# Price increases you've noticed?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-increases-youve-noticed/598833>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 6, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-increases-youve-noticed/598833 "2011-10-06T23:07:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-increases-youve-noticed/598833/101 "2011-10-14T00:53:57Z")

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> [@lindsaybluth](#):
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> Do you have quintuplet teenage boys or something - that sounds totally nuts!

Well, the almost 11-year-old girl thinks that cereal is the fifth major food group, the one teenage boy in the house and my husband both eat cereal and drink a fair amount of milk, the toddler uses about 1.5-2 gallons a week, I use it for cooking… it just disappears. I was buying groceries tonight, and just grabbed a couple of gallons without even looking at the sell-by date, and another shopper looked at me with a knowing smile: I mentioned that the date on the jug is purely theoretical at my house, and she said yeah, that was a hard habit to get back into after 3 kids at home left the nest.

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