The Cost of Living!!!!!!!!!!!

[Not So Fast]

Wife just got back from Smiths for the weekly shopping and as I unload about 6 or 7 sacks and a couple of gallons of milk and some 12 paks of soda in two trips (normally it takes about 4 or so trips) I said it was hardly worth driving up there. We usually try to spend the required $90 to get the $.15 of a gallon of gas. She says dont worry it was over $100 I'm amazed at the cost of food, it is simply incredible to me. It is just the two of us unless the kids come over; and we eat a lot of chicken and things like that, not steak every nite, plus we eat out about 3-4 times a week. I remember that when our kids were living at home (3 boys) we would go thru a dozen gallons of milk a week.
How the young families with your normal 2.3 children cope with todays cost of living is beyond me!!!!!!!! Oh yeah I forgot about the trip to Sams Club about every two months and that one usually goes for between $300-$500. NSF

[Sleek-Jet]

Chicken is more expensive than steak most of the time... it boggles the mind really...

[Mandelon]

Milk..........more $$ than gas.

[Jyruiz]

Wife just got back from Smiths for the weekly shopping and as I unload about 6 or 7 sacks and a couple of gallons of milk and some 12 paks of soda in two trips (normally it takes about 4 or so trips) I said it was hardly worth driving up there. We usually try to spend the required $90 to get the $.15 of a gallon of gas. She says dont worry it was over $100 I'm amazed at the cost of food, it is simply incredible to me. It is just the two of us unless the kids come over; and we eat a lot of chicken and things like that, not steak every nite, plus we eat out about 3-4 times a week. I remember that when our kids were living at home (3 boys) we would go thru a dozen gallons of milk a week.
How the young families with your normal 2.3 children cope with todays cost of living is beyond me!!!!!!!! Oh yeah I forgot about the trip to Sams Club about every two months and that one usually goes for between $300-$500. NSF
I need to come over your place with my 3 kids so you can see how we cope.

[Throttle]

call me when everything is put away... I am tired of soup and pb &j.

[Not So Fast]

call me when everything is put away... I am tired of soup and pb &j.
Took about 10 minutes to store ALL of it away, and that was NO 30 PAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NSF

[Flyinbowtie]

It is amazing what happened to the grocery bill when the boys got out on there own, Chris is in Reno and justin doesn't get home until 9 at night. It is practically non-existent when compared to those days.
There was time, back when Chis was in his junior and senior years, that we were dropping $750-1000 a month at the grocery store.
Between our boys and about 4-5 of their friends, a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread per day was the norm. Giant tub of peanut butter was good for a week, maybe. Both mine ate their cereal out of large cool-whip tubs. Cereal for breakfast, and again right before bed. Cindy felt like she was doing well if she only had one grocery cart at the check-out counter.
At the time I was hoping they would put cheerios in a 25lb. bag, and then we could rig up a dispenser deal in the laundry room next to the dog food.
Those boys could flat eat. And they did. It was not unusual for me to come home from work and pass three or four trucks parked along our driveway before getting up to my parking spot, which they always saved. Garage lights on, radio blaring, tools everywhere, and somebodies rig torn apart, and greasy smiling faces pounding down burgers off the BBQ.
They always put everything away and cleaned up, tho.
I don't miss the grocery bills, but I miss those days.

[Zaairman]

It is amazing what happened to the grocery bill when the boys got out on there own, Chris is in Reno and justin doesn't get home until 9 at night. It is practically non-existent when compared to those days.
There was time, back when Chis was in his junior and senior years, that we were dropping $750-1000 a month at the grocery store.
Between our boys and about 4-5 of their friends, a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread per day was the norm. Giant tub of peanut butter was good for a week, maybe. Both mine ate their cereal out of large cool-whip tubs. Cereal for breakfast, and again right before bed. Cindy felt like she was doing well if she only had one grocery cart at the check-out counter.
At the time I was hoping they would put cheerios in a 25lb. bag, and then we could rig up a dispenser deal in the laundry room next to the dog food.
Those boys could flat eat. And they did. It was not unusual for me to come home from work and pass three or four trucks parked along our driveway before getting up to my parking spot, which they always saved. Garage lights on, radio blaring, tools everywhere, and somebodies rig torn apart, and greasy smiling faces pounding down burgers off the BBQ.
They always put everything away and cleaned up, tho.
I don't miss the grocery bills, but I miss those days.
Sounds like my house..I'm the oldest of FIVE boys.

[Warlockjer]

So anyhow Bobby, Whats for dinner???????

[Desert Rat]

Those of us with kids at home must settle for less boat then we really want... The sacrfices in life we must make for the sake of our children