costs going up

LOL. sorry. When does that come into effect? The discontinuation of the penny

Gas has gone up.
Food has gone up.
Electricity has gone up.
Water and Sewer costs in town have gone up.
And when all these go up, it just tumbles down the line to everything else. We end up paying for everything times 2 or 3. Anyone get a 2 or 3 times your pay raise? I sure as hell didn't! 😥

Our family motto has been for years "If it's not on sale, we aren't eating it!" and "If it's in styrofoam it ain't a deal!". We no longer buy steaks or stew beef, we buy the roasts at $1.99 a pound and cut one or two up into steaks or stew meat and freeze with our food saver. I buy ground beef from a local butcher, I pay 2.99 a pound for extra lean beef. I buy 10 pounds plus at a time to get a 10% off the bulk amount. It has been a sweet deal in the long run.
When 907g of pasta was on for 57 cents a bag last year I bought 60 bags(5 cases), we are now on our last case. My youngest eats pasta more than anything. I also only buy rice when it is Chinese new year... 11kg of rice is usually half price then. I leave one bag to eat from and one is now sealed into servings and in the pantry. Flour, well to be honest, I don't have a lot from because I really do not bake much. But, when I do buy it I seal half the bag into 5 pound packs and I only buy it when it is on sale.
As for Costco, I have found that I do a heck of a lot better with regular grocery purchases at our local stores. Only when it is a specialty item, super cheap, will I consider Costco.
I have found so really good deals at Liquidation World (now owned by Big Lots) and locally owned delis/butchers... they are more likely to make a deal with.

As i said, is it a sign of prices going up even further?...well i just read on MSN news that it may, quote, here's the headline : "Gas prices up, will likely go even higher". And there is a following article on it. here's the link http://news.ca.msn.com/money/gas-prices-up-will-likely-go-even-higher-2

let me add, i found this also. http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/gas-prices-pause-their-rise-but-its-just-a-pause-1 It's titled "Gas prices pause their rise, but it's just a pause" The reason I am reporting this, is not because I cant afford gas, thats not the issue, the issue is, it's linked and tied to many other things. Take it as a warning of sorts. Keep chasing the issue and you will discover what the M.O is.

Everything that gets shipped will go up.

Diesel went down a penny at the pump since the last time I bought. $1.27 now
Why would gas go up 5 cents at a time when the penny goes? Who buys 1 liter at a time anyway?

Everything that gets shipped will go up.

EVERYTHING, will go up. Because this retarded human race decided non-replenishable fossil fuels was they greatest thing since sliced bread and decided to build everything from it. Plastics for ALL our products, fuels to get all our products to where they will be purchased...not to mention our taxes wont go as far to cover the police and town workers driving around picking their noses and getting paid as well as anything you can prettyyyyyy much think of. Its yet another sad episode in history for humans. I'm not complaining about fuel prices, i may have said that already, but it doesnt bother me. It's what is tied to it. Big deal, it costs me more money to go to work for my already fake money, to begin with I was doing it all for free, might as well keep goin! Its the fact that food and materials are all going up.

Canada Gas Prices Could Hit $1.60 Soon: BMO

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/04/05/canada-gas-prices-160-bmo_n_1405862.html?ref=canada

I read somewhere that 80% of the price of food is directly related to oil. Transportation yes, but fertilizer and pesticide/herbicides are also oil based as is the energy used to make them. No grains or corn are grown without multiple uses of machinery. Plow, harrow, seed, spray at least 2, maybe 3 times before harvest. And it hasn't even left the farm yet.

Sugar I never thought of that

I read somewhere that 80% of the price of food is directly related to oil. Transportation yes, but fertilizer and pesticide/herbicides are also oil based as is the energy used to make them. No grains or corn are grown without multiple uses of machinery. Plow, harrow, seed, spray at least 2, maybe 3 times before harvest. And it hasn't even left the farm yet.

9 calories of hydrocarbons are used for every 1 calorie of food we comsume in Canada.

Here is a little document that shows just a few items made from oil....enjoy!
http://www.anwr.org/features/oiluses.htm 😯

and another...its about two minutes long...

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=CA#/watch?v=XofxIYyvZ1s

9 calories of hydrocarbons are used for every 1 calorie of food we comsume in Canada

I wonder how the heck, you could figure out how many hydrocarbons homegrown, home butchered and processed hydrocarbons per 1 calorie is used.. While I can see that some things are consumed, it would have to be lower for my own grown food, anyone ever seen a link or site that address's this?

Was out at the store this weekend, and just walked and wrote prices mainly, I did get apples which is what I went in for, and I have to admit that I was a little shocked at just how much a number of things had gone up even in the past month since I was there last.

The article link below might shed some light on this discussion. I believe that the "industrial" farming method where multiple calories used to produce one calorie of food is unsustainable (chemicals for crops and animals, transport, drugs and growth hormones for animals etc etc all for the "modern farmer" to make big bucks)and this is why lots of people have elected to either go organic or to reduce the radius of where their food comes from ie "100 mile diet" among others. Consider that lettuce can be shipped half way around the world just so we can eat it in the middle of winter....why?

Farmgal, from what I've read (on your site) I don't think that your farming methods could be considered "industrial". Your farming methods are what everyone on the land should be doing. (But, that's just my opinion)
http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/energy/