One of my biggest expenses at the grocery store is soda...

Two years ago, you could get a 2 liter of Coke for about 1.29 full price, but usually either it or Pepsi was on sale for 89 cents or less. Now...regular price is $1.89. Rarely is it under $1 on sale. I've gone to store-brand soda. It doesn't take much to get used to the difference in taste, and the REGULAR price is around 70-80 cents.

Thank God I don't have kids and don't care too much for milk. That's gone through the roof.
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"Nature has constituted utility to man the standard and test of virtue. Men living in different countries, under different circumstances, different habits and regimens, may have different utilities; the same act, therefore, may be useful and consequently virtuous in one country which is injurious and vicious in another differently circumstanced" - Thomas Jefferson, moral relativist