Wir sind alle buchstäblich ein paar schlechte Wochen davon entfernt, hungern und obdachlos zu sein. Ich bin froh, dass 2 meiner Söhne meinen Rat angenommen haben und die Länder verlegt haben, weil ich sie vermisste, wie ich sie vermissen konnte. Ich zahle sie bereits von 170 € im letzten Jahr in der Woche auf 230 € in diesem Jahr für Lebensmitteleinkäufe pro Woche für 3 von uns und es bringt mich um. Ich kaufe in 3 verschiedenen Geschäften ein. Ich versuche alles, aber es wird schlimmer. Mein Mann hat einen sehr guten Job, aber am Ende der Woche ist es so, als wäre WTF gerade passiert?
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It’s an absolute disgrace Joe.
The West finally has to share resources with the rest of the World 😭
We’ll just have to session through the next recession 🍻
We are working to eat and breathe, because that’s the way the government and the corporations they support want it. You are labour, plain and simple. As long as you show up to work your underpaid, overtaxed job they’re happy.
Change comes from action. Widespread, meaningful action. Voting, strikes, protests, boycotts. Nothing will ever change unless this happens on a nationwide scale, and it’s made all the more difficult when people are so stressed about surviving that working towards a greater good plummets down the priorities list.
Porridge diet the way forward €1.19 for the Kavanaghs in Aldi. Get you through the month alongside a bit of bin scavenging. Job done
Tbh we just avoid brands and don’t find the shop too bad. The fruits especially Strawberries are expensive. We eat a very protien heavy diet so a lot of chicken, chickpeas tuna etc. We don’t go for much branded stuff, not worth the price imo.
As a country we also have record savings so it’s definitely not everyone a few bad weeks from starvation and homelessness
Yeah the price of everything is gone mad.
Dreading the winter with the electricity and gas and I bet the price of food will go up again.
I keep toying with the idea of selling my jewellery, or feet pictures…either or!
In the words of Richard Ashcroft. „You’re a slave to money till you die“
I’m struggling to keep working/existing because that’s all life is and I feel there’s nothing to look forward to. Just existing to work. Im sure I’m not alone in this and I don’t know how sustainable this culture is. It doesn’t look like it’s gonna get better and it really is crushing so many.
If we can manage that I’m grateful cos somehow I feel it may get worse
Cost of existing crisis.
how much are they shrinking, too?
When you increase the demand for something it generally goes up. We’re a tiny little island with few resources. Sanctioning our energy provider and fertiliser provider was a terrible move also for prices. The rulers currently in power have not being putting Ireland.
If its any consolation they released the average wages data for Q2 on Thursday and they show that median weekly pay is up 5.3% from past year.
Yeah, milk and other dairy took another hike. As for beef,……
Pork and chicken still cheap though.
The article says prices are up 5% in the year.
If you were paying €170 last year it should be €178.50 this year… which is a 35% increase.
EIther the CSO is wrong, or you are atypical shopper.
Im originally from Belfast but live on the west coast of Scotland. The wife and I are just heading home after 5 weeks travelling the Wild Atlantic Way. It’s truly been one of the best experiences of my life. However, we can’t believe how expensive things have become in Ireland.
We continually moan about prices at home but the price of food here is eye watering. I reckon most things are 20% to 30% more expensive here , even for the absolute basics. We frequently had to pay over €2 for a loaf of bread, twice what we pay at home.
Our local pub has great food for around £15 per plate, half of what we paid here, same story with Chinese takeout etc. I can’t imagine how people manage here.
They’ve not stopped “continue(ing)to rise” for the last three years. We are literally bare bones on our shops now because it is becoming outrageously unaffordable.
Food prices are crazy. I do my shopping in Tesco so you can see the subtotal as you shop. Quite often I’m like „is that all I’m a getting for €70“. I need a raise 😂
Off topic but your username has an unfortunate double meaning OP 🤣
Thanks Vlad for raising the price of fertilizer by 150% since your stupid 3 day invasion commenced.
Man it’s a joke. We are trying to get a house and start a family and the only people who can afford them are people who already have houses. Even went to a houses and the auctioneers said that they weren’t up to fire code and one that didn’t have planning permission and it’s on the buyer to fix it.
Why is the average person bearing the brunt of inflation? Can a single person with some education on economics explain that to me in plain terms. Surely this can’t be the most efficient way to handle it
Don’t worry everyone, a couple of weeks ago I came across this article by Colm McCarthy:
[https://www.farmersjournal.ie/viewpoints/viewpoints/is-there-a-cost-of-living-crisis-881587](https://www.farmersjournal.ie/viewpoints/viewpoints/is-there-a-cost-of-living-crisis-881587)
The col crisis is all in our heads, put there by ‚mainstream media and opposition politicians‘.
We are
Go to spain france or germany, you wont get any of the social benefits there yiu get here, rent is high and pay is poor
Work fecked up my wages last Thursday so I only received just over a third of what I was expecting, they promised it’ll be sorted this Friday. I did nothing at all at the weekend bar walk in the park and read in my room, and I bought a big bag of rice, soy sauce and lentils in the Asian supermarket and frozen veg and some chicken thighs in Aldi to do me for dinners for the week to come.
Add in needing to top my leap card for work and my health insurance coming out (I’ve a spinal condition so require it in order to not wait years in agony on public waiting lists, sadly a necessary luxury in Ireland in 2025) means that I’ve not a penny to my name pretty much.
I’ll be entering my 40th year in just over a month and still house sharing with no end in sight. I’ve no real stake in society. I would have loved to have a kid, but even if I met the right partner I wouldn’t be bringing one into such a shambolic housing situation.
I dunno. I know loads of people on the planet have it far worse than me, but the realization that all this stress for not much reward has been gnawing at me for a wee while now. At least I’m not alone in that regard.