evidence: Cakes, cupcakes, and cookies +17.6% [...] Telephone hardware, calculators, and other consumer info items -17.9% [...] After school lunches, fuel oil and eggs rank high in terms of big jumps in their prices, increasing by 66% and 49% respectively. Some other notable increases: airfares have gone up by 36%, living room, kitchen, and dining room furniture by 10.3%, and alcoholic beverages at home by 4.5%.