Cost of living

[NotABeliever]

How is inflation only 10%?
I'm placing an order with Ocado. Nine rolls of Ocado toilet paper are £4.00 exactly. I went and checked my receipts from previous shopping and they were £3.30 in July and £3.60 in August this year.
I don't know how people are going to get through this 😞

Im honestly confused dacadactyl

Fairs….again 🙂

I went shopping and bought mostly Morrisons own brand. No alcohol, pet food, treats etc and it was £70. A few months ago the same shop would have been about £45, food has really rocketed. Their 2 for £3 is now 2 for £3.50, handwash is £1.20, last week it was £1. I noticed a lot of junk food is still cheap though, pot noodles were 60p.

Maybe bog roll wasn’t the best example, but I'm also struggling to see how inflation is “only” 10%. Meat/fish seems especially expensive. We’ll manage but we are doing a second shop for the food bank every week now.

I’m grateful that we still have about 2,000 rolls left from when lockdown started.

I grabbed a box of 20 cod fish fingers the other day. £7!!! I’m not sure I’ve ever clocked the price of them before but surely it was a lot less than £7!

Have a browse of this.

www.ons.gov.uk/releases/consumerpriceinflationbasketofgoodsandservices2022

This morning I decided to get cereal bars to sneak into the kids lunches. The boxes had gone up by over 2 euro and they’re normally half price so they were really gone up by 3.75 euro. Couldn’t even consider it. Yoghurts are now a treat in our house since lidl and Aldi ones went from 26c to 60c. Yanbu

It varies according to area as well.

Here in Wales I've yet to encounter a £7 tub of lurpak or a £10 box of fish fingers.

Although I'm also not shopping on ocado.

Toothpaste £4.60 in Superdrug. Normal nothing special bloody toothpaste

I don't know what everyone's worried about... Liz Truss has said today that everyone will have the opportunity to be a banker and earn uncapped bonuses

And it will all carry on next year when minimum wage goes to £10.41 per hour

Truflation is showing inflation in the UK at over 16%
Food is running at 7%, household items at nearly 10%

app.truflation.com/

I work in the social care sector in my main job (when I’m not in maternity) so I drive around all day anyway. So do most of the women in my area either as home carers or home helps for elderly and disabled folk in their own homes or as domestic cleaners.. Some work at night to work around kids so do it during the day when older kids are at school. Some work seasonally when the tourists and staycationers pile in. There are no jobs here for those with a further education. Your options are care work, cleaning work, agricultural work, hospitality or you can bugger off to sea either with the fishing or the oil and gas.
It is bloody hard tho robbing time here and there to go into shops. Especially when you’re held up by tourists sauntering along on a jolly doing 40 mph in a 60 looking at the views. But it goes a little something like:

Mondays is town centre day so poundstretchers and the poundshop and b&m and home bargains that day
Tuesdays are a shit show so nothing doing there
Wednesdays I only work the morning so I pass Iceland and the big b&m on the way home.
Thursdays is aldis lidls and farmfoods days coz they’re all close to my last two Thursday afternoon clients.
Fridays I’m off so anything else.

We’re not even that hard up, nowhere near where we were before when we had our first kid but I’ve never got out of the habit of living like it and some of my friends are really in the shit.

Is it really tho? My deodorant has went from £1 in savers to £1.80, farmfoods butter from £1.25 to £1.89, sunflower oil from 99p to £1.99, farmfoods fish from £2,50 ish to £4.99, farmfoods chips from £1.50 to £2.30. Things you used to get 3 for x amount now you only get 2 for. That’s got to be more than 16%

I noticed most toilet rolls in supermarkets have now gone up to £4 for a pack of 9 . Was in Morrisons earlier and there crisps were 85p before now £1.19 walkers are now like £1.70 . Milk use to be £1.09 and now £1.45

it's that price (7 for fish fingers) in Iceland and lidl now in the Midlands.
I think it was 5.50 for lurpak. I don't buy it but my sister still does. I wonder what price will she keep buying it at?

my dh had a massive go at me for going to lidl for a shop and I had a go at him for going to Iceland last week. Apparently the cheap supermarkets are now the expensive ones with only aldi being acceptable for the time being.

(a massive go means "ah why did you go there sweetheart its so expensive" ... "well you went to Iceland the other week so you're worse!")

actually, I'm pretty annoyed we managed to have a little spat over going shopping. I expect we will soon be going together as a family and spend ages I'm each section with a little log book for prices, agonising over what dinner we can make the cheapest. really can't be bothered for this.

I suppose the stress has already got to us quicker than we thought.

It is worth going to a few different supermarkets if you can, like Highland pony says.

You can really save

It’s the people who already buy non branded who are going to struggle.

the middle class waitrose and Ocado shoppers are going to struggle not to afford things, but to realise that they’ve been paying over the odds for years anyway.

I noticed that with mince yesterday and everything is close to sell by date.

Aldi butter is now 1.99 , recently it was around the 1.50 mark.