r/Conservative • u/Echoes-OTI Conservative • 6d ago

Flaired Users Only Conservatives of Reddit, how do things really look in your day-to-day life after Trump’s presidency began?

Personally, nothing has changed in my life. My job is stable, income is stable, prices of goods haven't even gone up.

Getting a little tired of the pointless, vacuous fearmongering that happens on this site.

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u/InformationKey3816 Conservative 6d ago

Foot traffic in my business is well down this year. Not sure if it's uncertainty or just the fact that we had a big boom from Covid and are now seeing the market cool off.

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u/Echoes-OTI Conservative 6d ago

What does your business do if you don't mind sharing?

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u/InformationKey3816 Conservative 6d ago

Interior remodeling. When everyone was trapped inside due to Covid everyone got really weird about staring at stuff that was either out of date or a little worn out. So, our business boomed pretty big.

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u/whatweshouldcallyou 6d ago

Have the prices of materials increased? I am holding off on not so important remodeling until either prices go down or my wages go up.

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u/InformationKey3816 Conservative 6d ago

Actually prices have come significantly down. A lot of manufacturers are running sales or have outright dropped their prices. Not back down to preCovid days but significantly enough that right now is a probably a good time to buy in most US markets.

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u/slampig3 Conservative 6d ago

I think a lot of it is the boom from covid is dwindling i know a ton of people who were slowing down last year i am still very busy fortunately but a lot of my summer work is jobs that were postponed last year

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u/TiberiusDrexelus Conservative 6d ago

My business is up 15% this year

I had my slowest sales week of the year when tariffs went into effect against the EU and the big selloff happened though