A recent post on this forum discussed increasing Intuit rates each year. But it seems like everything is going up. So we have to increase our rates accordingly. For example, I had to buy a wedding card for a client. The first card I looked at was over $5! Can you believe that? I kept looking and all the other cards were over $5 too. I was thinking about just getting a plain white mailing envelope, and writing "Congratulations" on that and putting their money in it. But I kept looking, and I found one for under $2. For those wondering how much I am going to put in the card, well all they are getting is $50 and that's plenty since I'm not going to the wedding. I'm sure some of you will say this is cheap, but I don't think so. If I was a cheap @$$ like some of my extended relatives, then I would put $20 in the envelope AND show up at the reception and eat $50 worth of food. Now that is cheap.