A Holiday Gift Guide Made Only of Things Whose Prices Haven’t Gone Up Because of Inflation
SlateStruggling to squeeze all your usual giving into the holiday budget despite 6.2 percent inflation? Good news: Thanks to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ list of consumer price index subcategories, we know that not everything has gotten more expensive in this era of surging consumer demand and dysfunctional supply chains. The BLS technically lists these under the old-timey name “frankfurters,” which means that they’re best suited to be given to an octogenarian with a name like Merle or Buck. It’s $1.49 for a romaine head on Amazon, or $9.99 if you want to pay to have it delivered in two hours, should you really need that single head of lettuce so urgently that you want to pay five times its value for a local community college student to bring it to you in their Nissan Sentra. This isn’t the year to give your spouse a used truck that you’ve tied in a gigantic red bow as if it were in a Lexus commercial, nor to put a raw beef roast wrapped in its own little beef roast bow in the front passenger seat of that truck.
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