$2

When did some prices start to go up so quickly?  I ask this simple question because I must have been sleepwalking through the past several years and not paying attention to certain prices.

Pam was in Starbucks last week for a pumpkin latte, and she said it was $5.  Are you serious!?  $5 for a fancy cup of coffee?!  Mercy, what a waste of money.  And yet the lemmings line up multiple times a day for their fix, as if it is the greatest thing since crack cocaine...

$2 per lb. for Honey Crisp Apples is expensive, but well worth it.  Man those are delicious!

$2 for a USA Today though is outrageous.  How many businesses do you know that can DOUBLE the cost of their product, and still stay in business?  No, it didn't go from $1 to $1.25, or $1.50 ~ it went from $1 to $2; crazy!

$1 for a large Tea at McDonald's?  Considering it is $2.50 at Outback, that's a good deal.  Until you consider that the food cost is .04c to brew a glass of tea.  Even at $1, that is a HUGE profit.

$1 for a Red Box movie?  Seems like a great deal compared to BlockBuster's $5 per movie, but still doesn't come close to beating the value of $8 per month to stream an unlimited supply of movies from Netflix.  The bigger problem is finding enough movies worthy of your viewing pleasure...

$3 to $5 per gallon for gasoline?  Wowzers, I have known about this one though, and paid it for years.  Which is why:

Nothing compares to $1 per gallon of gas!  Oh this is such sweet-sweet revenge.  I love pulling up to the pump in my big beast of a truck, and filling it with $1 per gallon gas. 

CNG gas that is!  Bru-ha-ha-ha!