It is tough NOW. So how are we coping

Jorgan_2

happytails wrote: »

Curry sauce was 8p last time now 23p

Don't get me started on Asda curry sauce prices. I first became aware of it about two months ago, from MSE, when it was 4p a jar. I've seen the price to 28p and then two weeks later its 'rolled back' to 8p. I finally realised how much the supermarkets play with the consumer. We now try & make as much of food from scratch as possible and source produce locally if possible.

citroennut

Westywoodpecker, so sorry to hear of your DS's bad news, also everyone else in this position at this time. It's especially upsetting for one so early in their career. My DH teaches apprentices and has noticed a huge increase in redundancies just recently. Sincerely hope that something else turns up for him soon. X

Yategirl

Westywoodpecker - sorry to hear your sons news.

NoahsPennilessMummy

Westy so sorry to hear about your DS! Its so unfair when he is a hard dependable worker.
I agree with others on here things are getting ridiculous. You sometimes wonder why you bother trying in this country. I have been a qualified nurse for nigh on 20 years and still cannot afford a house and am renting. As other nurses will know it was hard work getting my qualification.....I spent 3 years getting my degree while working full time on wards and earning a pittance.....and it seems for very little reward at the end of it. :mad:
Although I love my job I sometimes wish I had gone into a job which gave me a good standard of living.
We are paying more money out all the time, our gas and elec went up from £80 per month to £142 recently and now we have been told from jan it will be £178!!!!:eek:
I can`t understand it as we are in a small terraced house with 2 bedrooms
and I have the heating on 1 hour in the morning and 3 hours at night.....I sit and freeze in the day rather than put heating on just for me. Only have it on at night when DS is in as he is only 5.
The recent bill was estimated so OH is going to venture i nto cellar later to read meter......am hoping it is way out in a good way. :rolleyes:

Charis

I just updated my wood burning post and all the 'thanks' dropped off the bottom :huh: I have noticed this before when I have edited. How odd. Maybe it's in case we add something inappropriate because it would then appear that others have endorsed it.

Just looked again and they are back....?

Charis

mardatha wrote: »

Maybe its time we were really strict about not buying from Tescos and Asda, and all going to Lidl & Aldi ....ok so they are increasing prices as well, but they are cheaper--and that will bring the big boys prices down a wee bit to compete...?? MSErs change the world ! whoohoo !

I can't get to Lidl without almost a twenty mile round trip, even further for Aldi. However I have just bought a shopping trolley and intend to visit the local shops a lot more. It's much more pleasant, the little shopkeepers have the time to talk to you and don't throw your shopping onto a conveyor belt and expect you to match their pace. I'll buy less, because I willl have to pull it home. I'll keep tabs on the cost and report back in a few weeks to let you know if it works out cheaper. Whatever happens I will have had more exercise.

Pink.

Charis wrote: »

I just updated my wood burning post and all the 'thanks' dropped off the bottom :huh: I have noticed this before when I have edited. How odd. Maybe it's in case we add something inappropriate because it would then appear that others have endorsed it.

Just looked again and they are back....?

Charis the 'thanks' don't show after you edit a post but they are still there and when you refresh the page you can see them again.

Pink

calleyw

Sorry to everyone who has or may lose there jobs.

I had my lightbulb moment in September 2006 my husband had a stroke at 44 he spent 3 and half months in hospital with only my wage coming in. He has been left disabled with the real possibility of never working again and being on benefits.

I realised that as long as I have roof over my head and clothes on my back and food in belly I am doing ok. Everything else is extra.

And earlier this year due to safety issues I dropped two days a week from work. So we are no managing on half of what we both earning in 2006.

But we manage. We are lucky that took on such a small mortgage. And keep our bills cut to the bone. That is how we have some left over each month.

The one thing is that as long as you have you health and your family around you. You will get through it, it might not be nice but you will get through it.

All the best to everyone.

Yours


Calley

ceridwen

Can certainly understand and sympathise with those "letting off a bit of steam" at those who have been !!!!less with money. It is difficult to watch our own finances taking a knock or worrying that they might - because other people have been a bit "greedy" shall we say.

It isnt an easy situation I know - I do wonder a bit guiltily whether down at my "ordinary person in the street" level whether I should have kept a bit more "quiet" about it when I borrowed a much heavier mortgage than others on my salary level did and subsequently took out various loans (most of which were for necessary work on the house 'tis true - just 2 of those loans were for me personally) - and I took out that stuff because I knew myself and my own circumstances pretty well - and knew I personally could manage it - and I did - and am now clear of mortgage and debt - but the "guilt" is that maybe others "had eyes bigger than their stomachs" and thought "if she can - on that low income - then I can" - but weren't so resourceful about making sure it all got paid back okay. I dont know - most of us have been living in a "borrowing" culture - but many people don't seem to be that aware of when it was or was not safe to do so and have come a cropper as a consequence.

I often see people announcing they have just become pregnant in one breath and saying how they are in debt in the next breath - and I've just given up yelling at my P.C. screen "WHAT! WHY? Why didnt you wait till you were clear of debt ?"

All round this Crisis is quite a wake-up call - to the effect that we have to make choices in this life. We can't take every "option on the table". It's often a case of "either/or" and sometimes we have to wait to have things we want or even need. Sometimes we have to wait to have that baby or suffer the (undoubted) anguish of knowing its just not financially possible.

I guess - in some ways - we have been a bit conditioned into "I want means I must have - right now". Time to put this into reverse. It is very frustrating to have to wait for anything we want and even more so to have to wait for something we need - but thats life.

mardatha

I have just found that mice have eaten half my stash of candles !!! Wee sods !