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I had to stop eating wheat in 2018, so I genuinely stopped for a minute and thought "this can't be true."
But I found sources verifying the numbers and now I'm going through a bunch of common items and their comparative prices.
Eggs in 2018: $1.76 ($2.26 when adjusted for inflation)
Eggs in 2024: $2.99 on average
Boneless chicken breast per pound in 2018: $3.14/pound
Boneless chicken breast per pound in 2024: $4.10/pound
Childcare in 2018: up to $10,408/year on average
Childcare in 2024: up to $14,760/year on average
Rent for 2bd housing in 2018: about $1250/month on average
Rent for 2bd housing in 2024: about $2000/month on average
Many of these are BIG jumps for just six years, and inflation really doesn't account for all of it. Even as aware as I am that things cost more now than they used to, it was jarring to see how MUCH more.
For an extra headfuck, this happened just after my salary doubled when I got my postdoc job. It was, uh, enraging.
The longer you've been alive, and the further back you can remember the cost of things, the more enraging it is to see price tags right now in 2024.
Cereal Eggs Chicken Thighs Soda Cat Food Rent Insurance Oil Changes Gas Car Washes Movie Tickets Concert Tickets Bras
EVERYTHING has skyrocketed up in price in the last 4 years to be sure, but they were steadily creeping up and up and up even before that. Less quality, less quantity, more money.... for the CEO and the shareholders.
It recently hit me (like a brick) how I've lived through multiple decades of our economy having never actually being good for people trying to live affordable lives.
My mother is doing her best to maintain her sense of humor. She was a child in the 1950s. My father was a child in the 1940s. My husband was a toddler in the 1970s. The four of us have had really really interesting conversations about living in and through the world.
When I was a kid a loaf of GOOD bread was 89 cents.
That was in 2000, by the way. Not that long ago.
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yeah this could be a format
i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.
in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off
AUDIO ON IM NOT KIDDING
Imagine if you had a neighbour who keeps performing songs from Phantom of the Opera in his apartment every night, by himself but accompanied by a parrot, which he has taught to sing Christine's part. Admittedly it's kind of obnoxious but you are far too baffled to even be properly annoyed. And also you don't want to confront someone with that kind of power and determination. So every once in a while you just hear this guy dramatically bellow
I'm so sorry I had to it was haunting me
Knives Out 2019 | dir. Rian Johnson
Everyone's favorite gameshow host!! I love Game Changer so much, what a wonderful cast, format, show and host!!
Hi pookie what is your favourite gen z slang ?
Probably "pookie".
mice are smooth and round like beach glass
mice are so flat you can skip them over water like pebbles
i love six o clock because the clock looks so stupid. "|" like get real
Tumblr constantly has gems like this where someone says something seemingly inane but it’s actually a thought we’ve all had at some point in our lives
