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?

You may find the novelty wears off after a while.

Increasing petrol costs - daughter goes to school 15 miles away. I’m a cleaner so travel to clients houses. We live in a village with few amenities and poor intermittent bus service that has to go into the city and then change buses to get to any other part of the county, train services cut more and more. Food costs increasing due to logistics costs.

Your post is tone deaf.

@Optimisiticcautiouslyso

Would it be fair to say that you haven't had many money worries and you are a little middle class?

It's not like discussing holidays because no one needs a holiday to survive, it falls under discretionary spending.
People need food and energy to survive. Many many people have already been struggling to feed their families and have some heating in their homes.
The increasing costs that you find make you more mindful are causing them to be hungry and cold.

Oh and we’ve done lights off and extra layers for years.

Your privilege is screaming loud and proud.

It’s great TGAT you have the buffer - many do not.

I think the fact that you drove, ate and whacked on the heating with little thought shows a complete lack of how the average person in the UK lives.

Personally I think it's a good thing to remember this. We have so much inequality in this county with a widening gulf. Lots of people don't realise how privileged other people are & there are lots of them. Hiding that privilege isn't a good thing.

So you were wasteful and now you’re not. Good for you.

Meanwhile, millions have never had that option.

If you can’t see that not going on holiday is not the same as not putting the heating on or not buying food because you can’t afford it, this is even worse than I first thought.

Good for you 😐

Oh my God. This thread is so tone deaf I feel embarrassed.

I'm all for finding the silver lining and making a virtue of a necessity but... it's probably best to do so quietly!

@PurpleDaisies

If you can’t see that not going on holiday is not the same as not putting the heating on or not buying food because you can’t afford it, this is even worse than I first thought.

Quite.

Food costs - been shopping in budget stores and cooking from scratch and semi-veggie eith onlh tgd cheapest meat (20% fat minds, bone in skin on value chicken thighs) for years.

Transport, food and electric - we have a small amount of wiggle room left to cut, partner us working gif knows how many hours overtime a month and I’m on my knees dog tired in a very physical home and can’t take in more hours.

Fuck knows how those who had zero wiggle room are going to manage, we’re only just hanging on.

Your post is all I, I and I. That’s what people are objecting to OP. Great for you but for a lot of people that was their reality before, and it’s just got 10 times worse now.
Agree with the pp about your thread title. Boris will be thrilled.

It's a pity that it took feeling a financial cost for you to live in a less wasteful manner. Meanwhile, a lot of people were already living the way you do now, for much less selfish reasons, and are still struggling to make ends meet.

This is like posting a thread on how much happier you are WFH as it gives you more time for hobbies, when everyone else is going out of their minds trying to pay the bills while keeping their toddlers alive.

Read the goddamn room.

Tone deaf and brainless.

Having spent years living off yellow sticker food with zero waste
Envying friends and family who could afford petrol/diesel just for leisure
Telling DC to put on extra clothing and wrap up in blankets to save heating costs
I’m finding your post insensitive
These days I can afford most of the above even with price increases but I know so many who can’t and will be helping them where I can

@PinkiOcelot

Your post is all I, I and I. That’s what people are objecting to OP. Great for you but for a lot of people that was their reality before, and it’s just got 10 times worse now. Agree with the pp about your thread title. Boris will be thrilled.

Fodder for The Torygraph etc

Thread will be gone soon, won't it?

Fuck knows how those who had zero wiggle room are going to manage, we’re only just hanging on.

For me, no heating. short showers three times a week. Lights on when I can't see anymore in the dark. No meat. No milk. It has become ridiculously expensive where I am. Fewer showers are OK as I can't afford to go anywhere.

I'm sure I'm not alone.

I'm afraid your OP demonstrates that, even after you'd started to be more careful about spending and consumption, you'd still not thought that some people have to do this all the time, and now will have to choose between laundry and food.

@purplemunkey

I'm sure it's lovely for you to be able to treat this as a 'mindfulness' experience. I probably would have thought about the impact it has on other people who aren't quite so lucky before posting something so silly.

^^ this....its like saying how lucky you are a wheelchair user, you can get good seats at shows.

I think you're tone deaf. I have to commute by car 60 km round trip to work. There's no appropriate public transport to help me. I can't change jobs because it's a permanent job and they're like gold dust. I'm not going to solve fuel prices by being mindful, am I? It's going to hit me right in the pocket.

@Agrudge

I'd be more interested in knowing what people are doing to make more money to offset the rising costs?

Everyone whines about how costs are going up.

Do something to improve your situation instead complaining

Theres always a way to make more money if you have the right mindset

And the runner up prize for tone deaf comments goes to...