$1.89 for tiny 16z box of sugar

[meow mix]

wtf. everythings been marked up at the store today
glad im still finding cheap wine gonna need it!!

"were running out of french fries and burrito coverins"

[KansDem]

1. "glad im still finding cheap wine gonna need it!!"

Might I suggest:



Last week was a very good week...

[TK421]

3. would that be a step below Boones Farm?

[PoliticAverse]

6. Your guide to the wine basement....

http://www.bumwine.com/

[meow mix]

13. lol luckily ive only made it about to that 3rd graphic

lmao @ 4 and 5

[Canuckistanian]

14. "if you like to smell your hand after pumping gas, look no further than Thunderbird."

:rofl:

[KansDem]

21. In the early 1970s I attended a party where it was suggested somebody get some liquor

I was only about 18 or 19, but looked older.

I knew of a liquor store that I had bought beer at and went there. For some reason, I focused on wine. I saw dozens and dozens of bottles on the shelves, but these bottles were room temperature! And they weren't cheap.

But I noticed in the cooler several bottles of wine. And they were much cheaper..and cold! I thought "What luck!" I thought maybe the clerk and placed the wrong wine in the cooler. I thought the better wines were kept chilled.

As you can see, I wasn't very "wine savvy."

I bought two bottles of Thunderbird...they were around a buck each (early 1970s)...and took them back to the party.

I'll never forget one guy, a Vietnam vet, watched as I took the bottles out of the sack. He made a kind of face and said, "Oh...'Thunderbird'..." I sensed disappointment in his voice and asked, "It's okay, isn't it?" He replied with, "Oh, yeah...its okay" (I think he didn't want to hurt my feelings).

I drank one bottle while the other one was shared by the other party-goers.

Worst morning of my life! :puke: And my taste for sweet wine...even expensive sweet wine...was ruined forever. Even today, when I smell a white or sweet wine, a nauseous feeling comes over me, and I think "What's the word? 'Thunderbird!'"

[Canuckistanian]

22. Been there

To this day, I can't stand the smell of Southern Comfort, let alone drink it.

OK, so it isn't the same as Thunderbird. But bad memories are bad memories.

[Statistical]

23. Nice story. Thanks for sharing.

I could visualize the vet letting you down easy.

Sucks it ruined sweet wine for you though, nothing like a nice Port after good dinner.

Getting horribly ill tends to do that for you. Bicardi 151 is ruined for me. Got stupid one night. We started proving how tough we were by doing shots of 151 with no chaser. I blacked out. Photos of me I don't remember including a couple of me sleeping beside the toilet. If someone even cracks the bottle I get this gag reflex.

[TK421]

15. I'm checking it out now, thanks! :)

[Inchworm]

19. LoL- my bum wine is there!

I say "Purple Richards" when I get it at the drive-thru. It is even better when cut with Kool-aid!

:+

[shanti]

24. omg, that was a hoot!

thanks for posting!

[Sal Minella]

17. Ah, Boone's Farm Apple Valley . . .and Strawberry Hill . . .

We always made a show of checking the week of vintage and sniffing the aluminum screw-off cap . . . living high in the 'seventies.

[pipi_k]

20. Yeah, all the good stuff...

I spent most of 1969 drunk on one $ .50 per bottle wine or another...


sigh...

the good old days...

hahahahahaha :7

\

[shanti]

26. madria madria sangria

that was the drink in the 70's around here. nasty stuff. only thing you could do with it was cut it with soda water and make wine coolers.

[walldude]

2. Fuel.

Price of fuel is up which means the price of everything is going up.

I know what you mean though, I paid 3.00 a lb for tomato's the other day. Couldn't believe it.

[Horse with no Name]

11. Sad thing is

the prices never went back down when the fuel went back down.

It has become a joke.

Fuel prices go up--food prices go up.

Fuel prices go down--food prices stay the same.

Fuel prices go up--food prices go up, ad infinitum.


We are all being played like chumps and we are losing.

[lonestarnot]

27. We certainly are.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Hang on tight - It's going to get a lot more expensive to eat

Republicon-minded speculators are doing all they can to drive prices up and enrich their already fat republicon asses.

[AnneD]

5. Be thankful ...

you can still find a box of sugar.

[slackmaster]

7. That would last me about 4-5 years

I hardly ever use it.

[Codeine]

45. I found giving up meat, eggs, and dairy

much easier than giving up sweeteners for my Earl Grey.

[maxsolomon]

8. $12 for Angostura Bitters at 1 store

$8 at another. It's insanity, this Capitalism.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Where the heck did you buy that? At a gas station store?

1.89 per pound for sugar?

I just went shopping today at Dollar Store, the South's answer to Costco.
They are cheaper than Wal-Mart.

Bought 4 # bag of sugar, for 2.25, which equals 56 cents a #.
6 months ago that bag cost 1.95, = 48 cents #.

10# bag of rice is now 7.00, used to be 3.00, then 6 months ago was 4.00,
then 5.00 and jumped to 7.00 without even hitting 6.00.
Cheapest rice I can find there is .66 # in 2.5 pound bags.
We eat lots of rice.

I have a chest freezer full of beans, rice, flour and sugar.

Food now is like buying stocks in a boom..you have to buy a little of it every time you shop, just to dollar cost average the price.

[meow mix]

10. at albertsons im in a small montana town =(

the only alternative is even worse its an IGA. and thier quality and prices are horrible.
its like some store from the 70s

[lonestarnot]

30. Is "dollar cost averaging the price" easily explained? What do you mean by that?

Never heard of such. :shrug:

[dixiegrrrrl]

48. Well, it works with things like stocks when there is a *real* stock market.

The theory is that stocks go up and down in price and IF you are going to invest for the long term, you buy 10 shares this month at, say, 20.00, and 10 next month at the stock price of 25,00, but when the stock price goes down, you buy
10 shares at the lower than before price, etc, say 18.00 the third month.
and, over time, say a year, the average price you paid kinda evens out.
Big theory in the 80's when the idea of investing for retirement was being talked about.
Before the rigged markets and the artificial economy, etc.

Ok, for dollar cost averaging of rising food stuffs, 9 months ago I bought 30 # of rice ( 3 10# bags)
at .40 cents a pound, which cost me (12.00)
and 6 months later the price had climbed to 48 cents per pound, so I bought 30 more pounds.(14.40)
then it went to .50 cents a pound, I bought 30 more pounds. (15.00)

Add the 3 prices = 41.40.
Averages 13.80 per purchase of 30#.
Divide 41.40 by 90# = .46 cents a pound.

today the price is .70 cents a pound.
3 bags would cost me 21.00.

All 90# times .70 = $63.00.
I saved 20 bucks over the same amount of rice.

Or, put another way, my "stock" of rice that I paid 41.40 for is now worth 63.00.

And I have 90# of rice in the freezer, which will last us about 6-9 months.( We eat lots of rice. )

Same for all the stuff that is rising in price: flour, sugar, butter, pasta, beans.


We have enough laid in for a year, at which time I will have to buy again, and the price will either be
beyond anybody's means or it will have dropped, IF it is true that these prices are ramping up because of
speculators.
Meanwhile, I pick up a little here, a little there, esp. if on sale, and squirrel it away.

No different than the stock market, really, except more valuable.

[lonestarnot]

49. Thank you for your time in explaining that. Now I know.

:)

[Retrograde]

32. Food prices vary widely across the country

Food prices contain a lot of variables - location of the store, costs of doing business in that location, fuel prices, actual food prices, competition, season. The OP mentioned he lives in a small town in a relatively remote area. I live in an area with a high CoL: I'm always a little surprised when I visit relatives in a low CoL area and see how low their prices are.

I have no idea what sugar costs here, not having bought any for many months. I do know the size of the packages is going down, though.

[Shagbark Hickory]

12. Just swipe some packets from the waffle house.

If if you can find a gas station that has a self service coffee area, take an empty cup and fill it entirely with sugar.

Yeah! Show those corporations who's boss.

[here_is_to_hope]

16. You have no idea...

well maybe you do.
I got the habit from my mother, utilizing sources of staples...
At a pizza place? Empty the parmisian cheese container and the red pepper shaker.
Ditto for hysting the salt and pepper shakers, sugar was a free for all.
Ketchup packets? by the bucket, same with mustard. hot sauce, barbeque sauce, you name it.
It's all free till they say it ain't...

[Shagbark Hickory]

18. My mother and your mother should have lunch....

At chick-fil-a, where she will stock up on the following:
1.) Hand sanitizer wipe packets
2.) Individually wrapped single use utencils
3.) A bag of assorted sauces (which she normally gets for me to use with my homemade chicken.)
4.) Napkins. Lots and lots of napkins.

[B2G]

25. Nice

They pass your 'pantry stocking' feebies on to the rest of the paying customers. Nice.

[here_is_to_hope]

31. They certainly do so feel free

to help yourself, might make you feel better about this 'pantry stocking'.

[B2G]

35. No thanks

I have a conscience.

[here_is_to_hope]

39. is it hurting? you ok?

[B2G]

40. Oh I'm fine

I'm not contributing to inflated prices due to theft.

[dixiegrrrrl]

51. *snort*

:rofl:

[Codeine]

29. Jesus that's obnoxious. nt

[lonestarnot]

33. Ever been w/o much?

[B2G]

36. Yet she can afford to eat out.

:eyes:

[lonestarnot]

41. Who said she was eat'n. Sounded more like load'n up her pockets.

:9

[B2G]

43. Oh that's much better. n/t

[Codeine]

37. I grew up dirt poor in a camp trailer.

I've gone entire winters without running water or working toilets. I was homeless for over a year in my late teens in Southern California.

And yet I still find that sort of behavior disgusting, low, and tacky.

[lonestarnot]

42. Apparently she doesn't.

:shrug:

[snooper2]

50. hmm, my mother-in-law does that

She's a hoarder...

[Codeine]

28. My store sells five pound bags (name brand) for four bucks.

generic is cheaper, of course. Any small container of a traditionally bulk product will be expensive, and a box will always be more than a bag.

[lonestarnot]

34. 6.19 for 10 lbs @ Costco just last night.

[Codeine]

38. Costco has sweet deals.

Our local Costcos are all completely jam-packed every time I go; my girlfriend needs to double-dose her anxiety meds just to deal with the crowds, but it's worth it.

[PBS Poll-435]

44. Sweet Deals

On a sugar thread.


You are evil.










:applause:

[Contrary1]

46. I guess I'm just an elitist...

I'm willing to go $6.99 for a bottle of Manischewitz.

[Very_Boring_Name]

47. 10 lb bag of potatos for $4.97 at my grocery store

They were 1.97 a few months back.