What has priced itself out of YOUR budget?

[Gwylan]

I shouldn't mock how we survived the winters 50 and beyond years ago. If I remember rightly it cost about £3,500 to buy central heating for a terraced house back in the 1970's. Probably not much less than a years pay for many.🤔

Quite. We lived in a cottage, across a field and up a track. Access by vehicle was very weather dependent.
No electricity, no sewers, no bathroom, outdoor chemical toilet off limits after sunset.
Our water was collected from the roof.
Spent the winter in the kitchen with an old, even then, range.
Had an oil stove elsewhere to heat "the rest of the house". Went off when my mother went to bed.

Oh, the good old days.

 

[Gwylan]

Now that you've mentioned it, I think we might've had one when the miners strike was on in the early 1970's. 🤔

Or maybe I'm thinking about the paraffin fueled heater we had at the bottom of the stairs, to supposedly heat the whole of the upstairs.

The smell of the paraffin and the odious, lecherous paraffin man that used to deliver it.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Really starting to struggle about the morality of paying for vintage champagne. Have been forced to settle with my conscience and go for NV recently.

I'm slumming it with Blanquette de Limoux at the moment. Oh the shame of it all!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Commuting the 10 miles to work by helicopter

 

[Gwylan]

Commuting the 10 miles to work by helicopter

But it's such a pain to keep up the hours otherwise.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

How long is the waiting list for a new Morgan Plus Six?

I never bother with the minor stuff. It's the full Plus 12 for me

 

[Fastpedaller]

A decent mattress...

I have a saggy old mattress and thought that I would spend some of my pension on a new one.

I was expecting cheap ones to be about £100 and good ones about £300, but I just went online and was shocked at how much they actually cost. Apparently, my guesstimate was only about 1/4 of the real cost! I could easily have to save for 4 or 5 months just to buy a damn mattress... (When I should be saving for next winter's fuel bills!)

Belfast beds in Cambridge - Brilliant mattresses at a better price than anything else we could find (I have no connection other than being a satisfied customer)

 

[Fastpedaller]

Often simply paying as you go can be a bit cheaper as there is no "middleman" to pay like AXA or another insurance company.

Lots of surgeries don't let you pay as you go any more

 

[Fastpedaller]

Most cafes I visit now have ramped up their prices. It used to be £5 for coffee and cake, now the cake is anywhere around £3.60+ and the coffee £3+. So I've decided to cut out the cake and only have a drink, which is often tea nowadays. Shame, as a large part of my reason for cycling was the cake.

It's a Government plan to cut obesity

 

[Fastpedaller]

From Morgan Motors themselves,
"The typical waiting time for a Morgan car is between 6 and 12 months."

6 to 12 used to be the quoted wait (but in years not months) many years ago

 

[Fastpedaller]

I've given up Marmite........ and found that I prefer the Lidl Yeast Extract alternative! Tried Sainsbury's (wish I hadn't) before the lidl.

 

[slowmotion]

Taking my own skis on a plane to the Alps.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'm not buying fish from my usually twice weekly chip shop visit as much as I used to. It's £3.80 now for a not very big haddock. Yes, I can afford it, but being 'money careful' I think that's too much for a fish they probably paid £1.50 for from the supplier from Fleetwood. I now buy a sausage and even that costs £1.10! Yes! £1.10 for one sausage!!!

 

[Gwylan]

Taking my own skis on a plane to the Alps.

Well, it's your plane you should be allowed to take your skis

 

[slowmotion]

Well, it's your plane you should be allowed to take your skis

Michael O'Leary doesn't see it that way.