Cost of Living - How are you handling it?

jawa_ wrote:

Curls wrote:Are there battery packs available that you can charge that take normal plugs? Not just little USB batteries, but bigger proper ones so i could plug in say a monitor or a telly?

Uhm, I'm not sure, Curls. I wonder if the cost of using such a charger would be cheaper than using mains electric?

This site may help, Curls. It looks to be a fairly complicated process.

Curls wrote:Are there battery packs available that you can charge that take normal plugs? Not just little USB batteries, but bigger proper ones so i could plug in say a monitor or a telly?

Uninterruptible Power Supplies will do this, but the issue is 1. they only last for a few hours and 2. you still need to charge them through the mains.

ITSMILNER wrote:

Curls wrote:Are there battery packs available that you can charge that take normal plugs? Not just little USB batteries, but bigger proper ones so i could plug in say a monitor or a telly?

You can run an extension cord from your neighbours plug socket into your living room and plug the telly into that? Cost effective solution.

You laugh...but the idea I had was....i regularly go to coffee shops etc and charge phone......why not a battery pack

I'll definitely be doing it with the phone/Ipad USB battery pack!

EDIT: Only costa and nero etc. I wouldn't steal power from the little guy.

Stugene wrote:

Curls wrote:Are there battery packs available that you can charge that take normal plugs? Not just little USB batteries, but bigger proper ones so i could plug in say a monitor or a telly?

Uninterruptible Power Supplies will do this, but the issue is 1. they only last for a few hours and 2. you still need to charge them through the mains.

Thanks, sounds interesting. I'll do some research!

Curls wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:

Curls wrote:Are there battery packs available that you can charge that take normal plugs? Not just little USB batteries, but bigger proper ones so i could plug in say a monitor or a telly?

You can run an extension cord from your neighbours plug socket into your living room and plug the telly into that? Cost effective solution.

You laugh...but the idea I had was....i regularly go to coffee shops etc and charge phone......why not a battery pack

I'll definitely be doing it with the phone/Ipad USB battery pack!

EDIT: Only costa and nero etc. I wouldn't steal power from the little guy.

When I’m in the office, I’ve been taking some of my devices in and charging them whilst I’m working

I can neither confirm nor deny whether I have had this same thought in the past regarding power harvesting from an office/coffee shop

ITSMILNER wrote:

Curls wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:

Curls wrote:Are there battery packs available that you can charge that take normal plugs? Not just little USB batteries, but bigger proper ones so i could plug in say a monitor or a telly?

You can run an extension cord from your neighbours plug socket into your living room and plug the telly into that? Cost effective solution.

You laugh...but the idea I had was....i regularly go to coffee shops etc and charge phone......why not a battery pack

I'll definitely be doing it with the phone/Ipad USB battery pack!

EDIT: Only costa and nero etc. I wouldn't steal power from the little guy.

When I’m in the office, I’ve been taking some of my devices in and charging them whilst I’m working

Get yourself an uninterruptable power supply!

I was also thinking. WFH, in winter, going to a quiet coffee shop and buying a coffee and a cake and sitting there all day may be cheaper than heating your own home!

Stugene wrote:

Cuttooth wrote:

Buffalo wrote:Gordon Brown - incredibly - has been more credible opposition than Kier Starmer that last couple of days. Mick Lynch is the opposition, Ed Davey is the opposition. Starmer’s a watered down Tory who is hilariously unelectable.

twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1557627367421607941

Labour about to sink in the polls if they consider Gordon Brown too radical.

As I watched that video I was involuntarily making Quake pain noises

I know Labour are gooseberry fool, but they just keep digging. Saw something yesterday where they were attacking the Lib Dems tax proposals as unfair to business, taxing profits twice. Imagine positioning the Lib Dems as being too far left.

Curls wrote:

Stugene wrote:

Curls wrote:Are there battery packs available that you can charge that take normal plugs? Not just little USB batteries, but bigger proper ones so i could plug in say a monitor or a telly?

Uninterruptible Power Supplies will do this, but the issue is 1. they only last for a few hours and 2. you still need to charge them through the mains.

Thanks, sounds interesting. I'll do some research!

Just so you are aware, they are quite expensive.

Cuttooth wrote:

Buffalo wrote:Gordon Brown - incredibly - has been more credible opposition than Kier Starmer that last couple of days. Mick Lynch is the opposition, Ed Davey is the opposition. Starmer’s a watered down Tory who is hilariously unelectable.

twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1557627367421607941

Labour about to sink in the polls if they consider Gordon Brown too radical.

This really pisses me off with political plans for running an economy borrow the money (government can get it cheap - even cheaper when interest rates were 0% but we missed our decade long chance on that now), then buy gooseberry fool with that borrowed money and then we the taxpayer save over time and own a strawberry floating asset at the end of it. rinse and repeat with rail, power, libraries, nhs, schools etc

This guy just wants to give the money we would spend on the asset to someone else for a short term prop up and gaslight us in the process. Fiscally responsible indeed.

BID0 wrote:

Cuttooth wrote:

Buffalo wrote:Gordon Brown - incredibly - has been more credible opposition than Kier Starmer that last couple of days. Mick Lynch is the opposition, Ed Davey is the opposition. Starmer’s a watered down Tory who is hilariously unelectable.

twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1557627367421607941

Labour about to sink in the polls if they consider Gordon Brown too radical.

This really pisses me off with political plans for running an economy borrow the money (government can get it cheap - even cheaper when interest rates were 0% but we missed our decade long chance on that now), then buy gooseberry fool with that borrowed money and then we the taxpayer save over time and own a strawberry floating asset at the end of it. rinse and repeat with rail, power, libraries, nhs, schools etc

This guy just wants to give the money we would spend on the asset to someone else for a short term prop up and gaslight us in the process. Fiscally responsible indeed.

Doing that would reduce the financial burden on the poor and make them less reliant on the state - thus taking away a valuable propaganda angle for the hard-right libertarians in power. Selling off those assets and building the foundations of oligarchy are far more important right now.

England could have voted for Labour at any election since 2010 to prevent this, but here we are.

One day... one day we will be able to travel anywhere within the UK for free on the train

twitter.com/janemundon/status/1558023001760751617

strawberry floating hell, if takeaways see bills increase like that, then there will be none left by the end of the year. Or we'll be paying £50 for fish and chips.

The government is strawberry floating insane if they think this can continue without them using public funds to get a grip on things.

Moggy wrote:

twitter.com/janemundon/status/1558023001760751617

strawberry floating hell, if takeaways see bills increase like that, then there will be none left by the end of the year. Or we'll be paying £50 for fish and chips.

The government is strawberry floating insane if they think this can continue without them using public funds to get a grip on things.

I saw something earlier that to nationalise all the energy companies in the UK it would cost less than what they paid to bail out Bulb when they went bust. It's strawberry floating insane.

EDIT: I saw it in this thread the other day, literally just above my post.

Moggy wrote:

twitter.com/janemundon/status/1558023001760751617

strawberry floating hell, if takeaways see bills increase like that, then there will be none left by the end of the year. Or we'll be paying £50 for fish and chips.

The government is strawberry floating insane if they think this can continue without them using public funds to get a grip on things.

Can't bash business* by going after profits though.

*Chip shop is not a proper business, because they aren't tory donors.

Should be using oven chips.

Qikz wrote:

Moggy wrote:

twitter.com/janemundon/status/1558023001760751617

strawberry floating hell, if takeaways see bills increase like that, then there will be none left by the end of the year. Or we'll be paying £50 for fish and chips.

The government is strawberry floating insane if they think this can continue without them using public funds to get a grip on things.

I saw something earlier that to nationalise all the energy companies in the UK it would cost less than what they paid to bail out Bulb when they went bust. It's strawberry floating insane.

EDIT: I saw it in this thread the other day, literally just above my post.

I think the Bulb thing is misleading, that's the cost to buy the suppliers, but it's the producers that are setting the high price.

Qikz wrote:

Moggy wrote:

twitter.com/janemundon/status/1558023001760751617

strawberry floating hell, if takeaways see bills increase like that, then there will be none left by the end of the year. Or we'll be paying £50 for fish and chips.

The government is strawberry floating insane if they think this can continue without them using public funds to get a grip on things.

I saw something earlier that to nationalise all the energy companies in the UK it would cost less than what they paid to bail out Bulb when they went bust. It's strawberry floating insane.

EDIT: I saw it in this thread the other day, literally just above my post.

All of them? 4 are in foreign hands at the moment. Can't imagine that would be an easy deal to thrash out.

BID0 wrote:

Cuttooth wrote:

Buffalo wrote:Gordon Brown - incredibly - has been more credible opposition than Kier Starmer that last couple of days. Mick Lynch is the opposition, Ed Davey is the opposition. Starmer’s a watered down Tory who is hilariously unelectable.

twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1557627367421607941

Labour about to sink in the polls if they consider Gordon Brown too radical.

This really pisses me off with political plans for running an economy borrow the money (government can get it cheap - even cheaper when interest rates were 0% but we missed our decade long chance on that now), then buy gooseberry fool with that borrowed money and then we the taxpayer save over time and own a strawberry floating asset at the end of it. rinse and repeat with rail, power, libraries, nhs, schools etc

This guy just wants to give the money we would spend on the asset to someone else for a short term prop up and gaslight us in the process. Fiscally responsible indeed.

Sunak pledges £10bn to help vulnerable with soaring energy bills
Rishi Sunak has said he would find up to £10bn to help people facing rising energy bills, as a minister backing his Conservative leadership rival indicated that direct support for the hard-pressed would be announced “in a considered way”.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/s ... r-AA10Adzu