Keep Track of Rising Prices

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Cutting my grass is getting pricey:(
I started out cutting my Moms yard. I now cut 35 lawns. That’s not including my day job.

Speaking of gas. Paid $4.19 a gallon for 35 gallons. Kroger points, dollar off.
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Oh, someone followed the advice for sticker location.

Four 5 gallon containers full for my lawns. Suburban full with $220 worth of gas. And our daily drive cars are full.
 
Due for annual homeowners insurance. Went up from $2200 to $2900. Previous year went up from $1700 to $2200. Includes wind/hail coverage.

House marketability doubled in that time. Plus cost of materials for any damage repair also skyrocketed.
 
It appears that you guys pay an annual tax on your vehicles? When our daughter graduated from the University of South Carolina just over a year ago and immediately got a teaching job there that would pay for her masters degree, we decided to buy her a new car.
I negotiated the deal over the phone with the dealer, they gave me a decent price on the trade of her 13-year old jeep, transferred the funds to her and she registered it in her name and address in SC.
I was surprised how low the tax was on the purchase but figured, I'm not paying tax on the price they gave me on the trade-in and hey it's the South, everything is cheaper, right..... wrong!
A month or so later, she received a tax bill on the purchase for $700.00+, so I called the salesman to find out that SC charges an annual tax on all vehicles registered in the state on the cars blue book value and that it gets reduced every year for 12-years as the value of the car depreciates! After that it's a annual flat $50.00 registration fee.
Had I known this, I would have registered it in NY and paid the one time tax on the purchase price, which would have been 8.625% and saved thousands! The kicker is that the SC Dept of Tax isn't taxing me on the purchase price, but on the $5,000.00 higher blue book price, which is not right. Now I know why property taxes are so low in the South.
I can't really complain since I made this purchase before car prices went crazy and they were motivated to move it, since was the only all wheel drive model in their inventory. I did tell my daughter that if she decides to not move back to NY after she receives her masters degree next year, the next 10-years of payments are on her.
 
Correct, and it usually decrease with depreciation. Not this year though, increased with "appreciation".
 
Very unaffordable if you have multiple newer cars and especially if you don’t own title to a property in the state.
 
It appears that you guys pay an annual tax on your vehicles? When our daughter graduated from the University of South Carolina just over a year ago and immediately got a teaching job there that would pay for her masters degree, we decided to buy her a new car.
I negotiated the deal over the phone with the dealer, they gave me a decent price on the trade of her 13-year old jeep, transferred the funds to her and she registered it in her name and address in SC.
I was surprised how low the tax was on the purchase but figured, I'm not paying tax on the price they gave me on the trade-in and hey it's the South, everything is cheaper, right..... wrong!
A month or so later, she received a tax bill on the purchase for $700.00+, so I called the salesman to find out that SC charges an annual tax on all vehicles registered in the state on the cars blue book value and that it gets reduced every year for 12-years as the value of the car depreciates! After that it's a annual flat $50.00 registration fee.
Had I known this, I would have registered it in NY and paid the one time tax on the purchase price, which would have been 8.625% and saved thousands! The kicker is that the SC Dept of Tax isn't taxing me on the purchase price, but on the $5,000.00 higher blue book price, which is not right. Now I know why property taxes are so low in the South.
I can't really complain since I made this purchase before car prices went crazy and they were motivated to move it, since was the only all wheel drive model in their inventory. I did tell my daughter that if she decides to not move back to NY after she receives her masters degree next year, the next 10-years of payments are on her.
The SC overall tax burden is just above half the NY tax burden. Many states are trying to put tax where everyone pays not just income earners.
 

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