What have you stopped buying due to a price increase?

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?? Don't buy as many eggs as we normally did or chicken...

I use my local library audio book and e book app
for free
check your library has the same app
either borrow box
or Libby

You can also read magazines via this

also BBC Sounds app is great music and drama podcasts etc

Really?? My parents pay £110 a month in pet insurance. If it a machine of that or food then people will buy food. They doesn't mean their animals aren't cared for or they shouldn't have them.

We’ve got the dolce gusto and you get 12 in the box for £4, if you buy direct from dolce you get free boxes of ones to try. My last order I got 2 free boxes of Americano to try. Quite often they are reduced to £3.50 or £3 which is a bargain.

I don’t know how many pods you get in a tassimo.

Shorter showers. Especially for dc's who like to take their time 🙄
Less driving. We try to cycle more.
Sanitary pads. Started using a moon cup. It's actually amazing!

Milk and meat. And hot meals are for when I have company. I try not to run the oven too much.

Behave 🫣😂

Each to their own as with everything. I’ve seen many pets end up neglected due to finances and in turn no insurance. Not saying it’s the same in all cases but I personally do not respect those that skimp on their pets well-being.

We were doing roasts once a week.
i have cut that back now and if I do a roast I get a much bigger joint and make it last.
e.g gammon can do a pizza topping, pasta, sandwiches, omelette etc

the price difference isn’t huge between a small one day roast and one that can do a couple of meals.

ditto to lots of posts above; and
After ditching the shopping trolley for a basket, now attempt to hold the essentials in my arms to avoid picking up unnecessary extras whilst out shopping
Also, smaller potions for me and I eat kids leftovers

I hope you don’t have a iPhone etc as my pets needs would be the last to go.

We never go out for dinner or have takeaways unless we have vouchers eg Tesco vouchers. Buy all our bread on yellow label from Tesco and pop it in the freezer. Mainly shop in Aldi and don’t buy any named brands. And I buy potatoes by the sack from the farm shop - much much cheaper.

We get our pine nuts from aldi, only £1.69 for 60g! Yay!

Any good swaps @LairyMcClairy ?

I've been making meals stretch further. Bulking them out with veg carbs and lentils. So they do us three nights instead of two. Did a big shop in Aldi last week. The fruit and veg was really good value. I was really pleased with the quality of it. Got some aldi fish fingers not and some Tennessee steaks not tried them yet. Usually get bird's eye. Trolley full came to £85.

Speaking about coffee machines, does anyone know if you can get cheap decaff Dolce Gusto pods anywhere?

I got the machine for my birthday and only use it occasionally. I said the machine was going in the cupboard after I use up my current boxes of pods but would love to have a nice coffee sometimes.

We have done the same, bought clippers and done him ourselves! Was definitely a 2 person job but the I laws thought he'd been done professionally so I was quite chuffed!!

Please stop cancelling pet insurance!! What will you do if your pet breaks it’s leg tomorrow?
Put them down?
There are other ways to save money, at least shop around for a cheaper quote. So sad 😞

Me too. I used to do an online shop every week but now I do a "special offer" online shop every 2/3 weeks and go to the small local Morrisons regularly for things I need in between.
Not so much in the freezer at the moment as it's pretty new, so doing batch cooking using special offer meat - there are always good offers on something, this week it's thick pork chops and lamb shoulder. We usually have leg but I can skim fat off a casserole before I freeze it.

Buy direct from Dulce you can get cafe au latte decaf, lungo and espresso. Each one is £3.99 and has 16 pods.

Chicken thighs that are already skinless and boneless. Now I just skin it myself.

Also crisps.

Baby food pouches.

Food of any kind and electric. Have to buy petrol as work an hour away from home but drive at 50mph on dual carriageway and motorway much to other people's disgust. I eek it out to the end as much as poss. Life is boringly shite really

Now cancelled NT membership as I did not use it much anyway. Won't be paying to renew annual zoo membership when it ends in August. Dogs go to groomers every 12 weeks instead of every ten. My adult son bought some human hair trimmers and asked me to cut his hair as barber put prices up from £12 to £15. It turns out they are easy to use and I will be doing them on foster son too.

If any of you guys looking to save money have a car on PCP that's a huge saving to be made there.

PCP is singularly the worst way to buy the use of a car. You pay £250 a month £3k a year and the have to pay top whack for servicing and whatever for the life of the PCP as well as being hammered if it picks up a ding or a scratch or you go over the miles agreed. I ever hear of people paying £100 for an end of lease clean.

At the end of the three years you've paid £9k and you have to either hand the car back (and get nothing) or keep paying £3k a year and get a new car.

My colleague had a four year PCP at £3120 a year add in servicing and bits and it was costing her £3500 a year so over the life of the PCP she laid out £14k with nothing to show for it.

That car cost her £14k in four years. But it was new and looked nice in the drive.

We chatted she got and £9k personal loan bought an £10k car (not a flash car but a jolly nice sensible family wagon) she now puts the £250 into a car account, as every month goes by the loan payment comes out and leaves £60 extra each month, this pays the tax, insurance services** and MOT. (Insurance was an extra £40 on top of the PCP) the services can be at a proper garage, okay it won't include a free coffee and a valet but it'll be about a third of the price.

At the end of the four years she'll own the car, she can either sell it for £5k+ or keep it save the money.

That car will have cost her £6k (incl interest) there will like be money left in the car account too assuming no big bills come in for it.

**To give you a clue as to main stealers prices my SIL was quoted £900 for front and rear pads and disks on her Skoda. I costed the parts to about £200. I measured the disks and while the front needed changing after shed let the pads get so thin they'd damaged them, the rear disks were less than 20% worn. When questioned why the main dealer wanted to change them they said because modern pads are harder and wear the disks faster, a point I accepted, but the originals were only 20% worn ergo theoretically they'd take another 4 sets of pads the then changed to "cos they always recommended it"

A local reputable garage did the front pads disks and rear pads for under £300.

That car is still in the PCP window.

I felt a bit mean but made him have cheaper trainers for summer break.

For people giving up pet insurance, how about putting away a little a month for your pet, then if the get sick, you have the money available. If nothing goes wrong for a while, you could either keep topping it up, or you have a nest egg, incase you get a bill you didn't budget for.