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My county offers compost from yard waste for $7 per loader scoop. You have to haul it yourself on the handful of weekends it's open, but it's a way better deal than buying from any of the landscape suppliers. Similar programs aren't quite ubiquitous but they're more common than most would realize. If your city has leaf collection, you should see if they offer compost.
I built some large raised beds that would have been a fortune to fill with bagged soil or from a landscape supplier. So I was really happy to find out about my local program.
Most counties offer this. It’s a truly unknown and underused service. Even if you don’t have a truck, you can rent a U-Haul truck and it would still be way cheaper than bags of compost/soil.
I found out about it when studying for the Master Gardner program. For anyone interested in the US, call your local Extensions office and they’ll point you in the right direction.