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Aug 23 2025
11:26 am
Cost of living skyrocketing?
By: bizgrrl

If this keeps up we're all going to be in big trouble.
Does it help that industry is spending so much money on AI and cloud data?

In just the past 4-5 years (2020/2021 to 2024/2025) our,

Household Expenses

Item Change
Health Insurance (monthly) increased by 34.5%
   Medicare Part B 27.9%
   Medicare Supplement 41.2%
Electricity (monthly) increased by 21.7%
Water & Sewer (monthly) increased by 46.9%
Natural Gas (monthly) increased by 20.2%
County Property Taxes (annual) increased by 7.4%
City Property Taxes (annual) increased by 24.2%
Homeowners Insurance (annual) increased by 52.7%
Auto Insurance (semi-annual) increased by 5.4%


Groceries

Item Change
Food City Skim Milk - Half Gal same price
Food City Half & Half - Qt up 20.1%
Food City Grnd Chuck - LB up 55.7%
Hellman's Mayo 30 oz up 75.2%
Land O Lakes Butter - LB up 22.3%
Progresso Beef Barley up 40.2%
Wonder Bread - loaf up 26.8%
Paper Plates 100 up 66.9%
Hotdog Buns up 5.7%
Mayfield Brown Cow Jr down -9.1%
Bush Pinto Beans up 23.3%
Dunkin Coffee - Grnd 12 oz up 69.3%
Seltzer White Rock 6 pk up 14.0%
Lettuce Iceburg - each up 33.6%
Tomatoes - LB up 56.8%
Kraft Chunk Cheese 8oz up 14.3%
Campbells Cream of Mushroom up 59.2%
Triscuits up 30.4%
Bell Pepper - Gr - each up 98.0%
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