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<blockquote data-quote="Dixies_fire" data-source="post: 598973" data-attributes="member: 16184"><p>We don't have an aldi's anywhere close every time I venture out of my little corner of Colorado Springs seems like it cost me 1/4 of a tank of gas or more, so much so that I have set up my trip to get the kids for the same day I have to go to wic since I have to go to that side of town anyway. And I have a four cylinder SUV, not quite as efficient as a 4 cylinder car but I also have 3 kids need space that a car just doesn't give me. So the SUV is worth it or it will be when it's paid off! I will never ever buy a car with a car payment again. It's my first I felt like I deserved it after I deployed, never again!</p><p></p><p>Anyway.</p><p>I make most of our snacky food from scratch and about all of our food food. I do not have a good recipe for sandwich bread so I pay .99 cent at Safeway buy four and put two in my deep freezer. We also do buy soda which only lasts a few days and after that we drink sweet tea which is helping my waist line slowly when we don't have soda which is most of the time. It's .99 cent if you buy four with the card also at Safeway cheaper then a twenty ounce. Flour at Walmart the store brand is about a dollar twenty cheaper then buying it at the commissary and so were tea bags. It had been literally about six months since we went to Walmart because they price gouge here, there prices largely are based off of the economy which has a higher price of living here, but we went "just to look" and get out of the house and I found sugar, flour and tea bags at a big difference in price also soda was cheapish there too, it's never really cheap unless you drink off brand which I don't. The fels naphtha soap is .99 a bar and the laundry soda is 4.95 for a big box for the home made soap. I wouldn't buy anything else there though. Meat is cheaper at the commissary so that's where I shop for that. When I move I'm going to be looking for a butcher though even though there are many many many cheaper stores in Tulsa but I lived there almost a decade ago so things may have changed somewhat. Prices seem to have increased at least here two to three times what I was paying five years ago before I enlisted but i also lived in the south where agriculture is the thing. But judging off of rent prices in Oklahoma they only seemed to have barely doubled compared to here. So I'm hopeful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dixies_fire, post: 598973, member: 16184"] We don't have an aldi's anywhere close every time I venture out of my little corner of Colorado Springs seems like it cost me 1/4 of a tank of gas or more, so much so that I have set up my trip to get the kids for the same day I have to go to wic since I have to go to that side of town anyway. And I have a four cylinder SUV, not quite as efficient as a 4 cylinder car but I also have 3 kids need space that a car just doesn't give me. So the SUV is worth it or it will be when it's paid off! I will never ever buy a car with a car payment again. It's my first I felt like I deserved it after I deployed, never again! Anyway. I make most of our snacky food from scratch and about all of our food food. I do not have a good recipe for sandwich bread so I pay .99 cent at Safeway buy four and put two in my deep freezer. We also do buy soda which only lasts a few days and after that we drink sweet tea which is helping my waist line slowly when we don't have soda which is most of the time. It's .99 cent if you buy four with the card also at Safeway cheaper then a twenty ounce. Flour at Walmart the store brand is about a dollar twenty cheaper then buying it at the commissary and so were tea bags. It had been literally about six months since we went to Walmart because they price gouge here, there prices largely are based off of the economy which has a higher price of living here, but we went "just to look" and get out of the house and I found sugar, flour and tea bags at a big difference in price also soda was cheapish there too, it's never really cheap unless you drink off brand which I don't. The fels naphtha soap is .99 a bar and the laundry soda is 4.95 for a big box for the home made soap. I wouldn't buy anything else there though. Meat is cheaper at the commissary so that's where I shop for that. When I move I'm going to be looking for a butcher though even though there are many many many cheaper stores in Tulsa but I lived there almost a decade ago so things may have changed somewhat. Prices seem to have increased at least here two to three times what I was paying five years ago before I enlisted but i also lived in the south where agriculture is the thing. But judging off of rent prices in Oklahoma they only seemed to have barely doubled compared to here. So I'm hopeful. [/QUOTE]
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