Fabric Prices
05-02-2010, 10:56 PM
#91
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Originally Posted by Gilla
Have you ever seen prices going down? Locally banana prices were raised 12¢when gas prices went up and shipping was expensive. Signs all over "we must adjust for shipping." When gas came down, the price of the bananas came down by 2¢, i.e. the price went up by 10 cents and stayed up. Our local grocery chain is flooded with bananas all over the store, but the price is still up. I am not singling out bananas, but that price raise was so obvious. This happens with many items - first an excuse to raise the price, and then keep it there.
Obviously, the world has gone mad.
I have just been shopping and our local greengrocer first tried to sell me eight perfect bananas for $1. Then, having explained I couldn't use them all as there are only two of us, at the end of adding up all my fruit and veg. he said I could have them for free - no doubt because they are fine today but by the time he sells them all some won't look nice enough for people to want to buy.
Now what am I going to do? You can't quilt with bananas. I wish I could send them to you.
05-03-2010, 04:45 PM
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I acutely cried today, because I can't afford fabric. I will have to quit quilting and learning how to quilt, when my fabric is gone. I cried big fat tears. it has been a rough day for me, my pain has been really bad, but when I relized how much fabric goes in a quilt. God bless. Penny
05-03-2010, 06:42 PM
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Girls, do a clothing exchange with friends. You can use the fabric to quilt with. We don't have to give up our favorite hobby, we just need to think of ways to do it and not spend every cent we have.
05-03-2010, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by aussiequilter
Obviously, the world has gone mad.
I have just been shopping and our local greengrocer first tried to sell me eight perfect bananas for $1. Then, having explained I couldn't use them all as there are only two of us, at the end of adding up all my fruit and veg. he said I could have them for free - no doubt because they are fine today but by the time he sells them all some won't look nice enough for people to want to buy.
Now what am I going to do? You can't quilt with bananas. I wish I could send them to you.
05-04-2010, 07:00 AM
#96
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My real problem is I only eat one banana a day, so please don't send me any. Now if you can figure out how to get some fabric free that started at $1, I'll be interested. But please, not from the grocery store. LOL
Right. That'll work well. Three went into dessert last night, five are now part of a banana/pecan loaf, leaving just one: it's yours. LOL.
Right. That'll work well. Three went into dessert last night, five are now part of a banana/pecan loaf, leaving just one: it's yours. LOL.
05-04-2010, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by butterflywing
i was the one who sad it wasn't washington, and it isn't. i spoke with my dil this weekend and she said that her company, which outsources financial services, is starting to feel the pain (yeah!) because as third world countries become better educated and more in demand they want their own wages to improve. slowly the difference in wages won't be that great among high end jobs, but the difference in benefits will be the deciding factor. third world countries are still willing to do factory work under conditions that we find unacceptable and we don't put ten-year-olds to work. i still maintain that large manufacturers are squeezing the working and lower-middle and middle class in order to keep up with their shareholders demand for big profits. here we are in a recession and i keep seeing huge houses gong up. the little guy isn't living there. where is the money coming from?
someone is profiting and big. i guess i made the wrong investments.
someone is profiting and big. i guess i made the wrong investments.
05-04-2010, 03:41 PM
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When you think back to the 1860's the average income was $600 per year. It cost $6 to mail a letter that is why when someone received a letter it was such a big deal. Fabric cost about 2 cents per yard. 1 dress length was 6-8 yds. Most families had 6 or more children. Yet these woman quilted. They found a way to do it. Yes prices are high but through the ages people always thought prices were high. When I was a little girl there was an old woman that lived on the farm up the street from us. It was the only farm for miles and miles around. Most of original property her parents owned was sold to build houses, mine included. Helen would go to all the neighbors asking for used clothing and stockings. Helen made yoyo quilts and she used the old stockings to stuff the yoyo. I have never seen a stuffed yoyo since. Helens quilts should have won prizes but she made then for family and friends. Helen would barter for fabric. If you really want to quilt you don't have to be rich you just have to be inventive as to ways to get fabric. I know a young woman she goes to the thrift shop and buys clothing to cut apart for the fabric. She uses the fabric to make cloths as she has 3 young children. This past winter her sons were in need of pants. She went to the thrift store and bought mens cordory suits. They cost her $3 for each suit and she was able to cut then apart and made her little ones all their winter pants. She said on sale at Joanns's it was $10 per yd on sale she couldn't afford that. My entire point is if you want to quilt you will find a way. I know this can be done as I have had to make due my entire life. Yes prices are going up but there is nothing we could do about it. There are 2 things in life you have to do........pay taxes and die!!!!!!!!!!!
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