Is the rising cost of everything causing you stress?

Definately. Not only is everything really expensive. To make things worse there are rumors of lay offs at my company. It is getting tougher and tougher, and we are also worried about getting three kids to college and saving for retirement. The state of affairs is quite scary.

My family has felt this since it started, actually. Because our financial situation fluctuates (and it's never really been that good), sometimes we're more stressed out than other times. I'm told that the only way to take life is one step at a time, so...I guess it's good so many are, but I hate to think that most people were forced to it. Survival. A constant struggle to live. I think that's a very good sumarization of many people's situations today.

Definitely! It is really getting scary. We are not in trouble yet, but we can see it coming.

yes, its doing really. its so that everything is so costly that its really hard to make both ends meet. also about something, i can't even imagine how much the price have shut up. its making life hard.

The rising cost do stress me out . Because of the prices rising all the time we are finding it very hard to make ends meet and I am not sure how we are going to survive this winter . We don't make any extra money in fact we are bringing in less money for my husband doing the same work and yet the prices of everything around us have all gone up . I just got a call from my power company today asking when I was going to get them paid off . In the last two months we got a power bill for 600 dollars . Now if we managed to burn 600 dollars worth of power at this time of the year what is it going to be in the winter !! They are saying that by the new year groceries are supposed to go up 50% more then what we are paying now and our gas which is now at a dollar fifty a litre is supposed to hit three dollars a litre . Are they insane , where do they think we are all going to get this money ?? I heard one day on the news where someone from the government was saying that there is no one struggling to get by and this was the reason for the rising cost and in this day and age there was no reason that everyone shouldn't be able to get all of their bills paid as we have more resourses now then ever before . And that people were making more money then they ever did before . Well let me say this , we are not making more money now then we were last year or the year before like I said we are getting less and I don't know anyone who is making more money personally so where are these people they are talking about and where are these resourses that are supposed to help us out because I have not seen any of them ??

Yes, you are not the only one. I was just at the store last week with my mom and sister looking at how much things cost from bread to veggies. I used to make fun of those ladies and gents who use over 100 coupons st the grocery store but now I see that they were being smart about it and I am going to be just like them, saving 50 cents to dollar here and there adds up and actually can keep money in the pocket. Now I try to only get things on sale or clearance when it comes to books, clothes, food etc. If there is something I really want,video games, I wait for the prices to drop. I don't have $50 to be throwing around all willy-nilly.

yea,me too feel the stress,the cost of decent living has now become very high.and add to it my hubby recently lost his job.my stress level is so high,i feel i will go mad.

OMG! Yes everything keeps going up and we still get paid the same amount of money as we did before it went up. How can you raise the price of thing and peopl don't have the money to pay for it, I say if this keeps going on we might not be able to live.