I need to frame in a small storage closet in the shop and spent a little time yesterday laying out the basic approach. This morning I went to Lowes to pick up some 2x stock, thinking it had come down in price from the pandemic. Nope, at least not much. 2x4x8' were still over $9, I seem to think they were in the $4 range pre-pandemic. Guess this will be something on hold for a while yet.

That sucks!

Right after I got married we decided we wanted a cabin at a lake somewhere so I started watched the adds before I started buying lumber. Its hard to believe now that 8' 2x4's was regular priced at 13 cents and occasionally they went down to 9 cents each. And I really believe they didn't warp as bad and as quickly as they do now. This was in 1962.  Sheetrock was less than a dollar for 1/2? 4x8. But I also think my earnings was on the low side of nothing. 

Last summer, the price had dropped back near your number.  Oddly enough, at the time, treated was cheaper that kd.

Then about 10 or 15 years later we gave that 2 story cabin to our neighbors across the street. He was a nice guy who brought his road building crew out to the 4 acres we were fixing to build a go-cart track and a mini golf course on and up rooted the mesquite trees and leveled it all nice and flat so I could get to work building things. I ask wife how much he charged us for all that work and she said nada so a few months after that I said go give that cabin to them cause we never left that amusement thingy for eight years at 7 days a week....tied down because we were actually having fun making money!

45 minutes ago, JimM said:

Last summer, the price had dropped back near your number.  Oddly enough, at the time, treated was cheaper that kd.

Noticed the same here. Made little sense.

Menards current sale circular has a 2x4x8 treated at $9.43 less 11% rebate brings one to $8.39. I bought several from Menards just prior to July 2020 for under $3 each.

Had to stop at HD for a couple items while in town today. 2x4x92-5/8" (precut stud), $7.85; assume they were for dome houses based on curvature?

4x8x 23/32" OSB sub floor, $78+change per sheet; 4x8x ~7/16" sheathing, almost $45 sheet. Didn't look at much else; all this was on end aisle on path to restroom

Wow! So that sheet of ½” birch, slightly damaged, I got really was a steal!

8 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

on end aisle on path to restroom

Handy! For those nauseous  with the prices