Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Producer prices have fallen! What good is that to me? I bought my flour 7 months ago for 0.45 cents. Today 0.89.

That means we will see a flattening of inflation if producer prices continue to fall. With a time delay, of course.

Additionally, you can see at the Federal Statistical Office that industrial orders in Germany have dropped by 10% (Nov21/Nov22). It won’t get better in the following months; I am waiting for the numbers.

All of this will work its way through and lead to decreasing inflation.

Whether there will ever be a year with resets of the price level, I doubt, but I cannot rule it out.

The bread at the bakery yesterday cost 6 euros.

That we nowadays, and especially in Germany, spend a ridiculous percentage of our income on FOOD, unfortunately probably leads to such disregard. How many quintals of bread do you need per month?

The fact that nowadays, and especially in Germany, we spend a ridiculous percentage of our income on FOOD probably unfortunately leads to such disdain....

THAT is indeed the case, and I will never understand why people stuff themselves with fully industrialized junk for just a few cents a day (you are what you eat) (By the way, I can't understand it even though I also did it for a long time and still do so in exceptional cases :rolleyes:)

80€ were total.
Internet is quite expensive, directly at the gravel plant is better. If you get at least one three-axle load full, the delivery isn't expensive either.

I only have the toy driver's license, but conveniently my Octavia weighs just under 1.9t max and with my 1.5t tipper (good ton of payload) stays under 3.5t. The one from the gravel plant was very well-meaning at first and loaded the first trailer with 1.6t. That worked too, but it doesn't have to be repeated that extremely again ;)
I mainly got the trailer for the small quantities and of course the various trips to the hardware store. When I'm done, it'll be sold again.

So my prices are from the internet, but also at gravel plants themselves (a building materials dealer, who was even quite cheap). The one with 68 EUR / t I found on Minibucht, don't even know what kind that is.
But yeah, maybe I need to call a gravel plant without an online presence again, then there's less margin going to internet administration and prices might be cheaper. Or Berlin/Brandenburg is simply more expensive because of fewer natural deposits? I don't even know if gravel naturally occurs here. There's quite a lot of gravel here because of the moraine landscape.

Regarding the trailer, unfortunately in the initial construction phase I made the mistake of buying a used wooden trailer, which is quite spacious but unfortunately also quite heavy and has little permissible total weight (700kg). And I didn't pay attention that the unbraked towing capacity of my V70 is only 500 kg.
So I can only load my trailer with 230kg. Frustrated by that, I put the license plate and registration papers somewhere where I can't find them again and by now I would also need to renew the MOT. So it’s just standing around on my property storing wood scraps...

We have been baking ourselves for several months now. It is still significantly cheaper. I bake a large loaf 1-2 times a week (1000g dough, I don’t know the final weight). Roughly estimated, a loaf costs us 2€. It is also surprisingly simple. And very tasty. The children don’t want any from the bakery anymore, because unfortunately we no longer have a good baker nearby and the quality has bothered us for a long time. Of course, it is not a high-end three-year sourdough bread with five different grains. We now also prefer to make Sunday rolls ourselves; only toast bread we still get from the baker.

I only bought bread at the baker (not supermarket) yesterday and paid €2.15 for a pound loaf... Flour from the mill 2km away