Current Events > 12 gallons of milk a week seems like a lot

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https://twitter.com/brikeilarcnn/status/1456227125346832384

Even if you have kids.
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They seem surprised but at Aldi near me the milk regularly goes for 1.25 I think? I'm not even kidding. I've seen it pretty damn cheap, they have signs posted that say no more than 6 can be bought at once. It's definitely sub 2 dollars.

I don't care much for milk quality however, just care about it mixing well with protein powder and it does its job well. Also has that slight creaminess. It isn't farmer's market milk quality but then again the stuff at the grocery store will never be as good. At least the ones in my area.

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I love milk but 12 gallons a week? We go through like 3 gallons a week

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I drink maybe 8 ounces of milk a week and that's for a random bowl of cereal. People really drink multiple gallons a week?

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stop buying milk then

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Uh... something tells me they'll be just fine without cow weight gainer.

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That's a lot of milk, but IIRC they had 5-6 children/young adults. They're running a foster home.

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The point about inflation is good.

But yeah I am the type who drinks milk out of a glass and I rarely go through 1 gallon in a week.

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are those the duggars, the family with 20 kids or whatever? if not, how?

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3.29$ when not on sale
2.50$ on sale.

seen it go as low as 2$ on a good day.
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Looking at them maybe they should be drinking less milk.
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Yeah that's alot of milk.

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Holy shit its $6 here

They can kiss my ass

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I don't think I've ever bought milk
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Seems dumb to focus on milk prices when meat and produce prices have increased more significantly (and should be a larger percentage of ones diet)

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Gallon of brand name milk is $3.89-4.29 where I live.

brestugo posted...

That's a lot of milk, but IIRC they had 5-6 children/young adults. They're running a foster home.

Its actually 9 kids (plus the adults)

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OMG! 12 gallons!

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They'll never get into the Salty Spitoon at this rate

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I have a hard time getting through 1 gallon before it goes bad.

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At least two of those "kids" have full beards.

12 gallons could be a lot or not enough depending on how many kids you have

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Quit drinking milk. You are not a baby cow

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Jeez and I cant even finish a half gallon of almond milk in a week (depending on how cereal-y Im feeling, of course).

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Walmart. Just stop buying name brand shit, its all exactly the same.

Ive just been ordering groceries through Walmart+ the past couple months. Plan the next weeks meals and then order what we need for it, along with the small basic shit like milk and eggs and bread. No impulse buying and when you pick the Great Value brand for everything, most times theyre sold out because people go for the cheap shit so you get a free upgrade to name brand lol

My wife and I usually dont even go through one full gallon of milk a week and we both have a bowl of cereal every morning

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rexcrk posted...

(depending on how cereal-y Im feeling, of course).

Nobody in this family looks to be the type who stops at one bowl of cereal in the morning.

littlebro07 posted...

Walmart. Just stop buying name brand shit, its all exactly the same.

The cost of milk (and most dairy/meat/produce) varies wildly by location

here are my results



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TheGoldenEel posted...

The cost of milk (and most dairy/meat/produce) varies wildly by location

Yeah, but look at the difference between the store brand and name brand in the screenshots. Store brand is almost always gonna be cheap as hell for the same product

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littlebro07 posted...

Yeah, but look at the difference between the store brand and name brand in the screenshots.

I'm automatically suspicious of any liquid commodity product that isn't sold in a multiple of 16 fluid ounces.

(still not used to metric liquor)

littlebro07 posted...

Yeah, but look at the difference between the store brand and name brand in the screenshots. Store brand is almost always gonna be cheap as hell for the same product

Ok but

the tweet says $2.79 for a gallon of milk, from $1.99

Im showing the absolute dirt cheapest gallon of milk around me is $2.68, where are you getting any assumption that these obviously cost-conscious (based on the video) people arent buying the store brand

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exactly

the cost of milk is almost entirely the shipping cost, which has gone way up

i live in Wisconsin so I would expect dairy to be lower cost than average compared to the rest of the country

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At 4.89, you're better off buying bulk powdered milk from Costco or Sams.

TheGoldenEel posted...

Ok but

the tweet says $2.79 for a gallon of milk, from $1.99

Im showing the absolute dirt cheapest gallon of milk around me is $2.68, where are you getting any assumption that these obviously cost-conscious (based on the video) people arent buying the store brand

because the video shows them buying a lot of name brand stuff


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littlebro07 posted...

because the video shows them buying a lot of name brand stuff

Timestamps?
I saw PF Changs in there, which doesn't really have a "store brand" alternative at walmart.

... I wonder why they aren't at Aldi?

Cuticrusader09 posted...

Looking at them maybe they should be drinking less milk.

But if they aren't chugging gallons of milk to prove their racial superiority, how can they pwn libs?

...seriously. This is apparently a thing.

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Shit...it was almost $5 per gallon when I lived in Hawaii back in '06. Mostly shipping costs. I now live in the heart of dairy land and it's still going up...because of shipping.

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Time to tie wages to inflation

Questionmarktarius posted...

Timestamps?
I saw PF Changs in there, which doesn't really have a "store brand" alternative at walmart.

... I wonder why they aren't at Aldi?

Was on my small phone screen so could've been incorrect on "a lot" of it being name brand but the tortillas and a lot of the cereal and the brick of velveeta cheese all have Kroger versions (where they were shopping)

As far as Aldi they probably don't have one near them, there's only a couple of them in my area. Kroger is usually the cheapest option if you don't have Aldi as long as you stick to store brand stuff

Also I'm pretty sure I saw a can of Dr. Pepper on the table, Kroger has their own version of that too >_>

Not shaming them though, I occasionally splurge on stuff or the store brand won't be available and I'll just say fuck it and spend extra. With a family that big it's gotta be tough.

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The milk I buy is $4.59 per half gallon

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I mean in a worse case scenerio you could always just get pregnant again.
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Duncanwii posted...

I mean in a worse case scenerio you could always just get pregnant again.

wat

they already have too many damn mouths to feed

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littlebro07 posted...

wat

they already have too many damn mouths to feed

I mean...free milk.
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littlebro07 posted...

Was on my small phone screen so could've been incorrect on "a lot" of it being name brand but the tortillas and a lot of the cereal and the brick of velveeta cheese all have Kroger versions (where they were shopping)

Yeah... I wasn't paying much attention anyway.
The "woe is me!!" narrative here gets shot to shit by a swimming pool in the background at 3:43.

Questionmarktarius posted...

At least two of those "kids" have full beards.

And?
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littlebro07 posted...

Was on my small phone screen so could've been incorrect on "a lot" of it being name brand but the tortillas and a lot of the cereal and the brick of velveeta cheese all have Kroger versions (where they were shopping)

As far as Aldi they probably don't have one near them, there's only a couple of them in my area. Kroger is usually the cheapest option if you don't have Aldi as long as you stick to store brand stuff

Also I'm pretty sure I saw a can of Dr. Pepper on the table, Kroger has their own version of that too >_>

Not shaming them though, I occasionally splurge on stuff or the store brand won't be available and I'll just say fuck it and spend extra. With a family that big it's gotta be tough.

I mean, certain things definitely need the name brand or they arent worth buying at all

kroger brand Oreos for example are not worth the 60 cent savings or whatever

i imagine velveeta is the same since its a very specific thing

milk is different

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Duncanwii posted...

I mean...free milk.

Stop duncan

https://twitter.com/AM_Pines/status/1456259855736455169

wtf is this accurate?

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Guess they need to switch to an alternative.



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