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Cost of Living

lemonjelly said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70ey762k32o

I don't drink coffee, but am often surprised at how busy coffee shops tend to be.
With big purchases, many may be put off at the moment. But they're consistently purchasing stuff like a daily coffee, not realising it is approaching £25 a week in expenditure, which can add up to quite an amount over the year.
We use taxes to "encourage" people to spend less on them, so what impact will ongoing rising prices have?
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Alright Gideon?
 
Del Woppio said:
If there's no point in having that massive scrimp and save for a house deposit (because what used to take 4 years now takes twenty) then I guess people are going less likely to save. If your life's shit, hopeless and you're not going to buy a house until both your parents are dead then just buy the coffee imo
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...and a bunch of flowers from Interflora for your Mom next Sunday. 50 quid to start. You gotta be kidding Interflora.
 
Wellen Wolf said:
...and a bunch of flowers from Interflora for your Mom next Sunday. 50 quid to start. You gotta be kidding Interflora.
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It's as if they over charge for a period where demand is high.
 
Wellen Wolf said:
...and a bunch of flowers from Interflora for your Mom next Sunday. 50 quid to start. You gotta be kidding Interflora.
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Bloom & Wild are cheaper and have a 25% discount if you order through their app which you can just delete straight away afterwards.
 
I had a similar shock last year when deciding to use my local village florist instead of just buying a £5-10 bouquet from Tesco. Simple mixed bunch of flowers and it was £30!

As for coffee I don't drink the stuff very often but when I'm out and about I'll just go to Subway/McDonalds for a small latte and it's no more than £2.
 
Just had the next council tax for 2025-26.
Gone up by 7.49%, following 2 years of 10% increases.
 
Only just realised that homes with swimming pools, who aren’t on a water meter, are being subsidised by those of us that are.
 
Anecdotally meter penetration is much higher among lower income areas, very annoying - lots of universal metering obligations coming over the next 5 years though.
 
From what we're currently paying for unmetered water (just gone up to £95 per month from £78 I think), think we're subsidising the flow of River Severn. We are in the process of switching to a meter
 
Lupo said:
From what we're currently paying for unmetered water (just gone up to £95 per month from £78 I think), think we're subsidising the flow of River Severn. We are in the process of switching to a meter
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That's an insane amount - there's 5 of us and we pay £51/month on a meter.

General rule of thumb used to be if number of bedrooms is ≥ number of people then get a meter. Not sure that holds so much these days with more efficient fittings.
 
Tredman said:
That's an insane amount - there's 5 of us and we pay £51/month on a meter.

General rule of thumb used to be if number of bedrooms is ≥ number of people then get a meter. Not sure that holds so much these days with more efficient fittings.
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It is, admittedly its over 8 months so over 12 would be about £63.00 per month but even so. We only have a small 3 bed bungalow with just the 2 of us here so think we would pay far less on a meter
 
Lupo said:
It is, admittedly its over 8 months so over 12 would be about £63.00 per month but even so. We only have a small 3 bed bungalow with just the 2 of us here so think we would pay far less on a meter
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Assuming you are Severn Trent and use the UK average per day for water you should be paying £38 per month.

In actual it will probably be a fair bit less if you are not having baths every day

Edit - might be a bit less as that has a high surface drainage amount than a 3 bed bungalow would have I think
 
Yes that is the sort of amount we are expecting. We never have a bath, between us we have a few showers a week
 
We went straight onto a meter when we moved in. 2 adults, paying approx 330 a year. We're Severn trent.
 
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