I had to take the birdfeeder down indefinitely. The black hulls of the sunflower seeds in the mix we used a long time ago killed the turf grass so we switched over to the hulled mix. It was 2.99 per 7 pound bag at our local supplier earlier this year. We'd go through a bag a week.

Then the supplier had the 'great' idea of a store 'club' card (like too many other places) and raised the price to 5.49. That's when we cut our consumption in half, even though using the card saved us *30 cents* (and they were proud to tell us that, yet ignored the death ray look I gave them). They raised the price again, did away with the club card discount so we were down to 1 bag every three weeks. I stopped in there the other day and the price is now 7.99/bag. I left it on the shelf. I cannot justify that much of an increase in less than a year especially when the doves and squirrels would clean out the feeder in 4 days. I hope no one buys that stuff. Maybe the store will get the point. Do they think everyone got 150% pay raise this year? The price of gas went up, sure, but this is ridiculous.