It is tough NOW. So how are we coping

Larumbelle

I have to admit, I'm not a member of the cult of Stardrops I know, it means I'm not really OS (don't tell anyone!) BUT what I did shop for lately was fairy household soap, which had gone up 60p to £1.99 for two bars :eek: I got it from Wilkinsons instead for £1.55 but this was still dearer than last time. Maybe with purchases like this the price rise is accentuated because you don't buy it week-in-week out?

beingfrugal

cbsexec wrote: »

Mind you I don't think we suffered too much - just did without and managed.

That's what we're all doing or going to have to do isn't it - do without and manage. My mam did that with us in the 80's, my Gran did that with my mam in the 60's. I had s*d all growing up, treats were appreciated when I was a kiddiewinkle. I hate to say it but I am dubious that my children appreciate things as I did New 'stuff' bobbles, knickers or a head band, new jarmies are all expected and just put on them wihout noticing or a thank you.If my mam bought me a pack of knickers from the market I was chuffed! Infact I remember my little sister having a temper tantrum because she couldn't have any new knickers lol Appreciated and anticipated eh!

I am pleased I have to now say to my daughter she can't have everything replaced as when she wants. It's working already mind you, she put her soggy weetabix in the fridge 'for later' this morning:rotfl:

Larumbelle

ginnyknit wrote: »

Thank god its raining a bit so my veg will grow fatser before the hosepipe ban on Friday, am already pouring every bit of washing up water into buckets but its going to mean a lot of lugging but hey its worth it!

I'll be honest, I never use a hosepipe anyway as using treated water on my veggies seems a little wasteful. Do you have a water butt? There are plenty of other ways to minimise watering, too! What kind of veggies are you growing / how are you growing them (in the ground/raised beds/pots etc)? A little work now can save lots of watering cans lugged around later

floss2

As a bit of a rant & slightly new topic, I have to say how hacked off I am about the civil service redundancy payments (apologies if I offend any past or current civil servants)....!!!!!! makes them so important that they get up to 104 weeks salary in redundancy payment, and now may get a REDUCTION to 52 weeks salary, and 65 weeks if they take voluntary redundancy!! The majority of the rest of the country will get a maximum of 30 weeks (certainly in local government as we are bound by agreements) if they are lucky!

Sorry but I was fuming when I heard this on the radio! :mad:

Rant over

eandjsmum

floss2 wrote: »

As a bit of a rant & slightly new topic, I have to say how hacked off I am about the civil service redundancy payments (apologies if I offend any past or current civil servants)....!!!!!! makes them so important that they get up to 104 weeks salary in redundancy payment, and now may get a REDUCTION to 52 weeks salary, and 65 weeks if they take voluntary redundancy!! The majority of the rest of the country will get a maximum of 30 weeks (certainly in local government as we are bound by agreements) if they are lucky!

Sorry but I was fuming when I heard this on the radio! :mad:

Rant over

Down her in Kent one excecutive on the County Council was paid a salary of £170000. He commuted from Yorkshire to Kent every week, However after just one year he left and was give a years pay-off. Every time this is brought up on local radio the Chief Excec clams up and says he has a confidendlality agreement,and it was cheeper to pay him rather than go through performence reviews. It makes me mad at a time when we all have to cut back this is allowed to go on. Just think he has a salary equivalent to 170 band D properties and gets a pay off of another 170.:mad:

annie123

I've gone beyond tightening my belt, not enough holes in it.
I've moved on to a Victorian corset, knee in the middle of the back and pull tighter:rotfl:
who needs internal organs and working lungs to live!

floss2

eandjsmum wrote: »

Down her in Kent one excecutive on the County Council was paid a salary of £170000. He commuted from Yorkshire to Kent every week, However after just one year he left and was give a years pay-off. Every time this is brought up on local radio the Chief Excec clams up and says he has a confidendlality agreement,and it was cheeper to pay him rather than go through performence reviews. It makes me mad at a time when we all have to cut back this is allowed to go on. Just think he has a salary equivalent to 170 band D properties and gets a pay off of another 170.:mad:

That's because of the Local Government Agreement, and if it is a confidential (possibly even compromise?) agreement then there is quite probable that he has been paid off. Or it could be that he was on a fixed term contract & they have had to buy him out of it if they wanted him to leave before the end.

Thats_me

Personally, I find the term "living in poverty" in this country a bit offensive. I am not for one moment saying that there is no poverty but apart from someone who is living on the street with no income, how can anyone say they are in true poverty? By todays standards, I must have been brought up in abject poverty although I didn't realise it. My children must have been brought up in abject poverty although they didn't realise it. However low benefit payments are, no one in this country should be starving. Please don't think I am some snotty person speaking from a 6 bedroom luxury mansion, I am about to be made redundant, am partially sighted and have a couple of other problems but I have never in my life, even when absolutely skint, thought of me and mine being in poverty. We have everything we need, not everything we want. We all in this country, even the poorest, still live in the top 5% of world popoulation. If you can put food on the table (any food!), a fire in the grate (go pick up fallen wood from the trees in the park) and a roof over your head (even a tent or caravan) then be thankful. I will beleive we live in poverty in this country when I am stepping over bodies in the street. I don't know what makes the current generation (I don't just mean young uns) think that they have an entitlement to the moon on a stick. Live within your means, don't get into debt to buy carp and appreciate what you do have. That is the way to beat this recession.

Rant over, hope I have not offended anyone. I think the redundancy is making me a bit grumpy!

eandjsmum

floss2 wrote: »

That's because of the Local Government Agreement, and if it is a confidential (possibly even compromise?) agreement then there is quite probable that he has been paid off. Or it could be that he was on a fixed term contract & they have had to buy him out of it if they wanted him to leave before the end.

No he stayed for a full year and there were performenace issues.
At first It was stated that he had left. But it now seems that threr was morre to it than that and it was cheaper to just pay him off than gothrough a performance review.

eandjsmum

Thats_me wrote: »

Personally, I find the term "living in poverty" in this country a bit offensive. I am not for one moment saying that there is no poverty but apart from someone who is living on the street with no income, how can anyone say they are in true poverty? By todays standards, I must have been brought up in abject poverty although I didn't realise it. My children must have been brought up in abject poverty although they didn't realise it. However low benefit payments are, no one in this country should be starving. Please don't think I am some snotty person speaking from a 6 bedroom luxury mansion, I am about to be made redundant, am partially sighted and have a couple of other problems but I have never in my life, even when absolutely skint, thought of me and mine being in poverty. We have everything we need, not everything we want. We all in this country, even the poorest, still live in the top 5% of world popoulation. If you can put food on the table (any food!), a fire in the grate (go pick up fallen wood from the trees in the park) and a roof over your head (even a tent or caravan) then be thankful. I will beleive we live in poverty in this country when I am stepping over bodies in the street. I don't know what makes the current generation (I don't just mean young uns) think that they have an entitlement to the moon on a stick. Live within your means, don't get into debt to buy carp and appreciate what you do have. That is the way to beat this recession.

Rant over, hope I have not offended anyone. I think the redundancy is making me a bit grumpy!

I grew up without a car TV and Washing machine I still survived even though my mum had to wait for rebates to by me clothes.