To wonder how people are coping?

Chicken isn't great after being frozen. Every thing fresh produce wise has gone up, everything full stop is extortionate in a supermarket.

Two kilos of chicken breasts cost £12.85 at Tesco.

That seems like good value you to me?

I would use half and freeze the other half.

If the cost of chicken is reduced further it will mean even worse quality of life for chickens.

Two kilos of chicken breasts cost £12.85 at Tesco.

That seems like good value you to me?

I would use half and freeze the other half.

If the cost of chicken is reduced further it will mean even worse quality of life for chickens.

I get where you are coming from too as £170k sounds huge but you are taxed so ridiculously on it, my partner and I have a joint take home income of about £70k which results in a take home between us of about 5k a month because we aren't taxed as much at our salary rate.

We don't have kids but even our weekly food shopping for two adults and two cats has us cursing and wondering how families cope when even a pack of chicken breasts in Aldi was nearly £8! My cat insurance seems to double every year despite my cats still being fairly young and healthy. Had to spend £300 odd quid on maintenance on my car recently and hated that £65 of it was vat! You do feel ripped off all the time.

THANK YOU

That is exactly how I intended it!

Because instead of the goverment getting a grip on things they are just letting it happen.
Net zero is a issue that we cannot afford to be doing right now, brexit is a massive inflation issue, the fact the energy companies are allowed to charge through the roof with no regulation is a massive issue, the water companies dumping sewage into the rivers etc and then claiming back paying for fines through their customers etc etc
Then you the wars etc.
Also don’t forget Trump sticking traiffs on things! Cant forget that.

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?

I guess it depends if you own your property or not

Any kids?

We're coping very nicely thanks. Our income is 2/3 of yours. We're just planning three separate weeks of European holidays for next year, and already have three breaks in the UK booked in. We recently bought a car and had a new bathroom fitted. We have Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+.

On the other hand we live in a less expensive part of the country (regional city, very pleasant, but outside the South East of England). Our mortgage is a fraction of yours. The car was second hand, bought from savings. We don't get many takeaways (food or coffee) and spend little on clothes and grooming.

In short, we try to make long term, sensible financial decisions, and live within our means, minimising the costs of servicing debts as far as we can. But also, we've been lucky.

I guess it depends if you own your property or not

It’s genuinely mind blowing to me how people can earn this much and struggle with not enough money.
If my household suddenly had a 160k income coming in, we would have over £100,000 a year spare money to play with.
Would be like winning the lottery.

Im all for people making financial decisions that suit them, etc. but my preference is the same as yours! I’d rather have the security that if something breaks I can afford to replace it that month. The security of savings and not being tied to huge monthly repayments on things. Also, I don’t want to have to live with anyone else 😂

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?

yeah we earn very well. 120k as a household. We own both our cars outright. Yes we have a new house, but that was much needed. We save 2.5k per month…and yet still I got a negative comment on that, you can’t win on here.

You're not mumsnet rich your are extremely well off, if you can't live on 170k you're doing something seriously wrong.

Haven’t RTFT

I am not referring to people who are on low salaries.

But people on moderate to high salaries - they earn a certain amount and believe it’s important to get cars on tick, and buy the biggest house they can afford while the interest rates are low and ignore the warnings about being able to afford the payments if interest rates go up. I think many people on these types of income believe they deserve a certain life style so they have something to show for it. And in a way, they do. That’s fine. I love nice houses and nice cars. But I prefer to have more disposable income, personally.
Im a single parent with a school age child. My mortgage is £550 on a 3 bed semi, I own my car (a very modest oldish smaller car that still runs perfectly fine) I earn around £80k and definitely never feel squeezed. So from the outside, nobody knows I earn well. I prefer it that way.