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
"...this is The End, my new found friend, The End..."

Nope...not quite, not yet.....
No fat lady singing here...

Small is sure sounding better to my back.. LOL I been moving some 375 pounders, fitting my new fangled bases with pocked rear casters. That it almost 90 lb with the two casters and one pod.. 465 lbs is heavy. 

75 lbs.. is more like it.. :-) To hot to work here. 100 or close for weeks now. Not me anymore.. NEVER again...55-75 perfect..

Regards
@devilboy ,
Does anyone actually know where all of this is heading?

We were casually informed back in Feb that the UK economy had shrunk to its lowest point for over 300 years!
And it continues to shrink as the national debt overtakes its GDP.

Meanwhile over in the US, from what we can gather via the mainstream media, things aren’t what they used to be.

The recent humiliation over the fall of Afghanistan suggests that some global transfer of power has already occurred.
The US debt threatens to also overtake its GDP.

Just how much further can this form of economic enslavement go? Are we all destined to end up as economic slaves paying ever increasing stealth taxes to enable our governments to repay ever increasing stealth interest repayments?

For sure people are concerned, people are worried, and it won’t surprise me to see them seeking ever increasingly desperate measures.History often has a way of repeating itself.

In the meantime there doesn’t seem to be too much that we can do about any of this. Other than try to stay healthy, try to stay afloat economically and maintain healthy relationships.
At least that way we can best face whatever it is that’s coming next.

Oh yeah, let’s not also forget about music and playback equipment. It might be behaviour akin to that of the band on the Titanic, but at the very least we can still choose the tunes and hope our posts don't keep getting deleted in the meantime.
Heavy - I heard the Mac line source / seperate Mid and bass cabinets w mid at Audiocraft in Cleveland in i am guessing late 80’s. i am sure it was at a Mac performance clinic with my dad. i remember a wall of sound, but Dad was a Bozak man thru and thru….