Why the cost increase?


I went to buy materials for a speaker project. I also priced some T-111 siding on 8" centers, 5/8 thick, Ship lap.
I hadn’t picked up any sheets or anything in over 18 months.

48" x 96 x 5/8 wood siding was 19-26.00 and on sale 15-20.00 per sheet, NOW 74-84.00 per sheet.

MDF 3/4" 48 x 96" if you can find it. 45-55.00 per sheet it was 22.00 to 27.00 per sheet.

2x4x8 DF stud grade 1.99-3.00 per. Now 4-6.00 per stud,

There is no shortage but there sure is a LOT of price gouging. NOTHING changed. Just the price..

The quality is worse. The workers aren’t paid worth a crap...Why the increase?

I’m getting ready to finish my home out. WOW.. I might have to rethink this a bit..

The price all most tripled in 12-18 months.. This kind of stuff is NOT cool at ALL.

Just my opinion of course. Any projects you’re doing get put on hold or STOPED?

YES I’m very frugal. Money never came easy, and it leaves the same way..

oldhvymec

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(Ah....maybe balm has arrived @ this corner of AG.....we'll see...;)...)

Have a simple kvetch over the $/lumber morph into a series of 'slap-squabbles' is a truly amazing thing to scan, really.....🙄

...all this time I've been more curious about o.h.m.'s speaker project, which Finally surfaces (kinda).....being a woodbutcher of sorts....*S*

So....what up with dat? *L*
’.... her Gaelic/Texas accent.’

I’d have loved to have heard her speak......but I’m just a fan of ’accents’ in our voices. *s* ’Audible DNA’, that sort of thing....

Me? SoCal, overlaid w/SF~NoCal+HOU+Appalanchian of late...

(Mid Century SoCal meaning y’all grew up on ’radio/TV’ as an influence) ...a rather homogenized ’non-accent’ that might be one of a sort...

...or a crass move to nudge this into ’calmer waters'....;)
*S*  The only grandmother I knew spoke not a word of english....only bohemian (Czech)....the only word she'd utter that I'd recognize was 'coffee'. which later I realize was 'cafe'.....but I recognized her in my mothers' manner.....

...but lived, worlds' away in mid-'Merica, more a parental force than in mine.  We all come to terms with 'Life, the Universe, and Everything' in our own means 'n method....;)

Vertical aligned ribbons...the taller the element, the more important this becomes imho....the dispersion has similarities to expo horns, but that's where they go their own ways....

More familiar with dipole ribbons, but once bipolar always such. *G* 
Happily flawed...;)

Just my prefs, but 3 G1 spaced *mmm* 6" apart on a minimalist column 'bout 2.5' floor to bottom...finding woofs that can match ribbon 'speed' is the tricky bit....

Dual voice coil units are promising, but kept to 6" dia.best....8"+ will lag, physics 'n mass, class.  Subs to taste...

I've grown tired of large cabinetry that I have to threaten the cats with a Chinese Resolution to keep paws 'n claws from, so have wandered off into minimalist wanderlands...

Small footprint, big impression-makers....a little above 5 'n dime, but there's satisfaction in that....

...as the 'ancient ad' used to pose:

"Where do you want to go today?"

...when it's all about the journey, not so much a destination....*s*
"...this is The End, my new found friend, The End..."

Nope...not quite, not yet.....
...y'all are passing so many wet blankets around, I'd be surprised if someone doesn't start handing out razorblades with a simple diagram...

I got a coupon from the stupormarket this evening for:

Coffee Enhanced With Optimism
SUPER Coffee (RegTM)

(...I jerk you off Not....I'd not likely to, in any circumstance, anyway...)

...in tiny 2pt. caps in the corner...

ADD
SOMETHING
POSITIVE

2$ when you buy 4'!"....so you can avoid the remaining 3...*L*

...well, it was just a matter of time the cycle swung 'round....hallucinogens got popular during Ron & Nancy's' 'Say No', so we did the exact opposite..

In this era of 'Say, Whut?!', almost makes sense...even 'mass marketed'....;)

Like the rvsd. 626R concept overall....I'd keep the Neos' but dabble with different drivers otherwise, but mho is 'small can be stunning'...*G*
@stereo5 ...had the same experience....I chalk it up to the 'lightning experience', whereas you're 'just sitting there, and *pow*'....

I don't take it personally, just a bad 'phraseology'....;)
@nonoise ....*wry G*...when everyone's free, we've got to expect a whole tushfull of 'variables' (yeah, me too)...and boy howdy,  ain't there...

In NC, the CV19D infect rate has gone up 5X, sig other & I have already 'month-ed' when we should go booster...finding relief and amuse in calling chickens 'dinosaurs'...

...one looks at strangers as a potential threat....
...parts of our government as another....
...the next chapter of the Afgan....(words fail)....(miserably)...
...a planet turning to Bite...

"May we live in Interesting Times...."

OK, got IT....wake up tomorrow for the latest outrageous...."WTF, over..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa1JR-TgPfU&list=RDMM&index=7

LA county, myself...but closer to what Frank has to say about it....just more of similar but mostly trouble of other sorts, unimagined and undreamt of.....*no emoji can infer or begin to*
....the only golf round I'd pay to watch would be played with slingshots & pool cues, with no practice rounds....

Done for charity, only by the pros....😏