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Yeah, I've never paid over a fiver for a pint in London and as you said, I've only ever paid a fiver for the not so common beers. Usually it's 3-4 quid, some pubs are cheaper...
You may have to pay 6 quid in some really expensive VIP clubs, but I wouldn't know.
This is all about 10 years ago.
Mad innit.
Thankfully I no longer have to pay for fuel - got a fuel card for my company motor that I can use for private miles. Don't apy for tax, MOT, or insurance either - saves me a fucking fortune?
I don't smoke so much anymore and when I do it's baccy from abroad so it's cheap.
Alcohol prices don't piss me off too much because nowadays it doesn't take much to get me pissed.
Food and energy bills seem to be where my money goes at the moment. The price of milk, eggs, and onions seems to have gone through the roof.
You must smell ripe?!
Seems like milk is going up - like a penny a week (upto 50p a pint now nearly!!)
Wouldn't know, I don't drink, which probably saves me a packet. One London bar charged my friend £9 for a single vodka and mixer :crazyeyes
sadly the ones i need are going up
No chance.
It's usually £3.50-ish, rising to a bit more for the fancy stuff.
For a regular pint, it is rare for it to be more than £4.
Spirits tend to be pretty pricey though. If you find a double + mixer for £5, you're onto a winner.
(OOPS - quoted the wrong one)
what are they gonna do with 1p sweets?!
frosty jacks is now 3.29 compared to 3 quid last year
can still manage 4 pints to a 10er in local bars but only 3 in town
OK it's nearly London but not quite! lol
Breaky is £16 on top of that
Glad the company is paying
But on a serious note, yeah, food, petrol and energy prices are rocketing IMO
What?! They are destroying those cardboard snacks.
Last time i was in Winbledon i found a huge eatery with bloody great oriental statues outside ...tons of fancy ceramics and carvings in the place ...Chinese food being cooked by West Indians and Scotsmen. Noisy atmosphere and i think me and the missus stuffed ourselves had a few drinks and parted with about twenty five quid but that was about four years ago. Does Wimbledon count as London?
:yes:
It's not the City though.
Frankly, other than in some posh very well known venue, I struggle to think where would have anyone been charged £5 plus for a pint in London... I can honestly say that other than in proper celebrity hangouts like China White (and they don't sell pints there anyway), I have never been charged £4 for a pint in London.
Were things cheaper when you were a lad? Could you do more? Or did it cost £3 to get to town, £5 to do anything remotely interesting (bowling, cinema, etc.) which is more now than the average kid gets in pocket money...
Petrol was about five shillings a gallon ...25p ....My dad was a long distance truck driver for a while and if he worked around seventy hours a week he came home with about twenty quid. He was an engineer after that and came home with thirty quid a week.
The first house i rented was twelve shillings and sixpence a week ...65p.
Chips were tuppence a bag or fourpence a bag. The coins in my pocket had diffenet kings and queens on them ...especialy pennies ...dating back to the 1860's. All manner of coins that had been in circulation for generations ...a real linkwith the past.
Up to around 1970 ...a lot of milk coal iron mongery was still delivered by horse and cart all over the north of England. Police cars had bells on. Policemen had whistles not radios.
And then i went off to fight in the war ...the drug war.
i know guys round here who go home with around two twenty a week. They pay rent of around eighty quid a week ...then council tax gas electric petrol ...and they live on frozen food and microwaves ...It's not a life ...it's work and survive work and survive.
Before the minimum wage there were jobs advertised round here at less than three quid an hour ...mostly part time for women.
How the hell some people survive let alone thrive is beyond me.
I worked out I get £130 a week at uni which is quite a lot, but rent is £80 - £90, food is £20 so I get between £20 and £30 for everything else. That's still more than some.
How did this happen? I mean, a house is still a house, there's still enough for everyone, why is it so expensive? We have no alternative I guess.
It just feels like we're returning to the days of rich landowners getting peasants to work for them in exchange for food and accomodation.
Life was very different. In the late fifties early sixties ...the time of my childhood ...the country had recently done away with ration books and coupons. The schools were full of male teachers who had come back from the war with bits of them missing ...often bits of their heads ...very violent and regimental schooling some times.
Everywhere was being nocked down and rebuilt ...there was no such thing as unemployment. There was new rebelious music. Money ...well there was no supermarkets. there were no electrical retailers ...small private telly and radio shops ...family busineses. Food was plentiful but very basic ...curry shops hadn't been iunvented. My fathers income would have gone on rent food savings and beer and fags basicaly. Savings as in a two week holiday in Rhyl come summer. No long term stuff. No fancy goods tobuy ...a gramaphone player with radio ...we had a posh one ...but that was expected to last about thirty years ...my grandfather had it ten before us.
So there was very little to buy ...to want.
When people say they never locked their doors it's not the rose tints ...people didn't cos there was nowt worth pinching.
Wether life was cheaper i cannot decide ...life was so very much simpler ...which distorts it all.
Just last month I was celebrating a payrise due to new union negotiations coming through. The inflation already seems to be going to eat it up in record time.
But I guess the good thing is that I'm now finally wanting to get rid of my car. My heart bleeds every time I go to a petrol station.
Since that event almost everything i have witnessed in my life has and does reinforce the fact that we are owned. Me a bit less than most but ...still owned. The schemes the wealthy come up with by accident and design to keep us owned ...you won't actualy fully accept.
We still live on a shopping budget of about £40 a week. I get the bread from the baker, the veg from the greengrocer and the meat from the butcher. We do most of our shopping at the market. And I still have enough left over to at least get one or two bottles of wine a week.
It has gone up a bit, though; we were living on £35 a week.
The big thing that's have gone up is the cost of petrol and fuel. But inflation is more rounded than just petrol. At the same time as petrol's gone up my Vodafone mobile has come down from 30p/minute and 15p/text to 15p/minute and 10p/text. I can buy a new telly for £50. CDs have dropped from £15 to £7. I can get a brand new sofa from Ikea for £100. I can get a brand new jumper and pair of jeans and still have change from £15.
yea I'm still trying to figure that one out the cost of living has increased by about 40 % in the last 6 months (80 % per year) where did they get 3 % from ?
we don't eat cds or put them in our cars to get to work, the esentials have gone up and whilst the price of other stuff goes down its generally so crap quality you will be getting a new one sooner than you'd have liked, my mobile phone charges (and I hardly use a mobile) were already what yours have finally come down too why did you get with the most exspensive provider around