A thread for moaning about the cost of everything

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Just 4 years ago I could get my hair done and nails done for £70 all in all.

It’s now £135 for both of these. Double.
(I understand cost of living drives up the prices for people who are self employed, and I’m not blaming them individually for it)

Bills are up so much this month. The price of everything is just horrendous and I don’t know how some people manage!

@Anjelika unless you want the brand new trendiest stuff (which I'm not sure is in Next...) then I'd go on Vinted, and search for Next items in your size, you may be very surprised, it's a brand that sells a lot on Vinted for good prices. I've just got a linen jacket on there for £12 including postage, £8 price. Next jeans and trousers also appear there a lot. If you like brand new, then search brand new with tags, brand Next, I've resold Next stuff on there that has never been worn.

I absolutely hate this. Many companies these days seem to rely on the fact that people are too busy and stressed with working and raising families to realise that they are being ripped off. They prey on the time poor.

Virgin media did it to me when they tried to increase my broadband bill to about £45 a month!

My haircut now is £110. Specialist curly cut

A few companies respond to a phone call telling them you're off ! Then they come up with a solution or different price than the one quoted.
Never worked for us with insurances , but broadband and phones I think it's worth a try!
The daily mail ran an expose on insurance companies and wanted them to honour the old clients as if they were new ones in regards to prices , but I haven't seen any evidence that anyone is listening to that one going by my last renewals.

I do my own hair, but box dye has gone up so much since covid. Dye's that were always £5-£6 are now £10-£12. Same with make up, most of its expensive now even the budget brands. The quality doesn't seem to be great either.
Walking round Superdrug the other day, there were lots of shampoos at premium brand prices but were just brands like L'Oréal. Some toothpastes were £6-£7 a tube.
DH came back from the supermarket today saying a large jar of Nutella was £8. It's madness.

No but i remember them too

Our gas and electricity bill was around 70 pounds about 2 years ago. It's now 220 pounds for our modest end of terrace 2 bed.

Nursery will cost us about 170 pounds more from September when I return to work after maternity leave. We used to pay 1200 pounds, now it will be around 1370 pounds.

Mortgage will go up by 150 pounds in August.

A few years back you could rent a 3 bed semi for 700 pounds in my area. Now you don't get any search results for under 1200 pounds.

We spend about 600 pounds on our monthly lidl bill. We used to spend 400 pounds.

Savers are cheaper for toiletries, but I have noticed the odd 10p on things here and there , so soon it'll be like everything else! Toothpaste in supermarkets is a lot more expensive for some reason ?
I don't buy make up anymore.

I remember duel fuel for £50 a month and thinking that was bad .. it's 147 now and they want to put it up again :(
Seems the last few years have just gone wild.

train tickets... horrendous. nearly £200 for me and DD to go and look at a university this weekend and that's with her having a railcard

they can't even book us seats for part of the journey as the service doesn't do bookings... I hate buying train tickets

Buying anything like train tickets or entertainment tickets or just about anything is a faff and not made easy especially for ' techno phobics ' like me.
You always need ' pass codes' or words too .. it's done deliberately I'm sure

Crikey - I can’t ever imagine paying over £100 for my hair to be done! 😮
I go to a very nice town centre salon and pay £35 for a cut and blow dry every 8 weeks.
I’ve also never had my nails done! I grow my own and paint them if I’m going out somewhere nice… otherwise I usually leave them bare.🙂

Yes!! I had my hair cut and blow dried (not coloured or restyled), it came to £60. I can only afford it every three months and even then it's literally my one indulgence.

Beans (especially Kidney beans and black beans )are really good for iron and relatively cheap.

bin bags in Tesco £5.95! I mean there are bigger bills and things to worry about but sometimes you just have a wtf when you’re doing your shop

I used to be able to spend £25/week and have enough to cook two of us fresh meals all week with a bottle of wine on top. Lucky if I can manage on £50 now. We earn ok but when a can of Heinz soup is £1.90?!? Even the own brand stuff is now 70p. Stopped shopping at Lidl and Aldi because the fresh stuff is rubbish and works out more expensive than the local grocers by the time half of it has been chucked in the bin.

Don't get me started on hairdressers etc.

@TiredCatLady 70p is still cheaper than £1.90 tho, and they are the same. Even if there is a slight difference i don't think £1.20 more justifies it

Thought would get some nice bread today from Hindleys. Wholemeal asked for it sliced. 2.69! It is lovely but I was shocked. Tbh not sure what I thought it would be.

And Tesco announce record profits of £2 billion plus. Coincidence??

Can you let us know which one?
thanks

Yep, tesco record big profits and nobody tends to challenge it.
I bet the retail staff on the shop floor don't receive a pay rise and prices won't come down.

Virgin media emailed me to say my monthly bill was going to rise from £39.99 to £91 a month!! I contacted them and said it was a complete rip off! And I would be leaving😡 I now pay £42 a month for the same package, but with faster broadband! It drives me mad that they try to slip these massive price hikes under the radar in hopes we wont notice and will not do anything about it 😡

And don't forget shrinkflation. The size of things getting much smaller.

I bought a pack of falafels last week and they are half the size they used to be.

We'll be needing magnifying glasses to see things if this goes on.

Forgot to take my lunch to work one day last week and pooped across to the snack shop. Was charged £5 for a sausage and egg bap. They weren't even nice sausages.

Agree the insurance hikes are horrendous.. on top of everything else. They just totally rip you off on renewals if you don't auto renew and go to them to see if they will match lower offers. I recently discovered we had Rac breakdown cover auto renew last few years - Dh was suppose to sort that one! £151 in 2022 up to £365 quoted for 2024-25. Totally ridiculous. I called up to cancel..!
He only came down to £320 so I still cancelled!
Now I have to do all the broadband/utilities as well. Such a pain...