Prices rise higher in Honolulu than anywhere else

[Miulang]

Prices in Honolulu rose 5.9% in 2006 over the previous year, which is nearly double the increase in any other US city, according to a report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2007/02/19/daily32.html?jst=b_ln_hl).

The average inflation rate in other U.S. cities for the same period was 3.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The rate for West Coast cities was 3.1 percent.

...Gasoline prices up 15 percent
Utilities up 13.1 percent
Grocery prices up 3.9 percent
Food away from home up 5.4 percent
Apparel up 1.9 percent
Recreation up 3.4 percent
Education and communication down .3 percent
Household furnishings down 1.5 percent


Miulang

[craigwatanabe]

Prices in Honolulu rose 5.9% in 2006 over the previous year, which is nearly double the increase in any other US city, according to a report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2007/02/19/daily32.html?jst=b_ln_hl).



Miulang

One of my kids asked for an increase in allowance to keep in line with inflation. I told them, "We feed, clothe, shelter, and medicate you for free, why in the world do you need an increase". Apparently it's for discretionary spending. I said, "well then be more discretionary with your spending."

One told me he wanted to go on the school trip to Arizona. I told him okay start fundraising the $835. He asked how come we couldn't just pay for it. I looked at him in the eyes (he's 11-years old) and told him the value of $835...one PS3 and an X-Box 360. He gulped and realized just how expensive that trip was for him not to fundraise.

I said for all the trips to Maui, Oahu and now Arizona his school wants to take him on, I could have had my Jumbotron HDTV in our living room by now.:eek: