Ugh.  My father in law has to move in with us.  Perfect.  One more person in my house without a job!!

Ironicly enough, this link was in the side bar.

Funny...I’ve got a UFO Hunters special being advertised for the History Channel. 

Thats becuase E.T. is stealing your money when you sleep.

Renquist - 26 March 2008 08:00 AM

My pal and I, having equated one morning over a roll and sausage that you can get 14 lorne sausage for £1.15 and 14 rolls for about £1.70, and a roll and sausage sells for about £1.20, we could sells rolls and sausage outside Uni in the morning for £1 each and turn one hell of a profit.

He has no exams, and I have about 2 so we might get a load of burgers and a cheap BBQ and set up outside the big exams

Now there’s a thought.  You could probably sell enough to keep yourself in sausages and rolls for the next month or so.  A buddy of mine tried this at a football game.  Set up as a tailgate party and sold the stuff on the sly.  He made well over 150 bucks in about 2 hours.  I’ve been tempted to try it but never had the enthusiasm to actually proceed.

I just did the math on what Boo paid at that Aldi place...and that same stuff would cost me about $40.  (Well, 20 pounds is 39.73 in USD.) I don’t know anywhere I could go & get the stuff we need for $40.  Unless we were just eating spaghetti for 2 weeks.

A gallon of milk, a jar of Peanut butter, a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs...costs about $12.  It just seems like such a LOT for so very little.  Milk is up to $4/gall.  Eggs are almost $2 for a dozen, now.  I think last summer is was 89 cents.

Luckily we got paid today!

Psst!
I was at Lidl. But the two places are similar.

Seriously, though? That little for about £6?

Milk and eggs, in particular, are WAY up right now—mostly due to energy prices (for transportation and refrigeration). And milk has been up, up, up for quite a while. I thought the prices were up pretty much worldwide, but I have a hard enough time just keeping up with U.S. commodity prices, so I could be wrong about that.

Of course, I work for a farm organization, and farmers pay part of my salary, so even though I don’t like high food prices either, I can’t see higher farm prices as an entirely bad thing. Although prices on some commodities are way up, so are farmers’ costs—energy, feed, fertilizer, everything. But energy costs are the main problem, and the farm price is a fairly small percentage of the cost of any food item. Food production is a very energy-intensive process.

Yeah, I’ve noticed milk prices going up a bit.  Last week I went to buy milk, and I only brought along a dollar bill because that used to be enough.  It came up as $1.09 though.  Luckily I’d picked up a dime on the sidewalk on the way into the store.

I tend to have quite a knack for getting lots for only a little money (sometimes legally, even ), and I tend to be somewhat .  If it wasn’t for the extortionate level of some bills, I’d be able to get by well enough on probably a couple hundred dollars a month.  Darn telephone bill. . .

Hmm.
Both milk and eggs are pretty much equivalently the same price (depending on where you get them), but bread and peanut butter are cheap enough that they wouldn’t bump it up to £6.

Which reminds me: I have an internet friend (another one) who is from Scotland though she lives in England currently, and another from Ireland, and they both claim that they have never had a peanut-butter-and-jelly (or “jam,” as they insist on calling it ) sandwich. They say it sounds just repulsive. Are they just odd? (Well, OK, they’re friends of mine so they are bound to be a bit odd.) Or in the U.K. is it really as peculiar a combination as they seem to think?