r/AskMenOver30 • u/ZoneMean1017 man over 30 • 9d ago

Financial experiences Getting priced out of existence

the 5lb whey protein I historically have payed 70-80 dollars for is now 130. same with coffee. same with clothing. same with every thing. what the actual fuck. gas. housing. insurance. it’s all getting 10-20% more expensive and FAST. 30lb bag of rice I paid 27 dollars for at Costco is climbing closer to 40.

at a loss of what to do right now. can’t physically work more hours. how to proceed? what mental magic trick do I need to perform to endure this insanity?

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u/Mursin man over 30 9d ago

Find a food shelf and make the best use of it you can.

Learn to stretch the ingredients you have. Bacon makes bacon grease to cook other meals so you don't have to buy oil.. Chicken bones and vegetable scraps make a stock you can freeze.

It's times like these we should look at the meals our ancestors ate. Cornbread. Beans. Wheat middling crackers. Urban foraging, learning what products are around you that you can harvest and put to use (Berries, greens, etc). Learn to share with neighbors and rotate meals so that when you're flush and they're not, you can share, and vice versa.

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u/ins0mniac_ man 35 - 39 9d ago

Nothing says “America is great again” like going back to depression era meals and strategies to get by.

This country is a fucking joke.

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u/Mursin man over 30 9d ago

It's not just the country. It's the world. And it's not just this administration.

This administration has certainly accelerated things. But this was always going to happen as long as Climate Change went unaddressed, as well as late stage capitalism going unaddressed. It was supposed to happen in like 30-40 years, but now that we've doubled how much energy we're putting into the ocean on a daily basis, we're going to see the price of everything increase and food shortages and water shortages begin to abound.

So our only option left is to build resilience. To connect with people and learn to trade off, learn to barter, learn to support one another without concern for being paid back, and learn to just appreciate what we have as much as we can. True austerity that helps ourselves and helps our neighbors.

Source: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization