$4.08 for an 11 oz box of 'Nilla Wafers at the store today. (pigport)

[Ralph Wiggum]

Uh, more than ten bucks, sir, if the Big Zero did that, just printed more money.

I speak from experience here, from those years wandering around the socialist paradises of the workers peasants, and I saw this first-hand, fiat money.

The month I got there, the Ukrainian karbovanets, which had originally been issued at 2 for 1 American dollar, were selling 47 for 1 American dollar.

And then it went downhill after that.

After I'd been there about three months, it was up to 48,000 for 1 American dollar.

After I'd been there about six months, it was up to 275,000 for 1 American dollar.

I no longer remember what it was a year later, but I learned "a trillion" before the Big Zero acquainted us with that particular number.

In the meantime, wages didn't go up too; they stayed what they had been since August 1991.

If my good friend and pal Manny had his way, and the Big Zero just printed more money, pretty soon the well-paid snout primitive couldn't even buy a pair of shoelaces with his enormous teacher's salary.

Frank, I was only throwing out a vague number to make my point.  Thanks for the added information.  If any lurking DUmmies are reading this, I wonder if they'd even believe it.

[DumbAss Tanker]

  DAT, did he actually share this very personal information with the DUmp?      Is there nothing that this guy won't post?  I think he's at real risk for Wallduding. 

Listen to him gripe about household finances and crying poor.  Just a couple weeks ago, somebody posted a plea over there to please donate to Moveon.org, in order to "get rid of Fox News."  He piped up and claimed to give $20. 

Hello to the noobies, BTW. 

Not all at one time, dear lady.  He has painted this picture brushstroke by brushstroke over some time, mainly within the past year.  I'm sure he has overshared a lot more than that, as what I posted is just what I've gleaned from excerpts reposted here; his original material is no doubt far richer in the sort of details that most people would have more sense than to put on a public website.

[Skul]

Ralph meant to say "each", instead of "box".  Honest.


OK, Ralph, where's that beer you promised me?

[GOBUCKS]

DAT, did he actually share this very personal information with the DUmp?      Is there nothing that this guy won't post?  I think he's at real risk for Wallduding. 

He has referred to his cohabiting homo as his "husband", but no discussion of, uh, relative positions...yet.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Ralph meant to say "each", instead of "box".  Honest.


OK, Ralph, where's that beer you promised me?

[DumbAss Tanker]

He has referred to his cohabiting homo as his "husband", but no discussion of, uh, relative positions...yet.

There are not two 'Husbands' in these deals, but a pretense of 'Husband' and 'Wife.'  I have met some of the type who maintain that 'Husband-wife' pretense; the 'Wife' is invariably the more effeminate of the two, which tells you all you need to know to figure out who is playing what position on the team, without the necessity of buying a program.

[Alpha Mare]

I just paid $2.18 for a 12 oz. box at Wally World. Ok, three boxes.

[BEG]

I wonder if he thinks that the ingredients to make the nilla wafers cost a dollar and that Nabisco is making a $3.08 profit, like that genius who thinks that there is a dollar of potatoes in one bag of potato chips and frito lay makes a 3 dollar profit when one bag costs $4.00. 

As some here know my husband worked for a toy company. Their profit margin was so slim that a small bump in packaging prices, over head, computer chip prices etc could cause them to decide it wasn't worth the effort to produce the item any longer.

This is what is going to happen more and more except for the company deciding it isn't worth making a certain toy, they are going to decide it isn't worth doing business at all. 

[BEG]

I just paid $2.18 for a 12 oz. box at Wally World. Ok, three boxes.

Give me a wafer.  Ok, 2 or 15.

[Alpha Mare]

Have a box!

[GOBUCKS]

Four bucks for a box of vanilla wafers?
A few weeks ago they were the penny item at Publix.

[Erasmus]

Geez, I wonder if they'll ever put two and two together and figure out Bernanke and Obama have been lying about what the inflation rate really is.  Most likely, they'll sit around and complain about the corporate rich raising prices of their precious vanilla wafers.

[NHSparky]

Geez, I wonder if they'll ever put two and two together and figure out Bernanke and Obama have been lying about what the inflation rate really is.  Most likely, they'll sit around and complain about the corporate rich raising prices of their precious vanilla wafers.

Not likely.

Cheetos, OTOH..."WHAT?  $4.59 for a bag of Cheetos?  RIOT NOW!!! DUAC!!!1Eleventy!!"

[BattleHymn]

Not likely.

Cheetos, OTOH..."WHAT?  $4.59 for a bag of Cheetos?  RIOT NOW!!! DUAC!!!1Eleventy!!"

Inflated money for inflated cheese products.  


This is how most of them will get their Cheetos when they run out of our confiscated money:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND0yRRpPeyo&NR=1[/youtube]

Of course, this theft tactic does have girth requirements, but fortunately for the primitives at the Dump, most are already laden with the necessary qualifications.

[Ballygrl]

Aldi's brand Vanilla Wafers are $1.49.

[GOBUCKS]

Aldi's brand Vanilla Wafers are $1.49.

That's why I throw away nearly all manufacturers' coupons.
Even with the coupons, name brands are nearly always far more expensive than store brand.
Except for a very few items, I've found them to be otherwise identical.

[franksolich]

That's why I throw away nearly all manufacturers' coupons.
Even with the coupons, name brands are nearly always far more expensive than store brand.
Except for a very few items, I've found them to be otherwise identical.

I've noticed that too; that's why I'm not enamoured of the things.

For example, one might see a "40 cents off" coupon for a Kraft product.

Okay, forty cents isn't chicken feed, and so one checks it out.

Well, the Kraft product is $1.79, while the store brand is $1.29.....and the coupon doesn't cover that difference.

[Ballygrl]

That's why I throw away nearly all manufacturers' coupons.
Even with the coupons, name brands are nearly always far more expensive than store brand.
Except for a very few items, I've found them to be otherwise identical.

I'm a couponer, but with prices as high as they are I started doing most of my shopping at Aldi's, and since my Husband is a snacker I stock up on Aldi's brand cookies, potato chips etc. and we find they taste just as good as the brand names, and since they're so inexpensive you don't need the coupons.

[Ballygrl]

I've noticed that too; that's why I'm not enamoured of the things.

For example, one might see a "40 cents off" coupon for a Kraft product.

Okay, forty cents isn't chicken feed, and so one checks it out.

Well, the Kraft product is $1.79, while the store brand is $1.29.....and the coupon doesn't cover that difference.

I do save some coupons for the grocery store because my store doubles up to .99. I try to eat healthier snacks and Snackwell's came out with a new healthy bar that looks like a granola bar, the grocery store had it on sale 2/$5, I had 4 .75 coupons that said Do Not Double, I bought 2 boxes and the coupons for some weird reason doubled, so I got the snack bars for $1 each. Also found out Aldi's has healthy 100 calorie snacks so I loaded up on those for me.

[franksolich]

I do save some coupons for the grocery store because my store doubles up to .99. I try to eat healthier snacks and Snackwell's came out with a new healthy bar that looks like a granola bar, the grocery store had it on sale 2/$5, I had 4 .75 coupons that said Do Not Double, I bought 2 boxes and the coupons for some weird reason doubled, so I got the snack bars for $1 each. Also found out Aldi's has healthy 100 calorie snacks so I loaded up on those for me.

No need to explain your couponing, madam.  If it works for you, great, keep it up.

But I'm talking from the perspective of (a) a person who lives in an area where "doubling coupons" is unheard of, not done, and (b) a single male with no spouse or dependents who doesn't have to care so much about prices.

If it works for you--which it obviously does--I wouldn't change a thing.

[Ballygrl]

No need to explain your couponing, madam.  If it works for you, great, keep it up.

But I'm talking from the perspective of (a) a person who lives in an area where "doubling coupons" is unheard of, not done, and (b) a single male with no spouse or dependents who doesn't have to care so much about prices.

If it works for you--which it obviously does--I wouldn't change a thing.

I was shocked to find out that doubling doesn't go on everywhere, it seems most places don't double. In reference to the OP though, people need to make choices when times are tough, if the Nilla Wafers are too much then you switch to another brand that's cheaper, if you want to cut more corners then you start couponing, couponing can be fun but sometimes I get callouses from cutting them out but you do what you have to do to save a $ here and there.

[Karin]

From the thread, someone posted a recipe:

eShirl  (1000+ posts)      Tue Aug-02-11 05:33 PM
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69. still only $1 for a frozen pound of taco-seasoned ground turkey at Walmart
 made a big pot of "Mexican" "American Chop Suey" casserole with it
(w/ macaroni, salsa & cheese, topped w/crushed tortilla chips)

 

That sounds disgusting, and imagine how it looks. 

[Ballygrl]

roamer65  (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-02-11 07:21 PM
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74. 2 boxes of Triscuit wheat crackers and a jar of Cheese Whiz - $15
   
Each one is $5 a piece...but there's no inflation....LIARS.

This is why these people have money issues, they refuse to compromise, they want what they want when they want it.

[Celtic Rose]

This is why these people have money issues, they refuse to compromise, they want what they want when they want it.

Yup, "Wheat Weaves" or whatever the local generic cracker is would be just as good.  The last time I ate Cheez Wiz I was about 14 and on a camping trip with friends, but I'm sure the generic tastes just about the same.

[JLO]

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Really?  Grow the hell up and quit buying Nilla Wafers if you can't afford them.  Make do with an alternative.  Or just stop eating them altogether. 

Wasted calories anyway...


No wonder so many of them complain about their finances.  There are frugal folks there that should maybe branch out, and teach some of the others.