So we keep hearing how there is no inflation, and we are doing OK considering. I mean, the old folks didn't even need an increase in their measly Social Security income, right? So why is my grocery bill going through the roof? Even when the price didn't go up, the package got smaller. Why? This is the growing season locally, and I am still paying a fairly high price for what I get. Today, for instance, I picked up milk, bread, coffee, peaches, grapes, bananas, a big sub, band aids and a pizza and salad stuff for dinner and two boxes of Little Debbie's for lunches. It cost me $80 to walk out of the store. We will be eating very carefully monitored portions over the next few months. I may make the boys eat beans, well seasoned with ginger. I just don't know how people are going to do it.
We took one of the cars off of the insurance and parked it this week. It will be a real crimp in the way we work the family, but I don't see another way until Bob is out of school and we are both working full time. We are working at selling his car, as he will be getting his motorcycle back on the road this week end. When it rains or is too cold, he will be using my car. The way things are going, we may sell it and get a jalopy! I am, for the first time in my life, really scared about the future. I hope everyone else is doing better.
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