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scrapsandsass said:
I love that. I was thinking that would be a great idea, but wouldn't want to have to figure out the legality. I can just see some Dateline episode for when Anne somehow gets busted setting up foreign accounts for scrap enabling. :giggle
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thank you for making my morning the best ever....... LOL
 
scrapsandsass said:
I love that. I was thinking that would be a great idea, but wouldn't want to have to figure out the legality. I can just see some Dateline episode for when Anne somehow gets busted setting up foreign accounts for scrap enabling. :giggle
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Ahahahahaha haha! I can totally picture that in my head! Then I spit coffee out my nose cause I laughed so hard. Lol
 
I feel you! I remember it being this low before but we've had so many years of close to par dollars that it's hard to readjust. We also have a long planned and waited for trip to the States this summer and the dollar is really killing my budget! Even before the low dollar I'd heard that groceries are a lot cheaper in the US but it is what it is, I guess. :)
 
sberkan said:
Even before the low dollar I'd heard that groceries are a lot cheaper in the US
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My cousins live south of London, Ontario and often cross the border to go buy cereal. They say it's much cheaper in the US!
 
AnneofAlamo said:
@carilyne this is the thread that puts me in jail and perhaps national tv with undercover investigation! lol
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Thanks Anne I hadn't read this thread because I've been playing with budget, numbers, etc and etc And I thought it would make my mind swim even more. But it's one of the best threads on the forum. I laughed my way through it (well not for the Canadians, I couldn't handle having to figure in conversions). I am astonished at how low it must be to make 22 into 30. ARGH. And the Austrailians, anyone having to convert.
But @AnneofAlamo feel free to donate any of that off-shore money to my TLP account. Or maybe you better do chickypaw instead.
 
I do believe our food prices are cheaper down here but they are also higher than they've been for some time. Only meat is really really cheap but then with all the things in our meat you have to think twice....:(
 
I swear, every time I go to the grocery store, prices have gone up. It is insane.

But on the flip side, I was really excited to see that the Euro has dropped significantly (compared to the US $) from when I traveled there last. The only upside to a world in financial flux. #sorrynotsorry #headingtoParis
 
i'm kinda liking this thread- it's perverse i know but as one of those 'converting and deleting things from my cart' Aussies, it feels like there's people i can wallow in self-pity with! My 7y.o. likes the $7 a box (on special) muesli so $10 doesn't surprise me much. And y'know, i can't convert to pounds/gallons mentally but i think that's why we use litres/grams and other measurements here, so it's harder to compare and feel hard done by!
Red capsicums (peppers) are about $9 a kilo here at the moment (DD won't eat any other colour and they're usually the most expensive type but out of interest i found this site http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/food_price/ and typed in peppers at $9/kg and it says that's $4 a pound. I always like looking in grocery stores when we travel to put things in perspective :)
 
I too look at food prices every time we travel. While normally a tea drinker, I also compare the cost of a cup of coffee or espresso to gauge the price of things relative to that coffee. fwiw, round here those peppers/capsicums are $1 a pepper. On the other hand, cauliflower used to always be sold by the head, and now I'm seeing it by the pound (weight). It really irks me to have to stand and figure out just how much something will actually cost in the end. Fortunately, there are electronic scales in a lot of the stores.
 
cookingmylife said:
I do believe our food prices are cheaper down here but they are also higher than they've been for some time. Only meat is really really cheap but then with all the things in our meat you have to think twice....:(
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Where are you? Meat prices in Washington are ridiculous!
 
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