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?

Gambling is not the solution to money worries and if matched betting was so lucrative everyone would be doing it, the JobCentre would be advising people to do it, financial advisers would be advising people to do it, Citizens Advice would be advising people to do it - do you get my drift here? They don't because its a mugs game, it's like the lottery, one of those things where its fun to do if you have the spare cash and you might make a little bit of scratch money but highly unlikely to become financial solvent from it.

The fact of it is that wages and prices in this country are fucked. Just get a second (or third or fourth) job, take in ironing, take on babysitting work, get a promotion, do some matched betting, and so on are not a viable solution. No one should be working every hour, scrabbling around, constantly trying to make ends meet and still living hand to mouth. A full time job at minimum wage should be enough to pay the bills, pay for food, raise a family, and have a modest lifestyle. Instead minimum wage is poverty wage, and with the rises in costs anything within 15%-ish of minimum wage is also going to become poverty level wage, and the government has zero interest in fixing it.

I'm unable to work and have lived on disability benefits for years
I've always been frugal and mindful
Now I don't have a spare pound
It's made YOU more mindful
Many have no choice
Keep your insensitive thoughts to yourself

Glad it’s good for you OP but I work with families who are really going to struggle 😞

No not really, it's Utterly miserable to be cold and hungry but you carry on with your Pollyanna attitude.

Gambling houses have been closing in on matched betting for a long time. It always required a lot of time and now it's a lot harder.

This thread reminds me of that fucking awful "poem" people were sharing at the start of lockdown about how lovely it is to stay at home.

Yes absolutely !!

No. What you're describing is another negative. People who have enough money not to be forced into these measures, but decide to play at them, snuggling up in blankets by candle light for the novelty factor, just reinforce their own belief that with enough 'resilience' people are just fine really! They're the same arrogant individuals who rush to give tips on budgeting to people in poverty, because at uni they lived on £20 for a whole week once, so they know it can be done!
You're not being some sort of positive Pollyanna, inspiring us all, you're just being offensive.

Agreed.

*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*

So you're just openly admitting that you didn't give enough of a shit about the environment/money/impact etc until the prices went up?

Weird flex but ok.

Some of us have had no choice but to live life like this in every way, so nothing new to me.

*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*

Such as?? Another tone deaf post

@MarieInternette

Sorry you’re getting a hard time on here OP. It’s not deserved.

I don’t read anything OP said as “tone deaf”. She’s merely saying that due to rising costs she is finding that she now has to cut back. Something most people have realised at some point over the last few months. The fact that some people have had it harder for longer is not her fault and there is no need for such nastiness.

Being poor doesn’t give you the right to direct your resentment at other ordinary members of society who may be better off than yourself no matter how frustrated you are.

I am in the happy position of not being on the bones of my bum (I have been there so I know what its like) My comments are not driven by resentment but by the unmitigated pollyannaism of the OP

I had recently weighed up leaving my remote job which has been lovely but knowing energy is soaring and for the use being used would that be so clever, to get a job with as short as it can be journey and a workplace that is non-remote. Hopefully it will be the lesser of two evils.

Hopefully going out to work physically will make me take care of myself a lot better then I had been doing at home, without the fear of anyone seeing me. (I've put on a lot of weight and other bad habits etc)

I see so many posts upset people and know of people earning minimum wage but who refuse to give up the remote working but I've found jobs non-remote now do pay better.

Well, just another example of how the self absorbed climate activists fail to read the room. As long as everything is all about promoting their singularily favourite topic than Rome can burn. Nor do they ever grow up and become more sensitive to other people's worries.
Smh.

I'm looking forward to all the weight I'm going to lose when I have to choose between feeding my kids and myself (obviously will be feeding them!)

I am already very happy that we will have such a small environmental footprint as we won't be able to afford to travel anywhere, run a car, eat imported food (fancy things like fruit), or afford new clothes, school shoes etc.

I look forward to all the spare time I'm going to have once I can't afford to run my business anymore as I lose clients as they can't afford my services and I can't afford my materials, insurance and other costs as they rise as well.

Most of all I am looking forward to the resilience I will build in my kids, when they become hoarders in the future like the generation that went through rationing. They will get to talk about how they lived in a hole in't middle of the road and it made them who they are.

I am grateful for the opportunity to give them the right start in life for a rags to riches story. Although Of course the ending isn't guaranteed

@bellaiceberg

I mean if those on the breadline were just more thoughtful, we wouldnt even need food banks.

Apparently we don’t. According to someone the other day, people just use them because they’re there.

What a useless thread to start. I thought it might be people sharing money or time saving ideas to help others, but no - it's just you navel gazing about not so much gas guzzling and consumerism on your part.
Prannet!

@DrSbaitso

Gambling houses have been closing in on matched betting for a long time. It always required a lot of time and now it's a lot harder.

£600 I've made since December. I'm signed up to a handful of bookies . And I work 48hrs a week.

Theres much more to be made

@Hospedia

People are often wary of something that looks to good to be true. But its genuinely a good way to make abit of extra cash.

Join these groups on facebook

Team profit
Profit accumulator

Ask your own questions, it's not a "scheme" or "scam"

OP it is sad that you have only learned to be frugal now that costs are increasing.

I am frugal as a matter of lifestyle, I have been for decades because I am concerned about resources .

then

Further to that, I have never met a poor one. They are usually financed by mum and dad for half their adult lives and quietly living off their inheritance for the other half.

@lollipoprainbow

*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*

Such as?? Another tone deaf post

Their sterling suggestions were quitting smoking and taking up gambling. Genius.

@BlancmanegeBunny

I'm very pleased to hear that you are no longer being wasteful and more aware of your spending. However, this is a normal way of living for very many people, some by choice some by necessity. I don't see sky-high energy prices as a positive thing!

This. I find it baffling that grown ups are only discovering putting on jumpers or not buying more food than you need. Not just that but then posting about their wonderful discoveries all over the Internet

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

It isn’t really.

I'm certainly using the car less. Not because I'm walking more (live in the middle of nowhere, nearest shop is nearly an hours walk away), but rather than just 'nipping into town' for random possibly unnecessary bits and bobs, I leave things until I can group lots of errands together, making one journey only.