If things get tougher?

mrs_baggins

doesnt it get depressing though! doing without this, cutting out that ! just so we can live! I was depressed before now i think I am even more so. If all the nice things in life keep getting cut just to survive it gets very sad. In my work I have to visit houses and a lot of the people are on benefits and all of them have the plasma tv's on all day, are smoking and seem to have lots of clothes! just ignore me today I am in a right black mood lately I think and seem to have a downer on everything!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

mrs baggins....you have a good moan...i dont mind listening....as we've all been there... seen it..... got the t.shirt...
life i think is getting tougher.......

everything is going up..... and wages are not going up to reflect price increases in council tax... gas ..etc...

there will come a point were everything with come tumbling down...and no average family /person will be able to afford.... the basic.. things....

i just feel sorry for people in other countries... that its allready happened to.....

take care......

halloweenqueen_2

Its getting a bit worrying, my electrice bill was quite high - due to the price hikes not more usage and I didn't use hardly any gas, obviously I will over winter, we are quite mean with it already so i hate to think how its going to be this year! We have mangaed to get down to one car now so at least thats a big saving, hopefully we won't have to go back to having two.
I get really angry when I see a lot of pensioners having to buy reduced food and the cheapies because of high costs of living, makes me wonder where I'll be when i'm that age?

foreverskint

I know what you mean HQ. I am not in a postition to have a private pension, just keeping up with now is hard enough. I really don't want to think to hard about my retirement, as it's not going to be good.

I too had a bill of £200.00 for the last three months of leccie usage, and we had cut down severely, hot water tank on only when we need it, all sharing the same bathwater etc. I just see my heating bills as a debt that will spiral out of control come the winter, unless of course we all sit here shivering.:rolleyes:

I just don't know what the answer is, between my hubbie & me we get around £2000.00 per month, and most of that goes in bills rent and just living.
Very llittle extra luxuries, and by luxuries I mean clothes, shoes etc.

We rarely go out, can't afford to take the kids out anywhere. Maybe I am doing something badly wrong I try to be as oldstyle as possible, but still it doesn't stretch far does it.

Ho hum:rolleyes:

Tiff_2

When my 16 year old DS said he was cold at the end of last week & asked me to turn the heating on, I told him to put some socks, T-shirt and then a jumper on.
You should have seen the look on his face :eek: - it was like I'd asked him for a kidney! :rotfl: Mind you at that age, it's all about image not sensible to them - aaah, I remember it well..._party_
Saved money not having DH any more.
Have noticed that where I am falling down is some of the BOGOFs which I've been stupid enough to buy when it's an item we only use every 6 months. It's only a great deal if you need 2 or 3 of it and you note the sell by date - eg. bread rolls buy 2 packs for £1 - 6 in a bag - all dates ran out two days later! Haven't room to freeze bread.:doh:
I tell you - I've got the best fed sparrows in Warwickshire!!!:rolleyes:

Penny_Watcher

Tiff wrote:

You should have seen the look on his face :eek: - it was like I'd asked him for a kidney! :rotfl:

I know that look SOOO well :rotfl:

halloweenqueen_2

My DD would rather give a kidney than spoil 'the look'!!

Tiff_2

lol
And didn't we do the same?!:rotfl:
Back in the 'old days', (I'm 41 so we're talking 70's/80's for me), I remember Mum having us 3 children stand in line, as though from separate families (1 loaf to a family!):o , to get bread during the bread shortage, having to use candles during the power cuts and when the coal strikes were on, piles of blankets and coats were layered on the bed (pre-duvet days!;) ) and we wore tracksuit bottoms, socks and an old jumper - I looked like the Michelin Man!!!:o Winters seemed a lot colder & more snowy then.
Those were the days of needing 50p for the television meter - and if we didn't have one, that's when we had the same look as my DS on our faces!;)
He came to me one day aged 8, saying the TV was broken and the picture was all grey, so I went in to see what the problem was and it was just a black & white film!:rolleyes:
I try to tell him about my experiences & he looks at me as though I'm a different species! And it was only thirty years ago ... _pale_ .....I'm off to the Depression thread on the Health Board sob, sob.

moggins

LOL Tiff, you are exactly the same age as me. I don't remember a bread shortage but then I was a firm favourite of the local baker. I remember being in my teens before we got a telephone and BBC2

anniebooklover

This may be slightly off topic but please forgive me. Have you ever considered how much lower your council tax, electricity, gas, water, etc. bill would be if you weren't funding the employees' pensions???? I have worked in the private sector all my life and it really grates with me that all my siblings (who work in the public sector) are having their FINAL SALARY pensions funded by me and other taxpayers. Public sector workers have the highest sick rates in the country (don't get me started on that because I could tell a tale or two there) and also tend to have the highest holiday allocation, etc. Yes, I grant you they do tend to be paid slightly less than private sector workers but their staff benefits MORE than make up for it.

I wish I had the money to take my council to court to have the cost of public sector pensions deducted from my council tax.