Are Riseing prices making u a more careful buyer or are u as spendthrift as u were once?

Question

Are Riseing prices making u a more careful buyer or are u as spendthrift as u were once?

Answer 1

no i find it difficult to spend less

Answer 2

Well, my partner and me have never been really that much of big spenders.  We buy a new car about every three years, which is very largely paid for by what we get back on the old car.

We usually only take two hols each year, one week in early Summer and one other week in late summer.  This year we've had a week in Paris [highly recommend that] and later at the end of August we're off down to Sorento for one more week.

We've paid off our mortgage and are now retired. We have a lot of savings - far more than the average - so we're not worried yet about rising costs, since our investments bring in additional monies from here and there.

We are by no means rich, or even well off.  We know how to budget and make ends meet and how to eat well cheaply by eating less popular cuts of meat, for example offal, which many folk turn up their noses at.  Soon they will wish they had not done so.

We are both war babies [born during WW2] and grew up with strict rationing, so cutting back here and there will be no problem for us - we had rationing for the first 15 years of our lives.

We have a 120 feet long garden at the back and if things do get difficult, we can always dig part of that up and start growing our own food.  It has not come to that yet, but it might.

We have modern low powered bulbs everywhere in the house.  We only drive our car for about 1,000 miles a year plus we have free travel anywhere in London on the buses, tubes and trains - the famous PENSIONER'S FREEDOM PASS.  Hurrah for that.

I just hope everyone is planning for the difficult and possibly hard times ahead.  Fuel prices continue on up, etc.

Take care.  Try shopping away from the usual shops and try a street market near where you live.  We do.  Example, cabbages in the market 50p each.  In Sainsbury's same cabs = 75p each - that's a massive 25p saving.

Old saying - "Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves".

The people I feel deeply for are the poor here in London - we've got to do something about this, but what exactly?  I'm hoping that the UK.gov will up the heating allowance in the November mini-budget - maybe this should be aimed at the low paid sector rather than an across the board increase.

Answer 3

More careful