We are very lucky, I know this.
We are "Mumsnet rich" both have professional jobs with good salaries (£170k household income) and yet this last 12 months:
- removed children from private school
- changed how we do the weekly shop to reduce costs
- cut subscriptions (like Disney+ etc)
- reduced what I bought in the back to school shop
- decided against a holiday in October half term
- concerned about our usual Christmas food order
What is going on? I just don't understand why or how prices are rising as they are or how people on less than us are coping!
I'm extremely grateful we have the things to cut that we have but we've also had to remortgage this year which has doubled our mortgage payments and then our utilities have increased and the food shop has just got insane.
We have other things we can cut - a holiday in the UK, Netflix, the monthly takeaway but its just miserable to think we may need to do that just not to be living.
Happy to post spending particulars if people are finding it hard to see where I'm coming from.
So AIBU to think that as a country we cannot go on with prices rising like this? How are others coping?