I track everything on Microsoft Money and run a report each month. I looked back and obviously gasoline expense has doubled in two years but so has my grocery bill. The family is not eating any more! My electric bill has been stable over the last two years and my per kilowatt cost has actually dropped. Strange!

I'm a homebrewer and the cost of malted barley has gone from $.99 a pound to $1.49 in a year. Hops have gone from $1.25 an ounce to $4.99 an ounce.

Now when my beer cost goes up I'm ticked off!!