Honey, that seems to be a huge increase in your DD's grocery bill!
Earthwalker, I just cringe when I look at my utility bills. Did electricity get deregulated everywhere this month, or is it just PA? Anyway, electric bills are supposed to go up 30%, they tell us. And it's not like I can do without utilities.
Originally Posted by peaceandjoy
My mom says that Americans live too far from the land - meaning that without going to the store to buy milk, eggs, meat, bread, packaged goods, people don't know how to survive.
It's true. If you don't grow up on a farm or with a backyard garden, you're helpless without grocery stores. That's true of me especially, being an apartment dweller.
lisa_wanna_b_quilter, I can't even judge the price of bread. Bread ranges from 99 cents for the store brand version of Wonder Bread, to over $2 for the name brand Wonder bread rivals, to $3.99 for more upscale breads, to $5 and $6 for bakery loaves. Not that there are bakeries around any more. (By bakery, I mean a place that makes the bread that day, from scratch, not the mass produced, pre-frozen dough that the supermarkets heat up on the premises and that has stuff in it to make last a week. Ooh, sorry, how did that off-topic rant work its way in?)