Husband got up 6am to do meter reading and just discovered with octopus sat was the deadline.
Read lots energy websites crashed.
£500 is crazy ours going up to £265 upset me.
I had no idea the standing charge vary on where you live seems so unfair.
I'm south west which is higher than London.
Rises in standing charges on electricity bills will vary significantly according to where people live.
www.bbc.co.uk
I'm concerned about this Europe/
gas situation.
Germany and Austria are rationing gas.
Apparently UK only uses around 3% but we have low gas reserves and we get a lot from Norway which has contract to serve EU as priory.
Makes me wonder if will see black outs next autumn/ winter.
I can only conclude energy and
will keep rising as uk government sold off most private and other countries have state energy and better energy support packages.
I just don't trust a word uk government says they so corrupt.
Norway agreed on Monday to increase natural gas exports to the rest of Europe as record high wholesale natural gas prices prompted suppliers in Britain to seek state support and raised fears of a food supply crunch.
www.reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Zahawi banked £1.3million from an oil company, which included a final £285,000 “settlement payment” after he first became a Government minister in 2018
www.mirror.co.uk
The group has sold a 60% stake in Britain's gas pipeline network to Australian bank Macquarie.
news.sky.com
They have no plan for energy.
More nuclear is too expensive and lengthy.
Johnson doesn't even know how many reactors we have.
Some right wing erg nutters are saying fracking which is expensive and wont help but sunack doesn't want heavily invest in renewable.
Di don't want this
crappy £200 loan in October.
Have to chase up council over this £150 Council tax rebate.
Still debating stretching ourselves to get a Woodburner.
Also not been hugely covered by UK media but biden speech about food shortages.
President Joe Biden on Thursday said there will be food shortages around the globe because of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Presumably
faces same issues.
Went in 3 different supermarkets yesterday.
Nipped into Iceland and availability seemed good.
Lilds fresh juice and frozen was bad maybe awaiting delivery.
Also issue with tomatoes
Eggs looked fine
Didn't check out the long life juice as was in a hurry.
Did massive shop at big tesco again couple items not I'm stock, gone up or not in quantity I wanted as intended to do a big bulk shop brought 20 boxes of cereal for 4 kids given that its 2weeks half term probably only last the month.
Got value lemonade 20p squash 45p and value biscuits in bulk
They were not that cheap on crisps.
Brought booze.
No meat.
Very little fresh apart from few reductions and spent £117.
The eggs/ milk/ cooking oils, pasta/ flour was well stocked but lots pricier than aldi or lildls so will go there for those items..
I'm just going keep good stock if these items nothing too crazy.
Brought some what I call end of days foods this week.
Tinned fish
Tinned beans and potatoes
Dried mash.
Jar of honey as could be used a sugar substitute.
Will go aldi and get backup coffee/ oils/ pasta and flours but need to sort out my baking cupboard of doom 1
Sainsbury relaunched their own brand packet mixes and they look fab many are only 50p sand can help give you quick and easy meal ideas as most require limited amount veg/ meat and water to make.
Trying the fussy dog on tesco dried food hes so fussy.
He mostly likes ceaser and lily kitchen wet pouches and he will eat sainsbury but not aldi or lilds.
He likes aldi treats.
Sorted out my 2 bathroom cabinets as was fed up of the mess as wanted to stock take what we had.
Crazy amount body lotions seem to come in every gifted..
Changed some baskets for open baskets so can see what we have.
Allowed me to make a small list of gaps as whenever we go poundland / home bargains or wilkos we load up on toiletries as they cheap.
But then we get home and realise we got loads so end up wasting limited that money that month so now have a basket if bath bombs and basket of shower gels and told family we reuse what we have before we buy more.
Same with bathroom cleaning products bath used up 3 bottles of half empty spray.
Got a year supply of sun cream in aldi in jan for 27p each so mental notes don't buy sun products.
Random sale buy 10mini tubes of colgate 15p each in sainsbury local..
So ok couple months on toothpaste.
I also went on the grand LFT hunt honestly I had boxes scattered all over the place kids bedrooms , mine, hall, dining room bathroom and cupboards under the stairs.
The amount litter and recycling loads of half empty boxes..
Started collecting them over time from kids school, whenever saw council van only ordered 3 from online as can only order 1 box every 3 days.
Also started collecting pharmacy codes and doing a tour of the chemists but they been out of stock for over a week here.
Feel confident we have enough for our family and some spares for family and friends in needs.
I recently had covid and so did 2 of the kids the whole family daily tested and use 1 box a away and that would have cost is £140 privately from boots another thing thats much cheaper in Europe..
All these extra costs add up.
Todays mission is declutter and deep clean kitchen. And dining room.
Go through all the cleaning products and try and use up some half empty.
Stock take medicine box as think needs a few more things and realised when I had covid we had run out of ibuprofen also really want to invest in oximeter.
I did invest in a digital touch thermometer which I love with kids well worth the money.
Paid 14.99, lilds special.
Also need collect up makeup and see what gaps I need.
Finding wilkos cheaper on cruelty free makeup than super drug the mua range really reduced and gone up.
Wanted a hanging shower gel for shower the only one super drug had was radox £2.39 i dident want to pay that went in lildls and same one was 99p so always pays to shop around i now go to several shops.
Still trying make a decision over tv found a repair place who will look at it for 30 quid so going to try and risk that as its only 2 years old.
Maybe its something simple and cheap.
In other news and maybe some help to others and I know I sound like some old granny from the war.
Locally to me jumble sales restart as do carboots.
So easy to get carried away.
Off to one tommorow thats raising money for Ukraine and run by old ladies so has amazing selection blankets and bric a bracelet.
Things to look out for
Check wardrobe adults and kids write list if whats needed spring/ summer
Autumn winter
Seek out those clothes including really warm jumpers/ coats/ cardigans or pjs .
Other useful practical things warm blankets and throws.
Candles torches even a portable gas camping stove.
Check kitchen any gaps in appliances/ cooking accessories like cake pans/ baking trays even cutley and storage jars for food managed to find all these 2nd hand..
Usually lots of unused bread makers.
My kids don't mind 2nd hand toys and books can be ideal for birthday/ xmas presents i look for smalll cheap things stocking fillers.
If you know what you have a have can work out what you really need make a list and try and find 2nd hand .
Market place i find good for free or cheap furniture we are on the look out for cheap garden furniture and bedroom draws.
I realise this is cheap compared to what some people pay but it’s still a lot of money. It’s like a second mortgage!
we couldn’t afford it, once we added new babies costs to that.
