Where is the cost of living crisis exactly?

I'd say it's more likely the box room in their Ma's house.

I'm a teacher with two children and a third on the way. We're absolutely feeling the pinch, mainly with fuel costs, rising esb bills and grocery costs, but we are lucky that there are things we can cut back on. Planned home renovations have been put on hold indefinitely. Childminding fees will be halved when I go on maternity leave. Our holiday this year is house swopping for a week with my sister in law who lives by the beach 2 hours away from us. Family days out capped to free activities.

I think the degree to which you feel feel crises is so individual depending on your circumstances. For example we have a mortgage, child care fees and a car loan as well as creditcard debt. We have one low earner and one mid earner in our household. A similar sized family without debt would not be feeling the pinch as much as us, on the other hand a family with only one mid to low earner and a stay at home parent would feel the pinch more. A singleparent family more again...etc.

Experiences are so individual I really don't think any two households will experience this crises the same way.

cause we re all the same, we all experience life exactly the same, we all are in the same place in life, in particular in relation to finances, i.e. the cost of living for all, is always the same, always.......oh wait!

Surely your joking 😳 minor increases in some food products 😳

March 2022

Butter own Brand €2.29, Now €3.49

Cream own Brand €1 now €1.49

Milk 1 litre own brand €0.79 now €1.39

I'll focus on Dairy but shocking increases weekly on Meat and other products.

Diesel & Petrol 😳 need I elaborate

Utility prices, Need I elaborate 🤔

Every day necessities, need I elaborate 🤔

Of course inflation partly to blame, but seriously, weekly blatant price gouging is taking the absolute Pee & few, actually no one calling it out.

There's a honeymoon period occuring with people going on holidays they have already booked since the end of the pandemic restrictions. So things look good interms of restaurants packed and busy holiday towns etc... But there's a big hangover coming once back to school costs kick in along with rising foods costs, fuel, repaying loans for holidays and the big one, mortgage interest increase.

Maybe when schools reopen in September you can have a look around your class and see the impact on people. Not being personally affected by something doesn’t mean it’s not happening. I’m lucky myself to not have felt it too much in any serious way - we have cut back on our social life and won’t be taking a city break this winter so very first world problems but it’s still an impact. We both work and don’t have kids so we can absorb it to a point, others don’t have that wiggle room.

'keep the recovery going'!

I am insulated to a large degree. Obviously still see the huge difference in costs.

I always think how the hell do people on minimum wage or even up to 40k-50k per year survive. I guess the word is surviving rathering than thriving.

With the whole climate change issue, this crisis might be a good thing. Less consumerism should lead less emissions. Pain now for gain in the long run. We will all suffer if we don't try and reign in our emissions.

Can society be happier with less? I believe so. Especially if we dont have to work as hard.

I haven’t had to cut back on anything, but I have less left over at the end of the month as I did previously, so I definitely see an impact and I don’t like it.

@Cork Lass ”Why don't you explain that to the portion of your students that will probably be coming to school hungry from Sept on”

That’s really not the OP’s problem, but the parents’. We all make our choices and need to live with them.