An update on prices [View all]
from my upper Midwest grocery store shopping yesterday. Eggs were just under $9.00 a dozen. Almost all of the cold meats in the deli were $10.00 per pound. Chicken breasts, the mass produced kind, were just under $5.00 per pound. Cheap generic soda crackers were $3.00 per box whereas they had always been priced around $2.00. I was too discouraged to look at the beef prices. Bread prices seemed to be up and all half way decent bread was pushing $5.00 or more for a loaf. The produce section looked thin for stock and run of the mill looking and I didn't look at pricing too much because looking at the big picture was making me woozy and I felt the need to lay down and nap it off.
Speaking of napping it off, I was still hunting around for decent weight percale flat sheets not in sets when I came across a search result that took me to Williams-Sonoma. I now may need a bi-carb and a visit from a Medicine Man in order to recover. The link to the web site showed not just a flat sheet but a whole set which was not what I wanted. However that wasn't what made me want to turn to the bi-carb. It was when I saw that you could buy that one set from Williams-Sonoma for $1,426.00. (Just in the time between when I wrote this and then went to copy the link the price increased to $1486.00) To be fair there are sites with flat percale sheets for around $25.00 on up but that is still a bit high for a single twin size cotton flat sheet as far as I'm concerned.
But suffice it to say I am a value/quality shopper and I will pay for quality but I'm not in for the gouging unless someone is going to kiss me and promise they'll never leave me. Fell for that too.
https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/matouk-tailored-border-sheet-set
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