I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I know the price of lettuce. You need to understand price and value. You buy the best lettuce you can at the best price you can.
Bring your kids along next time you go to the grocery store and ask them to help find the price per unit for the general grocery items. By comparing brands and looking for the best prices, kids will get in the habit of looking for deals and understand the value of the dollar.
My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?
If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.
I think that I know the value of a dollar.
The same ten dollars you spend on lunch is all it costs for City Harvest to feed 37 kids who are hungry. That's pretty astounding.
It seems everyone knows the value of a cantaloupe or a quart of milk.