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How hard is inflation going to hit, or has hit?

posford said:
Truth. I missed the boat on selling the wife's toy (91 Firebird) because she "wasn't ready" now the market is fucked and we're stuck with it.

I swear she must have been here reading threads on listing your projects for astronomical prices so they intentionally dont sell :flipoff2:
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One that hurt-

Wife had a 32 coupe (inherited 2010). Steel, stock 6.0ls, ifs, built as a driver Hot Rod Power Tour car. Kicked around the idea of selling it back in '12-'13, wasn't ready. Had a genuine $70k offer and nope. It was her dad's, so I'm as hands-off and unopinionated as possible. 2018 she's ready to sell it. Nobody wants old street rods anymore, that market has shifted to built square bodies and 60's-70's muscle cars etc. Sold it for $35k.
 
45acp said:
One that hurt-

Wife had a 32 coupe (inherited 2010). Steel, stock 6.0ls, ifs, built as a driver Hot Rod Power Tour car. Kicked around the idea of selling it back in '12-'13, wasn't ready. Had a genuine $70k offer and nope. It was her dad's, so I'm as hands-off and unopinionated as possible. 2018 she's ready to sell it. Nobody wants old street rods anymore, that market has shifted to built square bodies and 60's-70's muscle cars etc. Sold it for $35k.
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Oof. I feel better now
 
45acp said:
One that hurt-

Wife had a 32 coupe (inherited 2010). Steel, stock 6.0ls, ifs, built as a driver Hot Rod Power Tour car. Kicked around the idea of selling it back in '12-'13, wasn't ready. Had a genuine $70k offer and nope. It was her dad's, so I'm as hands-off and unopinionated as possible. 2018 she's ready to sell it. Nobody wants old street rods anymore, that market has shifted to built square bodies and 60's-70's muscle cars etc. Sold it for $35k.
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Oof Size Large Memes - StayHipp
 
I went to autozone and asked for 5 foot of 3/8 fuel tubing. He comes back with the tube and rings it up and says $61. I told him I need 5' not the full spool and he said that's the price. I laughed at him and walked out.
 
FleshEater said:
Wife said she was looking over the breakfast sausage tonight at the grocery store, and the woman beside her said, “I have to decide if I want to be full and broke, or starve and have money.”

Over breakfast sausage.

My wife said she didn’t even have a cart. Just her hands full of groceries.

This is a well-to-do area and I can see people feeling the pinch, hard. Things aren’t selling off Facebook or Craigslist anymore. Dealerships are flooded with new cars. People are keeping their shitboxes on the road for as long as they can now. Haven’t seen this since the later Obama years.

Buckle up.
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she was panhandling

what you do is say "I'll help you out with that" then lead them over to the clearance shelf
 
[486] said:
she was panhandling

what you do is say "I'll help you out with that" then lead them over to the clearance shelf
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interesting. that would be a new way to panhandle that I haven't seen yet..

my reply to that would be have you heard of Onlyfans?
 
[486] said:
she was panhandling

what you do is say "I'll help you out with that" then lead them over to the clearance shelf
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Nah, you say I've got a special American blend sausage you can have for breakfast, lunch and dinner and unzip :mr-t:
 
TRINDU said:
Insurance.

My 20 y/o 'hot shot' truck and trailer are $13,000/yr. Friend of mine 12yd dump truck is $18,000/yr. I local company (~50 trucks) closed the doors because they couldn't cover premiums.

The fault lies somewhere between megacarrier steer wheel holders and ambulance chasers.
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Don't forget the .gov that's basically doing the bidding of the lawyers and the insurers.

If it weren't for them passing and enforcing the laws that those people tell them to none of this shit would matter.
 
DRTDEVL said:
Mostly the latter.

Nuclear verdicts are driving commercial insurance through the roof. Examples:

1. Company driver trainee and trainer are driving in a winter storm. Drizzle turns to freezing drizzle. Mom and kids are driving the opposite direction in a pickup, lose control, cross the median, and collide with the semi that is traveling 48 mph. Verdict for the plaintiff of $100 million, because the truck company didn't have ambient air temperature sensors/displays. Had they been available to the driver, he might have pulled over before the collision. In addition, they put a trainee on a JIT load (news flash, they are almost all JIT loads), and that means the company fostered an unsafe culture.

2. Driver goes over HOS and plows into a line of stopped traffic. He's a single owner-operator, and now deceased. Lawyers scored nuclear verdict against the company who owned the trailer and brokered out the power-only load (Owner/operator pulls their load in their trailer, only providing himself and the tractor for the specific load), because had they not contracted with this O/O, the crash wouldn't have occurred. In reality, they contracted with a broker who sold the load to the O/O who crashed. Imagine having nothing to do with a collision other than your trailer and your customer's load yet facing a $92 million verdict.


That, in a nutshell, is why commercial insurance is going sky high. The lawyers know it, that's why you see "Hit by a truck? Call Chuck!" billboards and their ilk scattered across the country. 30% + expenses on a $100 million verdict makes the lawyers rich as hell.
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If wronged business owners got even this shit wouldn't happen.

To borrow a phrase from the kinds of people who deserve to be drawn and quartered "regulations are written in blood"

So long as there is no blood this will continue.
 
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Thatg9659 said:
That’s a dollar an inch! wtf?
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Mike Honcho said:
Clown world.

I bought 20' of steel braided ptfe on Amazon for $19. This is probably China and Bidens plan all along:mad3:
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They've always had insane prices like that on "fuel injection" hose.

You dumbass old fuckers just didn't give a shit back then because you weren't being squeezed by rising prices on everything else.
 
Wades_76_cj7 said:
interesting. that would be a new way to panhandle that I haven't seen yet..

my reply to that would be have you heard of Onlyfans?
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I always ask female panhandlers how hard they'll work for $20.

I ask male panhandlers if they'll take state minimum plus a hot lunch to do whatever hard labor project I'm in a position to work on.
 
arse_sidewards said:
I always ask female panhandlers how hard they'll work for $20.

I ask male panhandlers if they'll take state minimum plus a hot lunch to do whatever hard labor project I'm in a position to work on.
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Bologna & singles sandwiches, that were sitting in the sun :lmao:
 
Bought two chains for my chainsaw yesterday. 20" bar Stihl brand chains. $88 otd for two. Holy fuck
 
arse_sidewards said:
They've always had insane prices like that on "fuel injection" hose.

You dumbass old fuckers just didn't give a shit back then because you weren't being squeezed by rising prices on everything else.
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"gates greenshield"

yeah nope, I ain't in ****yfornia gimmie the 70 cents a foot shit, not the five dollar a foot stuff
that it evaporatively emits .00001 gram of hydrocarbons per hour is entirely meaningless, it is right next to an atmospheric tank vent
 
Wades_76_cj7 said:
Bought two chains for my chainsaw yesterday. 20" bar Stihl brand chains. $88 otd for two. Holy fuck
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buy the roll of oregon chain and rivet them yourself

you don't actually need any tools to do it, just a grinder and a punch for the chain breaker, and the same hammer and punch for riveting the connecting link together
cold riveting only requires the barest sliver of finesse

the 25' roll of chain is like $120, but you should get like 6 chains out of it (and you can make any size chain, if you've got multiple bars that use the same pitch/gauge)
 
Gtrplyr78 said:
Make that at home, far better and cheaper.
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Agreed, but when I was travelling, meat lovers chicken and eggs with steamed hash browns and dry toast was my go to. I would usually bring one lunch but after that I was at mercy of my location.

With tip that shit sets you back almost $20 now:barf:
 
Wades_76_cj7 said:
pretty sure people go to WH to see the drunken fights not the food. :laughing:
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Speak for yourself. last one i went to i meandered out of the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi and across the street at 3 am and had a damn fine meal.
 
Levigarrett76 said:
Better than 80%+ of the other restaurant options out there now
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Last week I stopped by Hardees (Carl Jr) and got a monster burger. I had a $2.00 off coupon but I had no idea what it would cost. I was thinking with the $2.00 off for the burger only it'd be around $5.00. Nope, that sumbitch was $9.17. I went ahead and got it and honestly it was one of the best fast food burgers I'd had. I will not however pay $9 to $11 for another one.
 
Home insurance up 20% from last year
Car insurance up 17% from last year

Haven't had a car insurance claim in 20 years and never have had a home insurance claim in the 13 years that I've owned it.

What in the actual fawk?! :mad3::flipoff:

I'll be shopping around and also replacing my worthless agent who is unable to reply to emails.
 
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