Just curious on this, how much for:

New Brunswick, Canada

Gallon of gas~$4.24
Gallon of milk~$6.00
Pack of cigarettes~$9.80
Bun of bread~$2.09
10 pounds of potatoes~$3.99
Minimum wage~$6.25/hr

What is your area tallying?

central Oklahoma...I just paid $2.49 for gas today.
Milk...$2.39 to $2.89 gallon
cigs...premium, $3.90
Bread...$.89 to $2.89
20 lbs. potatoes $1.69
Minimum wage...not sure, but maybe $5.75?

Southeast Kentucky

Gallon of gas~$3.54
Gallon of milk~$3.79
Pack of cigarettes~$3.80
Bread~$2.89
10 pounds of potatoes~$3.99
Minimum wage~I have no idea.

Wow, Cindy...some of those are high for U.S. prices!

Central Washington.

2.63 for a gallon of gas
3.50 for a gallon of milk
6.15 for cigs
1.50 for bread
Dunno about minimum wage.

No, kidding...they take advantage of us hillbillies!
Today when I went to get Brennan I stopped to get gas on the way home and just as I was fixing to pump it I noticed it was $3.68 a gallon! I hung the nozzle back up and headed home, and gas was $3.54 on the other side of town, and $3.39 at the convenience store down the road from me. I bought 50 bucks worth at $3.39 a gallon, and tomorrow it will probably be down to $2.98...it never fails.

Gas Only went above $3 a gallon for about 2 months here last year, first and only time. We almost had another Revolution...

The New York State minimum wage will increase to $6.75 per hour as of January 1, 2006. It will increase again to $7.15 per hour as of January 1, 2007.
Gallon of gas~$2.59 (was just $2.39)
Cigs~
*(I do know we have state prices and reservation prices)
Gallon of milk~$2.68
$2.39 (on sale by 2 for $4.00, I stock up then)

In metro Atlanta yesterday I paid

gas $2.42 at QT (2.35 at Costco)
milk $3.42 at Publix (2.25 at Costco)
should have gone to Costco
bread 9 grain - 2 for $4.69 (at Costco)
minimum wage $5.15 but most places here are $5.75 - $6.25 due to low unemployment.

Today in Dallas....

Gas $2.50 a gallon(cheapest I saw)
Milk$3.19 a gallon
Ciggs $2.79 Generic
Bread $ 1.99-2.39 Name brand wholewheat
10lb bg of potatos $2.39 on sale this week
Minimum wage...HMMM Not sure
Guess I'll walk more and am lactose intolerant, don't smoke, and on a diet, but what's to say they won't come up with a walking, lactose intolerant,dieters tax :rolleyes:

man the prices i see here make me feel good to live in st louis
gas 2.39
milk ?(i dont use it much)
cigs 3.50 ish
bread .50 to 4.00 depending on what you like or will tolerate(i really like sara lee breads wonder when they will quit making em, sara lee brands bought out my favourite bologna , now i cant get it , seitz kinda ticks me off!)
taters, im a single guy so when i buy em i just buy em in small quantities so they dont go bad

the prices im seeing here scares the heck out of me. i gonna have to get better at conserving if this is what i have to look forward to. lookslike living in st louis aint too bad after all

Gallon of gas: $2.49
Pack of Cigs: $3.63--we go over the border to WV where they are $3.10 a pack
Bread $1.09-$2.50 depending on if I buy Sunbeam White, or the special Honey Wheat I like.
Gallon of Milk: $3.09
Potatoes: 2 5lb bags for $3
Minimum wage: $5.15...yep that's right...a miserable 5.15 an hour.

But you gotta think that the prices are all subjective....I can go to Save a lot and get the grocery items for way less if I wanted. Their bread there is 2 for 1.09 or something. Plus some stores charge a lot more for cigs than other...if I bought a pack in Martins grocery store chain or Walmart they'd be four something a pack....

In Reading, Pa (suburb of Philadelphia)
gas-$2.33/gal
milk-$2.31/gal
just paid $1.99 for bread...whole wheat buns, 8 pack
cigs-dunno...don't smoke
min wage-$5.15/hr....talks of it going up to $7.15/hr at some point

Gas is $2.50/gal don't drink store bought milk so not sure. 7 Grain Bread is 3 loaves for $2.75 @ wonder bread outlet. Last I heard min. wage was $5.25 I think I don't pay attention to that anymore.
Jimmy

I don't worry about gas, my car gets 30mph so a tank of gas lasts me all week.

I don't smoke, but the wife does and at the Indian SmokeShop they are 26.50 a carton.

Milk and Bread not sure, minium wage what's that?

In Alberta

3.50 per gallon (took me forever to convert from litres)
Milk 4.00
Bread .99- 279 depending what ya get
Cigs, 10.50 per pkg
Minimum wage 7.50

Arkansas- and prices are usually lower 50 miles from my house

Gallon of gas~$2.35
Gallon of milk~$3.50
Pack of cigarettes~ Don't know I don't smoke
Bun of bread~2 for 1.19 usually
10 pounds of potatoes~$2.99 (and I only buy when on sale)
Minimum wage~$5.25/hr

Thanks guys and gals, just wanted to prove a point of how our minimum wage is about the same but everything costs double here.

Another thing around here is that they no longer hire for a 40 hour week, they hire two part timers instead so they don't have to pay benefits.

If DH can't find another job by the end of the summer I am seriously thinking of selling my house and moving out west to Alberta. Every place that he works ends up down sizing and he ends up being in the last bunch hired.

Minimum wage in Cal is 7.75 I think. Sounds good but housing is over the top. It's hard to find an apartment for under a thousand. And they keep saying that we have the highest gas prices in the US.

Tamara,

I work at what you call the DMV. It has been privatized out here so it is privatley owned but run under the government policies etc.
We are getting more and more people from the east moving here for work. Seems we have too much work and not enough workers..

So come on down. You'll be more than welcome

I just looked over this topic again and it makes me wonder why the gas is so high where I live, and everyone else is paying from $2.29 to around $2.59 a gallon all over the country.
Rachel called on her way to work this morning and said the Speedway where she usually gets gas was $3.64 this morning.

Sounds like price gouging to me Cindy.

In Ontario
Gas-$3.64 gal (I also had to convert to gal)
Milk-$4.59
Cigarettes-between $9-$9.70 /pkg
Bread-basic white bread $1.79 and up
Potatoes-10 lb bag $2.99
Minimum wage-$7.65

I can't get over the price of cigs in Canada....I think I'd make a trip across to the US every now and then and buy some if I live close enough to the border.....

They keep raising the taxes on cigarettes hoping to keep the youth from being able to afford them and to get more people to quit. They are supposed to use the extra tax $$ for our health care system...

A few years back they cut the price in half when they found that there was a big cigarette smuggling rings and they weren't getting their tax money!! But the prices go up alot without warning and they are probably heading for the same problems.

We buy our cigarettes on the Indian reserve. A carton is 29$...so much cheaper!

Gallon of gas...Not sure I don't buy it..Dh does
Gallon of milk...$3.00
Pack of cigarettes... carton of genric $17.99 mid range carton $27.00
Bun of bread...$1.50 a loaf
10 pounds of potatoes...(right now) $3.99
Minimum wage... Not sure

Jacksonville,Florida....

Gas-$2.43
Milk-$3.49
Cigs(Marlboro)$3.00 a pack
Loaf of bread-Merita bread store 3 for $2.50
10lbs of potatoes-$3.00
Minimum wage-$6.15

The national minimum wage is $5.15, some states make it higher and here at least very few places pay the minimum.

The southeast states were hit hard by the closure of the pipe line following the hurricanes and suddenly had to start paying exorbitant gas prices. I used to feel very smug at sometimes paying half what my mother in the northeast was paying. Those days are gone, sometimes she pays less than I do.

BTW gas prices are set by level of demand which is why gas is usually cheaper on Wednesdays. During peak travel seasons it's higher on Friday and Monday.