To ask for your rising cost of living examples

[CervixSampler]

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.

I used to regularly pop into a cafe for a sandwich and cuppa, £6.40. I went the other week and it was up to £9.60!!! It's something I just won't do now. It doesn't offer good value, so I'll just wait till I'm home.

There are quite a few things nowadays that if they were slightly cheaper I'd do them more often.

@justfiveminutes

I can understand why the cost of many goods are increasing but why is it so much more expensive for things like soft play or using a public loo. Is it just that their energy bills have gone up? Why are car park prices increasing so much? Feels like everyone is just thinking that customers are braced for big increases, so they can get away with doing it too.

My dog food was £3.75 in January but £4.50 now.

There is infrastructure around these things. Staff to pay, consumables such as cleaning materials, maintenance. utilities etc etc. All now more expensive too so they pass that increase on to the customer, they have to.

@exLtEveDallas I feel your pain about special food. That's our killer. My DD has hypersensitivity to taste and smell and we cannot give her cheaper substitutes. I also have to add in her actual food allergies which often mean less expensive food is no good. It's tough. We are okay at the moment but we can't continue to just buy as we have been. It's crazy.

can’t go for the cheaper/Aldi/Lidl option because then she won’t eat sad
We have the same issue with some of DS safe foods, even his apples have rocketed in price.

@RedLeggedChuff

Random, but dental floss. I put a pack back in Boots yesterday. Ordinary (I think) branded floss. £5.80 WTF?

The cost of dental floss is mad!

Mayonnaise: £3.40 for a bottle at the start of the year. Now £4.
17% rise in 3 months.

The big pots of yoghurt I like were £1 now £1.20. 20% increase.
The train to visit my mum was £25 return( already overpriced in my view)
Now £34

My car is a 1.4 Vauxhall family car. It used to be (a year or so ago) around £60 to fill up, it's now around £75. And the other day, there was no normal petrol due to the blocking by protesters so I had to use the premium that was left and that was £1.86 a litre! I put £35 quid in and it wasn't even half a tank, more like 2/5.

I have to drive for one of my jobs so I can't not put fuel in.

What brought it home for me was Amazon - if you go to your previous orders and click 'buy again' you will find that a lot of stuff has gone up in price A LOT. I noticed it mainly with food/grocery items.

Yesterday it was £2.50 for a Solero at the local park. I thought it was a bit expensive.

Massive hike in the price to fill my car. £92 😩 actually checked to make sure I didn’t have a fuel leak when the numbers got so high. Used to be around £75 for a full tank

I know this is completely different to fuel and food but I run about 100 miles pm. Running shoes typically last 500 miles.

I've worn the same make/model for years. 8/10 years about I could pick up last year's colours for c. £30/£40, by the start of lockdown they were about £70/£80. Now the cheapest I can find them is £120. These are not even expensive shoes They're more or less entry level for real running shoes (as opposed to general use trainers).

I've also noticed that there are no offers anywhere. I have a habit of checking for voucher codes before I buy anything online, but there are very few out there currently, which is inflation by stealth!

[quote Sooverthemill]@exLtEveDallas I feel your pain about special food. That's our killer. My DD has hypersensitivity to taste and smell and we cannot give her cheaper substitutes. I also have to add in her actual food allergies which often mean less expensive food is no good. It's tough. We are okay at the moment but we can't continue to just buy as we have been. It's crazy.[/quote]
We have the same with allergies. Aldi sell an oat milk but it’s not forfeited with iodine so that means we pay £1.80 for oatley instead and then add in the usual child fussiness. Food for children is expensive.

BlueSpottedGiraffe Lurpak is delicious ,but so expensive! I buy SB own brand £1 .78 now was £1.48 until recently.Quite acceptable taste and slightly salted /unsalted avaliable

@Duracellbunnywannabe exactly! Also our local NHS now only allow a small group of non generic prescription meds. The generic meds very often taste horrendous to my taste and smell hypersensitive DD and they make her vomit.

Petrol - thank god I'm not back in the office full time at £1.65 a litre because Im not sure I could afford a full tank a week (I have a longish commute)

Cat food - used to be £3.00 odd a box now its nearly £5 a box for Sheba!

no special offers on easter eggs at tesco
no 3 for 2 as in usual years

PeppaPigForLife We had med cod and chips x2 me and DD.£20! Used to be about £14.00 .Energy bill up to £250 .00 from £168.00 !

A few weeks ago I took a very short bus ride for £1.85, I took the same ride a couple of days ago and it’s now £2.00. It might not seem like much but added on to everything else rising it seemed like another knock to the purse.

Pasta (500g bag) was 50p per bag in Tesco, now 70p per bag.

Butter goes up another 10p every time I go to Tesco, I think.

I have been using Sainsbury’s swimsuits, my last £15 is in its 3rd year and I had promised myself a particular (Batoko, in the seal design) suit for this year, only to find it has gone from £50 to £60. An extravagance too far! (Good because it has saved me from what was already an extravagance)

Our working dog food was just over £1/kg, now more than £2. They tried to hide the increase by shrinking the bag from 15kg to 12kg.

I've been shopping in my Aldi for four years and when I picked up two full bags of our usual shop there the other day I realised it was literally twice as much as when I first moved here.

I used to feed my baby and myself for £30/week and our two cats with all household stuff too, that was 5 years ago. Now, I doubt you could do it. It's scary because I wouldn't have survived back then with these prices.

Print cartridges that I need for work. At the end of last year they were £135 they're now £165. I 'm thinking of stocking up before they rise even more but it's a large outlay.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

There's a issue about eggs and potentially shortages. Saw it on the news but can't remember the reason.

Isn't it salmonella or something? Technically, at the moment, you can't buy free range eggs (except possibly ones from very small-scale local places) - eggs labelled as free range are currently allowed to actually be barn eggs, to protect the hens and avoid the risk of the infected ones spreading it.

At least they're still given a reasonable amount of freedom, albeit indoors only, unlike battery hens: I believe that anybody who thinks keeping hens in battery conditions is acceptable should be forced to spend a month in the same conditions themselves, before deciding if they might just have changed their mind at the end of it....

Avian influenza which is spread by migrating wild birds, so all the chickens have to be housed currently (farms have lost free range status temporarily and sell eggs as barn). They advise still to buy from free range producers to support the free range system they have invested in - if you can.

Animal feed .

3 bags of horse feed ( one hay replacement and one of soft mushy type feed for the toothless 43 year old , plus a bag of muesli ) used to be £38. Now it’s almost £50.

The saying about something being cheap (cheep?) because of it only costing chicken feed , is no longer true .