Coping with HIGH prices

[mead]

Yeah I know wi laugh, run joke and chat pure fart round here all the time, but I want to deal with some serious issue here now. This has to do with the cost of living.
How are you coping with the ever increasing cost of goods and services? Just today I hear we going to have to pay more for taxi fare, water rate and liquor (from red strip). Just the other day the prices of bread, flour, chicken, basically most general food items, electricity and the long list other things gone up. How on earth are you people coping? Are you cutting back on food, plugging out appliances more (like me who plug out the fridge for a few hours a day), or are you high income and thus able to sustain your standard of living ?

[BlackCryptoKnight]

Yeah I know wi laugh, run joke and chat pure fart round here all the time, but I want to deal with some serious issue here now. This has to do with the cost of living.
How are you coping with the ever increasing cost of goods and services? Just today I hear we going to have to pay more for taxi fare, water rate and liquor (from red strip). Just the other day the prices of bread, flour, chicken, basically most general food items, electricity and the long list other things gone up. How on earth are you people coping? Are you cutting back on food, plugging out appliances more (like me who plug out the fridge for a few hours a day), or are you high income and thus able to sustain your standard of living ?

Prices have been going up steadily for years now. I remember when the same amount of food in the supermarket cost nearly 25% of what it does today, and that was just a few years ago.

I have been coping by:


Being very energy conscious - shutting off lights and appliances. I used to let my PCs run during the day. Now I shut them off when I'm not using them.
Trying to limit spending at supermarket and elsewhere and cutting down on unnecessary items.
Minimizing car travel to save gas, and carpooling.
Sharing resources with family reduce costs.


Raising of cigarettes and alcoholic drinks doesn't bother me, as I don't consume them. I don't take taxi cabs so that increase doesn't bother me either.

It's getting rougher and rougher.

[Gwadinka]

I bought a cow and transformed one of the rooms of my apartment into a garden where I grow vegetables and fruit.

[Arch_Angel]

It getting rough fi true. Consumer Affairs recommending persons to grow a back yard garden so as to not depend on overseas products so much.

It's a good thing I have a garden in my back yard already. Lots of fruit trees and vegetable plants.

[Manu]

Well We grow some produce in our backyard. We're looking to expand and maybe start a greenhouse too. As for the gas, I live in Clarendon and have to commute everyday so the gas thing is just something we have to deal with. Worst, I take the toll. What I do is stop using the A/C... bare the heat. Carpool alot, stop the unnecessary trips and excursions. I hardly drink liquor so if its too expensive, not a big deal to me. I dont smoke so boo hoo to that. I don't take bus nor taxi so that doesn't bother me either. I try to avoid rush hour to avoid traffic. I don't really drive over 80Kmph and my windows are up so reduce drag. I might save about 3%-7% more gas doing this which adds up by the end of the week when a tank of gas lasts an extra day or too. I keep my tyres in good condition, balanced and at right pressure. I regularily change my air filter.


I'm trying to cut down on eating out and when we go to the supermarket, we buy in bulk. High one time cost but lower overall. I don't use my desktop much anymore as it consumes about 500W of electricity while my laptop consumes a maximum of 95W which I doubt I can achieve. My light bulbs are all flourescent.

In terms of how its working out... we're doing ok. Could be better but we're fine. Thank God for that. Politics aside and colours, I shudder think what shape we would be in now if the PNP were in charge? Our country is responding to sustained global pressure but what was the excuse back in the day when everybody else was growing and we were in decline? I can't even think of changing out to diesel because it is the most expensive one at the gas stations now and we're in spring. IMAGINE COME WINTER and SUMMER! :icon_eek:

[silentburn]

The sad thing is that our salaries aren't even increasing. :(

Its probably going to get worse.

[Virus]

1. Start your own Cash Minus
2. Use every skill/ talent you have for your own benefit/ family benefit
3. Online business (endless possibilities)
4. Sponge off others :confused:

OR

1. Get an education (basic)
2. Leave this country when u get the chance..
3. Candle light... jps giving us a raw deal

[mead]

With all these price increases I suspect we might have riots breaking out in the country soon. Just need a spark

[ramesh]

Many experts are blaming the increase of prices on the price of oil. It doesn't seem to be the only problem as there also seems to be a shortage of food. It seems to be:

A drastic increase in fuel price means that farmers must pay more to raise their crops. Mechanical tools need fuel, plus some feed, etc., use petrol byproducts. Some see it as a failing business and get out of it completely. The persons who transport the food have to pay more/kilo of food and everyone down the line also has to pay more and it gets even worse by the time it reaches the end consumer.

[root_gal]

Hmph! Now you peope decide to talk about this when I already handed in my communication plan to deal with this issue? Could have used the input then. Ya'll are so inconsiderate :rolleyes:

[Manu]

Many experts are blaming the increase of prices on the price of oil. It doesn't seem to be the only problem as there also seems to be a shortage of food. It seems to be:

A drastic increase in fuel price means that farmers must pay more to raise their crops. Mechanical tools need fuel, plus some feed, etc., use petrol byproducts. Some see it as a failing business and get out of it completely. The persons who transport the food have to pay more/kilo of food and everyone down the line also has to pay more and it gets even worse by the time it reaches the end consumer.



Not only that Ramesh... they are using our foods as fuel substitutes....Corn Oil for Biofuel and Cane for Ethanol....

[ramesh]

But all they have to do is grow more corn. How hard can that be, especially with all that farm subsidy in the US?

[Arch_Angel]

Hmph! Now you peope decide to talk about this when I already handed in my communication plan to deal with this issue? Could have used the input then. Ya'll are so inconsiderate :rolleyes:

:dwl: Well we naa worry cause we know yuh a go pass anyway. :p

I'm growing corn in my backyard!!! :D

[silentburn]

I still think they can find an efficient way of extracting hydrogen from water. They wouldn't have to make much changes to the internal combustion engine.

Its almost like they are only interested in expensive fossil fuel alternatives.

[Twinkie]

:dwl: Well we naa worry cause we know yuh a go pass anyway. :p

I'm growing corn in my backyard!!! :D

:eusa_shhh farmer arch yuh naffe mek everybody know






EVERYBODY A_A A GROW CORN INNA HIM BACK YARD

UR WELCOME AA

[nuhsenutten]

I still think they can find an efficient way of extracting hydrogen from water. They wouldn't have to make much changes to the internal combustion engine.

Its almost like they are only interested in expensive fossil fuel alternatives.

if they use that method they'll be bankrupt in a couple years...... no need for refuelling stations....... we could just fill up in the morings at home....so they are going to move to something that still has a lot of value....food (raise in demand is now doubled as a result of the new market ) so more money in the bank

[Arch_Angel]

:eusa_shhh farmer arch yuh naffe mek everybody know






EVERYBODY A_A A GROW CORN INNA HIM BACK YARD

UR WELCOME AAYuh nuh haffi loud mi up so. Next ting mi see half a CY deh at mi gate wid dem pot a beg a corn. Dem already grabalicious wid mi mango dem.

[Manu]

I still think they can find an efficient way of extracting hydrogen from water. They wouldn't have to make much changes to the internal combustion engine.

Its almost like they are only interested in expensive fossil fuel alternatives.


You are forgetting the driving force. While consumers are getting poor... retailers are getting rich so a fuel alternative is being stalled because the oil tycoons want more gold in their living rooms and a couple more pure silver (as in made out of silver) BMWs. They have already found a way to harness the power of hydrogen. What they haven't found is a safe way to store it.

[Cocoa]

Trying to cope.

Right now gas is US$4 a gallon
Dem seh only 2 bags of rice can be bought at stores per family because of the rice shortage
tons of pay cuts

I just pray to God we no head in the depression again.

[Manu]

How can they impose pay cuts when inflation and cost of living keep going up? :confused:

[silentburn]

They have already found a way to harness the power of hydrogen. What they haven't found is a safe way to store it.

If hydrogen is generated on demand we won't really need to worry about storage. Plus what's with the big issue of storage? They are over complicating the issue, hydrogen is not more dangerous than any other gas.

Its possible for us to economically extract hydrogen from water, they just won't pump the money into it. They can use radio waves to split water and there's always good old electrolysis, even though they swear dead that its impossible to economically split water using electrolysis. :rolleyes:

[Manu]

Isn't Hydrogen unstable???? I'm not a chem student and my physics is old....

[silentburn]

Isn't Hydrogen unstable???? I'm not a chem student and my physics is old....

I'm not a chemistry or physics buff either :eusa_shif .

I don't see any major issue apart from the issue that it can dissolve into some metals.

[Brownsugar]

A-A Mih claim di first ear of corn!

[Manu]

I'm not a chemistry or physics buff either :eusa_shif .

I don't see any major issue apart from the issue that it can dissolve into some metals.



Read this:

Methanol Economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_economy)

and

Carbon Capture and Storage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage)

Very interesting concepts.... but I supposed they are stalled especially since Bush gets his money from oil.


Whenever you get the chance, watch "An Inconvenient Truth". Gives a whole new insight on the domino effect causing this high cost of living we face today. Basically it caused by our rising human population and the increased stress on our non-renewable resources. Very soon the Earth will correct this....


ICE AGE anyone?

[Bahama Mama]

Gas in my neck of the woods has peaked at $5.50 USD per gallon , and expected to increase to $6 USD by the time we are full force into summer.

[ramesh]

Very soon the Earth will correct this....
ICE AGE anyone? Easier way to do this is to kill off our food supply.... all the Earth has to do is make our food deadly, make our bees disappear, turn the water red, that's all.

[Manu]

Easier way to do this is to kill off our food supply.... all the Earth has to do is make our food deadly, make our bees disappear, turn the water red, that's all.

Bees are already disappearing.... our waters are already turning red...and blue... and green (algal blooms) and our "foods" are already deadly.


ICE AGE is much faster and more efficient plus all the weak, fat, old, lazy and sick will die off leaving only the young, fit, strong and pretty people to procreate.


Look how many diseases and natural disasters we have and the population is still skyrocketing. We need something HUGE and sudden.

Gas here BM is approximately $72ja per litre which is about just under $4USD per gallon (depending on which gallon you use anyways)

[ramesh]

Bees are already disappearing.... our waters are already turning red...and blue... and green (algal blooms) and our "foods" are already deadly. That's why I chose those methods. ;)

[Nika_869]

Am trying to cope.

I was never a lover of rice so that has yet to bother me. However, when I hit the stores, I normally go to wholesalers and purchase bulk. Store them properly etc. Unplug all of my appliances if they are not in use and try my best to keep them that way.

I have cut back on using cars etc and stick to the metro system. Recycling etc. Just so many things that could help me spend less as well as help the economy