So noticed our food bill has not been below £100 a week for a few months and decided to do a budget comparison compared to last August. Looks like we are spending an extra £600 a month of basic living expenses (Food, Mortgage - recently moved to a new 5 year deal, Energy). I had noticed prices creeping up but shocked when I looked at the three basics.
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I don’t think our food bill has been below £150 a week for more than a year and there’s only two of us. That is probably excessive by average standards, idk. It has probably doubled in the last 6 years or so and will likely double again rather sooner. -
Keep Excel sheets of all my bank statements. Did a 2 month check compared to last August and increased from £52.03 to £52.85! Beginning of year was £52.5. Think some of this cost of living increase is fake news!
£150 for two? You ain't MF are you? Or maybe cut out the whisky.
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It's certainly not fake news. We buy roughly the same basic shopping list of day-to-day stuff and food basics most weeks, it's gone up about 12% over the last year.Blog? What blog...?Comment
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We're just trying to eke out the money we've got until we can draw our state pensions in a few years. At least these should more or less keep pace with this "rerun of the 1970s" now the triple lock has been reinstated.Scoots still says that Apr 2020 didn't mark the start of a new stock bull market.Comment
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It's certainly not fake news
Being a mean old sod helps, some people are incredibly wasteful. Maybe this inflation will be a good thing in one way, when people start following the online tips to save money, turning their hot water settings down to save energy costs etc. Good green effect!bloggoth
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Originally posted by xoggoth View Post£150 for two?
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Family of five, shocked to see our monthly supermarket spend hit £1250 in June
It used to be around £900 a month, a year or two ago, and i was never happy with that, but now £900 a month seems low in comparison.
We would buy whatever we fancy whenever we feel like it, never kept a count of spend, but will now budget to keep supermarket spending at £1000 a month max.Last edited by Fraidycat; 7 August 2022, 06:29.Comment
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Originally posted by Fraidycat View PostFamily of five, shocked to see our monthly supermarket spend hit £1250 in June
It used to be around £900 a month, a year or two ago, and i was never happy with that, but now £900 a month seems low in comparison.
We would buy whatever we fancy whenever we feel like it, never kept a count of spend, but will now budget to keep supermarket spending at £1000 a month max.Comment
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