U-Talk: How has inflation affected your Thanksgiving weekend? – Daily Herald

November 14, 2022 News Editor

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Tiana Lao, Special to the Daily Herald

Gay Mikesell

“Being on social security and under fixed income, it really sucks because it has gone up so much more. We’ll still have everything that we want, but it’s going to cost us a lot more. Because social security, our income hasn’t gone up in contrast with what inflation is going up. Yeah, you know, you get some fixed income and you get so much a year, and they give you a cost of living every year, and the cost of living is not the 15% that groceries went up or anything. You get like 6%. So the groceries cost so much more. Everything is costing so much more than the cost of living for us seniors. It is harder on seniors.” — Gay Mikesell, Lindon

“We decided to go out to eat instead of having a Thanksgiving feast. Part of the reason is we will probably be traveling. The cost is so great that it’s probably cheaper to go out than to make a dinner at home. We’ll probably be going to southern California, but we’ll be driving instead of flying because it is just so expensive. We might do a Thanksgiving dinner without family here, on a different day, but turkey is outrageous, everything is just so expensive.” — Sherry Neiger, Orem

“I mean, directly, myself, only a little bit, just because I’m going home with my wife to my parents’ place for Thanksgiving, but overall, I mean it’s definitely affected my one sister not coming home because it’s too expensive to travel. My wife has a sister who’s also not coming home because it’s too expensive to travel, and I know several other people who just have, kind of, scaled down their celebrations because there’s not that money going around for everyone to be able to get to where they need to go, and everyone to be able to have the food they need and everything.” — Justiz Valenzuela, Lindon

“Everything costs a lot more, so I have to budget more and be cautious of how much I spend and kind of watch, where before I didn’t really have to as much. Groceries, specifically food and fuel. It takes all of my disposable income; the extra income that you have for like, going further on vacation, or going further for the holiday, like with groceries and fuel. That’s all of your disposable income that’s being spent on the everyday things that you didn’t have to spend on before. ” — Kellee Kilpack, Pleasant Grove

“It hasn’t affected mine very much because of the way I shop. I only shop when I can get very good bargains and then I store it in my cupboard for when I need to use it. It is very high now and it is hurting a lot of people who don’t do the things that I do, and it even hurts me in some areas. … Even the price of jerky is really going up for those people that are getting those for Thanksgiving, but yeah, most of the food items are rising, and it will affect a lot of people.” — John Bauman, Pleasant Grove