The Gift of Inflation!
One of the many reasons I wrote the book Get WalletWise resulted from watching my grandparents struggle with money in retirement during the 1970s. They were on fixed incomes and regular price increases made it incredibly difficult for them to balance their budgets. My mother kept everything, and I have relived their trauma recently by rereading the letters between my grandparents and my mom. My grandmother living in New York complained regularly about the high price of heatin