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| cardboardbox?Youwerelucky |
The credit crunch and continuing effectsOkay I thought I would start a thread on the things I get through everyday which make for some interesting readingI won't add posts everyday only the one's I find quite alarming / disturbing / worrying* (* delete where applicable  )
First up - some heavy reading made slightly easier http://defaqtoblog.com/iabn/print/ |
| wewantourdarbyback |
Pretty much all of my mums money, which came from the compensation after my dads death, is tied up in the stock market so since 11/9 (yes i will put it the proper way, nothing happened on the 9th of november  ) we've been broke  This just aint helping
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| raveydavey |
I got a pay rise of 2.5%, which I'm told is what inflation is at.
Electricity has gone up by 15% and a litre of diesel by 5% since I was awarded that in December. I'm now told that council tax will go up by at least 4% and I'm sorry to say that my grocery shopping isn't getting any cheaper, so I'm not entirely sure where they get this 2.5% figure from. A cynic might suggest it's all bollocks. I can't scrimp and save any more, so I'm going to have to cut back. Instead of just taking home made sandwiches to work for lunch Mon-Thurs and treating myself to something from the butty shop on a Friday, it will be home made butties all week. So the butty shop loses a customer. If I wait 6 weeks between getting my hair cut instead of the usual 4, that will save me almost 5 haircuts a year. But my stylist loses the work. And thats before we get to the faceless conglomerate I now work for looking for "best value" across the company which means outsourcing companies are being invited to offer do the job I've currently got.... |