Inflation

[rufus]

Inflation happens, and sometimes you don't realize it until it is too late. My wife bought bath soap, and when I opened up the box, the bar was about half the size of what it used to be. They didn't raise the price, but they shrunk the product.

Rufus

 

[GhostRider65]

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They do that more and more, like sugar, you used to get 5 lbs in a bag for 1.50 now its 3.00 and you get 4 lbs, a little bit here and there and no wonder people can't pay there bills or mortgage. insanity I tell you, and we are not the crazy ones................Kim

 

[Momto3]

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Totally agree with this. I told my husband I wish we had some acreage so we could raise meat chickens, have a goat for milk & a couple turkeys.

 

[GhostRider65]

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Totally agree with this. I told my husband I wish we had some acreage so we could raise meat chickens, have a goat for milk & a couple turkeys.

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couldn't agree more. Kim

 

[GarlicEater]

yep I know about Gresham's Law.

Good money chases out bad, It means you're going to save your silver coins and spend the inherently useless paper.

An interesting update: I was at a swapmeet and got 3 sterling silver spoons for $16. Cool, I thought! I looked up the melt value and got $66! I tried hustling 'em to the antique stores locally, thinking maybe I'll be a nice guy and settle for a round $50, well, I got $30. The thing is, stuff like spoons, you just don't know for sure if they're for real, one lady at one store thought two of them were plated. And they all told me, they sell for less than melt value. I've learned that the silver buyers who just buy for metal value, pay about half of melt. I sold them because there were things I needed to buy, and I want my long term savings to be in coins not spoons and stuff like that.

 

[chickened]

I have seen more animals in an apartment than what you want.

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Totally agree with this. I told my husband I wish we had some acreage so we could raise meat chickens, have a goat for milk & a couple turkeys.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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Totally agree with this. I told my husband I wish we had some acreage so we could raise meat chickens, have a goat for milk & a couple turkeys.

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couldn't agree more. Kim

Every year our garden gets bigger and we buy a couple more cases of canning jars. We haven't bought any poultry from the store in quite a few years, we both hunt so we put a few deer in the freezer every year. Still guilty of buying pork and beef. (only every now and then on the beef - we like deer better)

Steve

 

[Momto3]

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couldn't agree more. Kim

Every year our garden gets bigger and we buy a couple more cases of canning jars. We haven't bought any poultry from the store in quite a few years, we both hunt so we put a few deer in the freezer every year. Still guilty of buying pork and beef. (only every now and then on the beef - we like deer better)

Steve

I grew up eating deer & elk. If it isnt cut just like my parents used to do it, it is to gamey for me now. The U of I actually sells whole pigs & cows, I can get a half a cow right now for 2.39lb (less for whole). I do believe the pig was around 2.29-2.59, cant totally remember. I wanted to buy one of each this year with our tax returns, but we paid off alot of bills to free up money each month to help cover our mortgage going up due to a construction loan.

Granted I dont want to be one that goes off the deep end and thinks the world is coming to an end. But I do have a family and would like to be prepared enough that we could live (eat) for 3 months if we needed to. Now I didnt say eat like we do now. LOL Yes we do have a few guns and will protect what we have if need be.

 

[Wifezilla]

I know I have mentioned it before, but stop on over at www.sufficientself.com

We have been talking about this issue for over a year.

And yes, most of us a canning jar hoarders

 

[rufus]

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couldn't agree more. Kim

Every year our garden gets bigger and we buy a couple more cases of canning jars. We haven't bought any poultry from the store in quite a few years, we both hunt so we put a few deer in the freezer every year. Still guilty of buying pork and beef. (only every now and then on the beef - we like deer better)

Steve

Remember what happened to the Kulaks in Soviet Russia. Just because they were hard working, thrifty and self sufficient, Stalin had them exterminated, their food stuffs confiscated and their lands were converted to big state run farms. Why should they eat while the rest of the nation starved?

If you have a year's supply of food stashed away, I sure wouldn't talk about it.

Rufus