How Much Has Your Weekly Shop Gone up since before Covid?
How Much Has Your Weekly Shop Gone up since before Covid?
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buy from the farmer, that way you are not paying for shipping costs and not putting much in the landfill.
Oh and make everything from scratch. tastes so much better.
Mine's actually dropped a bit but that's because I've cut a lot of stuff, especially junk foods.
Same, plus I shop at Aldi 90% of the time now. Used to be about 50/50 Aldi/Coles.
I'd like to shop at Aldi as I like a lot of their products but I can't stand their checkout process. I don't know if it's just my local but it takes forever. There's regularly a queue from the checkout to the back of the store then they'll open another checkout and there'll be a mad rush to that one then they'll only put 3 people through and close it again despite a dozen or more people still waiting. I know they've started installing self checkouts at some stores which IMO is great as it's the only way I'll shop there.
I actually like their checkout setup. And they are super quick at my local Aldi. Never have long queues.
They do the same opening/closing extra checkouts as needed but they seem to have it cycle so it works. Possibly better manager?
In saying that, your Aldi may be much busier than mine due to location. Mine is suburban south Canberra. It's rarely packed. Also I pick my times to shop. I avoid the Wed/Sat special buys days in particular.
NFI
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way more than the supposed "5.1%" inflation the government is claiming
more like 50%
Example?
I know if you substitute everything with facial tissues it has gone up 30%. All super market brands have gone up 30%
I'll just leave this here.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/10591370/redir
rektrading on 14/06/2021 - 09:24
The retailers are pricing in the next inflation increase.Fiat is losing its value more and more every day. Don't be the last one to do something about it.
I'll just leave this here too.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/12081094/redir
RBA knows inflation is going to explode after they doubled the money supply since covid started. In other words, everything is going to roughly double, including salary since covid. Is your salary still the same? Boy, do I have bad news for you…
Good gimmick account lol
This is what we should be getting into:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-09/clay-coins-currency-l…It's just what 🇦🇺. Another 💩coin.
That statement does not make any sense.
@GG57: Tangible clay 🪙 doesn't make any sense either.
I want instant cross-border finality Tx with zero fees.
Missing the word need.
According to my spending tracking spreadsheet 6.1864268964%
as a true ozbargainer, I grow my own food.
I heard Australia is banning people from growing food.
Where do you the water for the plants from?
Tap the water gets he it
Did you have a stroke while writing your reply?
@Muzeeb: Ah ok. It was a trick question for Savas as true ozbargainers wouldn’t be paying for mains water
Edit: just realised I was missing a word from my comment, that’s what you were getting at lol
Wheres the NFI option?
easiest way to save money
eat whats half price or marked down, forces you try new things, and adds variety.
this week i ate 36 cans of campbells soup. weekly groceries 58 dollars for the soup and $10 on extra dunny paper
last week i ate 7 mccains pizzas, some close to off skewer sticks, marked down bakery items, and some weird shit in a can.That's not a good idea to look at specials. Supermarkets have been jacking prices for a few weeks and then reduce it as a special. You could be already spending double without realising it.
I used to eat half a frozen pizza now I eat a quarter. There is an exodus of fat.
You should heat n eat them. :+)
i know the prices give or take for the last 5 years or so, they havent gone up too much.
Tim Tams on special used to be $1.82 at their cheapest, but now it's $2.00. I haven't seen the $1.82 special for at least a year. I have also noticed that Chicken Sausages and Beef mince has gone up.
Has this resulted in you feeling like shit though? I know if I lived off that sort of diet I'd feel almost constantly lethargic and I'm sure my trips to the toilet would result in the bowl receiving a new paint job. That said I reckon I'm a bit more sensitive to certain foods than others.
im not actually serious. i do stock up on half price stuff but mix it up, yes 36 cans of soup would give you the shits im sure.
I definitely do the half price specials, but don’t eat them all in the same week. I get soup or pizza or whatever to have in so I get variety across the week. You might want to watch the sodium with all that soup and pizza.
this week i ate 36 cans of campbells soup.
Is this satire?
Think he needs to learn to cook. I can cook a week's worth of really nice stew for the price of 5 cans of campbells soup (or 10 cans when it's half price).
The last line gave it away, I thought.
Over 5 cans per day. Yah surely
I need to get on your level.
Roughly spending the same but only because I've been shopping more carefully. Buying more homebrand stuff, and reducing or cutting some things out (mince, frozen berries, yoghurt, etc).
If your weekly has gone up 100% you should not be on this website.
Even if prices go up you either find cheaper alternatives, buy bulk or just forgo.
Stop buying crap that will go to landfill after a single use and maybe you might be able to stay on top of inflation
On average I think most items I buy regularly have gone up about 10%, but more so in the last six-nine months than since COVID. Some things are cheaper or the same.
since before Covid?
Are we talking 2019? 1980? 1890?
No context = crap poll resultsPretty sure it implies just before global COVID lockdowns, I.e. late 2019 to early 2020
i used to do all the shopping at Woolworths/Coles… but now i go to Aldi, green grocers and butchers
I find that i'm spending a little less because i tend to buy extra random things at the major supermarkets, whereas not so much at the other placesThe RBA will quickly realise they've let it go for too long and will need easily a 2.5%+ interest rate to even make a dent on the inflation.
The actual inflation is huge, WA is currently sitting at 7.1%
It's +15.0% in my 📚 but who's really counting at this stage.
It's not like people doesn't get a warning ⚠️ a long time ago.
I know the head in the sand metaphor gets thrown around a lot but in reality that's exactly what the RBA and Government have been doing for too long hoping for it to just miraculously disappear.
Home buyers who acted on the supposed "no rate hikes till 2024" and leveraged themselves really only have themselves to blame.
How do the 1% get people to work themselves to the 🦴?
The answer is to get people to borrow 700% of their gross salary and then do a rug pull.
I gave up alcohol, which saves me $20-$30 a week. Still, I probably spend that $20-$30 paying for more expensive vegetables. I stopped driving to work before the pandemic, so the extra price of fuel doesn't affect me much. There are always ways to save money, it just depends how much effort you're willing to put in.
I read an interesting report recently asking the question whether humans really need to eat 3 meals a day. The theory was that the human condition has evolved that way - certainly in modern times and in western countries.
Thinking about it, I cant imagine a typical caveman insisting on breakfast before he went to hunt for some dinosaur meat for his dinner.Anyway, I've started to have a brunch rather than breakfast and lunch, and have an evening dinner 5 out of the 7 days choosing to fast for the 2 other days.
It's not for everyone but I've lost some weight, generally feel much better health wise, and also keeping the shopping bill down too.
Eating less is positively correlated with longevity, as is giving up alcohol.
easy for some than others
unfortunately i start losing weight if i skip meals..blessing or a curse, who knows
I’ve just stopped buying meat… better for the planet anyway.
But I like meat.
I know the powers that be are trying as hard as they can to get me to eat literal bugs instead, but they're going to have to drag me kicking and screaming into whatever wacky new world order they've got planned where I'm eating crickets instead of beef.
Are you aware that there's more types of food than meat and "literal bugs"?
I ate meat before and eating now. Didn't increase my shopping budget at all. Thanks by the way, for not eating meat. People like you reduce demand for my staple food.
I don't understand why people are spending too much like up to more than 50% more on the shop. Unless you spend on useless things. Prices for basic necessities itself haven't gone too much. Yeah if you buy new car or phone or clothes which isn't required then that's a different thing.
Exactly for the past 2 years, the inflation on food doesn't add to even 20%. The only significant increase is the fuel which comes to around 20$ extra per week maximum. I am surviving with 70K single income with 2 kids and a mortgage. And I am able to do whatever I want. If you want everything in the world, how much ever income won't be sufficient.
I agree, and people on OzB know how to shop savvy as other comments allude to.
Fuel must have increased further by now but, again, depends how you can minimise the costs.Legitimate question - what are your mortgage repayments? Your take home pay would be around $1000 per week, so if you’re using $400 of that for housing it’s very different to using $200.
Coles cheapest butter has gone up from $5 to $6 in the last 2 weeks and the eggs from $3.80 to $4.20.
generally household spending, because of inflation, covid tax, russian war, increased shipping cost, flood,
our monthly bill is about 15-20 % higher.
fuel however. OMG. thats like 50-60%