Why the cost increase?


I went to buy materials for a speaker project. I also priced some T-111 siding on 8" centers, 5/8 thick, Ship lap.
I hadn’t picked up any sheets or anything in over 18 months.

48" x 96 x 5/8 wood siding was 19-26.00 and on sale 15-20.00 per sheet, NOW 74-84.00 per sheet.

MDF 3/4" 48 x 96" if you can find it. 45-55.00 per sheet it was 22.00 to 27.00 per sheet.

2x4x8 DF stud grade 1.99-3.00 per. Now 4-6.00 per stud,

There is no shortage but there sure is a LOT of price gouging. NOTHING changed. Just the price..

The quality is worse. The workers aren’t paid worth a crap...Why the increase?

I’m getting ready to finish my home out. WOW.. I might have to rethink this a bit..

The price all most tripled in 12-18 months.. This kind of stuff is NOT cool at ALL.

Just my opinion of course. Any projects you’re doing get put on hold or STOPED?

YES I’m very frugal. Money never came easy, and it leaves the same way..

oldhvymec
*S*  The only grandmother I knew spoke not a word of english....only bohemian (Czech)....the only word she'd utter that I'd recognize was 'coffee'. which later I realize was 'cafe'.....but I recognized her in my mothers' manner.....

...but lived, worlds' away in mid-'Merica, more a parental force than in mine.  We all come to terms with 'Life, the Universe, and Everything' in our own means 'n method....;)

Vertical aligned ribbons...the taller the element, the more important this becomes imho....the dispersion has similarities to expo horns, but that's where they go their own ways....

More familiar with dipole ribbons, but once bipolar always such. *G* 
Happily flawed...;)

Just my prefs, but 3 G1 spaced *mmm* 6" apart on a minimalist column 'bout 2.5' floor to bottom...finding woofs that can match ribbon 'speed' is the tricky bit....

Dual voice coil units are promising, but kept to 6" dia.best....8"+ will lag, physics 'n mass, class.  Subs to taste...

I've grown tired of large cabinetry that I have to threaten the cats with a Chinese Resolution to keep paws 'n claws from, so have wandered off into minimalist wanderlands...

Small footprint, big impression-makers....a little above 5 'n dime, but there's satisfaction in that....

...as the 'ancient ad' used to pose:

"Where do you want to go today?"

...when it's all about the journey, not so much a destination....*s*
Videos of Republican poll watchers being kicked out of polling places.
Videos of briefcases hidden under tables being taken out, opened and put through machines over and over.
A certain candidate up by 700,000 votes and then when polling place is opened again that same candidate was mysteriously down 100,000 votes in a couple of hours.
In some states they were more votes cast than eligible voters.
Something like 74,000 fraudulent votes in Arizona and the margin of victory was less than 20,000.
Recorded video proof of votes for both candidates shown on screen then changing in real time to favor the other candidate.