Hey Pandas, What Is Something That You Used To Buy That Was Cheap But Now It’s Expensive?

EVERYTHING. THANK YOU ORANGE IDIOT. ENJOY YOUR FUTURE IMPEACHMENT AND IMPRISONMENT FOR YOUR CRIMES.

Cigarettes and other tobacco products have to be some of the most inflated everyday things. I believe it's more than 15 quid for a packet in the UK now (about half that in Switzerland). I remember when they were less than 50p.

Yes, of course I understand why.

Houses, gasoline, college tuition, groceries, car insurance, medical insurance, etc. I went to college in the '70's and paid "Out of State" tuition - $2K per semester.

Nothing is inexpensive now.

Chicken, berries, magazines, canned food, heads of cabbage, coffee to go, eggs, bread, public transportation.

I used to buy gas for $.10 a gallon, cigs for $1.00 a carton and $10 would buy enough groceries for a week. I could buy a nice house on an acre of land for $14k. Yep, I am old, thankfully.. I can't imagine the hell, the kids are going to see in their lifetimes, as long as we have MAGA morons in this country.

Electricity, gasoline, all groceries, essentially everything!

What used to be cheap meat: flank steak, oxtails, skirt steak

Everything!

But I'm especially noticing fresh pasta (€0,79 -> €1,29), yoghurt, Mars bars (€3,20 for 12 -> €4,30 for 10), milk, etc etc.

Oh, and don't get me started on electricity that used to be about €0,18/kWh and is now €0,34/kWh (price calculated by consumption divided by bill cost so includes all of the extra charges and taxes).

A few years ago, our local Chinese buffet had (unlimited) crab legs on Saturday and Sunday. It was heaven to be able to just sit and eat crab. They are simply too expensive to get anywhere now.

All the essentials.

My congresspeople. You can't BELIEVE how much they want these days to swing a vote!

Nothing. I got fired today, without cause, so I'm going to eat out of my freezer for the next month.

Freedom.

Cat food! One the government corn subsidies into ethanol production the price of the main filler in cat food skyrocketed.

Kraft Dinner, Jiffy Bread and a bag of potatoes--the foods I ate when I was a broke 20-something. KD and JB were 25 cents each, sometimes 5/$1, and a 5-pound bag of potatoes was a couple of bucks. not haute cuisine, but I could eat. Those cheap foods kept me alive between paychecks.

As a kid I loved to buy stickers, notebooks and letter paper sets. I still du because I love to write letters to my pen pals and decorate both my letters and my bullet journals. But it has become super expensive! I am glad I bought other people's old collections of letter paper back in the 2000's because the ones you can buy now are extremely boring looking (flowers, mainly) and also cost 30-50 kroner for a set of 10 papers and envelopes. Used to buy cool sets with 10-20 papers and 5-10 envelopes for 5-10 kroner.

soon, water will be with how fast generative AI us using it

Archie Comics. I remember when they were just a couple bucks. Maybe 5 for a double digest. Now it's about $10 cdn.

Beef.

Oranges

Most apples and lot of other fruit. I usually just wait until they go on sale.

Kraft Dinner

Soup and stews in a can

Salmon

Shoes. (I've learned to buy expensive, well-made, well-fitted so they'll last longer than a year.)

Gel overlays on my nails.

Hair cuts

Beef Jerky! Its $17 per pound now and I've stopped buying it.