How Much Has Covid Cost You So Far???

[Diggs]

Good point about the beer - we are all so used to paying supermarket prices now that shelling out £4.50 for a pint will hurt.
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[P.]

I'd pay £4.50 to sit with the lads from work and have a chat.

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[Lord Percy]

Work has been fine. Working from home is now a thing and it's excellent (if you're an office jobby type). Haven't lost or saved money, in fact maybe it's costing me a little more as I'm at home using heat, water, food etc to a higher amount.

I changed jobs last month and when I put my CV out I was swamped with recruiters. The joys of being a programmer.

The work-from-home thing has motivated me to consider other options too, i.e. if I can work from home, then my home can be anywhere. I was recently contacted by a random American guy who wanted a freelancer for a project of his, so I'm doing that on the side. If the project goes well, I'll have ongoing work with him and can become be one of those "digital nomad" dickheads living the dream of doing the day job from snooty coffee shops in cheap exotic locales while earning a good western salary. Vietnam is looking very interesting around about now.

All thanks to covid and the work-from-home thing.

[wr6133]

Done pretty well off the Plague. Company I work for has made money hand over fist. This has led to decent bonus payouts. Working from home has probably saved me since March close to 15K business miles, also not commuting on the days I'd have been in the office saves fuel and most importantly time. Gaining a 1.5-2 hours a day of "me" time by not commuting is awesome.

I worked from home fairly regularly pre-plague so already had furniture, 2k screens, etc provided, meaning zero cost to setup home office.

Coffee now costs me loads though. We used to do weekly Viking Direct orders in the office so I had on the companies flick 2 packs of Tassimo pods a week. Now I have to pay for them myself

We've bought 2 bikes and a car this year though so that's a fair chunk of what was saved that's been spent.

[Keithy]

If anyone is suddenly finding themselves working from home there is a tax allowance that should help towards your increased heating bills, now it has turned chilly

https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/working-at-home

[Polarbear]

[hellkat]

It saved me from selling my apartment in Auckland, which I was on the absolute verge of doing. So after a valuation I stopped wanting to do that, and am sitting tight instead.

Also, possibly I would have moved back to NZ/Australia by now.
Which might have seemed like a good idea a year ago, as I was horrendously nostalgic when I was last there.
But right now, although I miss my daughter like a deep wrenching hole in my heart ... I'd rather be here.

People may think that in comparison to Down Under, Britain may be a shit-hole, but its a shit-hole where nobody really pays much attention to you if you keep your head down and just crack on with your life.

In the southern hemisphere, I wouldn't have that luxury.
Had I moved back there, COVID would have cost me my liberty (such as it is )
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[blurredman]

Saved me from wasting money on holidays..

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[kawakid]

Like many other posters I'm probably better off, I've continued to work throughout (IT), wife works in a supermarket and a special school, so totally unaffected also.

Kids paper round unaffected and middle son works weekends at a supermarket.

But its just crxp for so many people, so many the jobs that young people would have, like working in a bar, in pizza hut, bowling alley, cinema have all gone.

It's totally awful, my son knows he is soo lucky and so many of his mates have no work now. (You know that age, when even if you are at school/college/uni it is sooooo important for your future life to have work experience and to be able to earn your own money).

I don't know the solution, but I were my sons ages I would be totally pxxxxd off. Not only that their education has been ruined.

Eldest son at uni, hmmm well sat in my bedroom on a laptop in Teams all day.

Middle son, week on week off college. (Same son who was invited to Cambridge for 2 weeks, well that's not going to happen now, he's grades have nosed dived).

Youngest son (13), doesn't really care.

So basically, we have loads on BCF saying they are all right, because they are working from home, not going out and have got tonnes of money (me included), whilst a massive section of society is royally fuxked.


On a positive note, has anyone tried getting trades recently. They are busy.
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I've a twin and a 4.

[Polarbear]

The closest this country ever came to a revolution was when the soldiers came back from the Napoleonic wars to contempt and starvation.

We won't be anything like that bad but if swathes of the young in our population cannot get the basic jobs they could a year ago I can see crime rising incredibly, especially among the poor.

The trouble is, what does any government do about the job situation when we still have covid and is the retail or hospitality industries ever going to get back to pre covid levels?

People have radically changes their habits in this last year.
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[wr6133]

[JackButler]

[Fisty]

Another bonus this week and my on call over Christmas is 3 x the rate it was last year.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

Saved a load on not doing the 75 mile weekly commute.

No real additional costs, House isn't heated during the day so it's just electric for lighting, laptop, tv, gaming rig and kettle.
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[iooi]

Daughter is now working from home.

She is now saving 95% of her income since March. Her only expense is her board to me.

No petrol, no lunch out, claiming tax relief for working from home.

Anyone working from home has to be £££ in due to the saving on travel costs, which are no where near the cost of heating your home.

One thing Covid has done is got rid of the companies that were trading on borrowed money & time.
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[JackButler]

I thank you all for your participation thus far, well almost all of ya'.

Now stop thinking about £monetary loss & try to imagine the various other types of loss.

How many of us will enjoy a broad selection of local restaurants to eat in when all this nonsense is done with?

How far will you have to walk to once again 'pop down t'pub' ?

Assuming they won't be joining our civil service, where are your kids gonna be working when skool kicks 'em out?
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[hellkat]

I currently live in such a shit area that :

1. the local restaurants extend to chippy, curryshop, kebaby, chicken shop.
2. The pub was at the end of my street but burnt down just prior to my arrival on the manor.
3. My daughter appears to be successfully cutting a swathe through the Sydney property market and disinclined (as yet) to either return to Blighty OR to provide grandchildren. I imagine when she does that they will be more likely to say "You Beaut!" than to understand how to maintain effective communication whilst engaging the use of the glottal stop. Probably any grandchildren will be surf instructors or sheep shaggers.
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[Easy-X]

I dunno if it helps but did I mention that I have two granddaughters now?

I've just seen the letter the eldest wrote...

To santa merry Chrismas
can I tell you
a seecrot for
chrismas I hope
My nonna is well
I tolld MuM
chrismas is not
abat presents it is
abat famely
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[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

I never stopped working, I wasn't one of the lucky ones who got furloughed. Company still on target to hit last years numbers which is impressive considering it's all day to stay with no real big jobs landed yet - though one is in the pipeline which has been on going for years.

I worked from home half the week during lockdown 1.0, and Mrs moved in during, which meant I saved on the £75/week fuel bill that reduced to probably half.

I think if I had been furloughed I would have been in a better place mentally, as I could have easily managed on the reduced wage, and a lot less stress to boot.
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[ThatDippyTwat]

We're better off, and both of us have been working throughout, zero chance of Furlough. We've also realised how much crap we bought before this. We also realised just how shitty our employers were, so the missus changed her job and I'm working on it.

I'd be even happier if I had 32 bikes...
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[Old Git Racing]