'Goodbye, Middle Class. It's Been Fun'

An American friend went shopping at Target with her kid for school supplies yesterday. She sent me this pic, with the comment, “Goodbye middle class. It’s been fun”. My jaw dropped: $26 for a packet of colored markers?! What the hell?! I keep saying here that every time I go back from Hungary to the US to visit, I’m shocked by the cost of living. But something about this just dropped my jaw. Colored markers!

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