28 People Share The Purchase That Made Them Realize Inflation Has Completely Lost The Plot

There’s something uniquely depressing about buying something completely ordinary and suddenly feeling like you’ve been financially mugged. Inflation used to feel abstract, the kind of thing economists argued about on cable news. Now it’s standing in a grocery store staring at a carton of eggs like it’s a luxury purchase, or spending $40 on takeout and wondering how that even happened.