RE: ☠️ Amazon 🏴☠️3 Jan 2025 20:44
Hi nom,
I totally agree with the prices and please don’t others take this the wrong way (I know you don’t ). I am at the stage in life now (thanks to trading!) where I would rather pay £5 more to get the same product from Curry’s who also have a high street presence than others!
Every government has promised to fix the tax loopholes but none have. I wonder why!
However, I fully respect those that can’t afford to pay that extra!
I get the feeling that my background is akin to many Tecan’s:…Working class, started with FA…bla bla!
From a humble background I got an apprenticeship, it was brilliant! I then even learnt to drive before my dad as we couldn’t afford a car till I got that job. Then I taught him to drive! Then shortly after that I left home just before 18 and ‘got on with it!’ (Archaic colloquialism for ‘just getting on with it!’)
We started a family; I even held two jobs at times! Then don’t mention Norman Lamont springing 16% base rates! With two rises in one day!…ERM!
There was zero childcare allowance, 100% of my wife’s income was on childcare! …! Two of my siblings lost their houses! …I could go on but I guess…..It’s all relative!!…. Or is it??? ….You ‘just got in with it!’
FFS now it snows for a day and the news has to tell people to draw their curtains, use a hot water bottle and avoid unnecessary travel! How do they manage in Ukraine!
Anyways…. I love Skyr yogurt; Asda I find cheapest and I have always been a Sensodyne bloke! Tesco or Superdrug is where I bulk buy my toothpaste usually when there’s a BOGOF offer!
To keep my spending down; when I left work early with ‘the fk it’s’, I used to cycle down to Lidl and just buy what we needed and then I cooked it!
Now to keep cost down I do a weekly shop, but when we are in-between shops Mrs Trek happily strolls down to the coop to buy their own brand ‘high protein yogurt’ which is very thick and delicious but a few pence more!
She also picks up any other ‘bits’ to put off the next weekly shop!…Can’t help it!
Incidentally cooking fresh ingredients is still cheaper than microwave dinners and healthier!
Carrots 62p a KG or less! but you gotta peel em! …..wtf! Wherever you can…‘Just get on with it!
Trek