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
When they use an audio site to post lies and inflame dissension points to motivation. Why would they continually do that? Why would they censor those who speak up and point out their fallacies?

There are plenty of platforms out there besides an audio site where they can feel right at home. They should try GETTR (set up by Rump's press secretary) for those that support right wing platforms.

There's also Twitter and Farcebook and all manner of sites where they can glad-hand each other.

All the best,
Nonoise

@mahgister,

A great post, with much to consider.

"For universal health care system, it is beyond my understanding that some people dont understand that health care are not there to create profits....It is beyond my understanding that people let the pharmaceutical globalist companies RUNNING the show in this pandemic..."


Beyond mine too.

Especially questions such as why was not every virus lab in the world immediately closed down in the aftermath of the Wuhan lab leak?

Questions such as why do Bill Gates and Tony Fauci have financial links to the Wuhan lab?

Or why has this become all about Pfizer v J&J v AZ/Oxford v Sputnik v the rest in a cut throat stab in the back battle for the lion’s share of global vaccine profits?

Why isn’t this about pooling knowledge and coming up with a safe vaccine that genuinely offers 95%+ protection against all variations?



"Reading and studying is easy but also hard work, people prefer to be afraid and pointing fingers to a ready made scapegoat and let the hard books alone on the shelves and pick the "leftist" or "rightist" ideology without understanding how they ALWAYS be played now by globalist and transhumanist powers controlling the agendas...."


Another great point, namely why don’t people want to consider that there may be powers and forces operating at a level above national governments?

Powers that ALL politicians of all denominations must remain beholden to. Perhaps we might ask ourselves just how much power do the global banks and global pharmaceuticals really have over our elected representatives?



"I will add nothing, it is like in audio matters....Forget the marketing, use your hand and brain like our OP and enjoy high level S.Q. at low cost...."


Yes, this must be the best advice. When I was in my teens I had a great thirst for knowledge which I hoped would lead me to the truth one day.

So I read and read and yet came coming up against the same advice the and time again - ’Think for yourself’.

I hated hearing this because I knew I knew nothing and was desperate for every shortcut going, yet here I am some 40 years later and those words now sound more truer than ever.


Here’s George Harrison offering the same advice back in 1965.

https://youtu.be/F8hRX5tmq_s
There are plenty of platforms out there besides an audio site where they can feel right at home. They should try GETTR (set up by Rump's press secretary) for those that support right wing platforms.


There are plenty of platforms out there for the leftists as well, probably more than the right, seeing how social media just ban people on the right. A sitting president gets banned, but the leader of the Taliban can tweet.
Thank Master M, no one needs to ride the fence, no one needs to be left or right, BUT you sure should know, if there is not good ideas on both sided neither would have survived this long.

My fear is instead of looking at our similarities as citizens, we see our differences through the eyes of a party line.

Like Master M, I could give hoot about the boys and girls running around in DC claiming to represent the people.  It's the lobbyist they are beholding too that really pull the string or in some cases cut the strings with.  

In most countries backing the wrong pony can lead to an early political grave, Just ask Tony Blair. That country made him and his backers hang their heads in shame..

NOT here, we are just NOW pulling out of the same WAR that ruined his political career in 2007. 14 years later. 

The way they are pulling out takes me back to Carters debacle "Operation Eagle Claw".  Sure not the fault of brave men and women that supported and tried to carry out the rescue attempt. They paid with their RED WHITE and BLUE hearts..  Isn't it always the soldier and citizen that take the brunt of someone else's personal war.. BUSH JR..

How many were lost and maimed behind a BOLD FACED LIE.. The slipperiest president we EVER had President Dick Cheney.

Run a muck is the only term I can truly apply to the current state of THIS Union.. I'm just glad the lines are holding in 90% of our wonderful country and our northern neighbors..

Southern neighbors.. LOL just a little to ambitious for my liking.. Get in LINE... Fresh food, water and inoculation for your long journey BACK.. We'll call you when we need the labor, not the welfare cost increase..

Tools in hand, come on in, they came to work.. :-)

Regards
nonoise,
nonoise7,549 posts08-18-2021 1:07pm"When they use an audio site to post lies and inflame dissension points to motivation. Why would they continually do that? Why would they censor those who speak up and point out their fallacies?

There are plenty of platforms out there besides an audio site where they can feel right at home. They should try GETTR (set up by Rump's press secretary) for those that support right wing platforms.

There's also Twitter and Farcebook and all manner of sites where they can glad-hand each other."


I'm not taking either side, but isn't this what you are always doing? You take every given opportunity to get ragingly political, and it's very unpleasant, not to mention off-subject.