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Fast food. I basically can't leave a fast food restaurant without spending over $20 for my family of 4.

I haven't seen someone say yet but used good. Like garage sales and thrift stores and auctions, everything is hiked up to be almost the same price as if you'd buy it new.

I stopped buying chips when prices doubled. I stopped buying minced meat and chicken. I only buy eggs and coffee when it's finally discounted. Now frozen vegetables doubled in price. I can't just stop buying things.

Also, came back to Netherlands after a few years. Cigarettes over €10 and €7.50 for a beer wtf

Phone service in America. A 1 month sim here in vietnam with a number and 8gb/day costs ~10USD. Its cheaper if you buy longer. Meanwhile Verizon is charging 35-50 dollars a month.

utility bills, it has gone up because of AI datacenters, and all forms of insurance, health, car,,,,etc looking at parents costs. we have the wierd property tax here, that the state likes to tax on for some reason, and target the actual billionaires.

also the cost of schooling for different grad programs, one grad program in health is under 15k for a state school but highly competitive as a result due to very limited space and schools(like most state schools ever only accept 30ish applicants per semester or year) out of likely hundreds or thousand+ people applying and the industry is a shortage(likely intentional to keep the salary high, much like with MDs licenses) they recent started a "abridged program" which i dont think it solves the problem. while pharm school very expensive yet earns almost the same as the grad program i mentioned and 4 times as long to finish.(1 vs 3/4 years), since everyone wants to come our state the shcools are severely impacted because theres only ever 9 unis that teach this program for CLS.

I thought home internet would get cheaper over time...

Politicians, they used to be expensive. Now it’s almost downright affordable.

I just spent $109 for a Valvoline oil change in the Los Angeles area. I found this old coupon from 2014. Crazy how much it's increased.

Bread. Even bread is too expensive now. Rice has been climbing but is still affordable. For now.

Already said a lot, but should be said again. Food.

Food, my weekly grocery bill has risen from ~80€ to ~130€ and I've started to limit and reduce snacks. Store is the same, amounts have gotten smaller, only difference is time. Few years ago when the first Lidl(Aldi) was opened and became the closest store to my home. Overall weekly bill never reached to triple digits, nowadays it never stays below that.

And i bloody hate triple digit numbers, my heart weeps every time i need to pay it and think about quitting eating all together.

Having teeth.

Sounds weird but, chocolate chips.

Oh, and a $70k Toyota Tacoma. $70,000, for a taco. The fuck is Toyota smoking?

I bought two individual russet potatoes, came to about $5.50. In the past Ive always bought bags of potatoes, but they go bad sometimes before they get eaten, so Ive just been buying individual potatoes lately.

Apparently getting corrective eye surgery. Not that I ever had the procedure. How could I when I'd be dropping $7000?! I even tried applying for financial assistance, but my application was denied.

Cow. Ground beef got so expensive. Good for me in the sense that I am eating less red meat, but bad in the sense that meal prep takes longer now.

In Australia, surprisingly and disappointingly, medical appointments. Seeing a specialist for anything is about $500 AUD, after Medicare rebate. So you need to have more than that much liquid cash on the day, and be able to tank the hit.

I still remember being in line behind this mother whose child was clearly extremely unwell mentally. When she heard the price for the psychiatrist appointment she's like, I can't pay that... Let alone 2 or 3 times because psychiatrists never diagnose on the first visit. She had her own (understandable) mental breakdown, and stepped outside to call family to borrow money.

You shouldn't need a payment plan to get antipsychotics. Somehow still cheaper than the scam that is private health insurance though.