10 Items Whose Prices Have Jumped the Most in the Past 10 Years

[Svnla]

Number 6 is new to me. I have always done my own tax with tax software and have no pet so numbers 9 and 10 are not applicable.

So what say ya'll? Agree, disagree, or any other items you think should be on the list?


1. Fuel oil and other fuels (for home): 145%
2. Gasoline (all types) for cars: 108%
3. College tuition: 88%
4. Hospital services: 85%
5. College textbooks: 83%
6. Elementary and high school tuition and fees: 67%
7. Beef and veal: 64.8%
8. Eggs: 58%
9. Veterinarian services: 63%
10. Tax return preparation and other accounting fees: 51%

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/10-items-whose-prices-jumped-most-last-10-200433174.html

 

[Anubis]

is #6 for private schools?

 

[Schfifty Five]

I would have thought milk would have been on the top 10 list.

A gallon of milk used to be 99 cents all the time. Now it's like $2.50-$4.00 depending on store/brand.

 

[ImpulsE69]

In 10 years? Gas has went up more than 108% It's at almost 200% if not more.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

In 10 years? Gas has went up more than 108% It's at almost 200% if not more.

Where is that? In 2003 I think prices were already on their way into large increases, somewhere around $2.40 +/- 0.20. Even if they were actually still much lower than that, say $1.80-ish, they certainly aren't $6.00 now.

EDIT: Well, now that I think about it, prices in Texas were about $1 until the late 90's/early 2000's IIRC, so I could see that.

 

[EagleKeeper]

is #6 for private schools?

I suspect so..

Childcare has gone up considerably.
Also, many programs have costs that the school is not picking up.

See thread on cheerleading for$700.

Because items are for schools and the schools have "recommended" vendors (aka kickbacks) price competition is minimal.

What the market will bear ,

 

[Broheim]

I would have thought milk would have been on the top 10 list.

A gallon of milk used to be 99 cents all the time. Now it's like $2.50-$4.00 depending on store/brand.

dave will be here shortly to predict milk prices...



actually, I haven't really seen him around for a while, did he get banned?

 

[KK]

dave will be here shortly to predict milk prices...



actually, I haven't really seen him around for a while, did he get banned?

No, he rode his motorcycle into the eternal sunset.

 

[randomrogue]

I don't understand how people can afford to pay some of these increases. If these are accurate then a State College is costing like $10,000 a year now. That's nuts.

I had $100 text books. You're telling me there are $183 text books? lol

 

[MaxPayne63]

I don't understand how people can afford to pay some of these increases. If these are accurate then a State College is costing like $10,000 a year now. That's nuts.

I had $100 text books. You're telling me there are $183 text books? lol

two words: Debt serfdom.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I don't understand how people can afford to pay some of these increases. If these are accurate then a State College is costing like $10,000 a year now. That's nuts.

I had $100 text books. You're telling me there are $183 text books? lol

$10,000 a year is probably a tiny bit below average (although it was ~$7000/year for me), and $180 textbooks are about the cost for my big ones like calculus, organic chemistry, cell phys, etc assuming I was to buy them all new from the bookstore.

 

[Broheim]

No, he rode his motorcycle into the eternal sunset.

oh, so he hit some more gravel? :sneaky:

 

[Red Squirrel]

I remember when gas used to actually be below a dollar. Right pre 9/11. Then it went over a dollar for the first time ever and most stations had to go duct tape a "1" on the sign because it was only 2 digits. They eventually upgraded them all. Now gas is at like 1.40 or something like that. I've seen it go to like 1.80 before. Usually right before long weekends they jack up all the prices.

The piss off is we have lot of oil in Canada, we need to break away from the global market and refine it ourselves. Of course the oil companies would never allow that.

 

[cKGunslinger]

No, he rode his motorcycle into the eternal sunset.

He died? D:

 

[Jinny]

I don't understand how people can afford to pay some of these increases. If these are accurate then a State College is costing like $10,000 a year now. That's nuts.

I had $100 text books. You're telling me there are $183 text books? lol

i dont know about state schools, but the UC i went to is now 13.6K per Quarter.
when i was a freshmen in 98, it was about $1300 a quarter.

 

[Jeff7]

I don't understand how people can afford to pay some of these increases. If these are accurate then a State College is costing like $10,000 a year now. That's nuts.

I had $100 text books. You're telling me there are $183 text books? lol

Penn State University was more than $6k/semester when I went there several years ago.


They're focusing a lot of effort onto making their buildings more lounge-like - the computer lab now has its own cafe, fancy halogen spotlights all over, and lots of big-screen TVs. It now looks more like the inside of some of the restaurants around here. I guess it's so that kids will go "Mommy, daddy, I wanna go to school HERE!" when walking through campus. Academic concerns...yeah, whatever, I'm not going to college for education, I'm going there to party and get drunk!
*ugh*

There are far cheaper ways than college to party and get drunk.

 

[Malak]

I don't understand how people can afford to pay some of these increases. If these are accurate then a State College is costing like $10,000 a year now. That's nuts.

I had $100 text books. You're telling me there are $183 text books? lol

People can't afford it. They get loans for everything from school to the beds the sleep in, then just like our government they default on the loans. College is a scam anyway, we just feeding the machine of failure.

 

[Anubis]

I don't understand how people can afford to pay some of these increases. If these are accurate then a State College is costing like $10,000 a year now. That's nuts.

I had $100 text books. You're telling me there are $183 text books? lol

depends on the state but state school was over 10k a year for my brother like a decade ago

 

[Red Squirrel]

Holy crap college was like 2-3k for me here. You guys get raped.

 

[Svnla]

Penn State University was more than $6k/semester when I went there several years ago.

SEC schools are generally cheaper, all of them except two are less than $10K. Full time (at least 12 hrs per semester) tuition and mandatory fees, not include other expenses and fees. Public schools and in state cost only.

LSU = $3.8K
Texas A&M = $4.2K
Tenn = $4.5K
Bama = $4.6K
Kentucky = $4.9K
South Carolina = $5K
Florida =$6.1K
Miss State = $6.2K
Ole Miss = $6.6K
Ark = $7.5K
Missouri = $9.2K
Auburn = $9.8K
Georgia = $10.2K

Vandy = private school = $41K

I am glad I am done with college a few years ago and my former employer paid for my grad degree (the whole thing).

Another thing, why the main campus cost is higher? LSU = $3.8K but LSU Shreveport = $2.7K, LSU Alexandria = $2.6K, LSU Eunice = $2.4K. Not sure the extra cost from the main campus is worth it. Is it the same at other schools?

 

[manly]

i dont know about state schools, but the UC i went to is now 13.6K per Quarter.
when i was a freshmen in 98, it was about $1300 a quarter.

which U.C.? I'm pretty certain it hasn't gone up 900% in 15 years.

http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/budget.htm

Looks more like $13k per year for in-state students, no way that's per quarter. Nonresidents a different story.

I do agree that U.C. was an insane bargain back in the day (anytime before out of state energy producers raped CA).

 

[esquared]

which U.C.? I'm pretty certain it hasn't gone up 900% in 15 years.

http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/budget.htm

Looks more like $13k per year for in-state students, no way that's per quarter. Nonresidents a different story.

I do agree that U.C. was an insane bargain back in the day (anytime before out of state energy producers raped CA).

Yeah, that not accurate. The non-residents don't even pay that much.

My nephew is at UCSD and their cost is around 13,302/year for tuition/fees.

http://students.ucsd.edu/finances/financial-aid/budgeting/undergrad-2013-14.html

 

[CPA]

In 10 years? Gas has went up more than 108% It's at almost 200% if not more.

Price of gas was 1.72 on average in 2003. It's around 3.20 today. So, actually less than 100%.

 

[mmntech]

Holy crap college was like 2-3k for me here. You guys get raped.

I remember paying $6000 for my college technical program and thinking that was a lot. Only four years ago. University was usually 2-3k per year for me as well. Then again I was taking humanities. Courses are cheap. Then again only international students paid over $10k a year. They were getting hosed.

Gas, well. When I got my first car in 2003, gas was about 80 cents/litre. I remember thinking that was expensive at the time. It's $1.29 today. Government added an new 8% tax on fuel a couple years back. Now there's talk that they want to add another 5 cent a litre tax to pay for public transit in Toronto. F that. They'd have the money if they didn't keep pissing it away in corruption.

Another big price spike is housing. It's gone up quite dramatically over the past 10 years here in the Toronto and the surrounding suburbs where I live. In 2003 the average selling price of a home was $293,067. Today it's $497,301. That's almost a 70% jump. Just to add that average family incomes have only increased $3000-$5000 in the last decade. Under 10%. A lot of folks going to be bankrupt if those mortgage rates go up.

 

[Cerb]

I don't understand how people can afford to pay some of these increases. If these are accurate then a State College is costing like $10,000 a year now. That's nuts.

I had $100 text books. You're telling me there are $183 text books? lol

When I was in college in the mid 00s, books were always $200 or more, even buying many used (most profs would have page reference conversions they handed out, for users of edition n-1). With the various financial aid antics every year, I honestly don't recall what the typical tuition was.

Generally, the people that can't afford the high tuition are either going to cheaper schools, or going into too much hard to remove debt. Most (and I do just mean a simple majority, here, not, "vast" by any means ) of the people I went to school with were well aware of their financial situations. I wouldn't be surprised if many of us would have gone to more expensive schools, had we been raised to be more naive about money.