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.

Diesel is £178.9 this morning!

I'm aware this is extremely first world problems but it's just another example,
Acrylic nails used to cost £20 average in my city
Now atleast 35

Haven't been able to get OH's foot powder since lockdown when it was £3.80 ish. Saw some the other week and it's now near in £8

DH did shop at Sainsburys today whilst I had pedicure.surprisingly not gone up yet.He couldn’t get everything but just had a scoot around coop and got what I wanted.It is handy when you have a car and good village and town shops.Both retired.

I'm not sure I understand your post. Perhaps the wrong thread?

It's just bonkers. My flat management company wrote to me saying there was a deficit and I needed to pay £440. Within 30 days. Yeah, I'll pull that out my pocket shall I?!

So their fees with the deficit is £2300 a year, that's about 1.5 months wages for me. Then gas and electric I saw the average DD is predicted to be around £2200 in October. So I'm up to 3 months wages spent and I haven't even paid the mortgage yet!

I said to the management company given everyone is feeling the strain maybe they should be looking for cheaper providers for everything

the £7.50 sandwich!
I don;t buy sandwiches regularly, but needed something to eay - admittedly I was in a quite chi chi corner of London, but the price of a sandwich started at around £7.50 in around every one of about half a dozen delis that I looked in.
It was a VERY nice sandwich, and the guy at the counter reccommended which cheese would go best with the rest of the contents, but £7.50😯
Have since seen similar prices elsewhere.

I've also noticed the price of wine by the glass going up - £8ish for 175ml house wine, which I'd generally expect to be in the region of £5-£6. I was charged £12.50 for 250ml unimpressive malbec the other week.
I've not really noticed supermarket wine having the same leap.

Train travel, even with a railcard it's so expensive.

Tomato puree - before Christmas in Tesco it was 27p. Last time I looked it was 40p.

I opened some post last night and our mortgage, which went up by around £15 just last month has just gone up by another £12 for next month.

I'm starting to get seriously worried, because that £27 plus the £60-odd for gas/electric, petrol around £15 more a tank, council tax up £20 a month and trying to keep food spending under £80 a week, my wage is looking less and less likely to cover us. I thought we'd be just okay, but I keep finding more things going up that are eating into the very small buffer we have.

Can you go onto a fixed rate mortgage? Maybe worth investigating with a decent broker.

Asda bread flour. It was 60-64p now 95p

Thanks. I'm not sure how it works, but we got a mortgage based on my full-time salary. I'm now part-time (for various reasons, and partner can't work) so the chances of getting a different mortgage are essentially nil, I think.

Asda increased the price of Lurpak 500g tubs from £3.50 to £5 overnight.

@KatherineofGaunt if staying with same lender might be able to do it with a few clicks online, no questions asked - depends on the lender

Yes, I just fixed my mortgage with my current provider, HSBC, after my previous fix term ended. It was as simple as selecting which fix I wanted from a list, then confirming it - no futher checks necessary and they automatically calculated my new LTV% based on average house prices rises since I bought.

All very smooth and you could get through the process without having to confirm anything right until the end, so you can test it out and see.

😱😱😱 just checked

Shocked!

It might be first world problem, but this is exactly the reason I stopped doing mine. Where I live (West Yorkshire) you pay £28 (in proper place that cleans tools) plus £5.00 extra if you fancy french manicure tips. Very expensive. I'd rather put this money towards something else, like rising food bills.

Asda gluten free pasta from 42p in 2020 to 85 in 2022. In 2022 alone the price rise was from 45p to 85 and it's only May...

£3.25 in Waitrose!

Lurpak 500g is £5 in Ocado (though also 2 for £7) and the reviewers are going ape at the price increase!

Sainsbury's own brand butter, 250g, was £1.45, now £1.90, increase of almost a third.

Waitrose is £1.75. Weirdly it seems cheaper than some of the others. Probably will have changed next time I look though...

It is a first world problem in a way, but if people stop getting things like their nails done regularly then those businesses will no longer be viable
then that’s more people out of work. If people stop spending money on such luxuries then the trickle down effect could be disastrous for some. I admit I have cut out non essentials like nails, although we can still (just) afford it at the moment but we are saving where we can in case the cost of living just keeps going up and up. Im
not sure what the solution is but I do fear that lots of small businesses won’t survive for long.

Norpak (500g) in Aldi has gone up from £1.99 to £2.09 and the beef/pork mince has gone from £2.99 to £4.19-that used to be the cheap option! The milk in there was £1.15 about 1 month ago, its gone up twice-last time it was £1.29. Everytime I go in now, something has gone up.

I got some for £4 a couple of weeks back.... so possibly not overnight 🤔