by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
I knew that I wasn’t imagining things. There are so many times when I am shopping for groceries that I see a product that seems like it has doubled or tripled in price over the years. I am sure that many of you have experienced the exact same thing. Well, now we have confirmation that we aren’t going crazy. When 24-year-old Zoe Dippel was browsing through old family photo albums, she discovered something incredibly shocking in an envelope…
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For Zoe Dippel, a walk down memory lane looking through family photo albums became a quick lesson in inflation.
Dippel, a 24-year-old dental hygienist living near Austin, said in an interview with USA TODAY that she was flipping through her sister-in-law’s baby album when an envelope fell out.
When Dippel opened the envelope, she found a 1997 receipt for the purchase of 122 products at a grocery store known as H-E-B…
The receipt they found was for a 122-item order at H-E-B, a Texas grocer, from just after her sister-in-law was born. The large order cost $155.34 in 1997. But after Dippel posted video of the find to TikTok, she decided to find out what the same order would cost today. Her two videos about the 1997 receipt have gone viral and have a combined 3.4 million views as of Jan. 16.
She found that the same order came out to $504.11 when ordered through H-E-B’s curbside pickup.
“It’s just crazy to me,” Dippel said of the price jump.
If you multiply $155.34 by three, you get $466.02.
So the fact that those 122 items now cost a total of $504.11 at H-E-B means that the cost of the exact same order has more than tripled.
This is what our leaders have done to us.
In 1997, 150 dollars would get you a huge mountain of food.
Today, you will be very fortunate if you are able to fill up your cart a third of the way for that much money.
The cost of living has become a permanent crisis for the middle class, and one recent survey discovered that 92 percent of employed Americans have been forced to reduce their spending.
But even though most of us are trying to cut back, more Americans are being pushed over the edge with each passing day.
In fact, the number of consumer bankruptcy filings increased 12 percent in 2025…
New data shows more Americans are filing for bankruptcy, the latest indication that price pressures and an uneven economy are leaving some households strapped for cash.
Total consumer bankruptcy filings jumped 12% from 478,752 in 2024 to 533,949 in 2025, according to Epiq AACER, a platform that provides U.S. bankruptcy filing data. Epiq, which tracks Chapter 7, Chapter 11 and Chapter 13 filings, relies on data provided through the U.S. Courts’ PACER system, an electronic database that houses federal court records.
It is now being estimated that one out of ten Americans will file for bankruptcy at least once in their lives.
Foreclosures are spiking too.
In 2025, the number of foreclosures was 14 percent higher than the year before…
The past year was difficult for homeowners — but experts warn that 2026 could be even more challenging.
Foreclosures — when a bank or lender takes back a home after missed mortgage payments — rose 14 percent from a year earlier.
In total, 367,460 US properties faced foreclosure filings in 2025, meaning they were in some stage of being taken over by a lender, according to ATTOM’s data.
All of the numbers that I am sharing with you in this article indicate that the economy is getting worse.
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