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.

Dayrider plus 1 on the bus £7.20 up from £6.50. I never get the bus to school but this morning we needed to.

@Metabigot Not sure what happened then because I was doing an online shop, had everything in the basket but was waiting for the next day to get paid.

It was £3.50 the night before, then when I double checked everything before checking out, it had gone up to £5. Which seems stupid because they've got the 750g tubs on Rollback for £5 as well!

I had a trial run of making butter the other week. Double cream was about £1.20 for a pot. Add a bit of salt, and currently little portions have been frozen. Have tried on some tiger bread and it wasn't too bad!

Lidl used to charge 79p for the bread we buy there. Went up to 89p and 99p in the week, so that's a 20% rise.

@Dontlickthetrolley how many grams of butter did you get from £1.20 worth of double cream?

300ml double cream is about 200g butter and 100ml of buttermilk according to Google!

The proprietor of our local chicken shop, a Nando's dupe type place, said his fuel bill had doubled but he's only added a couple of quid here and there to the menu. I'm expecting more rises though.

Cost of living crisis down at the garden centre!.

The price of houseplants has gone through the roof. £15-£20 for bog standard plants like the lowly rubber plant, ficus, dracaena, spider plant that used to be £5-£7 tops.

That'll be Brexit, with Holland being a major exporter of plants to the U.K.

YY to houseplants being expensive but it's so easy to propagate your own. I've been growing on cuttings and swapping with friends.
Plants are having a moment where I live and we have 2 shops in our town just selling houseplants.

I didn't know Wilko deliver! Thank you for this.

Nursery fees up by £10 a day!

www.thesun.co.uk/money/18763748/costa-hikes-prices-again/

Butter, from 1.45 to 1.69

Vegetable and sunflower oil was £2 in B and M...all other shops sold out so that is double price but now tesco have it again at £1.30 a litre..

Cheap gro bag at B and Q was always 99p...now £3.50...i got some in Lidl for £2.20 each...

cucumbers creeping a few pence a week also as are the bananas...!

and Asda stopped the 99p plant based spread along with other cheaper range items...only have the expensive branded now on shelves...!!

My car usually takes under £50 to fill, yesterday it cost me nearly £62. I was really shocked and thought the pump must be wrong!

We went our for dinner the other night at a 'pub with play area' type of place. £57 for 2 adults, 2 DC and a round of drinks!! We used to be able to get the same thing last summer for under £40.

I’ve no idea why more isn’t being said about the cost of going to work. We are literally missing meals to be able to afford to put fuel in the car. DH wanted to take the train to his new work but they wanted £68 a day for the privilege!

Take out coffee seems like a luxury nowadays.

That seems like a really bad business decision, there has got to be a price point when even the most devil-may-care person says that it is a ridiculous price for a single drink. Take out coffee will be one of the first things that people cut out when they start to tighten their belts and price rises like that will make people do it sooner rather than later.

A Greggs employee was telling me they had picked up ex Costa customers after the first price hike.

The price of petrol has gone bonkers.

I go past 2 petrol stations on my commute and they are each in constant competition with each other as to which one can push their prices up more. bP is always the more expensive at £1.85 (yesterday) but then Tesco follows suit a day later by putting up their prices.

The thing that riles me is that those price hikes are happening even when the petrol station isn't taking in a new delivery, they are just adding pence onto pre-existing supplies.

i have to say it, the are greedy bastards, and that's being polite about it!

And I bet their staff are not enjoying a cost of living increase when they hike the prices. It must really grate that they're having to serve up extortionately priced drinks, but they are still on minimum wage and Costa rakes in more profit.

Costa's 9 for the price of 8 is yet another corporate con.

You have to spend £26 to get a £3.25 drink for free. What a sham!

How about I just save myself £26 by not buying your frothy dishwater (in a half full cup), Costa, now there's a novel idea. Nescafé do cappuccinos in a box of 8 for £2.00, add some boiling water and hey presto.

I can't get my head around a chicken being £7. I don't eat meat so I've never bought one from a supermarket, but I do keep some as pets. I have some rescue hens that we get for £2.50 from the farmer before he sends them to slaughter (so he's not out of pocket for doing the right thing, these are 'used up' battery egg chickens) and some I recently hatched myself worth £45 each. It's mad the idea that someone could raise an animal for its whole life for £7 and still make a profit in there - the cost of feed is so high.