To have found increasing costs making a positive impact?

[Optimisiticcautiouslyso]

Increasing petrol costs - so I’m actively cutting driving and walking so much more than ever

Increasing energy costs - so I don’t think I’ve ever been more aware of lights off, putting on an extra jumper rather than spinning the heating upwards

Increasing food costs - much more mindful with what I’m buying and much more thoughtful with my cooking and eating

Anyone else?

@GiBlues

This is exactly the same as “the pandemic was actually really positive for us” Never mind the fact the thousands of people lost loved ones, people’s mental health had suffered massively. People were already living from hand to mouth, give it 6 months and see how many people are queuing at the food banks and pensioners are dying from not being able to hear their homes. But as long as you’re walking more and mindful of what you’re cooking OP then 👌🏻

This.

The less food waste is brilliant

*As for the mushrooms, I also had some ones that were… looking very peaky.

Dash of oil, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar. Salt and pepper. In the oven 180.

I had with rice for lunch and was bloody delicious*

Haha, fair play OP, you had me thinking this was real until this.

Massively stressful time for so, so many. It’s sickening. I work with families who are profoundly affected by this and it’s heart wrenching.

But other people who aren’t on the bones is their arse are allowed to describe their experiences.

Mumsnet is a whole host of contradictions:

-We as a nation are obese, but yet so many on here have an ED or know someone who does.
-The average household income on MN is eye-boggling high by anyones standards, but yet everyone lives in poverty.
-Everyone has a several strapping six foot healthy teen sons, but yet so many have DC with profound complex needs and physical disabilities etc

STOP policing threads! If you don’t like or don’t agree with what the OP is saying, then just move on and ignore it.

She has a right to discuss how the current changes are affecting her..:like it or not.

@Optimisiticcautiouslyso

Of course But I don’t think every thread has to be full of disclaimers

I think there’s a large group of people, myself included, that previously spent and drove without much thought

But now ARE thinking and that’s a positive

Please don’t always seek out the negatives in a thread

I agree and must say I didn't understand the response to your post. Maybe it was a - misunderstanding.

I honestly don't get it at all. So many people are seriously worried about the rising costs of their energy bills but mine don't seem to have increased at all. I am not boasting, honestly! Just a bit confused by it all. I'm surely not the only one to be unaffected and there must be a reason.

It shouldn't take a cost of living crisis for people to be more sustainable and I find this thread in extremely poor taste for those that have to choose between eating and heating, pretty sure they're not finding the positives in it and no, there are no positives to a cost of living crisis

@jesusmaryjosephandtheweedonkey

How can you think people not being able to afford basic needs as " mindful " Are you always this self centred? Have a fucking

This

@Quincythequince

Massively stressful time for so, so many. It’s sickening. I work with families who are profoundly affected by this and it’s heart wrenching.

But other people who aren’t on the bones is their arse are allowed to describe their experiences.

Mumsnet is a whole host of contradictions:

-We as a nation are obese, but yet so many on here have an ED or know someone who does.
-The average household income on MN is eye-boggling high by anyones standards, but yet everyone lives in poverty.
-Everyone has a several strapping six foot healthy teen sons, but yet so many have DC with profound complex needs and physical disabilities etc

STOP policing threads! If you don’t like or don’t agree with what the OP is saying, then just move on and ignore it.

She has a right to discuss how the current changes are affecting her..:like it or not.

STOP policing threads! If you don’t like or don’t agree with what the OP is saying, then just move on and ignore it

Er, no. That would mean a 100% YANBU on each thread. She has the right to discuss it, others have the right to point out how tone deaf she is. Literally the point of AIBU.

(Also, you just policed the thread, if you don't like peoples comments, just move on and ignore them )

Plenty of posts like OPs think it depends who is online and how they are feeling on the day. Nasty, nasty vile comments. You wouldn't be saying anything out loud like this just carry on with the bullying.

@Tubs11

It shouldn't take a cost of living crisis for people to be more sustainable and I find this thread in extremely poor taste for those that have to choose between eating and heating, pretty sure they're not finding the positives in it and no, there are no positives to a cost of living crisis

Those of us who are living with the open wound of lack of appropriate support for carers sometimes find it remarkable that everyone agrees it's a problem but don't want to discuss solutions to it because the problem is so overwhelming and reflects an abhorrent mirror to society on some attitudes to age and disability.

It sometimes does take a crisis for some people to encounter a fresh perspective or to discover just how wretched some lives are. Threads like this can be a gateway to further reflection.

Yeah ok chateaux except my Point that generally on MN you engage with the thread if you have something f to say about the topic, not to personally attack the OP.

100problems

Yep, not sorry to the professionally offended, but I also think the OP has a reasonable point.
I absolutely hate this line, it is used to shut pp's down when they have a legitimate reason to disagree with the OP.

OP has some good points however some were inappropriate as it isn't a game for so many people.

Is it that hard to hear different experiences.

Chateaux I could comment on pretty much any Thread on here because Incan always sling mud.

She is not tone deaf. She doesn’t live in a vacuum, she just isn’t poor - doesn’t mean she can’t feel the impact. We can all feel the impact.

How lovely you can cut back on car usage. Meanwhile myself working in rural community nursing and all the home carers are wondering how to afford to fill our cars with fuel to do our jobs when the mileage we get paid is not going to cover this

Totally agree.

I have future plans to save on petrol.

In terms of electric/gas - I used to leave nearly all the lights on (just forgot about them), used to have the heating on way more often than it needed to be. I now make sure all lights are off, turn the heating off where possible or lower the temp.

Food - my food shops were costing me between £110-140 each week. It is now costing me between £70-100 as I am cutting out the things that we don't really need. I check all cupboards and freezer before doing my online food shop so that I can make use of everything already in the house. I write a meal list for each week too.

It has definitely made me think twice about a lot of things that I do.

Also, you just policed the thread, if you don't like peoples comments, just move on and ignore them. 😆

@Quincythequince

Chateaux I could comment on pretty much any Thread on here because Incan always sling mud.

She is not tone deaf. She doesn’t live in a vacuum, she just isn’t poor - doesn’t mean she can’t feel the impact. We can all feel the impact.

She is tone deaf. She hasn't felt the impact, just made adjustments.

You don’t have to be on the bones of your arse to have a valid opinion. I get you OP. It is making us more careful and that’s a good thing.

@RozHuntleysStump

You don’t have to be on the bones of your arse to have a valid opinion. I get you OP. It is making us more careful and that’s a good thing.

Exactly.

She has felt the impact. It’s just much smaller for her!

What don’t you get about that?

Would it be better if people with more money weren’t realising that things are getting steadily worse?

Do you think millionaires should be allowed to work with/for charities because they can’t possibly know of whatever suffering it is they’re supporting.

Your baiting and ridiculous comments are exactly what they want. Divide and conquer and how oh so many people on here are playing into that with such spite already.

I grew up never leaving lights on unnecessarily as my father would dock 5p from my pocket money if we continually left the light on and we weren't in the room.
Good training but I didn't thank him at the time as 20p bought a quarter of sweets!

Linked to my Op but not directly

Does anyone feel guilty that a service you used to use, you no longer use?

I used to pay £6 for local company car clean. Now I’ve got my son doing it. I used to give toys etc to charity, this time I put them on marketplace and sold them. I don’t have a cleaner (a minority on mumsnet it seems sometimes!) but if I did, I would probably be reconsidering. It’s an uncomfortable feeling that savings being made are then negatively impacting others.

I personally think the CoL crisis will cause very few changes that can be observed, in terms of food waste, active travel, CO2 emissions, etc. At best there might be a slow down in the ever increasing amount of consumption and pollution. So still growing problems, just not growing as fast for next 12 months. Is most impact I could expect.

And yes a burden/impact that falls very unevenly.

No shortage of cars & other vehicles with engine running, & no one inside, around here. I encounter this constantly as much as ever.

@RozHuntleysStump

You don’t have to be on the bones of your arse to have a valid opinion. I get you OP. It is making us more careful and that’s a good thing.

I like this post Thank you

^You don’t have to be on the bones of your arse to have a valid opinion. I get you OP. It is making us more careful and that’s a good thing.^
It's funny energy price increases has made people in this position become more careful and not the environmental impact melting icebergs excessive damage created from the lifestyle description prior to increased electricity. Tut tut.
Being poor keeps your imprint down.

@Quincythequince

She has felt the impact. It’s just much smaller for her!

What don’t you get about that?

Would it be better if people with more money weren’t realising that things are getting steadily worse?

Do you think millionaires should be allowed to work with/for charities because they can’t possibly know of whatever suffering it is they’re supporting.

Your baiting and ridiculous comments are exactly what they want. Divide and conquer and how oh so many people on here are playing into that with such spite already.

Agreed - divide and conquer was most likely the point of the OP's post.