I told the story the other day here, that I had gone shopping and the woman next to me
at self check out, flagged the clerk to come over to her check out terminal.

She said the medium size bag of cherries was ringing up $15 and it must be a mistake.

Clerk checked and said yes this is the correct price.

Lady said no way I am paying that for a small bag of cherries, take it away.

Needless to say I snatched them up.

And the same with two smaller bottles of laundry soap.

Today the younger lady in front of me with kids had a large grocery order,
at the end she had a pile of coupons she was using. I don't blame her.
I wondered what the final price of her big order would be.

I know people who will not step foot into the grocery store.
They shop online only.
They say they save tons of money by only buying what they need.
No impulse buying at all.

...and I stick to it. I don't buy chips or soda at all. And I try to stay away from ultra-processed food.

I have been unfortunately known to buy
blueberry muffins, coke, frozen yogurt, even chips from time to time.

I am pretty good about other junk food. Not buying it.

I am disciplined about what I eat.
But I like a treat now and then.

...so we have to be very careful.

about 10% off for seniors at one of my favorite grocery markets I was there when they opened. The parking lot was full and the check out counter was soon rapidly checking out mostly full carts.

And two for one deals are always a wise purchase.

I find the local Farm Stand is the most economical and interesting place to shop for fruits and vegetables.

instead of decent raises, the money went to the top, and the trickling was them pissing on the rest of us

ridiculous interest rates they are allowed to charge, the banks are happy and the Americans are locked in an endless loop of more payback debt. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

not proud of it; against everything I've ever lived my life by... but when the SS check doesn't reach the essentials, something has to give. I'm trying to look at it that way so I don't feel so bad about it. It really does a number on my emotional state.

What else is one supposed to do when the incoming can't cover the outgoing at the end of each month. It's been said for years, the system is designed to keep poor people poor. And this coming economic trainwreck is going to put many many more people in this poverty loop.

I'm sure that you are having to do what you never dreamed of doing to make ends meet and you should not feel ashamed over something with which you had no control. Trump did this!! He did this to us because he is an incompetent idiot who doesn't understand how economics works. Nor does he care. May this turn around quickly for us all.

Screw everything else right now. The economy will get us numbers. Then a better economy will get us bigger numbers. Nothing else. Stay focused on how broke these fuckers are making the people and how rich they are making themselves at our expense period. Stay in that lane. We all know whats on out trailer. ALL of those things come with us. People know whats on our trailer, they don't need to be reminded. We are so much in "it's the economy stupid" time. Don't deviate. Stay on it hard. For the sake of our country PLEASE!!!!

Pretty certain the percentage of households that can’t make ens meet has risen since than, thanks to the trumflation we’ve been experiencing.