What feels like a luxury in the UK now that used to be completely normal?

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lonehorizons@reddit

Yeah mine’s £8, I just don’t go anymore.

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Budget-Tap-4326@reddit

My local has just put 50p on the basic pints, 70p on the premium pints and 1.20 on the Guinness.

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Fattydog@reddit

I’m over 60. That’s never been possible in my lifetime, in my part of the UK anyway.

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Pedantichrist@reddit

Horse shit. My father was basically a minimum wage worker and he housed and fed a family of four very nicely.

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Fattydog@reddit

Not horse shit at all, don’t be do fucking rude. I live in the South East and house prices in the 90s when we bought were beyond a single average salary.

None of my friends/ family in the south east had a stay at home parent.

Maybe in other areas it was possible but not where I lived.

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I'm the same, my mother gave up work when my older brother was born and didn't go back until my younger sister started comp. Dad worked track maintenance for British Rail and it wasn't the well paid job it is now.

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Deep_Pepper_5405@reddit

Actually fitting two cars on the road. I feel like cars have quadrupled in our estate and there are cars parked everywhere on the side of the road.

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FelisCantabrigiensis@reddit

People can afford cars, but not houses, so more adults are living in the same houses and using cars to get around, rather than being able to afford to live in separate houses.

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Deep_Pepper_5405@reddit

I do understand why that is. There are more cars than parking spaces and people find parking on the street more convinient than having to suffle on the drive. But the question was what is a luxury that used to be normal and I light heartedly remember time when I could actually drive past another car.

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Fattydog@reddit

If you’ve got two cars why shouldn’t everyone else?

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Deep_Pepper_5405@reddit

I mean that two cars can be on the road at the same time going in different direction.

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FelisCantabrigiensis@reddit

Roast beef.

I still buy it, but the price rises on it in the past few years have been huge.

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NoodleDoodlesocks@reddit

Fast food used to be the cheap and quick alternative. Now they aren't.

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Artistic_Train9725@reddit

I bought four sausage rolls and an egg & ham salad sandwich in Greggs today. £8. It wasn't for me thank fuck.

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NoodleDoodlesocks@reddit

Man, I remember not too long ago (a decade or so ago), a Gregg's sausage roll was only about 60p

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spritzreddit@reddit

has anyone already said petrol?

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Artistic_Train9725@reddit

Cries in Diesel.

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Moongoosls@reddit

Lurpak

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SignatureFull5096@reddit

olive oil

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MissWiggleNjiggle1@reddit

Freddo’s

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R05579@reddit

Biscuits with a cup of tea.. eg Mcvities chocolate digestives.. I've no idea what they cost nowadays, just that a large pack (before they shrunk) used to be 87p back in the day..

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_Yorkshire_Pirlo@reddit (OP)

Easily £1.50 now even for supermarket own brand

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SolidBreak578@reddit

80p for Miss Molly ones

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Pedantichrist@reddit

Dentistry.

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ProtonHyrax99@reddit

Fish and chips used to be a cheap takeaway option.

It’s like £15+ per person now.

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_CheddarRex_@reddit

Where? Fish and chips and a can for two at my local is £16

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PKblaze@reddit

Glad our local is £5.75 for Fish and Chips.

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Tall_Stick5608@reddit

What fish is your local using to be able to sell it at 5.75?

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PKblaze@reddit

Haddock I think. I'll have a check when I pass by on the weekend.

We do also have a local fishmonger that sells decent priced fish too tho. Ya can usually get 4 fillets of salmon or seabass for a fiver.

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zephyrmox@reddit

4 fillets of salmon for a fiver? That's ridiculously cheap.

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PKblaze@reddit

Yup. I am not complaining (Though I prefer seabass)

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QuinlanResistance@reddit

Haddock the superior choice too

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Weak_Worth_2735@reddit

Me and my better half now buy one large fish and one large portion of chips to share between us and it’s more than enough and works out cheaper, than buying two lots separately.

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Jamie2556@reddit

We do this too, partly as I don’t have a gall bladder any more and my partner is trying to be fit, but also to save the money.

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R05579@reddit

Didn't seem to long agi that a smaller piece of cod was £4 and chips £1.50. Now chips are £4 alone..

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Starboard_1982@reddit

Agree with this. We used to have it every Saturday (family of 5) when I was a kid. I can't afford to do that for just two of us now!

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Mondays-fundays@reddit

Weekly bin collections and pothole free roads

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cansbunsandpins@reddit

I don't ever remember pothole free roads!

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mxtchstick@reddit

Maybe not pothole free roads, but roads that are more road than pothole 😂

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Numerous-Painter6179@reddit

Ooh yeah and garden waste collection

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imnotabotimafreeman@reddit

Bacon, fish and chips, pint of beer, petrol

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Deep_Pepper_5405@reddit

Sunday Roasts at the pub.

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Deep_Pepper_5405@reddit

£43 for 2 carveries, pint and soft drink

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cheddawood@reddit

Beef

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London-maj@reddit

Going to some of the theatres in the West End of London. I refuse to pay £200+ for a ticket and wait for cheap seat returns or book early before the dynamic price increases.

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schemmenti@reddit

Getting a bog standard can of soft drink. Just a few years back I would get a can of pepsi max or diet coke at the coop for about 65p, they're now £1.30 each and a 500ml bottle is over £2.

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CiderChugger@reddit

Poundland does proper Coca Cola 500ml bottles for £1

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PKblaze@reddit

Might want to shop elsewhere. You can still buy them for way cheaper.

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schemmenti@reddit

Well yes but that kind of takes the convenience out of convenience store, doesn't it?

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zero_sevenn@reddit

Co-op has always been expensive. They are the equivalent of M&S in the convenience store world.

Every other shop such as Premier, One Stop, Londis, Nisa have cans for 65p-80p. Bottles cost around £1.20 too.

This is just co-op pricing. It doesn’t speak for prices in general

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PKblaze@reddit

And coop are known to be expensive.

I thought we all knew that anything with the word "convenience" was a con anyway? Been that way for decades.

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C0nnectionTerminat3d@reddit

Sweets. i miss the 3 for £1 deal they had on classic sweets at the supermarkets.

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4nn4s3@reddit

Can still find em at ya local newsagents

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Tall_Stick5608@reddit

Sweets are basically free. A big bag of Haribos is still only 1.10 in most supermarkets

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ThrustersToFull@reddit

Those were the days

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Glittering_Box4815@reddit

Decent Fish and Chips that are not covered in oil, cold or just not great.
Good Quality Mince, or meat in general.
A decent meal out for me and my husband that didn't cost an arm and a leg.
A 'staycation' - it's shaper to go abroad then it is to get a nice hotel for the weekend

I could go on and on.

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blodauwedd@reddit

The trend for mince in soft plastic is vile. Marginally less plastic than the trays but 100% cannot be recycled in many councils

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D0wnb0at@reddit

£20 for a takeaway. I used to be able to order for £10. A decade ago. But now it’s over inflated where pickup costs less than if ordered for delivery. Then they add delivery which was normal, then “service fees”. What the fuck are service fees?

Went to order a mcd’s breakfast and was £10.50. I switched to delivery and the food now cost £12.50. Then delivery fee then service charge it’s now £15.

Yet if I just selected pickup and used the same service to order, it would be £4.50 less.

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branniganfringe@reddit

Going to the cinema.

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Objective_Mousse7216@reddit

A warm home and food on the table.

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reddog_72@reddit

A night out.

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jimmerjammer1@reddit

Tap water

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BigMasterDingDong@reddit

A level road

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Another_Random_Chap@reddit

Eating out - one meal out never used to cost as much as your food bill for the week.

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mhoulden@reddit

Higher education.

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VictoryAppropriate68@reddit

You used to be able to go outside with none to very little money, have a full day out and return home happy. Now I swear you stick a toe outside and you’ve spent £30. Idk what even on, but it happens.

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BG3restart@reddit

Finding an NHS dentist as a new patient.

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Easy_Honey_2325@reddit

A meal deal actually being a ‘deal’

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VolcanicBear@reddit

I mean... Relatively, it still is.

Last weekend I wanted a bottle of Dr Pepper Zero. It was £2 for one on it's own. So I added a wrap and some boiled eggs for £1.50, leading to a total "saving" of £2.50 from the individual items when bought separately.

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Tall_Stick5608@reddit

The individual prices are heavily inflated sometimes as much as 50% more than what they should be so it isn’t that much of a deal unless you are picking items very strategically

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VolcanicBear@reddit

Yeah, not disagreeing, that's why I said relatively.

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Tall_Stick5608@reddit

Fair enough

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_Yorkshire_Pirlo@reddit (OP)

hahaha, they are such a rip off nowadays

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Tall_Stick5608@reddit

Probably quality M&S food. It felt just a fraction more expensive in previous years but in the last 2 it feels like it’s 50% - 100% more expensive than the Sainsbury’s / Tesco alternative. 2.30 for a half loaf of bread and 3.20 for 175g of shortbread biscuits is crazy so for me it’s more considered now where was previously I would just throw a bunch of things into the basket

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cbawiththismalarky@reddit

Not having the exact same questions asked every day, that were reet luxury when I were a lad

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Icy_Cricket7038@reddit

Heating

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PKblaze@reddit

Kinder Eggs.

Used to enjoy em as a kid when they were like 40-50p-ish.

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IranianAlan@reddit

Dysons

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WeeklyPermission239@reddit

Getting a doctor's appointment (and don't even start me on how hard it is to see an actual doctor and not just a physician's associate)

Using the internet without signing away your identity documents to a private company with dubious security

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_Yorkshire_Pirlo@reddit (OP)

just alcohol in general lol

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