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I meticulously track my actual cost of staples (rice, beans, milk) and ammo, clothing, diapers etc.
I don't apply gasoline to this because it's so volatile. yes, food CAN be volatile with drought etc. but food has been rising steadily for a while now. PAY ATTENTION to packaging...not the size of the box but the label...now they are putting less food in the same sized box for the same price. So when you go to the grocery store you'll see your favorite box of cereal is still 2.99 and the box is the same size, label looks the same etc. but it actually now has only 14 oz instead of 16 oz. Most people will NEVER notice this....
that innocuous 14 oz "trick" represents almost a 14% increase in the price of that cereal.
The inflation rate (however you want to measure it) is calculated and reported based on known economic data. So why ask people's opinion about it? It's like asking people's "opinion" about the population of Sweden.
Unless you are just trying flush out the uninformed (10%?!) or get people to assert that people who measure such things are all liars trying to trick us in furtherance of their calculated political subterfuges (there are some here), I'm not sure what the point of this exercise is.