What Insane/Crazy Price did You Pay Today?

[stephenh]

$6.71 per gallon for aviation fuel for my little plane. Diesel at a number of places on the way to the airfield was above $5.

 

[ultrarunner]

Friday I was sent across the street to pick up lunch for a doc staying for a emergency surgery...

$14.10 for Burger King Impossible Veg Burger, Med Fríes and Med Diet Coke...

I thought it was a misprint...

 

[MossRoad]

Were the tomato plants $11.95/flat also?

Sorry, my mistake. $11.90 per flat, not $11.95.

From their facebook page:

A flat of 12 four packs makes a flat. A flat of 48 plants is $11.90. You can mix four pack veggies in with your flowers if you wish. We are located at 3614 W. Western Ave. South Bend, IN. M-F 9:30-6, SAT- 9-5, SUN-9-2 The full list is available at martinsgreenhouse.org

 

[grsthegreat]

Friday I was sent across the street to pick up lunch for a doc staying for a emergency surgery...

$14.10 for Burger King Impossible Veg Burger, Med Fríes and Med Diet Coke...

I thought it was a misprint...

How do you think they pay their $20/hr employees now.

 

[Jstpssng]

No. It was out of the trunk of some guy's car.

I had to go back and check, I thought you were talking about "tomato" plants.

There's a place about 45 minutes southwest of us called Bailey's Discount Center. They have a huge kitchen and bath remodeling center and then they have their discount store. The guy buys overstock, salvage, expired, truck crashes, all kinds of stuff, and sells it. So there's tools, home furnishings, patio stuff, carpets, furniture, clothing, appliances, canned and boxed foods, candy. You never know what's going to be in there.

They've got skids of canned goods. Small cans to the large cans. They had 6 #10 cans of apple butter for $14.99

You want crushed tomatoes? They got crushed tomatoes... literally

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It's a fun place to go and poke around.

I did notice, that their 2 huge isles of tools had shrunk to about 1 isle. I'm guessing the supply chain issues have affected them. Makes sense. Since there's a shortage of new metal tools, there's gonna be a shortage of salvage and overstock for them to purchase.

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shop bailey's discount center with a huge space over 20,000 square feet of deals!

www.baileysdiscountcenter.com

We've got a chain which started out like that about 50 years ago. They used to be a great place to find deals, and you never knew what they might have. Now they still have surplus along with a lot of Chinese junk. Last year just when my percolator started throwing the GFI (including sparks and smoke) I happened to find a new percolator there. I brought it home and plugged the new cord into the old percolater on a whim... and have been using it that way ever since.

 

[ultrarunner]

Too bad water is rationed otherwise I would plant a victory garden...

 

[IndyJay]

I hope yo didn't get em off of craigslist.

Yep, might be a reason why they were priced so "high"... but regular cookies are edible in the old fashioned sense of the word.

 

[Squirrel Tooth Alice]

A tire on my daughter's Civic had a slow leak from the TPMS sensor. I carried the wheel/tire into a local tire shop and handed them a new TPMS sensor to install. It took them no more than 3 minutes to install. Charged me $35 labor, plus tax. Looking back, I'm surprised they didn't charge an $8 "shop supplies fee" on top of the labor...

 

[Hilbilly]

$7.95 for a gallon of diesel.
$5.00 for a head of lettuce
$2.00 for a cucumber
$11.00 for a 2" x 4" x 8' SPF
$224 for a 24' length of 1.5" x 1.5" steel tubing

The sad thing is, it is only going to get more expensive.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

I think the inflation rate is closer to 50% instead of the 8% reported in the news lately.

I also believe that prices are being raised just because of all the inflation talk. And that in turn has a 'snowball effect'.