We are in an abusive relationship with our own government. If you want a real-time example of how governmental bureaucracy fits into this statement, look no further than the footnote at the bottom of this article ¹cited from the BLS report today.
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) has released the August inflation data today [DATA HERE] with a top line at 8.3 percent year over year. Unfortunately, things are unfolding exactly as we previously shared. [Modified Table 1 at left]
Despite the temporary drop in gasoline prices (-12%), the costs of food (+13.5%), electricity (+15.8%) and housing (+6.7%) are crushing U.S. consumers. The stock market is responding accordingly. We can only imagine the inflation data if the heavily weighted gasoline factor was not pushing overall toplines down. Estimation of inflation would be well over double digits.
Keep in mind, as you read this review the price of the current harvest (prior field costs) is only right now coming into the food supply chain.
Food inflation is running at its highest rate since 1979 (+11.4%) and it will go higher as the third wave in this sector hits.
To give you an example, margarine increased in price 7% in August alone, that’s an annualized rate of 94% [Table 2 details]. Flour is also on pace for another 22.8% increase right as the holiday baking season begins.
We cannot eat gold, silver or durable goods. Electricity, home heating (natural gas), food and housing costs are priorities right now. Main Street USA is being crushed by Joe Biden overall economic and energy policies. It’s bad now, and going to get worse – much worse, as the third wave of food inflation has only just begun.
¹Before sharing a MSM perspective I want to draw your attention to the BLS notation for 2023. This innocuous footnote tells us just how manipulative the governmental bureaucracies are:
In order to give the statistical appearance of things being better than they are, the BLS is going to reset their weighting for the CPI to only compare against 2021. This is being done with purpose to give the illusion next year that things are not as bad. 2021 was when Joe Biden’s inflation policies first surfaced. By comparing consumer prices to the timing when those prices first increased, the scale of future price increases will be statistically diminished. We are in an abusive relationship with our government.
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(CNBC) – Inflation rose more than expected in August as rising shelter and food costs offset a drop in gas prices, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday.
The consumer price index, which tracks a broad swath of goods and services, increased 0.1% for the month and 8.3% over the past year. Excluding volatile food and energy costs, CPI rose 0.6% from July and 6.3% from the same month in 2021.
Economists had been expecting headline inflation to fall 0.1% and core to increase 0.3%, according to Dow Jones estimates. The respective year-over-year forecasts were for 8% and 6% gains.
Energy prices fell 5% for the month, led by a 10.6% slide in the gasoline index. However, those declines were offset by increases elsewhere.
The food index increased 0.8% in August and shelter costs, which make up about one-third of the weighting in the CPI, jumped 0.7% and are up 6.2% from a year ago. (read more)
For readers who do advanced preparation to offset prices. THINK BEEF right now, you will thank me four months from now. If you see a deal now, buy it and freeze it now. Anticipate retail ground beef costs be somewhere around $10 to $15/lb by spring to mid 2023 perhaps even higher. Also remember, processed foods will increase in price at twice the rate of the fresh food sector. Both fresh and processed food prices will rise, but the increased costs associated with the food processing will double the price.
Let them eat bugs.
I HATE this picture. I wish it weren’t always visible on the sidebar at the Treehouse.
Apparently the marketing folks at The Duke Report thinks it will cause people to want to read The Duke Report.
Doesn’t have that affect on me. At all.
Agreed, I just want to do it right back at her!
HyacintheClare: Same here.
There is no way I would read the Duke Report. I would love to smack the smirk off that little bitch’s face.
Just bought a half cow of Texas Wagu last week.
You wouldn’t steer us wrong would you Dan Man.
That sounds like a load of bull.
Actually sounds more like 1/2 a load?
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I buy cases of whole chickens and beef & pork by the side from my local butcher @ 10% above wholesale cost. I use SNAP and get some push back for being able to afford such a large purchase all at once. I actually can eat a steak or pork roast cheaper per pound than some lunch meat or a tuna. 2 months ago when I learned of the increase in grains i bought a cart loaded with crackers, pasta, and taco shells. The crackers I paid $1.19/ box are 2.09 today. I’m on SS so stretch my budget like a rubber band. I wish everybody could “afford” to shop like this. It really does make a difference.
The Carter Years 2.0. Stagflation inbound!
Yeah, now Brandon’s playing with the big boys. None of this 80’s jive, that was just Reagan fixing the problem.
Team Biden missed their window to deal with inflation. Instead, they saw and took their opportunity to steal 2 Trillion dollars, even though it would make things dramatically worse.
It’s victory garden time folks. Tear out your flower gardens and plant.
That’s the game plan bankrupt this country, take all the money distributed to their masters and hunker down for the New World order. I have bad news for them Jesus is gonna come back soon and there will be hell to pay for them. Put your trust in God and you cannot go wrong.
USDA announced today they may demand people register vegetable/community gardens
You’re joking, right? Please tell me you’re joking.
Asserting government control over home food production was one of the first moves of the first Zero Administration.
Been watching the stories floating about regarding this or that hazard of home poultry and the like?
No joke at all.
link?
I did a quick search and couldn’t find anything on this.
They can demand all they want.
They will never find all of us out here in the mountains.
Never.
I have seen more and more of my neighbors letting their yards and surrounding property go a bit wild and have wondered if it is because they are hoping for some kind of “camo” effect.
They have let the bushes and trees grow up quite a bit more than I have ever seen the growth in the forty years of living out here.
It is some kind of “deliberate neglect”.
I think more and more of us are becoming very private for some reason.
No one wants people to know what they have, where they have it, and how much of it they have.
We are a lot more careful in who we let into our ” communities” and friendship circles now.
Forwarding this to my wife right now!
Joe has emptied the strategic petroleum reserve or there would be at least another point added to that inflation rate
Oil for me and not thee….
Well, when we can’t go to work for lack of gasoline, they’ll run out of OPM (other peoples money).
Just moving right a long on schedule.
We know 2,500 gallons went into Obama’s new propane tank. They will be warm
Maybe but Obama has no brains and no sense.
He will use that up lickey split.
Then he will order it refilled and use that up quickly.
The he will order …….
And on and on he will go until there is no more even for him.
Spoiled brats run through money and other things like food and clothes faster than you or I can ever imagine.
But but but we will not need any oil, since we will all have electric vehicles, provided by Buttgiggles Motors.
Just print more money! Geez, this ain’t that hard.
Yes, no, I mean, like just pay for it.
I’m guessing the Inflation “Reduction” Act hasn’t had time to bed in yet.
oh my, just think how bad it would be if they hadn’t passed it.
They don’t have to “PRINT” (how quaint and old fashioned of you!) they just do it with a few key strokes, create a billion $’s as needed, in a few seconds!
So here is the tasteless omelette made out of every economic egg purposely broken by the corrupt, vindictive, morally debauched, utterly stupid illegitimate “president” and his handlers.
The trouble is, once this “chef ” is removed, equally malevolent “sous-chefs” are lined up to take over. Republicans are just as complicit for this gosh awful situation as the Democrats…a pox on all their houses.
Yeah, especially because we had a Great President who was taking care of everything for free and then they stole the Election from him. Thanks.
He shouldn’t have let them release the clotshot. That is on him. He could have stopped it at any point and damn the torpedoes. That error cost him the election because they had a method to pull off the fraud.
Right.
You forget that they didn’t announce the vaxxine until AFTER Election Day.
They wanted to hurt him by withholding the news.
But go ahead with your fake narrative. You seem to carry a grudge.
Or a narrative.
All the poxes, Chicken, monkey, etc. FJB
…and all at once.
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👍!!!
Talked to a fellow the other day whose family farms 2,500 acres here in eastern North Carolina—corn, soybeans, peanuts and cotton. He said the fertilizer bill this year is 3x last year. And diesel is much more and other expenses.
Whisky and ammo, everything else will take care of itself.
Bummer,
I quit drinking 5 years ago, and never been able to shoot straight.
Ef the Red POTATUS.
I have my own BBB plan.
Beans, Bullets, and Bullion.
“Estimation of inflation would be well over double digits.”
Just got notified yesterday that my HOA will, beginning in January 2023, implement annual dues increases based on the rate of inflation.
Every one of those annual increases will then be baked into the base fee going forward, kind of like being taxed on something, again an again.
Incompetence was what drove the need for a 24% increase last year, and now 10-11% of that increase will form the basis for endless increases going forward.
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A few days ago 4 AAA batteries at the local hardware store were going for $7.69. At Staples office supply two weeks ago, the cashier told me their packaged batteries are basically $1/ea.
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Gas has dropped $1/gal here (central Oregon) but it’s still twice what it was when the Unpresident moved in.
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Bananas have tripled in price.
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Seems like we’re going to be chasing our tails no matter how much advance planning we do: it’s great to be able to stock up on everything (and I have, since 1/21) but then I have to have the generator ready to go, if the power goes out for extended periods of time , especially in winter(which it OFTEN does here in small town Oregon–very old infrastructure).
So, I’ve got the generator ready to go: so then how many gallons of gas can I safely store and be sure that fuel stabilizer is in play to keep that gas usable for the generator for months going forward? (because at some point, fuel may not be easy to get)
I have no argument, obviously, with every kind of preparation it is possible to make, but there’s no point in investing dollars in produce/meat that can’t be sustained in a usable condition. As the infrastructure implodes, making good use of all the preparation is problematic.
A few days ago, because of “fire danger”, large portions of metro-Portland (at the edges, where there is heavy wooded area) had power shut down for up to three days. Some whiny woman was interviewed about the devastating experience she was having, and she described it as living like in prehistoric times. (One of the hair-pulling STUPID STUPID things she said [having no idea what it revealed about her] was, “We are reduced to not being able to do anything but READ!!!” Oh. The humanity.)
We are surrounded by incompetent, ignorant fools who have had do almost nothing for themselves in terms of sustaining themselves. It’s gonna get ugly. Real fast.
Shadow Stats has inflation nearing 20%. More accurate certainly. But from what I’m seeing even that assessment falls way short of the true number.
As this gets worse….no, economic analysts, inflation has not topped out…there will be millions who have not paid attention who will have no idea how we’ve come to this.
Mean tweets for them won’t look so bad, I’m betting.
DOW at minus 1154…volatility is one thing…continued tanking…something else….
But…but…but inflation has topped out..So said hopeful analysts who should have more sense (and probably did but told the lie enough times they ended up believing it).
Inflation knows no party. Biden’s supporters will be hit just as hard as the rest of us.
Can’t wait for the all in corporate Net Zero aficionados to realize they’ve been played for the suckers and lickspittles they are.
Just the snap-back after the globalists’ sucker’s rally pulled in the last of the FOMO retail investors.
I feel like I’m buying groceries for myself and my daughter and son-in-law (mid 20ies) because they don’t really understand yet how bad it’s going to be. They should but none of them or their friends or even his educated family in Maryland seem to get it. I won’t let my child starve no matter how old she is if there’s anything I can do to prevent it.
I won’t let my child starve no matter how old she is if there’s anything I can do to prevent it
Exactly. We do what we can within our own situations, as far as possible supporting one another.
Mari, I understand this so well, you have no idea.
Ever since Sundance first alerted us to the incoming all those months ago, complete with timeline and countdown… plus my other in-depth reading…I have alerted my three.
I tried not to sound existential or hysterical, but I am sure on some level, they thought, well, here goes mother again…off on a wild tangent.
I’m unsure how much they understood then, as they were all so busy with their own lives and families just trying to get from one day to the next. And even now as things worsen at increasing speed, I don’t know if their comprehension of how bad this is now, never mind a month or two from now, is where it should be.
But I have alerted them. I don’t care how on the edge they think I am. I would be remiss if I let that get in the way of issuing warnings. In the meantime they haven’t dismissed those warnings, and I’m sure are noticing how right I was and will continue to be.
I wish I weren’t, believe me. I think on some level every mother expects to hear her children say at one time or another to her that she was right on many things.
This is one time I’d give almost everything NOT to hear it.
So many members of our CTH Awareness & Protection Club and so little time to prepare our families and friends!
Keep trying, BKR. That’s all you can do, my friend. Reality will hit them eventually, hopefully before the full force arrives.
You never know Betsy jones, it might click in their minds just in time for them to dig in and do something.
I don’t blame you one little bit for giving it all you’ve got to try to warn your children.
I bought a pressure canner this year so I could can meat and not worry about the freezer going out from a bad storm.
Good plan! 😉
Well done!
You can buy a pressure cooker and can meat. It lasts a lot longer than frozen, I opened a jar of chicken the other day that we had canned 10 years ago. It was as good as the day we canned it.
pressure canner not pressure cooker there is a difference.
I’m glad you rectified it!
Thanks for the advice; great tip! 🙂
Agreed. My mom, raised during the first “great” depression, pressure-cooked and canned meats, bird, veggies. I remember helping sterlize the glass containers over a steaming pot of boiling water. We had several shelves in the cool basement stocked to the max during the 1950s and 1960s. Time now to trade that evil “convenience” for the blessing of home-made quality.
I went with dual fuel generators…..propane doesn’t go bad. One 5 k that will run most of the house……..12 hours on a propane bottle……..and a 2.5 inverter that goes 30 hours on a bottle that will run essentials.
I got enough fuel to power the generator for two months, and will begin canning if it looks hopeless for my freezer.
On batteries, rechargeable AA, and AAA batteries are fairly cheap, at least last time I ordered some.
Solar lawn lights are actually set up to charge AA or AAA(either with adaption or buying two sets, one for AA and one for AAA) batteries.
And, available in $ stores, fairly cheap.
Point is, with a little creaivity, you can make a “Solar charging station” for recharging the batteries.
On the Generator, for around $200 you can buy a kit to convert your genset to run on EITHER GAS or Propane.
The nice thing about propane is it never goes “bad” so needs no stabiliser, and you can still use gasoline if thats what you have.
Just some thoughts from someone who’s been doing this for ,..awhile.
Spending $200 on something I have not been planning for some time is not an option….but lots of good information in your comment, Dutch. Thanks!
Thanks for the tip Dutchman.
I scrapped my old generator and bought a 9k dual fuel generator and a 100 gal propane tank. I can run my place for 10-15 days on that.
Propane isn’t cheap but it is easy and safe to store in quantity, unlike gas, and it has the added advantage of not gunking up the carburetor if you don’t run it every month.
“The Fed has more work to do is – I think – the bottom line.”
No, no, no, NO. The work the Fed needs to do is to pay visits to Yellen and Biden and tell them their borrowing days are over until further notice. They need a strong dose of tough love from their banker (other than the IMF).
Why would the Fed ever do that?
Their purpose is to facilitate debt creation (ie more money in circulation) by lending to the Federal Government.
you seem to think the FED works for us….LOL….it is a creation of government for government that is self enriching
The Fed is, and has been since day one, part of the problem. It exists to fund governmental growth via creation of worthless money, money that holds its value only so long as all the players in this game of chicken agree to the scam.
Does Powell want his legacy to be that he is the Fed Head who allowed the USD to become worthless in a way that could not be denied?
Some idiot (on WBAP in DFW) from McGowan Group Asset Management said inflation was 0% because of deflation or some crap. I hope nobody ever invests with that genius.
They probably want to be on the other side of your trades.
No doubt!
Buying or selling, win, lose or draw the brokers always get their commission. One of my friends once told me he stopped listening to their advice because while he was getting broker as they were always getting richer.
Now you know why these a$$hat clowns are called “brokers”: That’s what they make you.
A stockbroker took a prospect out for lunch at his yacht club. The broker pointed out one fine boat after another, naming in turn the brokers that owned each one. The prospect asked, “Where are the clients’ yachts?” The broker laughed.
People vote with their wallets. This, more than anything else, will get the Democrats trounced in November. They can thank their village idiot for the beatdown that is coming.
Dumbf*ck leftists voted out PDJT when gas was $2/gal, lowest unemployment in history over every racial group, rapidly expanding economy, energy independence, C-vid defeated, ISIS decimated and no new wars, no Uke, Taiwan or NorKo problems, China & Russia bending over backward for access to our markets, peace agreements in MidEast, no shortages of anything, 0% inflation, and on and on. Just 2 years ago….REMEMBER!?!?!?!?
Too many stupid voters, illegal voters, & cheating. The commies cancelled thinking persons’ votes last time. No reason to believe any of this has subsided. Quite the opposite, actually.
EXCEPT they didn’t……you are brain dead if you have an inkling Slo Joe got 81M legitimate votes…..LOL…….have you been asleep or do you just deny reality with all the election fraud revealed over the last 23 months?
But Roe vs. Wade! My reproductive freedom!!!!
And that’s the big problem…People are only focused on personal money…Not principles, not honesty, not voting record (if available), etc.
Gas Prices are rapidly increasing at the few Gas Stations I see on the way to San Bruno & South San Francisco.
So Brandon trying to control Gas Prices and now Food is an UTTER FAILURE THAT’S HURTING EVERYONE.
I think when Gas Prices are 10 bucks a gallon and Food Prices are 1000% nation wide, he’ll claim it as a success to save the Environment!!
Joseph Biden, Resident Plagiarist of the Nation with 50 years of Failing Upwards!
Biden comes from a family of Welsh coal miners, but he plagiarized True President Trump’s Landslide Victory, too.
@The Gipper Lives, you have a good point!
Of Donald Trump’s victories 2016 and 2022, he worked every day — you saw the size of his Rallies, and you saw his energy at those Rallies!!
Like copying off a Test, Biden DID NO WORK, but claimed the credit. The worst part is his ENTITLED ARROGANT ATTITUDE — which Brandon believes is being an “Alpha Male”.
So like a Doctor who cheated his way through Medical School, the Nation is now being Operated on by this Hack.
Well on the bright side when food inflation is 1000% I’ll be able to lose a few pounds that I’ve got as I got older. 😂
Still going down in SC and still over a dollar higher than when we had an elected president. $3.20 to $3.30 with a few outliers either way.
Grew up in southern Oklahoma on beans, potatoes and cornbread and milk. We had a huge garden every year and had our own chickens.
We had no air conditioning or ceiling fan. In the winter we only had a gas stove in the living room to heat the home. There were 12 of us living in the home. So I know what it’s like to go without.
So my family and I will survive.
Pray for our country.
Country strong. Much respect.
Yep, glad I grew up poor. 😉
That’s not a thing I’ve ever said before. But because I did, I learned to keep a lot of foods in the pantry…. actually I’m keeping more than my mother ever did.
It’s a valuable education.
Especially. when everyone is addicted to convenience. 😉
To think of all those who worked hard, went to college, etc so that “their kids would have a better life than they did” and as a result deprived their kids of the wonderful experience of “learning to do without”, making do with, and being grateful for what you have, etc.
Yep! I have always wanted to strangle parents who said “I want my kids to have everything I never had”. I always say what didn’t you have? Don’t think I ever got a straight answer.
Yep, hubby and I said that as we just finished dinner. We had breakfast for dinner. Sausage, hashbrowns, eggs. $1 a plate from scratch.
I’m probably not far from where you grew up, generally speaking.
We have 2 large gardens and an orchard but there have been interesting developments over the last few years making them less productive. The largest and most detrimental being bacterial infection called anthracnose. It defoliates my orchard trees. Which they still produce fruit, but not as much good fruit as they could. Similarly does it’s best to kill off my blackberries and strawberries. Okra and asparagus are about the only things that do well throughout summer. Our squash can easily be overrun by squash bugs just as the tomatoes can be killed by blister beetles. I have spent many summers trying to keep up with it by hand. With all that has changed growing food at home has become more difficult. Even more so if the infrastructure we rely on now (store available fungicides or pesticides, power, clean water, sewage) fails. Water is scarce in Oklahoma as you move east to west, and even if you’re on a well you likely can’t power your pump indefinitely on a generator. If the pacific ocean continues it’s la Nina pattern we can expect ever dryer conditions moving forward. The current condition evident by the 3″+ wide and sometimes 10’+ long cracks on my property as well as ponds diminishing ever quicker. Little 8000 sf pond thats 7′ deep is gone. Larger normally 3+ acre 14′ deep pond is about 1.5 acres now and only 6-7′ deep
Anyways, no matter who we are or the situation before us, it’s going to be a tough nut to crack for most people of the west.
Try watering with hydrogen peroxide.
Randy ,
I just looked that up ! Great Tip about hydrogen peroxide that I didn’t know about !
Thank You 😊
Where’d you say you keep your milk cows again?
We didn’t have milk cows. We got our milk from a guy in town that had milk cows. We bought our milk from him for .50 for a gallon jar of milk. With a bunch of cream on top. We grew up on real whole milk.
So did I, and fresh figs!
Can you imagine what every D RAT city is going to be like if this gets any worse. Going to make the WATT riots look like child’s play.
And once they’ve destroyed the cities, they will head for the rural area around each city.
I believe the idea has always been to destroy prime real estate. New York/Cali etc
Drive down prices and they buy it all up!
You must not be from the northeast. The average gangbanger car will run out of gas before it reaches any rural area.
In rural Minnesota they were in the business of stealing fuel from farmers’ fuel tanks back in the 1990s. The average gangbanger in Minnesota knew, 30 years ago, how to steal farmers’ supplies for their own purposes.
So in this, the northeast is most fortunate.
Yup.
I didn’t notice it growing up but when I had my daughter 27 years ago and was a single mom with daycare and all the baby expenses, I learned pretty fast. The Tightwad Gazette was practically a gift from God for me and even though I’m more financially comfortable, I find myself referring to it a lot lately, especially for from scratch recipes. I am happy I had those learning years.
I saw dozens of huge fields of corn and soy beans in upper South Carolina. The corn brown and about waist high, in some of the fields I could tell they had just plowed it under. The soybean fields were about calf high and brown, normally this time of year they are a sea of green nearly shoulder high.
If the reports out of Texas and Oklahoma are as bad as this, prices are going to go demand upward in the very near future.
Corporate Corn in IL is looking good. Tall and green but needs to be harvested, real soon, losing its vibrant green color.
Corn Pop will weaker in a street fight, then, right?
Upstate SC has been in a drought all summer. Other crops, such as peaches and blueberries, experienced significant (75-100%) losses when they were in bloom and we had a mid-March freeze for one night.
I was talking about the area around Jefferson SC. About 15 miles south is one of the biggest peach orchards in the state, Mcleod Farms, I don’t know if they were hit with the freeze or loss of crops, but with the drought from about mid may through the end of july, I can’t help but think their harvest was way down
I have a smallish farm between OKC and Dallas. We have about 30 or so peach trees, 30 os so plum trees, plus a few of each of apricot, nectarine, and apple. We got 0 rain from the first week of June through the 3rd week of August. Then about 2″ between 2 storms 10 days apart. Nothing for 2 weeks now. It’s the driest its been here in more then 10 years. Maybe 2007-08. On top of that we had probably 45-50 days of 100° temperatures in there. Most cattle ranchers got 1 cut of hay in May or early June but nothing since then. My small pond is completely dry. My other larger 3 acre pond is half that or less, and as if now no rain forecast for at least 2 more weeks with temperatures approaching 95 next Monday. While I dont think this is yet unprecedented, it is getting tougher out there for anyone that lives or supports themselves off the land.
I paid $40 per half bushel of peaches twice this summer. Expensive, yes, but they are from a local farm, huge (10 ounces each) and delicious. I canned and gave away 3 quarts, canned and kept 20 pints and put 10 cups in the freezer to make a pie at Thanksgiving and a couple mini pies in the dead of winter. Gotta support the local farms when I can.
Lucky you. I paid $60 for a 1/2 bushel. Well, kind of. The folks at the farm store (as usual) mounded up the peaches well beyond the top of the container. These were beautiful, tasty, organically grown, very large peaches.
I gave some to neighbors, ate some fresh, and peeled and sliced then froze the rest. They will be great later.
Organic Palisade peaches sold for $45 per 1/2 bushel in Colorado while I was there last month. Very good.
No rice coming out of Cali this year because of drought
Dow Jones is down 1100 points. Whew.
buy beef now! what happens if the electric goes out and the freezer is off? can I get money from my bank if the electric goes out? we depend so much on electricity in America how can we get along without it? sure, here at home we don’t need AC, we heat with wood and can cook on wood stoves, light with candles, etc., but how do we get money and will credit cards work? so do stores such as walmart which have no windows except at the front doors have backup generators? do banks and brokerages realize they may need generators. I worry.
when our grandparents lived through the great depression and the dust bowls we weren’t used to electricity.
THATS the thing. WE have LOST knowledge.
3 generations ago, my grandparents both knew how to;
Home birth babies, and treat MOST medical emergencies and conditions, grow and cook their food, build or remodel their home, hunt game, pick wild mushrooms, make their own clothes, make their own soap, etc.
ALL the “basics”; food, clothing, shelter, security.
And that knowledge is unknown to MOST people alive today.
Put them out in the wilderness with no cell phone and they would DIE, in short order.
<…do banks and brokerages realize they may need generators. I worry.>
Don’t worry…be Merrie 🙂
Smoke that meat.
Did a swine butt and a picnic Sunday 9 hrs.
Doing a brisket in a couple weeks, have to be ready for that, last time was 18 hrs.
battery backup with a couple solar panels for recharge in the event of long term outage. Also recommend same for sump pump if you have one.
You do the best you can and hope for the best. NOTHING is guaranteed.
Pressure can the meat or at least be prepared to do so in the event of a long-term power failure.
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I can relate.
Our area recently experienced a severe wind storm toppling miles of power poles.
Our power was only out nine hours, but many around here went over three days without. One lady I talked with claimed she was going to have to throw out hundreds of dollars of meat in her freezer.
I suggested she have a big BBQ — to at least get some use out of her grocery bill. She was not at all concerned about the loss, so I am guessing she believed she would be compensated for the loss . . .
I’m paying for most everything I buy with cash. My cc is zero and I pay bills with it because it’s easier but I’m shopping with cash AND rarely use rewards cards.
I buy every thing on my cc. It pays me back 1.5 percent cash back. I have let it accumulate. Have almost 1000.00 to spend on things that pop up unexpected. I will caution that I do pay my balance in full each month. If I can’t afford it , I don’t buy it.
Big ticket items, like the recent vet bill for the cat ($925) do go on the card as well as gas at the pump once a month (joy of being retired) and I use the points for gift cards to Lowe’s. I just find I stay on budget a lot more if I use cash and no record of what I bought exists.
Worry? That’s a waste of perfectly good mental and emotional energy.
If a thing is within your control or there’s something you can do about it – do it. If it’s not within your control and there’s nothing you can do about it – there’s absolutely no point in worrying about. Example: I do NOT worry about my ever-increasing HOA dues: I will do what I can to be prepared to pay them. When the time comes, I will check and see if I am able to pay them. If I am not able to pay them, I will not pay them. The consequences will play out on their own–we simply CANNOT accept some “obligation” to be in knots all the time about stuff that we have no control over.
Know that you will miss some things that could have been done.
We live life as it is, not as we wish it was.
Any property that has shared ownership (condos, HOAs, etc), puts you into liability of other people. I was on the board in 2008, and we were unprepared for the costs of delinquent units. I have begged the prez to meet with the lawyer to workout a solution for untimely deaths where heirs refuse to pay. He has done NOTHING. Immselling.
Always keep cash on hand, and keep abreast of the news. Strikes likely coming from railways, it will impact food/meds/gas. Get your water, fill your car up etc If no deal struck by Friday it won’t be pretty
Oh, and buy a pressure canner and jars!
I bought a very large ice chest on sale with the most insulation I could find. Also found blue ice I have frozen to use in it. Not as good as having a generator but certainly better than nothing. It will get me through 4-5 days with no power.
Inflation is a lot higher than the phony CPI.
Inflation is well above 40%. The price of everything from
food to gasoline is constantly going up.
Price is no longer Stable.
Democrat politicians will economically destroy the USA.
In the N. Texas metro area gas prices just jumped 20-34 cents/ gallon overnight at some stations.
Great article about real cause of Europe’s energy prices and inflation.
Europe’s Energy Armageddon from Berlin and Brussels, Not Moscow
https://www.globalresearch.ca/europe-energy-armageddon-from-berlin-brussels-not-moscow/5792005
The most telling bit of information buried in this CPI report is the 24.3%!!! Year over year increase in health insurance costs! Frikin 24.3% and not a peep from anyone about it.
Surely the death shot is doing its job and 24.3% is the absolute proof.
MGP
I don’t know if anyone else is seeing double digit increases in auto and home insurance, but I did ….30% to 40% increases.
Excellent credit, zero claims, if you’re wondering.
House insurance went up 23% and most homeowners I know have similar increases. Car insurance usually goes up annually but increased both in January (8%) and July (another 15%) this year. Also excellent credit and no claims.
I wonder if the employees are getting pay raises…
Both my house and auto insurance was the same as last year. Property taxes are up, big surprise there …
Same here. Had a 50% increase from State Farm homeowner’s last year (no changes to policy and no claims). This year, the turds tacked on another 17%!
State of WA no longer reduces our rates for good credit. However,n my auto insurance has gone down the last year because fewer are driving and there are fewer accidents.
I HAVE no “health insurance” other than Medicare part A, which costs me nothing, and which I haven’t used.
No Drs refusing to “treat” me, unless I get the clot shot, no copays or deductibles, etc.
I figure the reduced stress alone has added 10 years to my lifespan.
You can do it.
Your ancestors probably did.
Go retro.
And buy them now because they are up in price, too.
Tattler lids currently has a sale. Buy them up because the metal lids will be going away!
We have a local source of beef that is very high quality, far superior to what’s at your average grocery store/club store. We’ve been freezing lots of their beef when it’s on sale, they have it already frozen and vacuum sealed in heavy plastic so it’s perfect in the deep freeze. So much so that I’m going to smoke a big brisket this week, to make more room for steaks.
A true humanitarian.
Rare.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Jeff The Chef
Buy things on sale that keep.
Like Bidens.
On sale, yes. That KEEP, as in age well without spoiling,…not so much!
Not sure if already posted but they are draining our strategic oil reserves to manipulate gasoline prices heading into elections.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-withdraws-record-amount-crude-strategic-midterm-reserve
I heard talk of a rail strike. Just what Biden needs to add salt to our wounds.
Just emailed my Dem family about this. Mentioned that two of the 14 unions – the two largest – can’t reach a compromise, so people may want to stock up on non-perishables, TP, OTC medications. Had I said “prep for hard times over the next few years” they’d scoff at me, so the potential railroad strike was the best excuse ever, to urge them to stockpile necessities.
Am hoping they’ll buy more than just two extra cans of string beans:)
Nah, they’ll just show up at your house when the shortages hit, assuming that you stocked up so they didn’t have to.
Don’t help them. Helping people who won’t help themselves has destroyed this country.
The Strategic Midterm Reserve gambit has failed. Oil going down can no longer override the increase of food, shelter and medical.
Nailed it.
This will backfire, bigly.
Maybe the millennials can’t do simple math, do not know history, are lazy, self-centered and emotionally unstable, HOWEVER,
There are more people awake worldwide than NOT.
This inflation will cost everyone, Including those who are in Charge, because, even the millennials will see first hand what it is like to run out of money to buy their favorite latte, gizmo, or whatever and if they decide to eat the bugs, then they best be prepared to treat the little critters that are passed along into their intestines….it won’t be pleasant.
We will deal with this one day at a time, just like we did during hard times over the past 7 decades.
I refuse to dwell on this; nothing lasts forever.
Our pantries and freezers are full; just an FYI.
“Hooray!” – Every Marxist idiot in the US
I was just paying my electric bill, so I decided to compare this month’s cost per KW/Hr over the same month last year.
I found the cost was up over 27%.
Did you compare to the same period last year? It would be interesting to know how much is up over the entire year. Mine is the same.
Mine is up 28%
What will my Whopper cost next year? Ok, Biden will lose another 20 points of support if fast food goes much higher.
It will cost the same.
It will just be 1/4 the size and renamed, The Whimper.
Ha, my libtard brother was just complaining about the whopper a few wks ago. First time he’s been to BK in years and boy was he surprised.
he still doesnt get it though.
The true impact of (most everything else) is falsely being mitigated by the price of petroleum.
And blamed on Putin.
Replenish when oil drops to $80 per barrel. This tells me they expect that to be the lowest…..if it gets there for a long time. https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/biden-admin-reportedly-ready-refill-strategic-petroelum-reserve
According to Steve Cortes on the Steve Bannon show, 20 million households are behind in paying their utility bills. What exactly does everyone think will happen when the utility companies shut off their services? Let’s say the average household is 3 people, that is 60 million people being affected. And the majority of those households are low income. There is going to be some serious rioting that is about to happen.
Last week at a warehouse store in California, I paid $2.99 for a five pound bag of potatoes. Yesterday $3.99. Meat is ridiculous in California. I stock up whenever there is a good sale. You are limited in how many packages of meat you can buy (usually two) for sale prices. I am retired and can’t even imagine the cost to feed a family of four. I have friends that live in a hot desert town and their electric bill last month (not even the hottest month) was $700. Gavin and Joe have sure issued in Utopia for us all. I think Joe and Gavin are trying to beat Turkey that had 80% inflation. They don’t understand that the big number is not always the best.
I live in MW and 10# potatoes are running $5…ridiculous
In SE KS, #10 of russet potatoes are nearly $8 now. Insanity.
Nth FL and $8.99 5 pound potatoes
The increased hostility and intimidation tactics by this regime is not only aimed at Trump supporters. It’s also intended to warn those who are obviously going to have a problem with this that they better stay in line.
Your noble suffering is necessary and you better accept it.
“It rubs the tyranny on its skin, or it gets the hose again”
I just got back from Aldi. Flour that was 99 cents last year and $1.56 this spring and summer is now $2.12 for a 5 pound bag. Sugar was $1.99 for 4 pounds last year and is now $2.75. I bought one of each to add to my stockpile that should be good until next summer. Butter was $3.99 a pound!! It’s previous price was between $2.69-2.99. I still have 11 pounds left from last year when it was $1.99 right before Thanksgiving and again before Christmas. They do this every year but I doubt we’ll get that this year. I bought items that say California grown, such as raisins and almonds, even though I don’t anticipate a need for them in the next 9-12 months because I don’t know if the farmers will be able to bring them to market or what the price might be when I do need them. There were also a number of items missing – regular sour cream, regular string cheese (they had both of those in “light” versions), organic canned tomatoes and I don’t remember what else but multiple other things. I’m happy I’ve been maintaining a pantry for decades and stocking it even more in the last 2 years. I’m also making things from scratch – yogurt in the crockpot, granola, hamburger rolls using the dough option on the bread machine, even iced tea since my beloved diet pepsi has also really gone up, even on sale. I haven’t had a sip of it for 4 weeks as of today. I used to drink two 16.9 ounce bottles a day and don’t even miss it.
Sorry for running on like that but this is one place that understands when I say that I see people online talk about not buying this or that and not replacing items in their pantry until the prices come down. Do they not watch ANY news????
They watch news…….BSN, Bull Sh!t News doesn’t have this.
One of my favorite uses for my homemade yogurt is as a substitute for buttermilk. It is easy enough to balance out the solids with the whey in order to achieve the right consistency for the batter for baked goods. I bake and freeze pancakes, muffins, and cornbread. It is handy to reach into a freezer and grab a muffin or two and nuke it in the microwave for a bit. That is fast food with none of zee bugz. I have a warm muffin in less time than it takes to read an ingredients label.
My daughter’s birthday was this past Sunday. She wanted edible cookie dough so I made her favorite pumpkin cookie dough in two vatcges, one with applesauce and one with Bob’s Red Mill Egg Replacer. After freezing 2 dozen of each type for her, I l had leftover dough. I:ve been using it to make a large cookie in 30 seconds in the microwave using the amount of dough for 2 cookies cooked in a small ramekin dish. Warm cookies!
Yum.
It’s better for your health that you stay away from the diet soda.
I have it up 4 years ago when I was diagnosed with cancer, and replaced it with seltzer and a dollop of lemonade. I’m happier with that than I ever was with the Diet Pepsi
I’m already good with plain tea. No one who knows me can believe it!
Iced tea is better for you!
No sugar though!
If you want to flavor use lemon!
I used to drink soda all the time. Now whenever I do have one- maybe twice a year when traveling, etc. I can only drink half. It tastes awful! Even diet sodas…it just tastes nasty! Horrible aftertaste..just yuck.
And you will find life is easier without having to lug cartons of soda in from the store and then storing them.
Glad drinking soda was a habit I kicked years ago. Hang in there…give it time and you will be surprised!
I’m already over it. I put my last 6 pack in one of the food blessing boxes around town for someone else to take. I was drinking it with lemon or orange (surprisingly good) ald no sugar. Now I’m just drinking unsweetened tea.
My town is holding its annual Sweet Tea Festival this Saturday. My sister and I are going and maybe an adult nephew. Lots of restaurants and other businesses will have their secret recipe tea to try and vote on. I might get a few ideas for different flavorings.
If anyone thought the the difference between republican and democrat was only a difference in degree, they need to try living under this Biden/Obama administration. It is crushing the middle class, while the FJB administration sips Moet-Chandon and dines on oremium ice cream.
And military personnel are being told to apply for food stamps to help them keep up with inflation. Reagan must be spinning in his grave.
DISGRACEFUL! U.S. Military service members told to apply for food stamps as Biden admin sends BILLIONS more of our tax dollars to Ukraine – twitchy.com
when I was in during the early 80’s almost anyone E5 or below married with a child qualified for food stamps….but then we were taking home $600-700/month if we were lucky then….nothing like the $40,000 gross salary of an E3 today
Obviously I’m very poor at math. I know some of you treepers are not. Please tell me how milk, eggs, bread, beef, etc DOUBLING in price is only 8.3 percent. Did I sleep through math ?
they have de-emphasized food and energy costs in the modern CPI calculation because their costs are “too volatile”……I have seen if you used the old methods and manners used under the Carter years it is more than double the stated amount
I know all its drawbacks and I know it can’t do the job for the country, but I’ve got a rooftop full of solar and it can run my freezers in the daytime, and they’ll hold overnight, even in Arizona. Got it ten years ago and it’s paid for itself many times over. Too small a yard to feed us with vegetables, but I’ll keep your meat frozen and trade that for your vegetables. We are storing rainwater and what we used to throw away from drinking water in barrels… the monsoon has been very wet this summer…so we’ll help water your vegetables, too.
How soon before we see large, angry demonstrations outside of the local offices of our congressmen demanding them to do something?
They’re partly to blame for all of this.
How come we haven’t seen them yet?
What is everyone waiting for?
Other countries are doing it.
Land of the free and the home of the brave?
Ummmm, well I bet the approved people are quite subsidized and don’t feel this. So they are happy. We pay theirs and ours.
I say it’s because the land mass of the country is so big we don’t concentrate in one place. Those closest to DC are mostly very liberal and this isn’t one of their “causes” worth protesting
want to know what the real plan is? check this out. it’s a purported rand survey that makes a lot more sense of why the russian sanctions and the ukraine war were sought by the biden administration and the deep state. skip to 42 minutes.
Interesting!
https://georank.org/economy/germany/united-states
I guess most Biden voters have still not figured out that whatever the Biden regime says, is exactly the opposite of reality? Their voter base must be so sensitive to the meanings of words they must create new definitions to remain in their fantasy worlds.
We have a nice mid size herd of cattle grazing outside. Sounds great? Not so fast, as making appointments at the butcher must be made a year in advance. If there is an unexpected need to process one, she would have to be buried. There isn’t much choice other than to start investing in the equipment to process them now, but I’m not complaining.
At least you have them Moo.
In a pinch if things get really bad I imagine you could come up with some way to butcher them yourself even without the exact proper equipment.
One bullet to the head, a sharp knife and a sharp saw. When food is scarce who cares about the cut? A good meat grinder is a handy thing to have as well but not necessary unless you cannot chew meat easily. Can be done to any critter.
JUST IN – Dow Jones continues to fall and is now trading lower than it was after Biden’s first full day in office.
Going to be fun when the scumbags who helped steal the election lose their job and house and car. Even funnier when they learn that spike venom jab is not safe. They just might be willing to sing like a canary. I am sure they have a lot of evidence on their phones.
TX SD is always good straight advice.
That thundering noise in the background? Brandon and his army of maroons taking a victory lap, with Jean-Pierre leading the pack mounted on her palomino charger. “We beat Big Oil!!”
I had to read it twice , 47Yinzer , and it was Well
Worth It 😄😀😁😂😄
Great Word Picture and Funny !