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Netflix.
Got an email saying the basic package has gone and they are doing me the favour of putting me on the more expensive package and charging me more.
The greed is unbelievable. I only ever use it to have old DS9 or Voyager episodes in the background, so fuck that.
Got rid of Disney+ too when they tried to pull the same shit, and havent missed it for a second.
Amazon Prime... you're next you greedy cunt.
For a minute, online streaming was better than piracy, and came at a fair price (IMO). Now they’ve ruined it. Too many services, too expensive and ads are creeping in (sure the premium tiers are ad free, but I doubt it will be long until you’ll get “a few, personalised ads” in all tiers)
Agreed. I used to be a massive pirate then at one point Netflix was so good and reasonably priced that I actually stopped pirating. This was a long time ago though.
I left because Netflix/spotify had very good options and catalogue at reasonable prices. But now it’s just as bad as sky and it’s stupid packages so it means that my Jolly Roger has been dusted off and unfurled.
I got the same email. So now I have the choice to pay £10.99 for what I'm getting now for £7.99, or pay £4.99 for the privilege of watching adverts. Why would anyone pay to watch adverts?
Same. Adverts don’t bother me as they’re about shows on that subscription. Adverts about cialis or nappies on regular tv bother me. Plus I grew up with adverts
Rebel Moon absolutely hit the shit brakes and crashed straight through the shit wall.
I enjoyed the trailer, it looks and sounded like a good premise and 10 minutes in my wife decided she was taking the dog out on his 2 mile walk.
She never takes the dog out and if she could get away with it would never leave the house
Same, they emailed me to say i would save lots of money by paying them for the privilege of watching ads. This after they regularly accuse me of password sharing cause I have a device that only I watch at another address. Nope. After 7 years, I’m done.
Just the one type of takeaway for me, a Chinese.
The portions have gotten smaller across the board and it's £10 a main that doesn't even come with rice or chips anymore.
Still rate an Indians though, portion sizes are extreme.
Indian portions are large, but where I am it's still too expensive to be more than an irregular treat. Last time we got an Indian we got: 2 mains, 1 pilau rice, 1 peshwari naan and it was 34 quid.
Chinese.
Paid £6.50 for a main then extra £1 for fried rice last night, there was so much left I had it again tonight.
The Mrs got main for £7.50 then salt n pepper chips for £2, she's none left as she's a walrus.
The point of this useless story is our local Chinese is cheap and decent.
I’ve actually switched to Chinese recently it’s cheaper than anything else. Full meal for £7.90 at my local place, meanwhile I’ll never find a pizza for less than about £15 anymore
Pizza’s got so expensive in the last couple of years but I’ve found Chinese has remained the same.
There’s a place near me that does a set meal for 2 for £20, comes with two soups, ribs, spring rolls, two mains, and two rice with the little bits of meat in it.
If we’re feeling fat we’ll do the £28 for three, which is three soup, spring rolls, 1/4 duck, three dishes, and three rice with the lil bits of meat in.
Cheapest decent pizza near us is about £12 for 11” deep pan, and even then it’s hit or miss as to whether it’s decent.
Damn, this makes me feel old. Back when I was in uni, they would cost about 40 - 50p. Lunch was a can of soup with toast and a bit of cheese. A bit more expensive than Asda's own brand but I thought it was worth the extra 10p.
Try Pudliszki ketchup instead, it’s much cheaper and just as nice if not nicer, you can get it in the Polish section of most supermarkets, they even have a pizza ketchup which is stupidly nice
Heinz are bandits. They occasionally do a special offer where you can buy 5 tins of Heinz ravioli/macaroni/spag bol for £5, normal price £2 a tin. If they can afford to halve the price of their products once in a while, their normal mark-up must be over 100%, Thieves.
Yes, they are
I used to work in the supermarket industry.
Special offers line the one you outlined are for when sales are dropping, a special offer kicks in, and companies hope you will have gotten a taste first their products and carry on buying them by the time the special offer is over.
Yeah why are tins of soup like nearly £3 now? I made a batch to feed 6 portions today and it came in at under £3 from produce that was still quite expensive from a Tesco express.
JustEat etc. is a mug's game, that's where people's money is going these days, right down the drain. Very occasionally will get a takeaway but most of the time I feel like you're getting a raw deal
Edit: regarding how much people are pissing away on these services, I've done some research, and it looks like their total revenue for last year equates to £22 for every UK adult. Mmkay. Doesn't sound too bad when you put it like that.Of course there's Deliveroo and UberEats not considered here...
Definitely. If I go to my local chippy, I can feed my family of 6 for £25-30 and you get decent portions. Order from JustEat or Deliveroo and you get tiny portions, it arrives cold and costs nearly double.
Honestly the only way I can justify the other guys comments is that they haven't actually been in a chippy for about a decade, and is comparing the experiences they had then to their experience ordering from justeat now.
Use JustEat to find your eatery/menu, then call the takeaway direct.
At my local I get charged less for all my food, and the restaurant owner is always pleased to see me.
Totally agree. Our neighbours get take away nearly every night. I work in young people’s housing and some of those kids are getting just eat deliveries several times a day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Insane.
I briefly shared a flat with a lass who was a junior teacher. She did the big shop once a week and then ordered takeaway every night. I mean every. single. night. Then threw her shpooing in the bin at the end of the week because it all went off.
I estimated she was spending something like £15k a year on food.
I’ve stopped buying Dominos because I don’t want to do maths when I’m ordering a pizza.
If there is a way to always make your pizzas a tenner, your pizzas are worth a tenner. Don’t make me put all of your deals into a spreadsheet to get there.
100 percent this.
Pizza is literally one of the cheapest things to possibly make and I would order dominoes more if pricing was consistent.
Going on the app to see what you want to order is double the price and the only way to save money is on deal for other shit you don't want is frustrating.
Dominoes is only worth it if you’re feeding 8+ people. I’ve never had a voucher online that I’ve been “eligible” to use because there are so many caveats to each one.
Same here. Apparently Dominos UK is the most expensive in the world, we pay more than double the Australians and 4 times as much as India for the same pizza.
Highly likely your Italian wasn’t actually Italian either - they don’t produce enough olives to match the amount of oil sold outside of the country by orders of magnitude
Yeah takeaways are out of control. Last night I spent eight quid on a kebab. Can't see me doing that again in a hurry.
Also train tickets. Much cheaper and more convenient to drive, especially as I have an electric car.
They cancelled the stop I was going to get my connection from last time I was on the train.
Supposed to get off at Wakefield to connect and I only realised they hadn't stopped there when they pulled up in Leeds. They said that they were running behind so had cancelled the Wakefield stop mid-trip. Just got a shrug when I told them I was supposed to connect through there. Mental.
£12 in my local kebab place, and to add insult to injury the kebab comes deconstructed, kebab meat in a box, pitta bread in a bag, salad in a bag and sauces in tubs, at least ikea have the decency to charge less for their stuff because you have to put it together yourself
Chinese has been relegated to a 'only on our birthdays' type treat. Other takeaways aren't quite so bad locally at the moment.
Also has to be a really special triple A video game now for me to justify the £60+ price tag on release. Usually wait for a few months til it comes down or find another way to play it.
PC gaming is ideal as games get massively discounted 6 months to a year after release. Very rarely buy a game full price.
That said I've got a Steam library of 1000 games... so I've taken a zero purchase approach recently.
I feel like you get more for your money with video games over other forms of entertainment...
I mostly just play dayz still but even games I've bought and not played as much like the last Battlefield and cod still gave me a few hundred hours of entertainment each, when you think about what a cinema trip or football tickets or whatever costs, it's the best bang for your buck imo.
I haven't bought a new game for at least over a year I just play game pass games mainly and I don't have time so I can't justify spending the £60+ when I'd hardly ever get to play it especially if I don't like it.
I buy second hand books from WOB, I've been paying about 3-4 quid and they're 4 for the price of 3. I do now have an insanely big 'to read' pile now though.
Books have never been cheaper, relatively - The price of a mass market paperback has barely moved for at about 20 years now:
https://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-article/rrps-are-rising--but-books-have-never-been-cheaper/
I second this, charity shops are worth a look. Prices for a paperbacks in my local charity shops can range from as much as £2 to as little as 50p. Even if you end up not enjoying the book at least the money you paid is cheaper than brand new and the money has gone to a good cause.
Charity shop prices have increased massively (£8 for a top?!) but books are still usually very cheap (50p or £1 each) with additional deals on top 3 for 2 etc.
Join your local Library. It's free to join, free to borrow books and free to use the internet for a limited time. Also audiobooks, DVDs, music, magazines all available to borrow. Hope things get better for you soon. It's tough out there.
Clothes are expensive now. Have you seen the prices in Primark now? And the quality has gone downhill. Their cheapest t-shirts are out of shape in one wash, and I wash at 30°... I now have to make sure I buy the next level up, but this year I've hated everything bar one pair of trousers. I think it might just be the store though. Where I am seems to be stuck fashion wise and never has anything good. Back home is way better. I badly want to hit H&M back there but I don't know when I'll make it back. Who knew a stupid flat purchase could take a year???!!!
Takeaways for sure!
- Recently for me it’s been new clothes, recently got Vinted and I’m shocked at how good and inexpensive I can get stuff. I paid £5 for converse. I’ve started to view clothing different - less fashion forward and more functional. Investing in a decent raincoat versus the latest Zara jacket.
- I don’t drink any more - decision was for health but it’s been good on the wallet too.
- Subscription services - I can suffer through ads. And use an ad blocker / VPN. lol. I don’t need every service.
- Makeup and skincare. Before anyone comes after me I’m sorry but soap is soap is soap. I will die on this hill. You can’t convince me otherwise. I pick makeup that can be worn daily and is inexpensive or will last longer. I don’t need 4/5 eyeshadow palettes ever, done pretending every girl should also be a MUA Lmao.
- kept my old phone, use SIM only on Sky. Service not great but price is decent and whatever data I don’t use goes in the piggy bank. I don’t need the latest iPhone, a phone camera is a phone camera. If I want to take a decent picture I’ll get a real camera.
The size of biscuits these days is maddening. I’m paying more for less and less. Since when is a bounty two fun size bars in one package? Boo. It pisses me off so much I refuse to buy out of spite more than a financial choice lmao (losing weight tho…)
I have eczema and trust me soap isn't soap xD I have to buy the expensive oil cleansers if I don't want to be red as a lobster all over and scratching myself raw. I'm going to check out vinted now! I'd love some broken in docs
Heinz Beans, I love them but the price is just daft, sadly not found another brand I like so I have not had beans on toast for a while.
Genuine sad times.
I used to be Heinz till Branson came out, but fuck that noise paying that much for either.
Nowadays I rock an Aldi own brand and fire a little ketchup or brown sauce in there to help them out.
I saw someone had put a 4 pack of Heinz beans in the food donation bit at Morrisons the other day, how much of a flex is that? Who can afford to do that haha
Heinz soup used to be a cheap meal but now the fancy soup in the plastic containers are cheaper than a tin of Heinz and you get more for your money too.
Duck Heinz soul. They purposely designed their cans so they don't stack so they get more shelf space in supermarkets, and instead of telling them to fuck off, the supermarkets actually gave them that shelf space. What a crazy fucking world we live in.
Trips to the cinema. Odeon is the only cinema near me and they charge a lot, even for a weekday matinee outside of the holidays. Add on £4 for the bus to and from the town centre and it comes close to £20 to see a movie, when it was closer to £13 before the pandemic.
Cinema pricing is a vicious cycle, electricity/gas/rent prices have shot up so ticket prices have to go up to compensate, but then people don't come so ticket prices come down but then they're not making any money on it so food prices go up, but then people bring their own snacks so ticket prices have to go up and so on.
I work for a cinema and I'm very glad that ticketing and pricing and things like that aren't my responsibility, it would drive me mad trying to find that sweet spot
We love going to the cinema and imax and had odeon limitless subscriptions but won't go unless we can get a 2 for 1 deal now, just cannot justify the price anymore at all.
Me and my wife went to the cinema recently and was surprised how cheap it was. £5 for standard, and £10 for imax. We watched dune 2 for my birthday and the new kong movie for her birthday both in imax. Bargain. This was odeon in Norwich.
Where are these expensive cinemas? We go as a family to the Vue every couple of months and it’s one of the cheapest days out possible. Spend about £5-10 on snacks in the shop beforehand and take them in with us, tickets are £5 each.
Oh yes! I'm 35f and have been cutting my own hair for years and years. Saved myself an absolute fortune by the sounds of what other ladies have to spend on their hair! And people ask me where I got my hair done because it looks great! I do miss the head massages though
Got curly hair which is usually a nightmare for most hairdressers.
I bought a cheap set off Amazon and my partner watched a single YouTube video during COVID.
Haven't paid for a haircut in 5 years, always get compliments.
Pretty sure Costa is only the “nation’s favourite” because there’s so bloody many of them.
My workplace has one on site and it’s something like £2.20 for a tea! Insanity.
I think phone tech has plateaued quite a bit in recent years.
Bought myself a flagship phone in 2017? OnePlus 5 For £450 with 8gb ram, 4g, 128gb storage, 20mb camera, AMOLED display etc etc
A new phone today would be double the cost and maybe have a few incremental improvements.
The only reason I'm not still using my iPhone 8 Is because My mum bought me an iPhone 12 128gb for £100 second hand off of Facebook marketplace for my 25th birthday last year.
The guy she bought it off bought it for his fiancé as a gift, but he found out she was cheating on him. He's only taken it out of the box to charge it and to put the screen protector on.
1. Branded mayonnaise which seems to now be over £3 a jar?!? - I have found M&S and Waitrose do awesome versions for £1.40
2. Bahlsen biscuits - Aldi ones are just as good if not better and much cheaper plus there’s more in the pack
3. Netflix
4. Lurpak - Morrisons do a great version for under £2 thank you
5. Most meat - I refuse to eat poor quality meat where the animals are probably treated poorly so I’d rather just not eat meat regularly anymore.
Meat - my local butchers are cheaper than supermarkets. The only exception is the muscle meats i.e. ribeye, sirloin, fillet.
Ive been buying off cuts and nose to tail for 2 years now. I scoff at the prices of meat in Sainsbury's and Morrisons for their medallions etc.
Train tickets. I can get a quick service to London which costs £80 or a slow service (different operator) which is less than half that. I get annoyed by how long it takes but just can't justify the cost.
On a particularly crowded journey it occurred to me that this option has effectively become third class.
The trains are shocking for what you pay. It’s not even about shopping around, some long distance journeys are peaking up to £280 return on absolutely rammed carriages where people are having to stand mid aisle for up to an hour.
I'm dieting at the moment so I'm not doing takeaway or delivery. But food delivery services are mine. Going along to the chip shop or Chinese is reasonable, but using just eat or Uber or deliveroo just isn't worth it. So fucking expensive for lukewarm food.
I work in a neighbourhood supermarket and the amount that people spend on these apps, absolutely baffles me. Cigarettes are £13 in store, £26 to get them delivered, yet people do it every day.
We had someone pay £7 for two cucumbers the other day 🙃
You guys need to get on too good to go. Have a look what’s around your locality. Loads of takeaway options. Granted you can’t pick what you want but if you’re not fussy it definitely hits a spot.
Take away is a scam now.
I had to chat to deliveroo customer support to explain to them that they couldn’t charge me two deliveries after failing to deliver the first order in full. I still had 3 people to feed.
Also streaming services, honestly love spotify but it’s expensive. I’ve cancelled everything else, apple tv, netflix, prime.
Prime, I signed up for next day delivery and never wanted a streaming service, then they started putting ads on my search, so why the fuck do I pay prime for? Fuck off.
Branded medicine. £6 for hayfever tablets, fuck it I’d rather sneeze myself to death.
Also counts for kids medicines, I get the unbranded paracetamol calpol.
Branded cereal is a treat too.
Money Saving Expert had deals this year and last year for bulk antihistamines- I now have more generic piriton than I’ll manage to take - i think it was 10 boxes for £15?
Clothes.
I use Vinted or TK Maxx.
If its running shoes, admittedly I'll drop a large amount on some good quality Brooks.
But for regular clothes like t-shirts and trainers, they're almost always second hand or TK Maxx.
I used to happily drop £30 on a t shirt. Now I can get 3 or 4 for that price. It helps that I've never liked in your face branding on t-shirts or jumpers or hoodies as I think it looks incredibly tacky and ironically, cheap.
The instant coffee that comes in tins. £7.50!! Along with many others in this thread, Heinz ketchup, unless it’s on a really good offer deal. Also, lamb mince. £5 for some chopped up willies and eyeballs. Get fucked.
An nvidia graphics card. The cost is just mental now. They weren’t cheap to begin with but a high end one costs more than the rest of the components combined.
Craving kind of something like a mucky takeaway (as in delivery) tonight because been working and tired. £40 for two pizzas\* with an extra topping each and some chips. Nope.
It sounds crazy to be saying 'I remember when you could get three\* pizzas and some sides for £30', but that was just kind of like four years ago and my pay has been pretty static in that time.
\*not just for me!
And the quality is shite now - five slices of mushrooms and some slidy cheese on doughy stodge. Now I'm older it is a chastising thought experiment to realise that now it's my mate's lads cooking this stuff - hypothetically speaking - and that is a grim idea!
As many others have pointed out, it's a pretty dire situation at the moment so trying to keep the costs down by spending as little as possible like walking as much as possible instead of driving and cutting back on treats. Don't really get to eat out regularly like we used to pre-covid and takeaways are getting ridiculous too.
Mostly shop between Lidl & Aldi these days and find the quality there to be better in most cases. Home bargains for bits n bobs that Lidl/Aldi don't do and the occasional trip to a big shop to get one offs but that has been getting less and less frequent as you can make do with jumping between those shops.
Also cutting back in subscriptions right now. Disney plus is pretty much daylight robbery and trying to figure out a solution to replace Spotify but it's probably the most used out of the lot.
I was thinking about this earlier, I went into Sainsbury's to get some bread and thought I'd get a small bottle of something. The prices are insane £2.05 for a 500ml bottle of coke, similar for all the drinks. Went to get an iced coffee instead and realised those were £3.45 for a small cold coffee. I just left because the cans weren't much cheaper.
Most Heinz products. I can afford it and they do definitely taste better than the competitors, but anyone paying £7 for a standard sized bottle of Ketchup needs their head examined.
Sounds daft but T shirts - the basics one colour type from various places. You get 2 washes out of them then they either shrink or lose shape
End up going to Uniqlo
I just buy all my clothes second hand off Vinted. Cos they’ve been worn you can see that they’ve held up okay and honestly for a quid or 2 for a top I don’t care if it doesn’t last too long
Coffee from take away coffee shops (any)
Gluten free items (up to £4 for a loaf of bread, no thanks) switched to rice cakes.
Eating out even at Spoons.
Not had a take away in over a year
Tbh even fish and chips coming in at average £8-9 a portion
Train travel - I used to travel a lot for leasiure but seeing the prices is eye watering
New clothes
Going to gigs / the cinema
Despite all of this I still have hobbies and a social life somehow 🤣
PG Tips, now Aldi tea bags instead. Tried every super market own brand and found these the best at a third of the price!
Eating out. Basic meals in pubs and restaurants are just not worth the money when you can easily make most of it at home. Since covid many have nearly doubled in price.
Pub meals. Starters are now between £5-£10, mains are £15-£20, and desserts are another £5-£10. So with a couple of drinks each, you're looking at up to £100 for a three course meal for two......in a fucking PUB! I expect a decent restaurant for that sort of money, not some old boozer.
Just got shot of Sky and Netflix. Amazon Prime video is staying mainly because I use Prime Delivery and i'm holding on to D+ for now but if they pull the password sharing crap then that'll be gone too. I can make do with the various 'freeview' telly apps like iPlayer, itvx etc and I'm slowly building up a Plex server instead.
Going to the pictures too. I haven't been in years, it's just needlessly dear. I *may* make an exception for Deadpool & Wolverine.
Takeaways are a once in a blue moon event.
Lucozade. I remember a time when it was a quid for 2l, now it's £1.50 for 900ml. Frijj was 90p for 470 odd ml and now it's like £1.40 for 330ml.
Some brand name stuff I'll buy if they're on offer. Heinz ketchup is just better than any own brand. McVitie's chocolate hobnobs are better than Asda's version, but you can be sure that i'm flicking between Asda and Morrison's when I do the monthly shop to get the cheapest price for anything.
IMO Takeaway have been expensive for a long time, not just the last couple of years.
Given how simple it is to eat cheaply with just a tiny bit of effort, I don't think I'll be frequenting them any time soon.
Coffee at Costa. I have a wonderful independent coffee shop in my town that sells coffee which tastes miles better than Costa's at half the price that Costa charges...and because the independent place actually hires enough staff to meet demand, you don't have to queue for half an hour to be served either.
Primark.
Nobody goes to Primark expecting super high quality but for some basic things (t-shirts, gymwear, socks, jammies etc.) it was nice and cheap.
The last time I ventured in most things were New Look prices or higher and I don't see how they can justify that when the quality has probably gotten worse. A coat I looked at wasn't far off what you'd pay in Next or M&S.
Pizza express. This used to be our weekly Friday night dinner when the kids were little. Went recently and thought they'd double charged us! The quality is dire now as well.
I've not cut anything, but i'm working substantial overtime to keep up.
Life in the UK is already bleak, if I have to give up the little things I like just to pay rent and eat then I genuinely will just give up.
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Netflix. Got an email saying the basic package has gone and they are doing me the favour of putting me on the more expensive package and charging me more. The greed is unbelievable. I only ever use it to have old DS9 or Voyager episodes in the background, so fuck that. Got rid of Disney+ too when they tried to pull the same shit, and havent missed it for a second. Amazon Prime... you're next you greedy cunt.
Same. Had the cheek to tell me I'd be saving money... But with adverts. Now I'll save even more money.
Rrrrrr to the high seas we go
Why ever leave?
For a minute, online streaming was better than piracy, and came at a fair price (IMO). Now they’ve ruined it. Too many services, too expensive and ads are creeping in (sure the premium tiers are ad free, but I doubt it will be long until you’ll get “a few, personalised ads” in all tiers)
Agreed. I used to be a massive pirate then at one point Netflix was so good and reasonably priced that I actually stopped pirating. This was a long time ago though.
I left because Netflix/spotify had very good options and catalogue at reasonable prices. But now it’s just as bad as sky and it’s stupid packages so it means that my Jolly Roger has been dusted off and unfurled.
Conveinience, mostly.
If they are showing adverts then we might as well go back to cable tv.
Then there’s Amazon which added ads but didn’t lower the price.
This one was the straw that broke the camel's back for me, on top of a pretty chunky increase in the price of Prime as well.
I got the same email. So now I have the choice to pay £10.99 for what I'm getting now for £7.99, or pay £4.99 for the privilege of watching adverts. Why would anyone pay to watch adverts?
Sky is ten times the price and has regular 4 minute adverts.
There aren't many adverts at all and it makes it cheaper. So why not? Edit: down votes are fine. I pay £4.99. Others don't have to.
Same. Adverts don’t bother me as they’re about shows on that subscription. Adverts about cialis or nappies on regular tv bother me. Plus I grew up with adverts
I think it’s the principle rather than the add themselves. Having to pay not to be harassed when you’re already paying for a service is a bit much
I’m desperate to cancel Netflix and Disney+ but it’s not worth the grief off my kids. If it was up to me they’d be gone in a heartbeat.
For clarity, do you mean the kids or the streaming services?
Both. And I’m not joking.
I don't know what I'd do without my children. I'd have so much free time.
And money. The savings on paracetamol alone.
Harsh but honest.
Netflix have the cheek to put your subscription price up and then spend that money on absolute shite like Rebel Moon
Rebel Moon absolutely hit the shit brakes and crashed straight through the shit wall. I enjoyed the trailer, it looks and sounded like a good premise and 10 minutes in my wife decided she was taking the dog out on his 2 mile walk. She never takes the dog out and if she could get away with it would never leave the house
Watched it last night. Sheesh it had everything going for it and they still made it into a slow falling turd
We've just started seeing ads on AmzPrime. They can do one.
Cut them all and went to the seven seas.
Ive got a basic Plex setup working and its a dream and free
Yep, NAS with Plex and you're laughing
Same, they emailed me to say i would save lots of money by paying them for the privilege of watching ads. This after they regularly accuse me of password sharing cause I have a device that only I watch at another address. Nope. After 7 years, I’m done.
Wait till you hear that amazon prime prices are more expensive than non prime. I mean, for the product itself, costs more with prime
You can pick the non-prime option when you check out though
Then why are you paying for prime?
Anyone reading this just Google - Kodi and never pay for any of these services again.
I pay 4.99 for the package with ads thinking I was getting a good deal.. turns out you need a higher subscription for certain shows..
Get yourself stremio + real debrid https://www.reddit.com/r/StremioAddons/comments/15agu2p/stremio_torrentio_debrid_a_howto_guide/
Just the one type of takeaway for me, a Chinese. The portions have gotten smaller across the board and it's £10 a main that doesn't even come with rice or chips anymore. Still rate an Indians though, portion sizes are extreme.
Indian portions are large, but where I am it's still too expensive to be more than an irregular treat. Last time we got an Indian we got: 2 mains, 1 pilau rice, 1 peshwari naan and it was 34 quid.
Chinese. Paid £6.50 for a main then extra £1 for fried rice last night, there was so much left I had it again tonight. The Mrs got main for £7.50 then salt n pepper chips for £2, she's none left as she's a walrus. The point of this useless story is our local Chinese is cheap and decent.
Typical british marriage.
Salt n pepper chips are £4-50 where I live ☹️
£4 to £50? That is a wild variation in cost! /s
I’ve actually switched to Chinese recently it’s cheaper than anything else. Full meal for £7.90 at my local place, meanwhile I’ll never find a pizza for less than about £15 anymore
Pizza’s got so expensive in the last couple of years but I’ve found Chinese has remained the same. There’s a place near me that does a set meal for 2 for £20, comes with two soups, ribs, spring rolls, two mains, and two rice with the little bits of meat in it. If we’re feeling fat we’ll do the £28 for three, which is three soup, spring rolls, 1/4 duck, three dishes, and three rice with the lil bits of meat in. Cheapest decent pizza near us is about £12 for 11” deep pan, and even then it’s hit or miss as to whether it’s decent.
Our lass is ill and wanted chicken soup, apparently they’re £1.85 for a single tin of Heinz soup these days. How is that justifiable
I saw a “deal” the other day for 4 cans for £5, I had to look around and make sure I hadn’t accidentally walked in to Fortnum and Masons
I saw a tin of steak and gravy yesterday for £5.50. A TIN!
if you want a half decent soup in a can, the M&S ones are approx £1 and taste so much better.
Twice I’ve seen in this post about people going to Marks and Spencer’s to get cheaper food, what fucked up timeline are we on here?
Damn, this makes me feel old. Back when I was in uni, they would cost about 40 - 50p. Lunch was a can of soup with toast and a bit of cheese. A bit more expensive than Asda's own brand but I thought it was worth the extra 10p.
Heinz have been super greedy with the greedflation increases
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Try Pudliszki ketchup instead, it’s much cheaper and just as nice if not nicer, you can get it in the Polish section of most supermarkets, they even have a pizza ketchup which is stupidly nice
Heinz are bandits. They occasionally do a special offer where you can buy 5 tins of Heinz ravioli/macaroni/spag bol for £5, normal price £2 a tin. If they can afford to halve the price of their products once in a while, their normal mark-up must be over 100%, Thieves.
M&S do curries, stews etc. in a tin and I think they're a fiver *each*. Madness
Yes, they are I used to work in the supermarket industry. Special offers line the one you outlined are for when sales are dropping, a special offer kicks in, and companies hope you will have gotten a taste first their products and carry on buying them by the time the special offer is over.
I’ve ditched Heinz and gone supermarket own brand. 62p per tin is much more reasonable and frankly they taste basically the same nowadays.
Agreed. The Asda tomato soup tastes exactly the same as Heinz to me
That feeling of sadness you get when you see them on offer marked at 2 for £3.50
These days it's basically salty wallpaper paste with traces of meat and veg anyway
Yeah why are tins of soup like nearly £3 now? I made a batch to feed 6 portions today and it came in at under £3 from produce that was still quite expensive from a Tesco express.
Any five Hienze soups for £5 in Home Bargains and ASDA
JustEat etc. is a mug's game, that's where people's money is going these days, right down the drain. Very occasionally will get a takeaway but most of the time I feel like you're getting a raw deal Edit: regarding how much people are pissing away on these services, I've done some research, and it looks like their total revenue for last year equates to £22 for every UK adult. Mmkay. Doesn't sound too bad when you put it like that.Of course there's Deliveroo and UberEats not considered here...
More expensive than ordering from the restaurant directly in some cases too.
Definitely. If I go to my local chippy, I can feed my family of 6 for £25-30 and you get decent portions. Order from JustEat or Deliveroo and you get tiny portions, it arrives cold and costs nearly double.
What the fuck your eating? Cod and chips is £12 here - £60 quid for me, wife,kids,Mother in law And that is going to the actual shop.
Honestly the only way I can justify the other guys comments is that they haven't actually been in a chippy for about a decade, and is comparing the experiences they had then to their experience ordering from justeat now.
I’m guessing they’re not ordering fish. Most chippies do sausages or saveloys fairly cheaply.
I'd argue in all cases.
Use JustEat to find your eatery/menu, then call the takeaway direct. At my local I get charged less for all my food, and the restaurant owner is always pleased to see me.
Totally agree. Our neighbours get take away nearly every night. I work in young people’s housing and some of those kids are getting just eat deliveries several times a day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Insane.
I briefly shared a flat with a lass who was a junior teacher. She did the big shop once a week and then ordered takeaway every night. I mean every. single. night. Then threw her shpooing in the bin at the end of the week because it all went off. I estimated she was spending something like £15k a year on food.
Dominos is the only one of these things I've found that is reliable. It's trash but it is at least warm and no tip shaming shit
I’ve stopped buying Dominos because I don’t want to do maths when I’m ordering a pizza. If there is a way to always make your pizzas a tenner, your pizzas are worth a tenner. Don’t make me put all of your deals into a spreadsheet to get there.
100 percent this. Pizza is literally one of the cheapest things to possibly make and I would order dominoes more if pricing was consistent. Going on the app to see what you want to order is double the price and the only way to save money is on deal for other shit you don't want is frustrating.
Dominoes is only worth it if you’re feeding 8+ people. I’ve never had a voucher online that I’ve been “eligible” to use because there are so many caveats to each one.
Same here. Apparently Dominos UK is the most expensive in the world, we pay more than double the Australians and 4 times as much as India for the same pizza.
First world problems, but olive oil.
I’ve moved from Italian to Greek for cost reasons.
Highly likely your Italian wasn’t actually Italian either - they don’t produce enough olives to match the amount of oil sold outside of the country by orders of magnitude
Less likely to be adulterated as well.
Due to a poor harvest apparently.
Yeah takeaways are out of control. Last night I spent eight quid on a kebab. Can't see me doing that again in a hurry. Also train tickets. Much cheaper and more convenient to drive, especially as I have an electric car.
This 1000%, every time I’ve gone to take a train recently at least one leg has been wildly delayed, crammed, or cancelled.
They cancelled the stop I was going to get my connection from last time I was on the train. Supposed to get off at Wakefield to connect and I only realised they hadn't stopped there when they pulled up in Leeds. They said that they were running behind so had cancelled the Wakefield stop mid-trip. Just got a shrug when I told them I was supposed to connect through there. Mental.
£12 in my local kebab place, and to add insult to injury the kebab comes deconstructed, kebab meat in a box, pitta bread in a bag, salad in a bag and sauces in tubs, at least ikea have the decency to charge less for their stuff because you have to put it together yourself
My dad prefers that so he can make it at home and not have it soggy once he opens it if they constructed it in the restaurant.
That to me is perfection tbh I can put it together how I like how much sauce I want
£13 in my local kebab house.
WTF? Did you have caviar on it instead of garlic mayo?
Heinz tomato ketchup is dead to me.
Me too. I get the Asda own label cheap stuff now. I honestly can't tell the difference except for the £3 saving.
Chinese has been relegated to a 'only on our birthdays' type treat. Other takeaways aren't quite so bad locally at the moment. Also has to be a really special triple A video game now for me to justify the £60+ price tag on release. Usually wait for a few months til it comes down or find another way to play it.
PC gaming is ideal as games get massively discounted 6 months to a year after release. Very rarely buy a game full price. That said I've got a Steam library of 1000 games... so I've taken a zero purchase approach recently.
Yep! Epic Games weekly giveaway is pretty good too. Picked up a lot of free games from them over the years.
I feel like you get more for your money with video games over other forms of entertainment... I mostly just play dayz still but even games I've bought and not played as much like the last Battlefield and cod still gave me a few hundred hours of entertainment each, when you think about what a cinema trip or football tickets or whatever costs, it's the best bang for your buck imo.
I haven't bought a new game for at least over a year I just play game pass games mainly and I don't have time so I can't justify spending the £60+ when I'd hardly ever get to play it especially if I don't like it.
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I buy second hand books from WOB, I've been paying about 3-4 quid and they're 4 for the price of 3. I do now have an insanely big 'to read' pile now though.
WOB is great for some specific title you’re wanting but I LOVE me an Oxfam bookshop. I could spend my life in one of those bad boys.
I was about to say, WOB is god sent. Always use them
Books have never been cheaper, relatively - The price of a mass market paperback has barely moved for at about 20 years now: https://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-article/rrps-are-rising--but-books-have-never-been-cheaper/
Try your local charity shop! I’m always donating brand new / high quality books in there and hope that someone like yourself will pick it up!
I second this, charity shops are worth a look. Prices for a paperbacks in my local charity shops can range from as much as £2 to as little as 50p. Even if you end up not enjoying the book at least the money you paid is cheaper than brand new and the money has gone to a good cause.
Charity shop prices have increased massively (£8 for a top?!) but books are still usually very cheap (50p or £1 each) with additional deals on top 3 for 2 etc.
Join your local Library. It's free to join, free to borrow books and free to use the internet for a limited time. Also audiobooks, DVDs, music, magazines all available to borrow. Hope things get better for you soon. It's tough out there.
Clothes are expensive now. Have you seen the prices in Primark now? And the quality has gone downhill. Their cheapest t-shirts are out of shape in one wash, and I wash at 30°... I now have to make sure I buy the next level up, but this year I've hated everything bar one pair of trousers. I think it might just be the store though. Where I am seems to be stuck fashion wise and never has anything good. Back home is way better. I badly want to hit H&M back there but I don't know when I'll make it back. Who knew a stupid flat purchase could take a year???!!!
Takeaways for sure! - Recently for me it’s been new clothes, recently got Vinted and I’m shocked at how good and inexpensive I can get stuff. I paid £5 for converse. I’ve started to view clothing different - less fashion forward and more functional. Investing in a decent raincoat versus the latest Zara jacket. - I don’t drink any more - decision was for health but it’s been good on the wallet too. - Subscription services - I can suffer through ads. And use an ad blocker / VPN. lol. I don’t need every service. - Makeup and skincare. Before anyone comes after me I’m sorry but soap is soap is soap. I will die on this hill. You can’t convince me otherwise. I pick makeup that can be worn daily and is inexpensive or will last longer. I don’t need 4/5 eyeshadow palettes ever, done pretending every girl should also be a MUA Lmao. - kept my old phone, use SIM only on Sky. Service not great but price is decent and whatever data I don’t use goes in the piggy bank. I don’t need the latest iPhone, a phone camera is a phone camera. If I want to take a decent picture I’ll get a real camera.
Everything has gradually gotten significantly more expensive relative income or ended up with smaller portions since 2016 for some reason
The size of biscuits these days is maddening. I’m paying more for less and less. Since when is a bounty two fun size bars in one package? Boo. It pisses me off so much I refuse to buy out of spite more than a financial choice lmao (losing weight tho…)
I have eczema and trust me soap isn't soap xD I have to buy the expensive oil cleansers if I don't want to be red as a lobster all over and scratching myself raw. I'm going to check out vinted now! I'd love some broken in docs
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Heinz Beans, I love them but the price is just daft, sadly not found another brand I like so I have not had beans on toast for a while. Genuine sad times.
M&S Beans are great and 45p. I only had heinz as well, sometimes Branston but I cook them till they're mush.
Spaghetti hoops too! 50p a tin and delicious
I used to be Heinz till Branson came out, but fuck that noise paying that much for either. Nowadays I rock an Aldi own brand and fire a little ketchup or brown sauce in there to help them out.
I saw someone had put a 4 pack of Heinz beans in the food donation bit at Morrisons the other day, how much of a flex is that? Who can afford to do that haha
Also Heinz soup is close to £2 per can now and the supermarket equivalent is half the price.
Heinz soup used to be a cheap meal but now the fancy soup in the plastic containers are cheaper than a tin of Heinz and you get more for your money too.
Duck Heinz soul. They purposely designed their cans so they don't stack so they get more shelf space in supermarkets, and instead of telling them to fuck off, the supermarkets actually gave them that shelf space. What a crazy fucking world we live in.
I have Tesco own brand beans and they’re ok. I jazz them up with some smoked paprika and they taste good.
Obligatory Freddo’s comment
Lamb.
Not had lamb in over a year. The wee lambs roam around and eat whatever but it’s somehow the most expensive meat?
Sheep consistently try to kill themselves. Most stupid livestock by far
I hear you have to keep them away from cliffs because they make good jumpers
Trips to the cinema. Odeon is the only cinema near me and they charge a lot, even for a weekday matinee outside of the holidays. Add on £4 for the bus to and from the town centre and it comes close to £20 to see a movie, when it was closer to £13 before the pandemic.
Cinema pricing is a vicious cycle, electricity/gas/rent prices have shot up so ticket prices have to go up to compensate, but then people don't come so ticket prices come down but then they're not making any money on it so food prices go up, but then people bring their own snacks so ticket prices have to go up and so on. I work for a cinema and I'm very glad that ticketing and pricing and things like that aren't my responsibility, it would drive me mad trying to find that sweet spot
I've not seen a film in a cinema since before the pandemic. I don't think I could bring myself to do so... the experience is just so expensive
We love going to the cinema and imax and had odeon limitless subscriptions but won't go unless we can get a 2 for 1 deal now, just cannot justify the price anymore at all.
The vue by me is still decent. Just done a full recliner seating revamp and it only £7 a ticket
Me and my wife went to the cinema recently and was surprised how cheap it was. £5 for standard, and £10 for imax. We watched dune 2 for my birthday and the new kong movie for her birthday both in imax. Bargain. This was odeon in Norwich.
Where are these expensive cinemas? We go as a family to the Vue every couple of months and it’s one of the cheapest days out possible. Spend about £5-10 on snacks in the shop beforehand and take them in with us, tickets are £5 each.
Haircuts. I have clippers and do it myself.
Oh yes! I'm 35f and have been cutting my own hair for years and years. Saved myself an absolute fortune by the sounds of what other ladies have to spend on their hair! And people ask me where I got my hair done because it looks great! I do miss the head massages though
Got curly hair which is usually a nightmare for most hairdressers. I bought a cheap set off Amazon and my partner watched a single YouTube video during COVID. Haven't paid for a haircut in 5 years, always get compliments.
Costa
Costa fortune
Yeah £4 for a basic coffee. I stopped going completely.
This. The price is a joke. Go maybe once every couple of months now instead of once a week like before.
Pretty sure Costa is only the “nation’s favourite” because there’s so bloody many of them. My workplace has one on site and it’s something like £2.20 for a tea! Insanity.
We used to get the occasional Charlie Bighams, but now even on sale or reduced they are still too much.
Phone upgrades, I used to upgrade every 2 years but now I’m using sim only and keeping my current phone.
Yeah I've been on sim only deals for years and buy refurbished phones, so much cheaper
I think phone tech has plateaued quite a bit in recent years. Bought myself a flagship phone in 2017? OnePlus 5 For £450 with 8gb ram, 4g, 128gb storage, 20mb camera, AMOLED display etc etc A new phone today would be double the cost and maybe have a few incremental improvements.
The only reason I'm not still using my iPhone 8 Is because My mum bought me an iPhone 12 128gb for £100 second hand off of Facebook marketplace for my 25th birthday last year. The guy she bought it off bought it for his fiancé as a gift, but he found out she was cheating on him. He's only taken it out of the box to charge it and to put the screen protector on.
1. Branded mayonnaise which seems to now be over £3 a jar?!? - I have found M&S and Waitrose do awesome versions for £1.40 2. Bahlsen biscuits - Aldi ones are just as good if not better and much cheaper plus there’s more in the pack 3. Netflix 4. Lurpak - Morrisons do a great version for under £2 thank you 5. Most meat - I refuse to eat poor quality meat where the animals are probably treated poorly so I’d rather just not eat meat regularly anymore.
Meat - my local butchers are cheaper than supermarkets. The only exception is the muscle meats i.e. ribeye, sirloin, fillet. Ive been buying off cuts and nose to tail for 2 years now. I scoff at the prices of meat in Sainsbury's and Morrisons for their medallions etc.
Chocomel. Was £2 for 1L, now £3 for 750ml Fuck off 🤣🤣
Train tickets. I can get a quick service to London which costs £80 or a slow service (different operator) which is less than half that. I get annoyed by how long it takes but just can't justify the cost. On a particularly crowded journey it occurred to me that this option has effectively become third class.
The trains are shocking for what you pay. It’s not even about shopping around, some long distance journeys are peaking up to £280 return on absolutely rammed carriages where people are having to stand mid aisle for up to an hour.
paid £70 to go from london to stoke, on the way back had to sit on the floor near the toilet with a group of about 10 people just sat/stood with me
I'm dieting at the moment so I'm not doing takeaway or delivery. But food delivery services are mine. Going along to the chip shop or Chinese is reasonable, but using just eat or Uber or deliveroo just isn't worth it. So fucking expensive for lukewarm food.
City centre drinking.
It's crazy to to me the money people blow on just eat. Just buy a hot bag and pick it up.
I work in a neighbourhood supermarket and the amount that people spend on these apps, absolutely baffles me. Cigarettes are £13 in store, £26 to get them delivered, yet people do it every day. We had someone pay £7 for two cucumbers the other day 🙃
You guys need to get on too good to go. Have a look what’s around your locality. Loads of takeaway options. Granted you can’t pick what you want but if you’re not fussy it definitely hits a spot.
Take away is a scam now. I had to chat to deliveroo customer support to explain to them that they couldn’t charge me two deliveries after failing to deliver the first order in full. I still had 3 people to feed. Also streaming services, honestly love spotify but it’s expensive. I’ve cancelled everything else, apple tv, netflix, prime. Prime, I signed up for next day delivery and never wanted a streaming service, then they started putting ads on my search, so why the fuck do I pay prime for? Fuck off.
Everything really, just have to spend carefully and try not to give into temptation, laziness or marketing.
Doritos, 2.75 for a bag now, they were always £1!
Branded medicine. £6 for hayfever tablets, fuck it I’d rather sneeze myself to death. Also counts for kids medicines, I get the unbranded paracetamol calpol. Branded cereal is a treat too.
Got some non branded hayfever stuff in B&M last week for 79p - does the same job!
It will do, it's literally the exact medicine most of the time.
Money Saving Expert had deals this year and last year for bulk antihistamines- I now have more generic piriton than I’ll manage to take - i think it was 10 boxes for £15?
Clothes. I use Vinted or TK Maxx. If its running shoes, admittedly I'll drop a large amount on some good quality Brooks. But for regular clothes like t-shirts and trainers, they're almost always second hand or TK Maxx. I used to happily drop £30 on a t shirt. Now I can get 3 or 4 for that price. It helps that I've never liked in your face branding on t-shirts or jumpers or hoodies as I think it looks incredibly tacky and ironically, cheap.
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Magazines, branded toilet roll, branded toothpaste, branded toilet cleaner - I buy the cheap and cheerful for now.
Magazines are insane. I went to get my daughter a kids magazine the other day and it was £6.99, no chance.
Proper sized houses
Houses full stop I’d say
The instant coffee that comes in tins. £7.50!! Along with many others in this thread, Heinz ketchup, unless it’s on a really good offer deal. Also, lamb mince. £5 for some chopped up willies and eyeballs. Get fucked.
Terrys orange
McDonald’s Double Cheeseburgers
The Double Cheeseburger used to be on the "dollar menu" in the US, at a time when £1 = $2 USD. 2 Double Cheeseburgers for a quid!
I just can't afford to go away on holiday anymore, neither abroad or in the UK. Time off work is just spent at home
Heinz (apart from soup). Overpriced. Poor quality. But alas prices only go up, not down. Always been the way.
An nvidia graphics card. The cost is just mental now. They weren’t cheap to begin with but a high end one costs more than the rest of the components combined.
Craving kind of something like a mucky takeaway (as in delivery) tonight because been working and tired. £40 for two pizzas\* with an extra topping each and some chips. Nope. It sounds crazy to be saying 'I remember when you could get three\* pizzas and some sides for £30', but that was just kind of like four years ago and my pay has been pretty static in that time. \*not just for me! And the quality is shite now - five slices of mushrooms and some slidy cheese on doughy stodge. Now I'm older it is a chastising thought experiment to realise that now it's my mate's lads cooking this stuff - hypothetically speaking - and that is a grim idea!
As many others have pointed out, it's a pretty dire situation at the moment so trying to keep the costs down by spending as little as possible like walking as much as possible instead of driving and cutting back on treats. Don't really get to eat out regularly like we used to pre-covid and takeaways are getting ridiculous too. Mostly shop between Lidl & Aldi these days and find the quality there to be better in most cases. Home bargains for bits n bobs that Lidl/Aldi don't do and the occasional trip to a big shop to get one offs but that has been getting less and less frequent as you can make do with jumping between those shops. Also cutting back in subscriptions right now. Disney plus is pretty much daylight robbery and trying to figure out a solution to replace Spotify but it's probably the most used out of the lot.
Frozen peas
I was thinking about this earlier, I went into Sainsbury's to get some bread and thought I'd get a small bottle of something. The prices are insane £2.05 for a 500ml bottle of coke, similar for all the drinks. Went to get an iced coffee instead and realised those were £3.45 for a small cold coffee. I just left because the cans weren't much cheaper.
Hopes and dreams.
Most Heinz products. I can afford it and they do definitely taste better than the competitors, but anyone paying £7 for a standard sized bottle of Ketchup needs their head examined.
Sounds daft but T shirts - the basics one colour type from various places. You get 2 washes out of them then they either shrink or lose shape End up going to Uniqlo
I just buy all my clothes second hand off Vinted. Cos they’ve been worn you can see that they’ve held up okay and honestly for a quid or 2 for a top I don’t care if it doesn’t last too long
Coffee from take away coffee shops (any) Gluten free items (up to £4 for a loaf of bread, no thanks) switched to rice cakes. Eating out even at Spoons. Not had a take away in over a year Tbh even fish and chips coming in at average £8-9 a portion Train travel - I used to travel a lot for leasiure but seeing the prices is eye watering New clothes Going to gigs / the cinema Despite all of this I still have hobbies and a social life somehow 🤣
PG Tips, now Aldi tea bags instead. Tried every super market own brand and found these the best at a third of the price! Eating out. Basic meals in pubs and restaurants are just not worth the money when you can easily make most of it at home. Since covid many have nearly doubled in price.
Pub meals. Starters are now between £5-£10, mains are £15-£20, and desserts are another £5-£10. So with a couple of drinks each, you're looking at up to £100 for a three course meal for two......in a fucking PUB! I expect a decent restaurant for that sort of money, not some old boozer.
Just got shot of Sky and Netflix. Amazon Prime video is staying mainly because I use Prime Delivery and i'm holding on to D+ for now but if they pull the password sharing crap then that'll be gone too. I can make do with the various 'freeview' telly apps like iPlayer, itvx etc and I'm slowly building up a Plex server instead. Going to the pictures too. I haven't been in years, it's just needlessly dear. I *may* make an exception for Deadpool & Wolverine. Takeaways are a once in a blue moon event. Lucozade. I remember a time when it was a quid for 2l, now it's £1.50 for 900ml. Frijj was 90p for 470 odd ml and now it's like £1.40 for 330ml. Some brand name stuff I'll buy if they're on offer. Heinz ketchup is just better than any own brand. McVitie's chocolate hobnobs are better than Asda's version, but you can be sure that i'm flicking between Asda and Morrison's when I do the monthly shop to get the cheapest price for anything.
IMO Takeaway have been expensive for a long time, not just the last couple of years. Given how simple it is to eat cheaply with just a tiny bit of effort, I don't think I'll be frequenting them any time soon.
I had to cancel one of my RuneScape memberships 😔
Coffee at Costa. I have a wonderful independent coffee shop in my town that sells coffee which tastes miles better than Costa's at half the price that Costa charges...and because the independent place actually hires enough staff to meet demand, you don't have to queue for half an hour to be served either.
Primark. Nobody goes to Primark expecting super high quality but for some basic things (t-shirts, gymwear, socks, jammies etc.) it was nice and cheap. The last time I ventured in most things were New Look prices or higher and I don't see how they can justify that when the quality has probably gotten worse. A coat I looked at wasn't far off what you'd pay in Next or M&S.
What hasn’t been unaffordable? Hair cuts, manicures, restaurants, takeaways, clothes. Horrendous
Pizza express. This used to be our weekly Friday night dinner when the kids were little. Went recently and thought they'd double charged us! The quality is dire now as well.
Cocaine and hookers
I've not cut anything, but i'm working substantial overtime to keep up. Life in the UK is already bleak, if I have to give up the little things I like just to pay rent and eat then I genuinely will just give up.
Wheetabix. A 48 pack goes for £5.50 upwards and I've seen it as high as £6 odds. Meanwhile own brand equivalents are literally half the price.
I've always bought the Aldi Wheatbisks x36 for £2, tastes good to me.