Everything is so expensive!

[Fuckadoodledoo2]

Seen today:

£27.50 for a bobble hat 🙄
£300 for a two hour kids party at softplay, limit 20 kids 😱

Am I just right, or are prices rocketing?

Does the soft play include any refreshments at all? That's extortionate.

I’ve found a lot of food items in my weekly delivery are up by 10-15p. I tend to buy the same things most weeks so just refill my trolley,so I hadn’t noticed until this past Sunday.

Expensive things are pricey

I think this sums it up

Huge inflation, masses of supply/demand issues

You're using the example of a hat that is 7 times the price of a normal hat to exclaim that "everything is expensive"?
Jog on

Packs of 24 normal coke has gone up from around £9 to £11.50.
I blame that arse Jamie Oliver for that one.

Haha I make bobble hats for around that price. They are hand made though and often to exact requirements of my customers. More expensive if I'm using higher quality materials. I don't make much of a profit!

@ManifestDestinee

You're using the example of a hat that is 7 times the price of a normal hat to exclaim that "everything is expensive"? Jog on

No she's using the example of a hat she bought 2-3 years ago going from £10 to £27.50 in that time.

Totally agree the price could be justified if hand made/high quality. I'm a knitter myself so know how much time and effort goes into making a bespoke piece. This does not fall into that category though.

Expensive things are pricey

:)

My joiner was telling me that he paid £42 for a sheet of mdf last week. A few months ago it was £17.

This will knock on across everything.

Seems a lot of things are going up in price, but I'm not sure bobble hats and children's parties are representative of most peoples shopping basket.

If people are willing to pay £27 for a hat that they can get for a lot less somewhere else that's up to them.

Likewise, spending £300 on a child's birthday party, it really isn't essential.

However, the fact that electricity/gas prices are going through the roof and food prices are going up and set to rise further is probably a better indication of the way prices are rising for the average person.

Life seems really expensive these days. Have checked the prices of holidays next year and the one I just took is going up by nearly £200 for the same week!

Jarred sauce in Aldi (yeah I know, I should make my own blah blah) has risen from 49p to 56p recently. It all adds up!

Life is expensive. No matter how many time DH or I get a salary increase, we seem to be no better off. I've been waiting for a garden chair to go down in price for ages, everytime I look the price has gone up by another hundred quid.

I actually thought that £300 for 20 kids for 2 hours of soft play was OK. But I assumed that it might include some food and drink (juice?squash)?

@Fuckadoodledoo2

£300 for a party is quite expensive here. Just softplay entrance and party room use, no food included. Maybe that's the norm elsewhere. Or maybe Facebook suddenly thinks I'm loaded

Without food that’s pricey!

YANBU

There is so much pent up demand for things that people couldn't do or buy for 18 months.

So the typical 'on the make or on the take' people are all on the make.

And the rest of just profiteering.

It is bringing out the anti-consumer element in me and I am trying not to give these people money.

Inflation is worrying high and there is a real risk interest rates will have to rise to counteract that, which is a problem for mortgages.

Crumbs OP .£12.50 bobble hat M and S! hardly a cheap shop either

everything is getting very expensive! prices in the supermarket are going up pack sizes are going down in size, as a family of 7 its becoming very costly just to stay alive!

Very selfishly, I rather hope interest rates do go up. My retirement savings are being eroded by inflation. But I also sympathise with all those people whose mortgages will increase overnight. I remember high inflation from the 1970s and 1980s.

@Proudboomer

Packs of 24 normal coke has gone up from around £9 to £11.50. I blame that arse Jamie Oliver for that one.

Coke in general has gone up in price.

24 cans of Pepsi Max is £7 from Morrisons.
24 cans of Diet Coke is £9.

They used to be the same price or cheaper!

Nescafé cafe toffee nut sachets have gone up from £1.50 to £2.90 in morrisons. Doubled overnight!

I’ve recently resigned up with a tesco delivery pass so did my first shop on there for ages the other day. Went to “favourites” and lots of stuff no longer available but was interesting to see the “you could replace with this” under every thing. Pretty much identical product but smaller/less weight and normally a bit more expensive.

Halloumi and spinach for an example. If this is replicated over a trolley full of food it’s scary times.

@lynntheyresexpeople

£300 for a two hour party with 20 kids is alright actually 🤷🏻‍♀️

Makes it £15 per head which I think is fairly standard. Try a village hall with a bouncy castle and a face painter, a loads cheaper and can invite more kids.

£27 for a bobble hat seems expensive and I've seen them much cheaper. In principle though, you're right everything does seem to be creeping up in price