It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

YorksLass

YorksLass said:

I'm currently compiling a list for my next online grocery order and have lost count of the number of times I've crossed out or added things to it.  I need quite a lot of store cupboard items but am trying to keep it down to a reasonable level and stay within budget.

Easier said than done.  Checking my Favourites list, there are no less than 15 items that have gone up in price since I last bought them.   Three are not essentials, more nice to haves, so I'll not be getting those.  The rest are regularly used/basics and the increases start at 5p per item up to silly.  The worst is a 500g pack of cooking bacon that has been 75p for months and months - shot up to £2.08 overnight!  Strangely, their packs of ordinary bacon rashers remain the same price - for now.

We have 4 household waste tips and 2 of them have shops that take unwanted re-usable items and sell at low prices.  I think it's such a good idea to keep stuff out of landfill.  DD had a fair bit of stuff from them when she moved to a new flat.

London_1

I agree, how wasteful it is to bury perfectly good stuff, that can be used by others. I once was taking some no longer needed wooden chairs to our local tip and the chap in the next car asked if he could have them.I said yes, but I will have to give them to you outside as its not allowed on the tip site to swap.
He said great so I put them back into my boot and drove outside and waited and when he came out I gave them to him,he was chuffed to bits and so was I. 

Very shortsighted of councils not to allow this as it would cut down burying goodness knows what into landfill.

The local tip also had a display of gnomes that had been left there, and the chaps that work  there had made a nice display by their shed of them, and it used to make folk smile to see these cheeful stone gnomes waving. The some 'grinch ' sent a complaint to the council and they were told to discard them  
It used to make children sitting waiting for parents in their cars giggle to see these little animals and creatures that had been collected there.

JackieO xx

Katiehound

Stuff at our tip- if it can not be recycled, goes to a massive incinerator miles and miles away that generates electricity. Probably that's why we would be 'stealing' from the council! Except of course it has to be transported over 25 miles.......

CKhalvashi

I've just paid £19.50 (minus 10% Clubcard discount) for a pair of jeans

The last paid I bought (also from Tesco) were about £12 about a year ago, and very similar in design. As far as trousers go, I own 3 pairs of suit trousers, 3 pairs of jeans and 2 pairs of joggers, plus a pair of shorts and 2 pairs of swimming trunks, so quite minimalist in general. I'd been in the town centre this morning so wish I'd popped into Sainsburys now as they have a much larger range.

There were D&G and Boss jeans in the charity shop next door for £10, but the sizes wouldn't work, even with some flexibility in length. I'm possibly going away on Friday and neither pair I had at home were in the condition I'm happy to go through 3 international borders with over the course of about 12 hours and then straight into a meeting (I work in leisure, so jeans are fine and weekend meetings are commonplace).

jimpwarsop

One of the neighbours snuffed it the other week, his relatives flogged what they could, then ordered a skip.

Yesterday everything was spread out on the front lawn  as a free for all .  Then today the eastern europeans turned up with two vans and took anything of value. Waste of money ordering the skip.

Florenceem

YorksLass - I saw about that increase so stocked up with 500g packs of cooking bacon from Asd.

RobM99

Elisheba said:

weenancyinAmerica said:

little money: 

You might want to keep the ingredients for Dr. Kellogg’s Magic Elixir (really it is called Rehydration Fluid) for when someone can’t keep any food down and is getting dehydrated:

·         1 quart of water

·         ½ teaspoon salt

·         2 tablespoons white corn syrup such as Karo® syrup

Mix when needed. Add equal parts Seven-Up® - the kind with sugar, not the diet version. Start the patient with a tablespoon of the mixture and a tablespoon of Seven-Up®. Then increase the amounts as the patient can tolerate it. Keep refrigerated until used. When the patient no longer needs it, get rid of it. (Dr. Kellogg was the doctor who prescribed it for my sister when she was ill, and we named it after him.) This is from Time to Be Prepared: Emergency Preparedness on a Shoestring (my book)

Even easier as I've not seen corn syrup for sale over here,

1/2 teaspoon salt
6 teaspoons sugar (any will work)
1 litre of boiling water

Mix together, drink as and when.  You can add fruit juice to make it taste nicer.

I think creoesote would make that taste better!

TheAble

jimpwarsop said:

One of the neighbours snuffed it the other week, his relatives flogged what they could, then ordered a skip.

Yesterday everything was spread out on the front lawn  as a free for all .  Then today the eastern europeans turned up with two vans and took anything of value. Waste of money ordering the skip.

Thus was his passing marked eh? Bit sad that.

elsien

Florenceem said:

YorksLass - I saw about that increase so stocked up with 500g packs of cooking bacon from Asd.

That explains why my Asda didn’t have any then - you’ve got it all! 

ETA - still showing as 75p online

Florenceem

elsien - they had 2 boxes of cooking bacon in my local store - I was surprised to find any at such a good price but maybe people haven't noticed it on the bottom shelf.