What has priced itself out of YOUR budget?

[Rezillo]

Ditched Sky, hello Freesat and Amazon Fire Cube. Now only paying for Discovery+ to get all the Eurosport cycling, ad-free. £59 a year, first year cost us £30.

 

[potsy]

Will be ditching Virgin TV once my contract ends later this year, other than that not much for now.

I've now had to succumb to Wetherspoons for those occasional times of eating out, fine dining it's not but the prices are great
Had my very first 'spoons breakfast last week, unlimited coffee is a winning touch

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Will be ditching Virgin TV once my contract ends later this year, other than that not much for now.

I've now had to succumb to Wetherspoons for those occasional times of eating out, fine dining it's not but the prices are great
Had my very first 'spoons breakfast last week, unlimited coffee is a winning touch

Had to use a 'spoons in Bodmin a wee while ago. You're right, it's cheap. Pint of fizzy yellow something, "sirloin" steak and chips, something like £10.

The steak was surprisingly edible, the chips were reheated cardboard and cold, the fizzy yellow stuff... well

 

[chriswoody]

We're getting a three month railcard for 9€ a month for all local trains in Germany, so I could technically travel to Berlin with it, if I had a day or two to try.

I have a monthly job ticket for the regional train that takes me to work every day, it's a collaboration between the local transport company and employers. The €110 monthly cost comes out of my salary every month and already represents a significant saving over the €180 it would cost to just buy it at the train station. I've just discovered that for the next three month's my job card will also cost only €9 per month, so pretty pleased with that.

Personally I think we could ask a few more questions as to who made us so dependent in the first place, but there we go...

I met Herr Schröder once at my place of work, he's a local resident. I didn't immediately realise who he was, it was only later when a colleague jovially remarked on my chat that the penny dropped!

 

[cougie uk]

take away coffees, pushing on for nearly £3 from most places for a coffee, absolutely crazy
would even begrudge that sitting in never mind take away.
just have my coffee at home now from the pods or make my own when out
mcdonalds is very good to be fair though, £1 for a take away, long may that last

I don't mind paying extra for coffee and sitting in, chatting or people watching. But getting a drive through coffee ? What's that all about ?

 

[Oldhippy]

I live cheaply in the first place no TV, don't eat meat, gave up car for environmental reasons years back, don't buy what I can't actually live without. Don't get suckered in to buy now pay later lunacy.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I have a monthly job ticket for the regional train that takes me to work every day, it's a collaboration between the local transport company and employers. The €110 monthly cost comes out of my salary every month and already represents a significant saving over the €180 it would cost to just buy it at the train station. I've just discovered that for the next three month's my job card will also cost only €9 per month, so pretty pleased with that.



I met Herr Schröder once at my place of work, he's a local resident. I didn't immediately realise who he was, it was only later when a colleague jovially remarked on my chat that the penny dropped!

I wasn't thinking about Schröder specifically; it's not like the next administration tried to wean us off Russian oil and gas with any real sense of urgency.

 

[BoldonLad]

I wasn't thinking about Schröder specifically; it's not like the next administration tried to wean us off Russian oil and gas with any real sense of urgency.

Yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

 

[FishFright]

Having never used either I'm reliably informed the local price for the former has remained at £10-20 and the latter £5-10. Not that I wish or need to utilise such "services".

Can your "reliably informed" do some shopping for me ? Or at least add the missing zeros.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

The point was made at the time, fairly frequently. I'm not convinced Schröder isn't being scapegoated to be honest.

 

[chriswoody]

I wasn't thinking about Schröder specifically; it's not like the next administration tried to wean us off Russian oil and gas with any real sense of urgency.

I know, I was being slightly tongue in cheek with my comment and naming him, I didn't really want to swing the conversation off topic and into banned territory by diving into the nuances.

 

[DCLane]

Can your "reliably informed" do some shopping for me ? Or at least add the missing zeros.

Erm ... so you're asking me to ask them to obtain either/both service/item and then get it to you.

Isn't that called solicitation / drug-dealing?

But yes, apparently in Dewsbury both are cheap. The BBC programme Homelands looked at it.

 

[FishFright]

Erm ... so you're asking me to ask them to obtain either/both service/item and then get it to you.

Isn't that called solicitation / drug-dealing?

But yes, apparently in Dewsbury both are cheap. The BBC programme Homelands looked at it.

Your prices you posted are silly , like 10x too low. Hence my comment taking the micky.

 

[Andy in Germany]

We're getting reports of government budget reductions for the next six months or so. As we're an NGO this means some programme reductions in the short term. As usual for governments they aren't thinking about the long term, and the fact that reducing costs now will only increase them later, but hey, ho...

 

[slowmotion]

1970's. Inflation during the 70's ranged from 10-25%, and interest rates weren't far behind.

It wasn't all bad. A pint of Adnams from the college bar was 11p.