To ask for your rising cost of living examples

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Inspired by another thread but mainly by my own experiences today.
In February it was 20p to use the public loos at our favourite seaside town. Today it has doubled to 40p! There are now contactless points incase you don't have any cash. 40p to pee!
Mr Kipling cherry Bakewells have jumped to £1.90 in Asda and I'm sure they used to be £1.40 or sometimes even £1 and that was only a few weeks back. Cake isn't essential I know, but peeing is. Things have gone up generally but the odd pence here and there isn't always noticed but these are huge jumps.

@Blendedfamily7 you are saying that the cost of living crisis hitting the UK is nothing to do with the pandemic, war or Brexit but because of the minimum wage increase? Yep definitely simples 😆

@Fizbosshoes or be responsible for inflation in America 🤣

One I noticed recently - Philadelphia cream cheese used to be 180g in a small pot. Now it's 165g. I believe a few years ago it was 200g, so getting on for 25% less.

Dried prunes from Asda. Used to cost £2 and now it is £2.80. In a matter of a few months.

Mine was a few weeks ago. Formula for my baby was £11 in January and is now nearly £13 (I can't breastfeed due to damaged breasts before someone on here judges me for formula feeding because I know it happens)

My entire food/toiletries shop for 4 of us (2adults 2children) used to be £60. this week the same shop (we are boring and buy the same food week in week out) was nearly £100. In 1yr its went up £40!! Most of that in the past few months. Soft plays I take my children have upped their prices by £1 per child to get in, then have increased the prices inside for a cuppa or food. Classes my children are involved in, gymnastics, ballet, dancing have all increased the pricing by a minimum of £5 each....its just madness

The biggest price increases I'm seeing aren't the like for like. Its the basic version vs the whats available version.

Where I used to buy which ever basics pasta was 20p the stock on the shelves pasta tends to be a branded one at around 80p

Likewise I used to buy the £1 butter in farmfoods and its gone up to 2 for £2.60 but not often in stock and the other brand they stock is £1.65.

I used to be on a very tight budget and have continued to frugally shop for some basics ingredients. Most of the basics labels I would get are no longer available. Whilst the average increase talked about on the news is often 10%, for the most frugal shoppers I believe this is more like 60%. Those who already have a very stretched budget its horendous. Foodbanks shouldn't be a weekly necessity.

Sunbites crisps. Used to be £1.25 , then £1.50, now £1.75 in Tesco and £1.99 in Sainsbury’s for 6 packs..never on offer for £1 like before

Red diesel has now gone so that’s another spike to come in price rises,

Price rises are horrendous. Buying clothes for my daughter I've noticed that supermarket clothes has got more expensive. A pack of two t-shirts last year was £6-8. I'd bought a set in a pattern I liked for her for this year. Noticed today similar is now £11!
Petrol, I rely on my car (nothing fancy) was about £50 to fill, now £75.
Milk, I liked one of the big brand filtered milk as it didn't go off as quickly and meant I had it for the week. It's gone up by 45p for 2 litres. Multipacks of kids refrigerated desserts used to be able to get them for £1, now £1.25. Crisps, omg £1.75 and they had been £1.

I'm trying to meal plan (but have an inconsiderate OH that is a complete glutton and would quite happily scoff 8 chocolate biscuits in one sitting and will be 'picky'). I'm also receipt scanning and doing surveys to get a little extra.

My energy prices have doubled! Sept 20 I left Bulb because they wanted to up my bill from £100 to £150 "to build up credit" and I honestly struggled to afford it. Now my suggested DD is £205! That's almost two days work for me! (I work as a carer, 3x12 hour shifts per week).

Also noticed food creeping up too. I'm spending £30 on two bags of food when I used to spend £60-70 and get everything including cleaning stuff, toilet rolls, toiletries...

• The problem is that we are used to extremely cheap food, it hasn’t really gone up in 20 years or more. In the late 1980’s we were spending £40-£50 a week on shopping, we can still do this now.*

Ageee with this so much. Early 1990s, just married and had dd1, interest rates were 15% and our budget for the week for food was £50. and it was tight, I can’t believe that 30 years on food prices have not changed same price! Unfortunately it is not sustainable.

I'm.agreeing with loads of these. Im an Aldi shopper and I don't see much difference to the other supermarkets anymore, really. Free-range chicken breasts I always buy were £3.29 for over a year, then £3.49, then £3.69, now £3.99. I need 3 packs for our family of 5. I refuse to buy non free range, so there will be less chicken in the curry/ fajitas/ casserole and more veg.

I notice the shrinkflation too. DH's favourite biscuits, their chocolate rounds, now up by 10p to 99p and there's 8 instead of 10.

It's everything.

Milk £2.95p for 4 pints :(

I get eco products delivered- washing pods/ dishwasher tabs/ toilet paper. They're more expensive so sadly I think I'll need to stop. Also the local milk delivery, supporting local farmers, is significantly more expensive so have decided to stop, which is sad but necessary.

My weekly shop is up £50 from last year and that's after cutting back to try to save money.

I don't even want to talk about fuel and energy prices or I think I'll cry!

Diesel, we drove by a local garage yesterday and saw diesel for £175.9 a litre and I said -"ooh that's cheap" !!

Sorry that should be 175.9p a litre oops .....

@Belledan1

Some branded 6 bags of crisps are 1.80! Do get aldi ones but older teenager likes branded ones for school. Also bannanas have really gone up.

I got someone to pick some shopping up for me and the Walkers Crisps six packs are £1.30 in Food Warehouse, they are part of Iceland so not sure if they are the same price in Iceland.

Sorry obviously it is an offer in Food Warehouse, I just thought it might be useful if someone can afford to stock up.

@Puffalicious

I get eco products delivered- washing pods/ dishwasher tabs/ toilet paper. They're more expensive so sadly I think I'll need to stop. Also the local milk delivery, supporting local farmers, is significantly more expensive so have decided to stop, which is sad but necessary.

I get eggs from a local farm but they are £3,00 a dozen so I might have to rethink that.

Yesterday I went into the dominos app to order pizza. We don’t do it very often, the last time was sometime in Feb. I put the last order into my basket and both exactly the same pizzas and chicken wings had gone up by £1 each. I had 5 items in my basket and it was exactly £5 more than a couple of months ago and the total order was £38 now and £33 in Feb. That’s a huge increase!

Heating oil, jan £465, price in march for same amount £1250😱😱😱

Milk filtered £1.15 to £1.35 to £1.55 last week!

Pretty much every single food item we buy has gone up in price, some quite considerably.

It's pretty shocking.

Frozen mushy peas in Morrisons and Asda up to £1.50 from £1