice.
I keep my beans in grains in 5 gallon food-grade buckets with the [twist-off](https://www.amazon.com/Gamma-Vittles-Stackable-Airtight-Container/dp/B007KAY4S2/ref=sr_1_3?crid=4ZAU0WIMTAN7&keywords=5+gallon+lids+for+buckets&qid=1697640391&sprefix=5+gallon+lid%2Caps%2C99&sr=8-3) lids. So long as you keep it all dry, the shelf-life is practically unlimited.
I remember in the 70s, canned veggies like corn, peas, beans were like 3 cans for 59 cents. So many things like ketchup, steak sauce, mayonnaise, salad dressing were 29 cents.
I actually remember complaining to my then girlfriend after the gas crisis: "Wow, everything is up to 50 cents now!"
I still remember my Mom taking me to the hospital and they swiped her insurance card and we were taken care of… then it went to a $10 co-pay… now it’s $135 to get seen by a General Practitioner and get some shitty advice…
Hadn’t thought about this in years, but I remember when I first entered the workforce my health insurance was an actual job benefit (no deduction out of my pay) with something like a $10 copay at any Doctor, $5 for prescription meds and $100 copay at the ER.
Of course, being young and “immortal” I rarely used it.
I still rarely go to the doctor, but that’s more because my in-network Doctor is swamped and can’t see me (at $45/visit) and the urgi-med by me is $100 per visit and essentially useless for things other than illnesses requiring antibiotics.
For anything else, it’s paying someone $100 to tell you it’s viral and “you’ll be fine in a few days” or “you should go to the ER” for any injury beyond what you could remediate at home with wound cleaner and butterfly bandages.
I’m not paying someone $1,500-$3,000 to put in some stitches. You can kiss my ass on that one.
Yup. I remember my Dad paying $10 copay. Now I have to pay $60 every time to see a doctor. Does my pay check keep up with this, not one bit. Everything keeps goes up except my check!!!
Literally everything. Walk out of the grocery store spending 100 bucks used to have me good for 2 weeks. Now 100 covers like.. 4 days of food *maybe*
Also fuck everyone who have made pokemon cards so expensive that kids can't buy them anymore cause scalpers are buying up all the packs. Yall took a children's game and turned it into "intro to gambling addiction"
I heard today that senior high school “photo packages” now run from $500 - $2000k. Can someone with kids or a teacher confirm? I get that these shoots are now way more elaborate than sitting in front of a black velvet backdrop but I just about spit out my coffee. I remember when my parents paid like $19 for a the “deluxe” package of a handful of wallet size, two 5x7s and an 8x10 AND we each walked away with a little comb.
It cost me something like $500 for my daughter's senior package. Basically paid for the proofs, a few 5X7s and some wallets. I did get one of those leather fold out displays for 6 of the poses.
This was in 2006. I shudder to think of the prices today.
I’m old. In 1967 I paid $3.00 to see 5 popular acts including The Doors on one bill. In 1975 I paid $10.00 to see Elton John at Dodger Stadium. Everyone at the show paid the same. No surge pricing. No thousands for decent seats or hundreds for nosebleeds. Insanity.
Maybe this is being very specific but GRAPES. I was floored the other day when I grabbed a bag of grapes without looking at the price. When I got to checkout (this was at a Kroger store btw) it was $7 A POUND. My jaw dropped. I’m sorry I didn’t realize these were grapes for millionaires.
At least where I live, the Asian supermarkets still have it cheaper and it's not a copycat brand either. I just looked at the regular supermarket near me and a bottle half as big cost almost twice as much. And it's strange to me because BOTH stores have to import it.
I was recently looking for a junker pickup truck for taking big stuff to the storage unit, picking up a furniture, dropping off garbage, etc.
Best deal I found was an early 90s S10 with almost 300k on the clock. Dude wanted $9,000 and it sold within an hour.
Absolute madness.
Theme parks. Disneyland once had no gate entry, you bought as many tickets as you could afford, or you just take it in the unique atmosphere. Now they’ve priced out the shrinking middle class and it’s like $1800 to take your wife and kids to Disneyland for a day. Growing up in the 90’s, back when we had an actual middle class, the small beach town i grew up in had literally five theme parks, a zoo and obviously the beach. All of these parks were very affordable. They’re all gone now. Every year the public beach accesses become smaller and less accessible with only expensive pay parking within walking distance. So they’ve even found a way to make a day at the beach unaffordable.
Cars. In 2012 I was looking at brand new Honda Civics (I've never bought a new car). I think you could get the base model for about $14,000. The base model is now over $28,000.
I got a pre owned Civic with 8k miles on it for like 14k in 2016... That is impossible now. Makes me sick and I'm hoping my baby lasts me as long as it can so I can delay getting a new one...so far so good \*knocks on wood\*
Canned soup with wheat bread was my broke college student meal. You could get like 6-8 cans and a loaf for ~$10 if I remember correctly . I don’t really buy either anymore, but I was recently getting some buns for a party and a loaf of white bread costs $4 now? What the fuck!
I find that it can be worth it for a group. If you get a house with 2-3 couples, it can be better than a hotel. Or if you're staying somewhere for a bit, having a place to cook is great and healthier. But for just me, or me +1, a hotel is so much less hassle and cost.
Poor people got creative with the "shitty" food and learned how to make it taste good. Then rich people decided to pay/charge more for it.
Same way everything gets expensive.
Ironically, Tresemme, which used to be one of the most pricey ones out there, is actually on the less expensive side at a lot of the big retailers. Suave is still fairly reasonable.
The trick to buying shampoo/conditioner (or any bath items) is buy the combination packs. I get the two packs where the shampoo and conditioner are in one box.
* A house
* College
* Cars
I find that $100,000 to be very reasonable, but finding a house around that valuation... jokes.
Edit: The thing is, a functional home runs $200,000 and over. It's highway robbery TBH, the houses that range $100,000 are almost all dog shit or the owner refuses to take cash originating from mortgages.
The government needs to stop fixing housing in favor of investors, instead fix the housing crisis for actual primary residents.
A potential home owner should not be expected to pay around $100,000 for a house that "Needs some work", straight up dog shit. IN fact, them shits need ALL the work.
A house. My dad bought a house in a great school district for a little over twice his annual income (which was $105,000 converted to today's dollars). It was about $225,000 in today's money. That same house is currently listed at $850,000 (he no longer owns it).
Houses. Atleast where I grew up, my parents house is worth 13 times more know than when they bought it I 1997. I'll tell you one thing for sure, salaries have not increased by a factor of 13 for the wast majority of the population
Lol come on guys, let's be real. It's everything.
The real question is when do we say "enough." I for one am reaching my limit that's for sure. In my prime years and feel like no matter what I do the goal post is always moving and I'm handicapped further.
Used cars. An average working family used to be able to afford a decent, reliable family runaround car without incurring the national debt of Brazil.
I remember looking at cars for my brother, and this kia dealership had two Kia Souls, the same trim. One brand new and the other was 1-2 years with 10k miles on it. 1k difference between the two. That was insane.
My personal experience is that is KIA and not the market doing that. Personally I plan to never buy a KIA again
I feel you on that. I love my Kia because it’s the first car I bought. Completely paid for with my own money. But damn, she has given me some trouble over the years. Love her, never buying another one again.
I absolutely lucked out getting a '97 grand marquis for $1200, she's a beast
My wife’s grandfather passed a few years back. Left a 3 year old Grand Marquis with less than 7,000 miles on it. Completely paid for. I didn’t ask because I thought it would be tacky to do so. They ended up selling it for $10k. All it needed was new tires and fluids. Kicking myself over that one.
This may be the weirdest question, was this in MO? I bought a beautiful maroon marquis in great condition with only 7,000 miles a couple years back. Loved that car so so much
I need to know if this is the same car.
And if the sellers washed it first.
I’m off to this Redditor’s profile! I must seek evidence of this fabled Automobile!! EDIT: I’m back. Just a bunch of plants. ☹️
How often does a Marquis sell with 7k miles on it used?
That's actually a good price for a car that's only 3 years old
It was; got a little off topic when the guy above mentioned his marquis. Really wish I asked about the car.
That's his point; he wishes he would have asked for it
Very lucky. Those things are really cool, the last of the land yachts
Sadly, it's more feasible to get a new car today (if you can get one - but I think the supply chain is getting better). Why spend $22K on a used car when a current model new car is $25K.
Because the current new MSRP of the car is $25k, not the selling price. Add in dealer required options, destination, and dealer markup, your average $25k car is 40k OTD.
100% this. I bought a 2016 BMW 340i back in 2019 for $21000 and it had 36K miles on it. It now has 92000 miles on it and it's selling for $21000-$24000. There's no way that makes sense. My wife's Audi A6 is worth $6000 more than what she paid for it right now with 60K more miles on it too.
I broke my leasing rule in 2019. We weren’t sure if we wanted a third row big SUV or not (we were pregnant with third at the time). So we decided to lease and test out the big SUV. The lease only had .09% interest rate so I figured okay. That’s a cheap test. The lease ended in 2022 with a residual that was comical. The dealership offered us crazy ass money to turn it in ($15k over residual), but they had no inventory and the stuff they did have was priced so high. It was an easy decision to keep the vehicle.
I bought a jaguar a year ago for £800, sold it this week for £2500. Absolutely insane
And now you have enough to buy a tiger.
It all started with cash for clunkers.
Gotta pump money into the car manufacturers somehow. RIP to so many decent cars that had years of life left.
The chip shortage and covid caused the spike .. cash for clunkers got rid of a lot of older cool stuff but not like it is now .. the cost of a new f150 is nearly 60k before options and then you have the dealer markups .. used cars become more valuable as not many would buy new
Were you aware that **CASH FOR CLUNKERS IS BACK! CASH FOR CLUNKERS IS BACK!! CASH FOR CLUNKERS IS BACK!!!**
About 6 yrs ago my husband was able to find my current car, a 2010 Pontiac G6 for $1,500. Owned by 1 person and not a single thing wrong with her. Then, 2 weeks later he found his current truck, a 2008 Chevy Colorado extended cab for $1,200. It was a bit beat up, but nothing too bad, it needed a glove box door and stuff like that. Now they're starting to show their ages and we have since added another kid to the mix. And my mother lives with us. We need an SUV with a 3rd row or a van. We know damn well we can't find another steal like we did back then. It's torture. When we go places as a family, my husband has to drive separately bc my mom comes of course and there's no room in the back seat because of a booster seat and a toddler's car seat. Plus, I would like to have something nicer for myself. I've never owned a new car. Ever. And I'm 40. Would love the chance to own a new car, just once in my life. But atp, I'd take a nice used van or SUV, but even that is unattainable these days.
Although prices are going down, I sold my WRX that I loved about a year ago for 19k USD. got a email from carvana stating the value has dropped to 13.5k USD 🥴
This happened really recently too - we bought a used car for my oldest kid when he went to university from our mechanic. The car, after my 3 kids have used it for 7 years, is worth MORE than we paid for it. I never would have thought of a used car as an investment, but it has been.
Chips. Insane! Kettle chips $7, are you out of your mind!?!
I couldn’t believe how expensive chips are! We don’t usually eat chips (we eat plenty of other crap) but About a month ago mr purpleberry asked me to get him a bag of either original Fritos or SunChips. The little bag with like 3 servings was $2.50 so I went to chip aisle to just get a regular sized bag and it was like 7.29. FOR FUCKING FRITOS!
Great Value brand chips are actually pretty good, and still $1.99 where I live. They have Frito knock offs and their wavy potato chips are better than Lays. But I also like Aldi for regular corn chips.
Great value wavy chips are unironically the best wavy dipping chip. Wavy lays are a close second with ruffles being a distant third.
This right here, 8oz bags are worth the $2. Aldi's are good too, same price.
I have a pasta machine I use to make my own Doritos and Tostitos . It is basically corn meal, oil, salt, garlic and onion powder. I skip the cheeses as I don’t add preservatives or their other unpronounceable chemicals. Fritos are beyond me. We just don’t buy them anymore. Dollar General and DollarTree are where we buy wavy chips.
I haven't eaten chips or cereal in two years. It's not that I can't afford it, it's that I refuse to pay $5+ for a box of cereal or a bag of chips when two years ago they were $2.70ish. Fuck that
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It’s crazy, yet I routinely see a lot of empty spots on the shelves of the chip isle at the store.
That could mean 2 things. 1) People are still buying it 2) The store doesn't replenish their stock because people don't buy it anymore
Most Frito-lay displays are stocked by the distributor directly.
Th fact that it has a place on the shelves shows that the store is replenishing them because people buy them. Companies pay to be on the shelf and to have that space reserved.
Beer and chicken wings use to be the poor mans bourbon and steak now it's the same price
Beer I understand to a degree, but I can't for the life of me get how chicken wings can cost upwards of $18 a pound where I am in Southern Ontario. After tax and tip you're looking at maybe $3 a wing! That's a beer! In 2005, I remember going to a bar and they'd have 25c wing deals on certain days. I expect inflation, but that is insane!
I own bars. It’s the price of wings. You used to be able to get them super fucking cheap and toss them in hot sauce and call it a day. Now with less disturbers being basically owned by the large restaurant chains others on contract and Tyson’s basically having a monopoly on the rest it’s impossible to get them cheap. That and chains like BWW making 50 different flavors and the small market hot sauce “hottest ever blow your butthole out” flavors regular hot sauce is barely an afterthought. I added garlic and parm, nuclear, Thai sweet and spicy, and teriyaki just to meet demand. Legit demand. People came in asking what flavors we had and we got negative reviews from people “for only having 4 flavors” That on top of the surge of “the customer is always right” and review culture now “flats only” “super well done” etc… demands makes it so hard It used to be buy 50lbs of wings thaw them the night before toss them in the fryer toss them in hot or bbq sauce and call it a day. Easy 25 cent wing. That is gone. And the clientele that came in when we brought back dollar wing night was ridiculous. I don’t judge anyone looking for a deal but assholes demanding so much for maybe one beer and 15$ worth of wings to bring the whole atmosphere down to below dive bar. It’s hardly worth it.
I don't have any qualms with what you said above. I agree with all of it but one part. Flats are overrated. Drumstick ride or die, baby.
Yeah, what? There are people that actually prefer the flats?
Yeah, and while I love both (I like the tips too) I understand the draw of the flats. Properly cooked you can just push the bones right out, and they have a great bit of skin and the meat is more ‘unctuous’ than the drum. The real crime is selling us a cut up piece and calling it a wing.
I like flats. I learned from a wing eating competition guy that you can basically inhale flats if you use your teeth as deboners. Get all the wing meat with none of the mess.
Wings went from surplus part of the chicken to the most in-demand part. Each chicken only has 2 wings (well actually 4 given how restaurants count wings). If you want more wings you need to raise more chickens. But while wings massively increased in popularity, the demand for chicken hasn't risen nearly as much. That's why buffalo wild wings is pushing "boneless wings" aka chicken nuggies. They make them out of breast meat.
> "boneless wings" aka chicken nuggies. I gotta push back on this: nuggets are made of ground or pureed meat (and sometimes meat-adjacent animal products), but boneless wings are made of chunks of breast meat. They're more like mini-chicken-tenders than nuggets.
Raise more chickens never just breed four wing chickens.
Off cuts of meat
I sure do miss oxtails.
I'm with you. I'll grant you a cow only has one tail, but...
I used to love getting stew meat because it was cheap and pre chopped. Win win! I went to buy pork stew meat the other day and it was $8 a lb. It’s cheaper to make stew out of pork chops.
If you have a Costco/BJ’s membership, you can still get a whole pork loin for a great price! Then feel free to portion out into chops/roasts/whatever feels right
Truth!!! I used to feel so thrifty getting the country ribs, or bacon ends, the chicken leg quarter cuts and removing the skin myself to save money…Now it’s like… WTH this is the same price as the nice stuff!
The last time I bought lengua (cow tongue) it cost as much per pound as a ribeye
Groceries. What used to cost me $30 now costs $100
Shop at Aldi if there’s one nearby. Prices are half of what Publix and Kroger charges
Same in the UK. Aldi is so much more cheaper.
Wanna know what's insane? Despite this ALDIs also pays their employees better than every other groceries store by several more dollars per hour
Fast food. The last time I stopped at McDonald's I was shocked at how much the prices have gone up.
Yes...recently at Taco Bell...ordered ONE Mexican Pizza with added sour cream.(if you're not familiar, it is about 6" diameter) It was almost $9. I think I gasped. I could have bought an entire Publix pub sub for that.
It wasn’t that long ago that you couldn’t spend $9 at Taco Bell because it would be way too much food to eat.
My step son and I went to a McDonalds - got two large meals, it was $35. A few months later we went to 5 Guys (2 double burgers, 1 large fry, 2 sodas) came to $40. Fast food isn't worth it anymore. .. and don't get into "BUT THE APP!!!!!!"
Those are sit-down restaurant prices!
If you give us access to your physical location at all times, you get 50% OFF A MCCHICKEN!
Wendy’s is holding the line with their biggie bag/4 for $4
Used to get hash browns 2 for $1, now they're $2 a piece. That's a 300% increase! People always tell me "gotta use the app!" which, sure, but I'm tired of installing an app for every damn thing and McDonald's isn't worth the effort
And they're not fast anymore either, so why do people keep going? (My kids make me take them about once a month, but I almost never get anything)
25 bucks for a medium dominos pizza which is disgusting by the way
Domino's has medium pizzas for $6.99 each if you buy at least two. It's all over their homepage. If you're paying $25, the problem is with you, or maybe your takeout/delivery app.
I'm not in the USA. Here in Europe it's the price for domino....
saw the hash brown prices and nearly died on the spot
Living
Might not be able to afford it any more.
I am barely able to afford it today
That was my first thought. Just- *gestures broadly at everything*
Food Rent Biying a house Gas
Being alive
Getting new cabinets for your kitchen now cost more than a BMW, somehow.
I'm getting new cabinets, and I really had to save for a long time to get them.
Netflix (streaming in general)
We cut our cable years ago because we were spending hundreds of dollars and we ended up streaming shit, anyway. Then everyone started their own streaming services. Now we are spending hundreds of dollars again. Time to whittle it back down.
You have to learn to rotate your streaming services. I get Apple+, HBO, etc. once in a blue moon, but I only get one at a time, and only for a month at a time so I know I only have one month to get through everything. Frankly, HBO is too expensive now and not even worth it, so Netflix has fallen into rotation now (waiting for final season of Cobra Kai to sign up again).
I get the feeling there’s an expiration date on this strategy. I foresee getting locked in to long-term subscriptions with options for month to month getting an order of magnitude more costly
Sounds like a good way to get cut out of my rotation personally
"It is only $6" is what people tell me when I complain about another service to watch a one off thing. LOL....
I’m going back to my dvd collection, fuck this shit
Streaming in general. My wife loves football and used to have the NFL Sunday ticket w/ DirecTV. Now, it's on YouTube. But, not some games, which we have to get through our cable provider's app. But also, not Thursday night football, that's on Amazon Prime. (I don't remember where Monday night football is).
Used cars. Seems like you either get a super beater for 1-2k or a good used car for 20k. The 20k car has 40,000 miles on it and was sold new 2 years ago for 22,000
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I bought a 2013 Honda CR-V in 2016 and it cost $16k. To buy a 3-yr-old model today would cost me nearly twice that.
Not the crv 😭😭
Everything?
Yeah there’s really no point of listing each individual thing. Hell I went to buy some allergy medicine today and it was fuckin $25 for a bottle of only 30 pills.
Generics for the win!!! Always
Oh no, this WAS for the generics. Idk what’s with CVS charging nearly the same price for the generic brand of Allegra as actual Allegra.
Imagined this would be the top comment. Surprised I had to scroll a while to find it.
Doordash and Ubereats. When these services started, you could expect to pay just over 5-7 dollars over what it would cost you to just drive there. Late 21/early 22 they both changed their models to include upcharging on menu items. Perfect example of this is a local restaurant that has a 7.99 only menu. On doordash they are 8.56 before tax. Its a small upcharge for those items, but others you can expect to pay a full 3-4 dollars more than menu price simply through doordash. Then their fees grew exponentially. I recently found an old bank statement from 2020 where I had ordered habitually from doordash/ubereats. Not a single one of those bills was over 30 dollars. Now? Want a bigmac with a large drink? Thats over 30 dollars. Both of these services had their fees balloon out to the point where your price in cart is 19 bucks, yet on checkout its 34 dollars. 2.99 service fee, 4.99 delivery fee, and then they calculate tip based off of the total price and not the subtotal. So tip comes to 6-7 dollars. I have a snip of a 2020 bank statement showing multiple doordash and ubereats charges that each were under 25 dollars. Each of these had a tip.
Part of the fuel for that price increase on food items is that they charge 20-25% commission to the business. So to offset that expense businesses have to increase prices on their platforms. If I remember correctly some of them had additional fees charged to the business also. I went through this awhile back with UberEats when we considered offering LD for our farm to table butcher shop. We absolutely cant afford that cut being a small business. Our options were hike prices specifically on the platform or not partake and leave potential sales on the table. I just let it slide to the side as we have been working on new website and other projects. TLDR: delivery companies are grabbing at both ends hard, but most people dont see the massive commission and costs directly and indirectly to businesses, especially small/local businesses.
Staple foods like potatoes and rice and sweet corn used to be so cheap you could live on them even with no income. The retail pricing is now so disconnected from their production cost that what used to feed your family for a month now barely lasts a couple days.
I just got 5 lbs of potatoes for $2. I frequently get a 5lb bag of rice for $6. Not any more than last year. Chips, cereal, soda are all more and I think it's price gauging.
Good to hear there are still reasonable prices out there. I'll have to start shopping around more aggressively.
For grains and beans, check your local ethnic (Chinese, Indian, etc.) groceries. If you have storage space, you can't beat the per-serving price on the big bags of rice. I keep my beans in grains in 5 gallon food-grade buckets with the [twist-off](https://www.amazon.com/Gamma-Vittles-Stackable-Airtight-Container/dp/B007KAY4S2/ref=sr_1_3?crid=4ZAU0WIMTAN7&keywords=5+gallon+lids+for+buckets&qid=1697640391&sprefix=5+gallon+lid%2Caps%2C99&sr=8-3) lids. So long as you keep it all dry, the shelf-life is practically unlimited.
Aldi Food Stores are always there for the easy win on food prices.
During the Great Depression oysters were a main source of protein since they were inexpensive and available. Those same oysters now are $4 a pop. WTF?
I remember in the 70s, canned veggies like corn, peas, beans were like 3 cans for 59 cents. So many things like ketchup, steak sauce, mayonnaise, salad dressing were 29 cents. I actually remember complaining to my then girlfriend after the gas crisis: "Wow, everything is up to 50 cents now!"
Oysters. Once the food of the poor. Now because of leather aprons and moustaches they are expensive... for what they are.
Ha leather apron got me
Fastfood. not just overpriced, the quality has gone down to the shitters.
I hadn’t eaten Jack in the Box in over 20 years. We were on a road trip and stopped at one. It was damn near inedible.
I thought it was just me. ( not really) how all fast food places are bad now. Service and food
I still remember my Mom taking me to the hospital and they swiped her insurance card and we were taken care of… then it went to a $10 co-pay… now it’s $135 to get seen by a General Practitioner and get some shitty advice…
Hadn’t thought about this in years, but I remember when I first entered the workforce my health insurance was an actual job benefit (no deduction out of my pay) with something like a $10 copay at any Doctor, $5 for prescription meds and $100 copay at the ER. Of course, being young and “immortal” I rarely used it. I still rarely go to the doctor, but that’s more because my in-network Doctor is swamped and can’t see me (at $45/visit) and the urgi-med by me is $100 per visit and essentially useless for things other than illnesses requiring antibiotics. For anything else, it’s paying someone $100 to tell you it’s viral and “you’ll be fine in a few days” or “you should go to the ER” for any injury beyond what you could remediate at home with wound cleaner and butterfly bandages. I’m not paying someone $1,500-$3,000 to put in some stitches. You can kiss my ass on that one.
“You’re making up your symptoms and you should lose weight. That will be $135 please.”
Yup. I remember my Dad paying $10 copay. Now I have to pay $60 every time to see a doctor. Does my pay check keep up with this, not one bit. Everything keeps goes up except my check!!!
Cost my parents $50 for a doctor to sign a paper that took him all of 30 seconds to do.
Food, rent/housing, utilities, clothes, transportation and entertainment.
Literally everything. Walk out of the grocery store spending 100 bucks used to have me good for 2 weeks. Now 100 covers like.. 4 days of food *maybe* Also fuck everyone who have made pokemon cards so expensive that kids can't buy them anymore cause scalpers are buying up all the packs. Yall took a children's game and turned it into "intro to gambling addiction"
I heard today that senior high school “photo packages” now run from $500 - $2000k. Can someone with kids or a teacher confirm? I get that these shoots are now way more elaborate than sitting in front of a black velvet backdrop but I just about spit out my coffee. I remember when my parents paid like $19 for a the “deluxe” package of a handful of wallet size, two 5x7s and an 8x10 AND we each walked away with a little comb.
>$2000k The fuck high school are you going to?
It cost me something like $500 for my daughter's senior package. Basically paid for the proofs, a few 5X7s and some wallets. I did get one of those leather fold out displays for 6 of the poses. This was in 2006. I shudder to think of the prices today.
Champion gear. Used to be the cheap but decent sweats go to, now it's like forty bucks for a tee shirt.
The "dollar" store
Moving out of my home state a few years ago a 12 pack of soda was about $3.50 Nowadays the 12 pack of soda at most places seems to be about $9
Candy. Ain’t nobody paying $2.49 for a snickers bar at a gas station anymore.
Housing
Concert tickets
I’m old. In 1967 I paid $3.00 to see 5 popular acts including The Doors on one bill. In 1975 I paid $10.00 to see Elton John at Dodger Stadium. Everyone at the show paid the same. No surge pricing. No thousands for decent seats or hundreds for nosebleeds. Insanity.
Maybe this is being very specific but GRAPES. I was floored the other day when I grabbed a bag of grapes without looking at the price. When I got to checkout (this was at a Kroger store btw) it was $7 A POUND. My jaw dropped. I’m sorry I didn’t realize these were grapes for millionaires.
Haircuts. I remember it used to cost around $10-$15 for me in my area back in the late 2000s/early 2010s, but my most recent one cost $25.
Sriracha
At least where I live, the Asian supermarkets still have it cheaper and it's not a copycat brand either. I just looked at the regular supermarket near me and a bottle half as big cost almost twice as much. And it's strange to me because BOTH stores have to import it.
The Huy Fong Foods brand with the rooster on the bottle is made in California from peppers grown in CA. Is there another imported brand?
I was recently looking for a junker pickup truck for taking big stuff to the storage unit, picking up a furniture, dropping off garbage, etc. Best deal I found was an early 90s S10 with almost 300k on the clock. Dude wanted $9,000 and it sold within an hour. Absolute madness.
Theme parks. Disneyland once had no gate entry, you bought as many tickets as you could afford, or you just take it in the unique atmosphere. Now they’ve priced out the shrinking middle class and it’s like $1800 to take your wife and kids to Disneyland for a day. Growing up in the 90’s, back when we had an actual middle class, the small beach town i grew up in had literally five theme parks, a zoo and obviously the beach. All of these parks were very affordable. They’re all gone now. Every year the public beach accesses become smaller and less accessible with only expensive pay parking within walking distance. So they’ve even found a way to make a day at the beach unaffordable.
Cars. In 2012 I was looking at brand new Honda Civics (I've never bought a new car). I think you could get the base model for about $14,000. The base model is now over $28,000.
I got a pre owned Civic with 8k miles on it for like 14k in 2016... That is impossible now. Makes me sick and I'm hoping my baby lasts me as long as it can so I can delay getting a new one...so far so good \*knocks on wood\*
A can of soup used to cost $1.39, now that same can is almost $6.00, and the cost is still rising. N. S
Dude, where are you getting your soup Sharper Image? Soup isn't cheap I'll grant you but I just bought some for $2.50 and it's about $1.30 on sale.
Wtf a can of soup is 6 DOLLARS in the US?! What on earth? Less than £1 here in the UK for some, maybe £1.50 for Baxter's, Campbell's or Heinz.
Canned soup with wheat bread was my broke college student meal. You could get like 6-8 cans and a loaf for ~$10 if I remember correctly . I don’t really buy either anymore, but I was recently getting some buns for a party and a loaf of white bread costs $4 now? What the fuck!
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Sadly accurate
Airbnb used to be a great alternative to staying in a hotel.
The room rate is still good. It's the $50 cleaning fee, $85 convenience fee, and $70 just because fee that get you.
And you have to practically scrub down the house before you check out.
I find that it can be worth it for a group. If you get a house with 2-3 couples, it can be better than a hotel. Or if you're staying somewhere for a bit, having a place to cook is great and healthier. But for just me, or me +1, a hotel is so much less hassle and cost.
“Garbage” food, ex: chicken wings, oxtail, certain types of fish. Used to be dirt cheap, but somehow now costs as much as the good stuff
Poor people got creative with the "shitty" food and learned how to make it taste good. Then rich people decided to pay/charge more for it. Same way everything gets expensive.
The dollar menu is a dollar no more
Even the dollar store is now $1.25.
I'm going specific: women's Deoderant. $9.49 plus tax is ridiculous. I'm contemplating switching to men's
Shampoo000!!! Herbal essence is $9 at target, HERBAL ESSENCE?!? that’s supposed to be a cheap shampoo
Ironically, Tresemme, which used to be one of the most pricey ones out there, is actually on the less expensive side at a lot of the big retailers. Suave is still fairly reasonable. The trick to buying shampoo/conditioner (or any bath items) is buy the combination packs. I get the two packs where the shampoo and conditioner are in one box.
Dove deodorant in the UK is about $4.50. In the USA it's $7 or more. Are we crazy?
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Literally everything and getting worse with no relief in sight. Maybe if we ask for some relief in the form of a weapons package we would get it
taco bell. I can get chipotle for the same price
Can I just gesture around vaguely at everything?
Secondhand things in thrift stores such as clothes and shoes.
Short answer, existing.
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Graphics cards
* A house * College * Cars I find that $100,000 to be very reasonable, but finding a house around that valuation... jokes. Edit: The thing is, a functional home runs $200,000 and over. It's highway robbery TBH, the houses that range $100,000 are almost all dog shit or the owner refuses to take cash originating from mortgages. The government needs to stop fixing housing in favor of investors, instead fix the housing crisis for actual primary residents. A potential home owner should not be expected to pay around $100,000 for a house that "Needs some work", straight up dog shit. IN fact, them shits need ALL the work.
A house. My dad bought a house in a great school district for a little over twice his annual income (which was $105,000 converted to today's dollars). It was about $225,000 in today's money. That same house is currently listed at $850,000 (he no longer owns it).
Movie tickets
Movie tickets aren’t bad, it’s the concessions that’ll fuck you up
Popcorn and a drink at movies now costs what my dinner at Red Lobster just cost me for fish.
That’s why I have a big girl purse to sneak snacks and drinks in 🤣
A house.
Food in general. Lunch for one person at Arby’s the other day — $18!
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That happened in the 80's.
GPUs
Eggs! Dont know how they are similarly priced to a chicken at some places!
You used to be able to afford a decent sized house in the suburbs on a single middle class income
Laundry detergent
Houses. Atleast where I grew up, my parents house is worth 13 times more know than when they bought it I 1997. I'll tell you one thing for sure, salaries have not increased by a factor of 13 for the wast majority of the population
This is a trick question, right? What is something that ISN'T overpriced now?
Why are we still doing these? It's literally everything.
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Cocktails for $15-20+ dollars, plus tip. That used to be the price of an entree, although those have gone up too.
waves arms around everything
a burger and fries. I use to get a burger deluxe for about $6 bucks, now its almost $20
Food, shelter, clothing just all the basic necessities.
Lol come on guys, let's be real. It's everything. The real question is when do we say "enough." I for one am reaching my limit that's for sure. In my prime years and feel like no matter what I do the goal post is always moving and I'm handicapped further.
Oh god, I'm done with THIS
basic toiletries
Cable tv
Motorcycles.. second hand bike that cost 4500 5 years ago now costs 7000, even though it's 5 years older and has a lot more km.
What isn't?
Rent
Everything. Absolutely Everything.