I’ve been there too mate, I feel for you, hope everything pans out well for you ..Struggling at the moment. Split up with my wife in February and I’m currently paying rent + bills and also continuing to pay my share of the mortgage and money towards my kids so that they still have a roof over their heads and food on the table.
Did you not get that big pay rise ;-)Mortgage going up £300 end of month, will feel the pinch for sure.
That's the thing with food banks, they appear and people use them, free food etc...why not whether they need it or not. If you put up beer banks folk would use them.Just been to Lidl bought a few bits and put in little free food cupboard (like a mini foodbank) near us. There seem to be more and more of these springing up on estates around us in last few months.
That is not how food banks work , you have to be reffered or be in receipt of certain benefitsThat's the thing with food banks, they appear and people use them, free food etc...why not whether they need it or not. If you put up beer banks folk would use them.
Was waiting for the Mrs outside a Lidl and the manager had just put a load of cases of tinned goods in a skip type container. A large 7 seater was parked next to it and as soon as the guy had gone husband and wife jumped out, he dived in whilst his wife help his legs and they cleared it out....priceless....there was a lot of food in that car.
What do they call people who raid for free food? Freegans? Fairly sure that’s true!That is not how food banks work , you have to be reffered or be in receipt of certain benefits
The news today called it a cost of living crisis more people shop lifting stealing make up and other non essentials paired with mothers shoplifting for food by hiding it in the baby’s pram. I don’t know what else we can call it, if we want to try and improve charity giving and government help.I know what a crisis is, thanks. And while everything you say is absolutely true, it is a bit away from the point i'm making.
There have always been big divides and those that struggle always feel it most. The level has definately changed and so many more are affected and much harder.
We have been calling it a cost of living crisis for nearly 3 years now though. And while we continue to treat it like some sudden temporary thing to get through that will magically pass on its own, zero effort is being made to bring prices of anything down. Hence they continue to rise, and people continue to pay them that can. And those that can't really suffer.