the price of things

Bananas are down to $11.98 a kilogram.




Went to the grocery store the other day. Couldn't resist taking pictures of the cost of tiny packages of blueberries and raspberries. These are those tiny little 1/2 pint (250 gm) packages.



Books are quite expensive. A pocket-sized paperback, which would be $10-13 in Canada, costs $21 here. Even in secondhand book stores and flea markets, they range from 6 to 8 dollars. I've found that places like the Salvation Army and St. Vincent de Paul sell some for $2-3 so I've been going there. But airfare within Australia is really cheap, thanks to Richard Branson's Virgin Airlines entering the competition and forcing the prices down.