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...

Seeing the current situation, being a member of a Union is the last thing I would cut out.

We were already pretty careful but now buy hardly any organic produce as it’s so much more expensive. Don’t have coffees out. Stop myself random stuff on Amazon on a whim like games or crafts stuff for the kids.

Them’s the breaks though for non-essential services. We are having to evolve from a leisured lifestyle to survival basics in many, many cases. It’s grim.

I didn't think this thread was about ethical standards, I thought it was about price increases. And the OP mentioned buying fewer eggs. Just saying....

Petrol and going out.

We buy our eggs direct form the farm. They are ‘seconds’ so of varying size, she’ll might be a bit thin etc… but still very much free range.

At £5 a tray (which is a big increase in price compare to what it has been for years) it’s still way cheaper than supermarket prices.

We had our first baby just before the war with Ukraine started so had been cutting down anyway. The pet insurance is gone and I buy cheaper things such as the super cheap cheese and pasta to stretch things out. We aren't hard done by for money, we just are very conscious!

Aldi’s own coffee (in orange & silver metal tins) is really good!

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It's a shit situation but what can people do? Anything considered a luxury will be first to get cut

Our dog died last year, but after allowing for a fallow dogless period, we've decided we can't afford the expense of a dog in the household. Not the fee for a rescue dog so much as ongoing costs like food, insurance, petrol to take it on nicer walks, toys, equipment, treats...DH is usually very dismissive of any objections from me about unnecessary and expensive purchases, but this month even he could see that the money has run out without leaving us with the memory of nice times, new things or essential repairs paid for.

Sell one of your houses.

The price I quoted was for free range eggs btw - it depends if the OP is vegan as to whether their purchasing decisions were based on animal welfare, or whether they don't have that luxury because they have a family to feed.

We’ve cut back on takeaways and using our oven less by using the air fryer. Have cancelled a couple of subscriptions that I barely used.

I’ve kept my pet insurance as working in a vet practice I know how much things cost if they get ill/injured! Those of you who have cancelled and are now shopping around please be aware that anything pre-existing will be excluded from your new insurance, even if you’ve never claimed for it before.

I’ve opted for medium range lifetime pet insurance, I know there’s a risk, but it saves about £250 a year. I’ve stopped buying orange juice, unless it’s on offer and buying more frozen veg instead of fresh. I buy household products from Home Bargains, also quite a few food lines are good there, spices, sauces, cakes and biscuits, haven’t seen the massive price jumps there. I do still buy in bulk where I can as this works out cheaper. Example earlier 36 cod fish fingers works out a lot cheaper than buying the 10 packs. I remember when fish fingers was a cheap meal, now it’s not. We’ve cut back from 2 salmon/cod fillets each to one. Dog food is also a lot cheaper if buying in bulk.

Why are you using super unleaded?

@wondersofus if you are in the UK you can also now collect points when you buy it with stage 2 formula. So boots, Tesco etc.
The perks of this being if you buy a lot of it and earn plenty of points then you can spend the collected points on a free tub or two!
Also if you haven’t already and you shop in Boots, join the parenting club ( free to join ) as you get double the amount of points per £1 spent on baby items. :

Do lots of swapping with friends,childrens toys ,clothes,books.Ask aroundif anyone needs items you are getting rid of.Use Facebook buy and sell amazing what people want to give away.Use Foodshare to save perfectly good food going to landfill.We are trying a different mindset.Plant swap,set one up if you are a gardener.Online shopping so you have a list and check that weeks offers otherwise do without.

Stopped buying crisps and bars of chocolate.
Less coffees out and packing a picnic anytime we go out as a family.
Choosing fruit and veg based on what is on offer.
Cancelled Netflix and Amazon Prime subscriptions.
Stopped taking baths, shower instead.
Driving slower, 60 instead of 70 and 50 instead of 60. Doesn't take much longer but consumption is much less.

Any kind of food and drinks from outside the house. So no coffees out, takeaways, pub etc. I have a decent coffee machine, can cook most of my favourite take away foods at a fraction of the price and a glass of wine in the garden is just as nice (sometimes nicer) than being in the pub.

I didn’t have any “big” expenses to cut. Live in London so no car anyway. Already wfh (was doing so pre pandemic) so no commuting costs, lunches out etc. I already lived a quite a frugal life. I am lucky in the respect that I can live fine on what I have.

I’m on pre pay meters for energy and the price hasn’t increased that much. So not having to cut down energy usage at the moment. Have been topping up the gas meter through summer (as it’s only using pennies at the moment) to hopefully see me through most of winter, with the additional money we’re meant to get.

@Branster
pet plan while excellent pet insurance is often 3 times the cost of other insurance

it your dog has nothing mentioned on vet notes
or has had any illness operations then it’s worth changing as it won’t have any pre expiating conditions

look at Many & Pets K-9

My french bulldogs insurance cost more than my brand new car insurance at 57 a month for 7k lifetime
Pet plan wanted £130 a month

Depending on the breed of dog shopping around can definitely be worth it
Some breeds bulldogs french bulldogs, DDB
are always very expensive to insure
but others like labs are much cheaper

Agreed - my yoga class has literally doubled in price, so even though it is something I love, there's a choice to be made as petrol is so expensive it's a trade off. Very sad but it's the world we live in now 😢

Instead of buying Plenty (£5 for 2 rolls!!!) we're now getting that Regina stuff. Just the same and half the price.

Also eating out less, used to eat out twice/three times a week.

Agreed, anything highly discretionary, luxury, etc is going to go bust.

Check this out from Asda...
corporate.asda.com/newsroom/2022/06/24/inflation-drives-disposable-income-to-its-lowest-ever-level-as-shoppers-find-ways-to-spend-less

Pedicures and eyebrow waxing.

And I didn't even get them done that often to begin with, eyebrows probably once every 2 months (I'd just let them grow). Pedicure is 3 times a year max, but I keep putting off rebooking even though it's a minor luxury for me as I'm not good at doing my feet myself.

We're already pretty frugal, shopping at Aldi, buying second hand clothes, cooking from scratch. We don't get takeaway meals anymore and never buy takeaway coffee. I think when winter comes we will be selling our tumble dryer too as I can't see it being affordable to run 😬 on the bright side the rise in energy/food costs has made us more wary about how much energy we use and how much food was being wasted. We're more aware of leaving lights/tvs on. The slow cooker has come out quite a bit too as it's cheaper than the oven!