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For the first time in at least 6 months, my husband went grocery shopping with me today. I thought the poor man was going to have a heart attack at the price of everything. First we went to the "cheap" grocery store. He has never cared for most of their foods. He also had no idea how much of our...

Stop by for a quick trip to Albies (to use my doublers) and wanted to get some ice cream for a peach crisp tonight. The Dreyers ice cream regular price $7.99 :thud: What on earth? Luckily it was on sale for $3.99 which I still thought was a bit outrageous but Dh insists on ice cream with...

I just found out our health insurance is going to cost us $5000 in 2012, more than double what it was this year. It's really good coverage, and I know we are lucky to have it available to us, but still....I didn't know it was going to cost that much more. I don't need any advice since...

~Every time I go out now I have to fight to keep myself from freaking out. This weekend we took our 6 and 8 year old to their first ever movie at the theater. $33 for two adults and two children at the matinee. :ack: I hadn't been to the theater since December 2005. I think tickets were $6.50...

I stopped by Safeway today to grab my .99 pinapples :) while I was there I was going to grab a couple apples for my DS since we are out (and he LOVES apples).... The CHEAPEST apples were $1.99 per pound :thud:. What??? The only other apples they had were $2.99 per pound. Guess we are sticking...

My fiance has moved in with me and he has his kids every other weekend and this is his weekend, and the first weekend they've stayed with us at my house. He has 4 kids ages 2, 4, 6 and 7. The oldest 3 are boys and the youngest is a girl. They are overall really good kids. I have no kids, but...

Of course, I've seen on the news about the food crisis, and even though I was expecting higher prices at the grocery store today, I was still in shock at the price difference between this week and last. Here is what I didn't buy today. Fresh broccoli $3.47 ( was $1.47) Baby Carrots $1.29 (was...

Got the news last night that my very first boyfriend was murdered yesterday. I felt like my breath had been knocked out of me. We only dated a few times, but it was such a sweet first love. Then we drifted our separate ways. He came to see me once in college, and we realized that we would...

I feel like I'm in a snow globe someone shook up. More precise would be a Wizard of Oz tornado globe. One where everything is up and swirling around after someone shakes it up. It is hard to describe what is going on as there is so much going on. Recently everything has been shook up...

Another thread made my mind wander on this a bit: Have you ever moved and encountered culture shock? I'm not necessarily meaning that you move from one country to another (although it would certainly apply). But many times we never dream that just moving from one state to another would give...

Just got back from weekly grocery shopping and was totally floored by the prices. I stopped first at the salvage grocery and found the the prices had risen so much that I could get a lot of the same items at grocery store prices. It was very slim pickings, but I did manage to pick up a few...

A really good friend of mine's 3 year old had just been diagnosed with Leukemia!!!!! NO NOT THAT!!!! Please NOT that!!!!!! She is from the intererior and I just received the call that they came down to Children's hospital because of the dignosis... She is devastated... I am devastated...

I was at the mall yesterday with friends. One of my friends walked into Gymboree to get his daughter a new outfit for Christmas Pictures to be taken with the family. I nearly died when I picked up a pair of girls jeans, looked at the price....$36.75. Are you kidding me? I have not been to a...

OK, not really sticker shock, but I'm not sure what else to call it. I was sitting in church at one of the library tables the other day. Next to me was a 20 year old young woman and her mom. Mom was clipping coupons. Daughter picks up the Best Buy section of the paper and starts saying the...

I had to go to the bank yesterday and we needed to restockpile our coffee. The only place that sells it at a decent price is Safeway, so while we were there we figured we'd pick up a few more things. Wow, I was astonished. $1.99 for a head of lettuce, $4.19 for a 1.89L of soy milk, and even the...

~Say that 3 times fast! hehe! Anywho, have you all seen the prices for 100% cotton sheet sets lately?! I used to find them at a discount store for $30 a set, Queen, but the store closed. I took a chance today on Ebay and ordered 2 sets of Martha Stewart 360 TC and 400 TC and paid just $58 for...

Today is the first day I've been able to go to the Save-A-Lot grocery store for almost 11 weeks because of an injury. They don't have a decent wheelchair. Anyway today I managed to hobble through hold on to the buggy while my kids put what we needed in. I was shocked to see how much can foods...

How sad and what a shock. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25145431/

My husband works for a small family run heating and air company. Most days that's a good thing. They are loyal to thier employees as long as the employees are loyal to the comapany. Most of these guys could make more money working somewhere else but the atmosphere works for them so they stick...

Dh and I just purchased a new(to us) RV!! We don't pick iit up until next friday, they are going through safety, checking gas lines, coolant lines, water lines, septic lines. I'm shaking. We were looking and i"d set a budget, but it was way low. We're WAY OVER budget! BUT, that said, we do have...