Money struggles
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I could have written this myself! We spent £50 on our weekly shop and when it arrived yesterday I actually asked the driver "is that it?!" 😅
Most households need two parents working full time to stay afloat nowadays, unfortunately! We're lucky to be high earners but money definitely doesn't go as far as you'd hope 😕
We both work full-time and have good jobs and are high earners so we do manage but not as much as we did prior to having a baby. I'm finding It's definitely food costs that have increased so much and I think now I have a toddler who I need to make 3 meals a day for adds a lot to our shopping list. Things I wouldn't have bought previously like snacks and especially fruit which is super expensive soon adds up. Plus the nappies, wipes and all the other things they need.
Since all the inflation malarkey while we were all pregnant everything has increased in price so much. We have had to change so many things on our weekly/monthly shops to reduce costs, we weren't extravagant before but now we are definitely penny pinching.
Totally get this. My partner is self employed but makes decent money. I was on a good salary in tech but have now lost my job so that's fun. It is challenging financially. I used to look at people around us and wonder how they were constantly affording stuff for their house, expensive clothes/toys for multiple children, multiple holidays a year, the list goes on. Turns out most of them are massively in debt to afford this stuff. We just go without.
I’m sorry we are all in this situation, but that does make me feel a tiny bit better. That i am not completely failing 😅 It is crazy, the cost of living is just so expensive. I hate to sound like I’m moaning. I am so grateful and lucky to be in the jobs we are in and to have a wonderful home etc it just definitely gets hard sometimes.
We are the same, husband is a GP and I'm a piano teacher. We used to be fine until recently, now for the past 3 months or so we're really struggling. What we started doing is plan food/snacks for the whole week and try to do just 1 shopping. Then clothes for our son we try to get second hand as much as possible and use his child support for that. My husband also started investing and stock markets and that brings in a few extra hundreds a week which really helps, might worth looking into it if you're good with money
@Elisabeta Furtuna any tips on the stock market and investing. something I’ve been wanting to start but don’t know where plus I be the one that ends up loosing money 🤣 or advice on any good resources to read
Yes, I'm a PM and my partner is a systems manager and it's ridiculous, a few years back we felt we were doing quite well but prices for everything are just wild. Groceries alone are apparently increased by 60-160%. We are just trying to adjust through budgets for food shopping and being more frugal with shopping clothes, Amazon, etc