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Halloween is canceled this year (sh.itjust.works)
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Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)

Picture of candy packages in a store advertised for $24-29 each with the caption “Porch light will be off this year“
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The stupid shit tho is five years ago the candy would go on sale the day after and it $4 a bag. The candy is not expensive and the candy is probably somehow circulating from 5 years ago. Is all supply and demand, fucking capitalism.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah that's what's so shocking about it, these bags would be $5 only a few years ago. And I remember how painfully impoverished large swaths of the country were then.

    I cannot imagine how the average American in the Midwest is surviving at the moment.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Wife and I both work, everything is carefully calculated to have us constantly worry about bills and unexpected expenses. If one of us misses 1 day of work there is 1 bill that won't be paid, which means multiple phone calls from bill collectors. A lot of them are super fast about sending to collections. I no longer fret about my credit score.

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