Anyone felt the pinch yet?

Notice a good proportion of my hotels are quiet this week. But with the jubilee round the corner and pride the week after maybe folk are simply saving their trips for that.

Cant help but feel the media are driving a lot of it. They seem hell bent on us heading into a recession. Making people panic and stop spending.

They should be telling everyone its all gravy.

Only area Ive felt it is diesel. £154 to fill my van the other day. That's taking the piss.

8 minutes ago, stevieb said:

I'm 246 now.

I've resisted a company car banked the cash and banked the daughters nursery fees expecting it to be £530 by Jan. 

Now it ain't paying that I might get a tesla and buy myself a diesel generator to charge it in the January black outs Spider has promised us. 

I’ll pop round with some candles when they happen.

Have lots of cash ready.

A million pound of South African coal coming over to keep us warm this winter.

15 minutes ago, leigh white said:

A million pound of South African coal coming over to keep us warm this winter.

 

16 minutes ago, Spider said:

I’ll pop round with some candles when they happen.

Have lots of cash ready.

I've got ESPA candles coming out of my arse. 

There's a reason I'm keen on bangernomics and it's mainly the Mrs! 

38 minutes ago, Gonk said:

What if you are on a two year fix that runs until next June?

 

You stay on your fixed deal, so you'll not be bummed until the middle of next year 😁

I just came off a three year fixed deal at the end of August, and my DD has just tripled.

16 minutes ago, Sweep said:

You stay on your fixed deal, so you'll not be bummed until the middle of next year 😁

Gives you plenty time to get lubed up.

3 hours ago, Traf said:

Is that 350k a decade?
if so, I'm still struggling to get in.

It’s the ww 150k p/a club; or 350k p/a with London weighting. Forgive @Not in Crawley for his southern blinkers.

Edited September 8, 20223 yr by Jol_BWFC

12 minutes ago, Jol_BWFC said:

It’s the ww 150k p/a club; or 350k p/a with London weighting. Forgive @Not in Crawley for his southern blinkers.

I'm still nowhere near, I'm just a poor little self-employed homeworker.

14 hours ago, Sweep said:

You stay on your fixed deal, so you'll not be bummed until the middle of next year 😁

I just came off a three year fixed deal at the end of August, and my DD has just tripled.

I'm fixed until September 2024. World will have collapsed by then. Be reet.

On 06/09/2022 at 09:43, Spider said:

I asked the Ofgem chap the same thing when he told me about the freeze plan.

His first answer was "they'll just print it like they did with covid"

Then, in a more serious voice, he just said the Americans would be the biggest beneficiaries. And i still havent' a fucking clue what he meant by it.

LNG

4 minutes ago, tyldesley_white said:

LNG

Makes sense. I thought this may have been brought up during the ministerial visit last week.

American gas helping out Europe.

Just got our new energy prices through for 1st October.
Electricity standing charge is up 2.4% and the actual electric is up 19.5%
Gas rises are 4.6% and 41% respectively.

Which means my electricity will be £157.86 per year standing charge and £1413.77 for the power with gas coming in at £103.92 and £2793.73 respectively.

So that's almost £4470 a year or £372 a month.

And charging £262 a year just for the privilege of having a power supply?

3 hours ago, Traf said:

Which means my electricity will be £157.86 per year standing charge and £1413.77 for the power with gas coming in at £103.92 and £2793.73 respectively.

So that's almost £4470 a year or £372 a month.

And charging £262 a year just for the privilege of having a power supply?

The standing charge is a head scratcher isn't it.

I undertake that on occasions they may need maintaining/replacing and that staff costs will rise, but the things will be paid for after a while and it's not like maintenance is a frequent event.

59 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

The standing charge is a head scratcher isn't it.

I undertake that on occasions they may need maintaining/replacing and that staff costs will rise, but the things will be paid for after a while and it's not like maintenance is a frequent event.

I get it, but £262 per house? That's just free money.

59 minutes ago, Traf said:

I get it, but £262 per house? That's just free money.

Absolutely. And its every year.

How much are the things to buy?

 

5 hours ago, Traf said:

Which means my electricity will be £157.86 per year standing charge and £1413.77 for the power with gas coming in at £103.92 and £2793.73 respectively.

So that's almost £4470 a year or £372 a month.

And charging £262 a year just for the privilege of having a power supply?

Think the standing charge is being used to pay for all the energy companies that went bump.

Sure I heard Martin Lewis say we would all be paying about 4p per unit for gas and about 17p per unit for leccy. Anyone on a fixed deal above this will be dropped to new tariff when it starts. 

This all may have been covered above but I've only read this page 😁

1 hour ago, blackleywhite said:

Think the standing charge is being used to pay for all the energy companies that went bump.

Sure I heard Martin Lewis say we would all be paying about 4p per unit for gas and about 17p per unit for leccy. Anyone on a fixed deal above this will be dropped to new tariff when it starts. 

This all may have been covered above but I've only read this page 😁

That depends on what a unit is.

my electricity will be 33.47p per kWh and gas at 10.32p kWh

7 minutes ago, Traf said:

That depends on what a unit is.

my electricity will be 33.47p per kWh and gas at 10.32p kWh

It's not even been announced or organised yet so that's what you will pay should nothing happen isn't it?

6 minutes ago, blackleywhite said:

It's not even been announced or organised yet so that's what you will pay should nothing happen isn't it?

That is the price that my current supplier will be charging me on October 1st.

6 minutes ago, blackleywhite said:

It's not even been announced or organised yet so that's what you will pay should nothing happen isn't it?

Actually scrap this the figures you quoted are correct if you have a fixed deal that is higher than your figures it will be reduced by 17p and 4p respectively. I need to listen 🙃

My favorite cough toffee are Jakemans which sold at 60p last week in Tesco,s now selling at £ 2-00 a pack this week a massive 233.33 percent rise.

Edited September 14, 20223 yr by leigh white

3 minutes ago, leigh white said:

My favorite cough toffee are Jakemans which sold at 60p last week in Tesco,s now selling at £ 2-00 a pack this week a massive 233.33 rise.

Much cheaper elsewhere.

Check for different pack weights too.

1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Check for different pack weights too.

Shrinkflation is an issue.

8 minutes ago, Traf said:

Shrinkflation is an issue.

160g for 2 quid at tesco. 

100g for 65p Lloyd's pharmacy.

Home Bargains / B&M usually have them too.