Seems like everything is getting more expensive  

Oh yes. In my country food has increased by 25 percent. This is why I asked my daughter to ship so much stuff homke from the USA. At least we will have enough soaps, detergent, fabric softeneer, creams and lotions, rice, tinned food eg tuna, panty liners, deodorants etxc to last for a year.

The prices are horrible and it is very difficult to keep within a budget. Ths is wehy I am growing so much in the garden to help us maintain the same standard of living.Blessings

Yes, the price of everything seems to have accelerated, yet our wages are the same, if not less. During the fall and winter for instance, when the price of gas dropped some, I noticed that the price of food stayed the same. About 13 years ago, my Mother used to comment on how expensive things were, but if she were alive today, she would really be shocked. We called our furnace cleaner out in the spring, and his rates went up too. There's no relief it seems.

Our food budget used to go twice as far. I would buy what we needed for the month and extra to stock up in our pantry and have money left over. Now we cant get what we need for the money we have but there is no money to add to the budget. We are eating more cheap foods instead of the healthy things we were eating. I have been working twice as hard at clipping the coupons and chasing deals to scrape by. But what can we do about it?

Yes, it is...however, they increase it so slowly, that you don't even realize the prices have gone up until months later, and you discover that the food you buy doesn't last you nearly as long as it use to. They are very sneaky when they do that.

oh man! YES!!!

Its getting to the point where it seems everything is going up! Heck, when we started buying the cat food we get, it was in the $18.50 range, now its about $20.50 range.

Litter is also gone up a couple of bucks, where it used to be about $25 for 3 buckets is now over $30.

And then we have the sick cats, we are trying to keep Pong going until he can have surgery in July. We'll probably need to do Solo after that, and I hate for Solo to lose his beautiful long teeth!

And that doesn't even approch what we are spending on fresh veggies for the diet.

I know it does seem like everything is getting more expensive now of these days. And I thought they were trying to prevent that and things will go back down. But I guess I was wrong. It sucks that I tunes is more expensive now $1.29 per song are they insane whos going to pay that price not me. Thank god amazon.com is cheap to still downloading songs. And For gas I wont start complaining till it reaches $3.00 again luckly I live in a state where gas isnt that expensive.

every day, there is always a lack of money and food etc is getting more expensive.. I find that it is even hard to do a big shop as that is expensive anyways and never lasts for the month so it is always back to buying things daily, it would be nice if some places are cheaper...LoLo

Oh yeah I have noticed prices going up plus our gas prices are rising again around here...they keep saying that we are paying less than a year ago but still we are now a dollar more than we were 5 or 6 months ago.. it totally sucks!!

We are going to more discount places for our groceries and eating out much less as well, even with the coupons the money doesnt go as far as it use to.

When I at the grocery store today I was looking at kiwi -i love Kiwi but that was when the price was low ...it seems like all the healthy stuff you shoud eat is more expensive...ever notice that?

Yes, we sure have found that everything is going up in price. It's hard to believe how some things have jumped so high in such a short time. It is discouraging, isn't it?