Riddle me this please.
If gasoline prices have gone down in some states and the OIL prices have declined so much why have so many other things gone up in price?
Cost of raw materials to make goods, labor and moving them. Transportation prices supposedly lower due to the fuel costs?
I am not talking about a good wage and bennies now either. I believe in those things.
Heck, I am not even talking about medical insurance, vehicle insurance or real estate/property insurance now.
Other than the basic devaluation of our U.S. dollar why would SALT go up in price 12% in such a brief time?
(I have enough table salt in my pantry but I will buy some more to keep on hand.)
Why would quality BULK SALT that you put in a water softener go up about 12% since last May?
It does not matter where I check the prices in this town and have my husband pick it up with NO delivery charge. I can't figure out why water softener salt went up so much in this brief time frame.
Did I miss something on the news? I usually buy it once or twice a year in bulk 50 pound bags too. I store it in my well insulated garage. My mechanical room is in my attached garage to the house since I do not have a basement in this house.
(This is the first time in my life that I lived in a place with NO basement other than a beach house circa Nam - USN time with my late husband, the cabin and campsite in the Sapphire Mountains when I first moved out west and in the brand new built apartment when I moved to this college town from the mountains.)
I live in town and have city water but the water out west is far TOO hard for me and NOT as soft as where I used to live. So I deliberately put in a softener to help save my good pipes and use less soap/detergent when I clean. I LOVE having soft water. I had soft water growing up on the east coast naturally! The Great Lakes region was harder water on a excellent well but not super HARD. I did put in a softener there though but I could have lived without one. I could not believe in the brand new built apartment where I lived after my time in the mountains how HARD the water was even in town. So when I built this house, I put in a softener and I am glad that I did compared to seeing how some other new homes have hard water issues even though this entire valley is in an aquifer plus we have mountain water flowing into our rivers and ground and I have my water rights ditch in my back yard too.
So what did I miss in the NEWS where salt went up in price so much and so fast since last MAY?
Thank you.
I will put in another water softener in the third house or cabin that I build too. That is IF I move and BUILD AGAIN which I am sure that I will do. This is the second house that I built and the other one was with my late husband many moons ago. I lived in that one for over 30 years.
Cate
If gasoline prices have gone down in some states and the OIL prices have declined so much why have so many other things gone up in price?
Cost of raw materials to make goods, labor and moving them. Transportation prices supposedly lower due to the fuel costs?
I am not talking about a good wage and bennies now either. I believe in those things.
Heck, I am not even talking about medical insurance, vehicle insurance or real estate/property insurance now.
Other than the basic devaluation of our U.S. dollar why would SALT go up in price 12% in such a brief time?
(I have enough table salt in my pantry but I will buy some more to keep on hand.)
Why would quality BULK SALT that you put in a water softener go up about 12% since last May?
It does not matter where I check the prices in this town and have my husband pick it up with NO delivery charge. I can't figure out why water softener salt went up so much in this brief time frame.
Did I miss something on the news? I usually buy it once or twice a year in bulk 50 pound bags too. I store it in my well insulated garage. My mechanical room is in my attached garage to the house since I do not have a basement in this house.
(This is the first time in my life that I lived in a place with NO basement other than a beach house circa Nam - USN time with my late husband, the cabin and campsite in the Sapphire Mountains when I first moved out west and in the brand new built apartment when I moved to this college town from the mountains.)
I live in town and have city water but the water out west is far TOO hard for me and NOT as soft as where I used to live. So I deliberately put in a softener to help save my good pipes and use less soap/detergent when I clean. I LOVE having soft water. I had soft water growing up on the east coast naturally! The Great Lakes region was harder water on a excellent well but not super HARD. I did put in a softener there though but I could have lived without one. I could not believe in the brand new built apartment where I lived after my time in the mountains how HARD the water was even in town. So when I built this house, I put in a softener and I am glad that I did compared to seeing how some other new homes have hard water issues even though this entire valley is in an aquifer plus we have mountain water flowing into our rivers and ground and I have my water rights ditch in my back yard too.
So what did I miss in the NEWS where salt went up in price so much and so fast since last MAY?
Thank you.
I will put in another water softener in the third house or cabin that I build too. That is IF I move and BUILD AGAIN which I am sure that I will do. This is the second house that I built and the other one was with my late husband many moons ago. I lived in that one for over 30 years.
Cate
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