Maybe this sounds mean. I know a lot of people are genuinely struggling. I know that kids are expensive. I know that not all places have equal access to cheaper options but... FFS!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...'We can't justify a £52 lunch'...
'We can't justify a £52 lunch': Middle-income families cut back on fun as prices rise
A household with an average income of £55,000 has cut spending on leisure activities by £40 a week, offical figures suggest.
Some of the examples chosen here are very hard to sympathise with. If you pick all the biggest rip-offs in town then most people will struggle to afford it.
Ironically, this stuff is much cheaper in supposedly rich London, where we have so many free attractions and cheaper options. The Natural History Museum beats sodding Sea Life and it's free.
That's no help if you are a long way from London but other major cities have excellent free attractions too. (Liverpool is particularly good but too many people go to get ripped off at the exploitative Beatles exhibitions instead.)
Anyway:
✅ Visit local free attractions and pop a few quid in the donation box if you can afford to.
✅ Support locally owned restaurants and takeaways, particularly if they are no more expensive than a crappy toastie at Costa.
✅ Take your own sandwiches on a day out. Many attractions even provide a place to eat them.
✅ Investigate local council run leisure facilities. Who knows, they might even have cheaper bowling.*
❎ Sod rip-off merchants like Merlin Entertainments. Their stuff is mostly tacky crap anyway.
Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋