Your empty stomach and ragged clothing are a myth, this chart said so.
How fucking condescending.
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Our grocery bill is twice what it used to be for less groceries than we used to get. These fuckers think they can just shift numbers around and say inflation is only 2.5% and we’ll believe it.
They better be glad bitcoin exists. The historic way we’ve solved this was chopping bankers fucking heads off.
Well said, bravo!
When EU was implemented in my country, our goods where set like this : 1€ = 200,482 PTE.
So, on the 31 december 2001 a coffee costrd 0,50cents (PTE).
The next day was costing between 150 PTE and 200,482PTE.
There was no raise in the salaries.... Tell me about inflation.
At that time our bill groceries and life quality changed drastically.
Euro has lost 40% of it's value since it was introduced circ 2002, it is a failure.
Of course it is. Starting by the conversion of currency that was obnoxious, that led the peripheral countries to a massive debt, not many years later...that we had to pay at high interest rates. Not to mention, the traditional products, that were for years the income of many, many families, that are forbidden by rules and penalty with fines, if caught doing it. The greed of ones at the expense of the powerless.
For us in Ireland it meant abandoning our fishing communities, they are but few now. We can barely fish our own waters.
It's a cruel humiliation.
For us also...we have an immense sea area, from the Descobertas" time, where we are not allowed to fish....it belongs to the country but we are not allowed to fish there....go figure.... The milk from Azores, we are only allowed to produce an amount, the rest go to waste. It's actually insane...
That is very sad and I feel you. 🫂🫂🫂 We share the same issues. In Portugal not only with fish but other products like traducional ham, cheese, medronho, licors, milk.... We are becoming a turism country with houses very expensive to our pockets.
We produce all of our own vegetables, eggs, and meat. Still our grocery bill is consistently higher by 2x or more than when bought everything. So we are buying only ≈ 10-20% of the food we did before but paying far more for a smaller quantity of goods.
We want to do a backyard garden. I think we’ll try to build it this winter and start it next spring.
Look into no dig / no till style gardening. We have been growing using these methods for four years now and will never go back to tillage. You can go from bare patch of grass to growing in just a couple days with absolutely amazing results. Cardboard + compost + wood chips in paths. Then plant. Always happy to offer advice
I’ll keep that in mind, thanks! I know next to nothing about gardening so I’ll definitely take you up on that when we get around to planning
Raised bed boxes are a great idea for the home gardener too! Lower maintenance with less weeds and easier to work in (less bending over). You can grow a TON of food in a small space, and provide unlimited healthy food for your family with some planning and determination. GL 🤙
That’s exactly what we’re thinking. We have this steep dirt hill in our backyard that makes about 40% of the yard unusable. We were thinking of putting raised beds there and a gravel or mulch walking path with stairs between them.
I hacked down a huge sugargum tree this summer to make some room for it. (Cutting down trees is so much work and I never want to do that again.)
Something to consider: Raised beds need to be filled with new soil annually, and don't offer frost protection the way "in-ground" planting does.
If you have a hillside with sun, making a terrace, or several, is a better long term solution.