Instead of ranting about the news and politics (since this doesn't do any good and only serves to jack up my blood pressure!), I will talk about consumer-related things today...
- Eggs are back in the stores (see photo above). Our local stores were out of eggs for the past week or so, I guess due to bird flu, but now they are back--for $4.49 a dozen on sale. eeekkk
- And for my Filipino friends, bagoong and a couple other cooking items were suddenly banned a couple months ago which sent Filipino cooks into a tizzy (including hubby, but we got creative and learned how to make products similar to these banned items so that was interesting). Anyway, today we found bagoong in our local Asian grocery store. It is now being made by a US company but the price shot up from $5.99 a jar to $12.99 a jar so hubby said he would just continue to make his own!
- There will be two free entrance days to the National Parks this month.
- Hubby is having a harder time stepping over the edge of the bathtub to take showers now so we got two estimates to remove his bathtub and make it a step-in shower. Both came in around $11,000. I told the guy I thought this project would cost around $7,000 but he said the price hadn't been that low since before covid! We will decide if we will go this route or just buy a single-story house that already has step-in showers.
- We got our car insurance bill this week and it steadily increases with each renewal. Apparently this is a thing nationwide although drivers in my city are particularly awful. Fortunately our car insurance is only a fraction of this guy's.
- Right on time, I got an email from H & R Block last week to sign in and start my taxes (I file online with them every year) so we will pay less than $40 to file our taxes this year. Now I just need to wait for all of the tax-related documents to get sent to us (and hope I don't end up paying this year!).
- According to this reddit post, gas prices in my city may start to drop. That would be a welcome change!
- Today hubby and I went to the Goodwill and got six pairs of pants and six shirts for a grand total of $12! Every Monday is dollar day at our local Goodwill so all grey-tagged items today were only a dollar (and you need to get there early because it looks like the swap meet people fill huge baskets full of any item with a sale-colored tag and sort them out later).
- We have been really good with not eating out since January 1st, I hope we can keep this up!
- We have also been doing a cash-only, low-spend month and so far, so good. I am hoping my credit card bill will be precisely $0 at the end of the month!
That is 37 cents per egg, not exorbitant at all in my book.
ReplyDeleteI am still thinking about the 99 cents per dozen we used to pay for eggs!
DeleteWe had a company give us a price of $30k! We first had to have tile removed, sheetrock put up where the tile was, have floor made ready or floor replacement all at our expense. This is Alabama.
ReplyDeleteOMG that is super expensive!
DeleteThat is high on just adding a walk in shower. When we had our tub removed and turned in to a walk in shower it included having our bathroom gutted and new everything. It was 7000.00. That was in 2019 so I guess prices on everything have gone through the roof.
ReplyDeleteYes we definitely should have done this a while back instead of now when it is both more imperative to get it done and way more expensive than it used to be.
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