Cosy of living...increased in food, energy, petrol

[Gmamaofboys13]

When will this end?

Every week things in the weekly shoo keep going up in cost. A loaf of bread from ASDA was 55p...now 70p, and that's happening with everything.

My gas and electricity has doubled, even though I'm using less.. it's more expensive to fill up my car.
What price increases others noticed?

There’s still a huge disparity in prices depending on shops, I like the oatley milk as a treat. Used to be £2 many months ago, can now get it from Booths (posh northern supermarket for those who don’t have one) for £1.50( We do the big shop in aldi which doesn’t stock it.). But went I to the co op earlier where it’s £2.25. So without the booths context I would have thought twice but now I’m actually getting it more cheaply.

It was always going to happen. We import about 40-50% of our food. The cost of importing has soared due to diesel prices and the cost of administration at the border which did not previously exist.

Energy prices are so influenced by Russia that its anyone's guess really whats going to happen with them. I know gas prices are down a fair amount just now, but we can't even buy it up and store. I think the government have to push ahead with the windfall tax and I hope Boris stops being such a tit over it.

to Fill my car used to coat £55, last time £75- yesterday was £82
its so stressful and depressing and yet I know I’m lucky because it means whilst I can’t save but I won’t go hungry.

It really is quite simple. Get on a bus and ride around on it all day, this will apparently solve all your problems.

Inflating the debt away was exactly the plan from day one.

They don't care if the poor die remember. They don't matter after all, they can't buy the items the Tories have shares in anyway, so they don't have any concern for the poor people in Britain. Of course they will use inflation to pay off debt. It's the only plan they have, they are too stupid to think of others.

Don't kid yourself that the Tories care. They don't. You could be dying in the middle of the street, on fire, and Boris Johnson would try and steal your purse.

Reminds me of a discussion with a neighbour who owns a gas guzzler. He was dissing my compact car, and said "I know small cars get better fuel mileage, but..." ...wait for it... "... but small cars have small fuel tanks, so you have to fill them up more often."

Can't argue with logic like that.

I have seen this before.

Shreddies was about £3.50 for the small, 9 portion serving box, when I bought it the other day. Warbutons is up by 25p. We’ve slipped into buying about 2/3 brand names so are going to go back to what we used to do. That’s Aldi for our main shop and then Sainsbury’s for the last few bits, buying non-branded. Fortunately, the two shops are a two minute drive away but we got lazy and stopped doing that a couple of years ago. Hope to save £20 a week doing that.

Yes, this is very much a thing I have noticed in Lidl/Aldi. Lulls you into a false sense of security as you think 'oh it's not bad in here, things are the same price' and then realise it's 25% smaller!

betty I noticed the sainsburys crumpet price rise too.

surely inflating the debt only works if you don't increase interest rates.

Great for anyone with big mortgage (like myself). But the poor/middle income really suffer.

I have decided to belt tighten at home, although I am not sure it is strictly necessary. Instead of each of us having our own favourite flavour of artisan bread for our morning toast we are going to share occassionally.

Yours Rishi.

I live in Ireland. I have noticed going around Dunnes recently that prices are rising on everything. Along with this companies are changing package sizes to cover up the fact that prices are rising. Even one of my single friends said to me recently I can see the difference in prices and that she would not like to be trying to feed a family at the moment. She said that 10c to 50c extra on each item soon adds up.

I have a friend who works as a volunteer in a SVP charity shop. She said more people are looking for help from the SVP now than even a few months ago.
She noticed that she is seeing more new faces coming into shop with them. They are bringing friends with them as well after their 1st visit. People are finding that even with having a job the costs are rising so much they need to budget more. They are using charity shops to help their money go further.

Shopping costs have soared. I specifically noticed that the spread we use was £1 at the beginning of the pandemic and is now £1.70 so add that to every item in your basket.

Petrol is a big one. Used to be around £60 to fill up from first warning light, now it's more like £75. It's £1.68 a litre at the best-priced petrol station round here! I have to drive for one of my jobs (supply teacher) so I'm trying to be careful with where I go. At least it means I'm saving money by not taking DS to swimming or soft play etc., both for petrol and the cost of the activity.

One of the biggest things I have noticed is the lower discounts on yellow tickets. A Sainsbury's curry used to be about £2.75 and on the last day go down to about £1.40. It's now £3.50ish full price and Sainsbury's are knocking a whole 30p off the reduced ones. Just an example - there'll be something like a reduced Charlie Bigham's fish pie, £8.25 reduced to £7.95!

Ours has never gone below and is up to £1.80 here

It’s scary, almost every bit of society is going to be hit, aside from those at the very top. It’s a luxury, but we used to go to a local cafe for lunch at a weekend occasionally and it’s gone up from around £20 to £30, makes us think twice about going. For the hospitality industry already recovering from COVID I can’t imagine the trickle down if lots of people stop their treats. Of course none of this is as bad as the impact on those who were seriously struggling before the price increases, I can’t imagine how horrible it must feel.

I think people are failing to see the positives here. Rishi Sunak and his missus are in the top 250 wealthiest people in the country.

Honestly, you lot just sound like moaning minnies.

Ouch!

I filled our small car up this morning and a jerry can for the farm. Spent the most I ever have to do that.