[Thread] Are you facing the heat of inflation too?

A decent burger or Small pizza on Zomato is Rs 300+; A coffee at Starbucks is now 450; Movie tickets are 400; the average cost of a weekend drinks and dinner with friends is above 2K; Lets not even talk about how expensive rent is right now. It feels like the cost of everything is just rising and salaries are not growing fast enough to make up for the rising costs

Me and my spouse in total are earning 6 Lakh a month pre-tax, but inspite of that there is too much pressure on finances. I am just amazed with the cost of living. Rents, School fees, EMIs, Taxes are just eating away all the income. I am barely left with 1 lakh at end of month. This saving is not enough for any emergency. Recently my family faced with medical emergency and I am still recovering with the debt it created. Company covered health insurance denied the claim on certain grounds and we were f**c***. It looks so pretty from outside, but honestly I am frustrated even with this package in hand. Is anyone else feeling the pressure, or I am just bad at managing finances?

Back in 2013 .. i thought if I will be able to make 50k a month thats more than enough to sustain a family of 4 back in the day.. But now I see folks even earning 1lpm and struggling with finances .. they don't own a house.. Have we all started to live the false rich life ? I don't think making 2LPM or even over that... and living just on that makes you rich .. I do think in order to be rich one should look at his bank balance.. investments and assets which are generating regular income for him/her ... What do you guys think??

This should include everything from home bills, entertainment, medical expenses, trips etc. When I was single (back in 2016), my expenses were around 20k per month. Now I easily go above 1L every month (without rent, we live in our own house). My wife also works and she has her expenses too. Not sure what’s the reason for it though. We live frugally and don’t spend lavishly (atleast I don’t think we do). I barely buy anything for myself (I use 1k earphones and buy clothes from decathalon). My wife is the same. Is this common when you get married? That your expenses permanently increase? Or is there something I should be worried about? TIA

After getting a bunch of 'buy a house' advice from my in-laws over the weekend, I decided to fire up magicbricks to check prices in Bengaluru. My browsing ended within 5 mins seeing just how much the prices have risen in last 1 year A 3BHK that used to cost 2.3 Cr last year is now 3.7 A 2BHK that used to cost 1.8 Cr last year is now 2.7 These are two houses I had earmarked for sometime later when I would have more money WTF is happening in BLR

Was flooded with ads about restaurants with Sufi nights and what not, so I'd thought I'd ask one about their rates, and damn, at these prices they better give me a gold souvenir when I leave

Today I paid 7 rs for one egg. Last week I paid 6 bucks for one. Swiggy showing me around 8. How much do y'all pay? If it's still 6 or lesser I'll have to change my shop. My area is Koramangala. This is a bit expensive given that egg is 5.5 in my hometown. Also it's the cheapest good food I can buy with my single digit CTC. Is Egg inflation real?