Cost of living crisis: pawning possessions to pay the bills
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- Many low income families hit hardest by the cost of living crisis are finding it hard to cope with the rising price of basic goods like energy and food.
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We take a look at how families in Sheffield are dealing with the crisis.
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Imagine if the queen told everyone instead of billions spent on my funeral give it to the poorest in Britain. What a legacy that would have been.
Assuming the funeral costs £500m which is an arbitrary figure but one which I think is an over-estimate. If she gave everyone in the country some money instead that is about £7 each. Not exactly going to change much.
@@hitchjack Give to the poorest, open a hospital in her name, donate to food banks etc. There's many chartiable acts possible which would make a significant difference to the most in need today.
You add nothing of substance to what I've said, instead revert to ad homenine attacks. How it works is that the rich keep getting richer at the cost of everyone else. Fools like you think one day you will be a billionaire, when you're far more likely to become homeless in your lifetime
THOSE BILLIONS would NEVER have shown up. The ROYALS bring in BILLIONS ever year. Their cost to taxpayers is insignificant.
DID YOU KNOW THE ROYALS ARE SUPPORTED BY THEM GETTING ABOUT 15% OF THE REVENUE OF ROYAL PROPERTIES OPEN
FOR TOURS? *Why don't they get 100% of the revenue for properties THEY OWN?*
That NOT PAYING INHERITANCE TAX was paid for up front? If King Charles died tomorrow and King William
died next year if they had to pay inheritance taxes on the dead Queen and 2 Kings do you want CHINESE or RUSSIANS buying Buckingham Palace
and the Royal Jewels? *OWNING PROPERTY you can't SELL isn't much use except for HOLDING HISTORIC property and items for HISTORY
and the people.*
EVERY HOTEL and restaurant for hundreds of miles were BOOKED with tourists with deep pockets wanting to see the funeral and show their
love for the Queen.
It is like IDIOTS who say stop an Olympics that was going to cost a billion and spend the money on the poor.
*There never was a billion to give away.* The city was BORROWING based on TV revenue and those coming were bringing that money.
For the initial INVESTMENT the city ended up with world class sporting arenas, facilities and the HOUSING for the athletes is made into subsidized housing.
Hotels and businesses MAKE A FORTUNE and paid taxes as well as employees.
By canceling the Olympics THEY GOT NOTHING. Don't worry LIBERAL ACTIVISTS feel good for stopping something they disagree with.
Always looking for IMAGINARY MONEY rather than reach into your own pockets or stop bringing in immigrants driving down wages and driving
up housing prices. How many council houses ARE SOLD so they can never be rented again? IDIOTS.
HOW MUCH OF THE COSTS IN THE UK ARE CAUSED BY THE IMAGINARY FIGHT AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING? Are those in Europe FEELING WARM YET?
Burning coal would keep costs LOWER. Can't fight CONSENSUS that isn't even part of the SCIENTIFIC METHOD.
"Some estimates put the total cost - the funeral, along with King Charles’ upcoming coronation, a concomitant bank holiday, and the expense of having to switch out the currency to a new sovereign‘s emblazoned image - at more than $6 billion." -- LA Times
All paid by the state, aka taxpayers.
"pawning possessions to pay the bills" but "God save the Queen/King" , when instead should be God save the common people.
Jealousy never helped anyone.
@@lee9650 Where did You get jealousy from? This video talks about people trying to get the BASICS. When You are trying to get the basics needed in life, that's not greed, or jealousy. It's trying to stay alive.
@@Eusantdac when you begrudge someone of their fortune thats jealousy. Their is a difference between wanting your own fortune and wanting someone else's, the latter being jealousy.
@@Eusantdac it's a tv add.do you actually think the tv crew sat in that shop all day waiting on someone walking in ?
@@lee9650 Learn to read. I said it should be God save the common people and not the Queen/King. It's common people who need help. I did not "begrudge" anyone You fool lol It's directing help where is needed.
It's like the British are determined to make the whole country into a remake of Oliver twist
It’s one remake that ain’t been made 🤷🏽♂️
We're not doing it. It's the economy.
@Stay green, Stay in the woods, Stay safe. we'll obviously your a genius well done
@@capri2673 good lord. how terribly embarrassing for you !
@Stay green, Stay in the woods, Stay safe. are you a hit man or something? Lol
Thanks to Liz Truss our energy bills are now "capped" at £2,500.
That's a 100% increase on 12 months ago.
What other industry could inflate it's prices by 100% a year and have people convinced they were getting some kind of bargain.
ABSOLUTELY F####G " SPOT ON MATE"
Exactly this!
capping of price will probably only lead to reduction of services/quality, which is a backdoor way of increasing prices, like a packet of biscuits which used to contain 12 biscuits now contains 11 ...
Where is all that promised global warming???
It's 99.9% right into the pockets of the rich and zero to the people.
Wow channel 4 news doing a segment that isn’t about the Queen’s funeral! Well done!
Pawn brokers are leeches, don't sell them your treasured possessions
Some people have no choice, it's their only option so they can live and pay their bills.
Absolutely agree with you,they always give you the lowest price because they are immoral cunts
Easy to say when you're not in a tough situation.
@@Morning404 if we did not sympathise we would not say what we say, and you have no right to assume otherwise or to assume we are not or will not be in that tough situation,yes sometimes you have to dance with the devil ,but don't have a go at the 😇 angels ,I suggest sell on gum tree, ebay etc..or a online newspaper column,and use the pawnbroker as a last resort.
@@Morning404 I've been there, I know what it's like to be in poverty but I never resorted to pawn brokers
Yet we just spent billions on a jubilee and now for a funeral
Then there will be the Coronation. It's never ending, that's why there's never anything left over for those that pay for royal extravaganza - the hardworking taxpayer who have more taxes than any other country. No other country has Council Tax.
At least you are awake to this bullshit
and billions free for the banks in 2008, and billions free for the corporations in tax cuts, billions free for COVID contracts that were obviously dodgy lies and now don't need paying back, billions for austerity cuts even though thats ruined the economy and now we can't grow it... that's the point of Tory colonialism. They steal it, then blame it on everyone else.
And the royals don’t pay taxes
Tax the poor to pay the monarchy. Yet yall still worship and mourn that diabolical family.... shame.
Times are hard for many, but certain, they will get a lot harder.
It was a bad idea to steal Russian lands after the Soviet Union collapse😉
@@og4140 you are reasonable man. U r right. Fat bosses in government wont have such ring credits
@@Craig121000 People forgot about God
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@@Craig121000arrogant piece of dog.. How do you know you are more educated than me?
Having to pawn a family heirloom is sad, but I hardly think pawnbrokers should be considered in the same league as ‘payday loan’ establishments. Their interest rates are so outrageous I have a hard time believing they are legal. And their repayment terms are structured to practically guarantee that anyone taking out a single loan with them will almost certainly stay indebted to them.
Put money aside when your doing good.
Always guaranteed to get ripped off by pawn brokers
This reminds me of the docu-series that Channel 4 did from 2013-15 called 'Skint'
Pays the bills for today, but what about next time?
It's called living day-to-day. Take care of the worries for today, and let tomorrow worry about itself.
Pawn brokers, charity shops. That’s Great Britain 2022.
I'd like to appeal the great part... seems like you're just Britain right now... lost your place in world economic rankings to a developing nation earlier this year...
Pawn brokers, charity shops, food banks, warm banks.. welcome to Tory Britain 🇬🇧
@@khoyrulislam Yep. All we can do now is vote Labour, for the labour workers' sakes.
Halal takeaways, barbers, charity shops🐙
Can we focus on this not the Queen. Yes it's sad, but we have had our time to mourn. The living matter more than the dead.
@@headhunter7616
We are in tge middle of a crisis where people will very likely freeze this winter, I'm sorry I have other priorities.
@@SCP--ck5ip I'd rather freeze to death mourning for the Queen than live not having had time to mourn
@@khoyrulislam
Feel free to, but don't make others do the same. I respect the queen's passing too but we have bigger issues.
We’re not all mourning. Some of us have to get on with life and worry about our own families. I’d mourn more if my dog died than a 96 year old rich woman I never met!
@@headhunter7616 There will be many joining her if there isn't some light at the end of the tunnel soon
6% per MONTH! So 72% per year! That's a good business...
When I was a kid my mum did put her possessions to pawnshop and got a lot interest, now I never ever do that in my life , it was scary me when I was a child to see my mum was so struggled
Never lend your items to a pawnshop on a buyback scheme. You're basically being charged twice for the item you pawned
What??????
Pawn shops don't pay interest.
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Apple’s UK retail arm paid less than £800,000 tax last year after payouts made to employees via a stock option scheme reduced its tax bill, according to a report in The Times. The tech firm’s UK retail division Apple Retail UK reported pre-tax profits of £38.2 million on sales of £971.5 million in the 12-month period to 25 September 2021. This marked a 29% increase on the previous year.
with 6,500 employees in the UK, Apple would have paid around 20 million national insurance contribution and another £5 million in employer pension contributions. Plus all the stock options to keep its employees solvent. So what's the problem?
@@kevinsyd2012 Well said, People winge without knowing anything about business / economics
I had a girlfriend when I was 15 get me hooked on pawn shops do not do it put it online and wait because they will rip you off clean and laugh at you all the way out the door, now if you're buying that's another story
Yup, I bought a near mint PS4 back in the days for £150 from a pawn shop
I can't buy from pawnshops because I well imagine the absolute misery of people who pawn their prized possessions/family heirlooms out of desperation.
Alisons husband worked in finance and has just been made redundant and they are already in financial trouble. No wonder he was made redundant.
Hahahaha love it
He just lost his job and they are already so broke she needs to pawn her engagement ring. Did they never think about saving
This is utterly shameful.
He is bang on was just low paid before but tough if you dont have the goods. Xx
Pawn brokers feed off the needy and will ways give you theorist price they can,because they are greedy.
Then why go there then.
That's the last option for people because the banks are worse off
@@kimjongun269 so a dogfish,is better than a shark,why not be a coy carp and give people a better deal,and save your sole.
As opposed to energy companies and the govt who care so much for the vulnerable... you're a right Muppet mate
Pawn Brokers and Scalpers are scum.
@@maigepresents5840 listen here gonzo you might think it's right to exploit the needy,but I don't ,2 wrongs dont make s right ,you moral ignoramus,why don't you go and live in India, there's plenty exploiters ike you ,who don't give a damn about christisan brotherhood or morality,you would feel at home there,starving the poorest.
A service that has also been more lucrative.
There are other options and online selling apps other jewellery shops lookaround around. Never take the first option. I was offered £100 to sell a watch at a jewellers I looked around and eventually got £650.
What exactly did the Queen accomplished in 70 years? I still see poverty in the UK. I don’t think she was great.
Cause they use those money to feed in for those who have four wives and claiming welfare for their children while the British is still sleeping if you do your research you will see...taking in intolerance and suck the Brit money dry in the future ....
agree, probably a record for travelling the world and shake hands
For warm banks, read 1930's depression soup kitchens. God sakes, in 2022? How did we get to this new norm? Well we know, don't we? Yes, greed in certain places. Cheap ambitions of some.
Illegal, antiscientific c19 restrictions + central banks that exponentially increased the money supply.
"Transistory inflation" my a.s
Pawning things works untill you run out of them
I see complaints about Truss capping energy bills at 2500 pounds a year. If I did the math correctly, that's the equivalent of $252 per month. I have paid far more than that for the last 20 years, and that is at keeping the heat in winter down in the low 60s. Or is it $252 EXTRA a month on top of what was already being paid? I can see how for poor people, that's a lot of extra to pull out of thin air. But for the middle class and above, isn't that just not eating out in restaurants and cooking at home instead?
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.” - Wilkins Micawber
People can't afford to eat or heat their homes but they can afford to buy flowers and travel to London for the queen
Maybe it's not the same people.
true and they can afford cockapoos
Flowers for the dead are ridiculous as are funerals. At her request, we cremated mom, scattered ashes and had a home cooked supper. It was meaningful and not money wasteful.
Isn’t that usually the case? I’m not saying all but many people who are struggling are struggling at the result of bad money management. You’d be surprised to see who falls under that category. I have a highly educated friend who is the same. Makes more money than the rest of us but spends, spends, spends on luxuries and living the high life and is ALWAYS complaining about struggling financially. Like the answer is as clear as day. Spend less in other areas and shocker you will have some money.
Mi Mam said "I'd rather starve than pawn something in!"
So sad UK needs a break take care of your own 1st ty Jeanette NYC USA
90 pound a month interest?? better sell that ring and save for a new one with the money u save from interest
Pawn broker what about the other chess pieces
They've already been broked.
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It's sad to have to pawn your engagement ring - one wonders, isn't there other jewelry that could have gone first. But she's very brave and practical, realizing that it's up to her to see the family through. When I took extended maternity leave 10 yrs ago with my twins, a large portion of the time was unpaid leave and I sold all my old gold jewelry to cover the mortgage payments. To a jeweler though, not a paw broker. I kind of wish I hadn't sold it so I'd have it to sell now, but it served it's purpose and it was worth untold millions to have all that time with my babies. But that was my choice, it wasn't forced on me by circumstances. I chose to take all that extra time off from work.
When 6% interest is less than Inflation the world has gone wrong .
Pawnbrokers are the worst
Robbing from the poor to give to the rich its disgusting 👌
So cheap living costs
Pawn brokers are nothing more than merchants of misery.
Will always give you the lowest price they can
At least they give you something back... the govt on the other hand is a one way street
@@maigepresents5840 so a small devil is better than a big Satan,why don't they give you back a fair price rather than the very lowest, they would still make a profit,why do you have to compare their standards,to a lower standard i.e. the govornment,why not compare pawn brokers standards to a higher moral standard,why lower ,because your bad also and greedy like them,that's why.
Pawnshops are Scumbags
Sure people are pawning stuff to the brokers, but are the brokers able to sell enough to keep their business going?
That’s why they don’t accept everything. They aren’t stupid.
No one is teaching anyone to invest in stocks and shares in a market where their is around $100 trillion floating. Also noticed thousands of gentrified apartments going up, I have always wondered where will they get the electric to power all these homes. Are price rises part of trying to make the working and poor classes reduce their consumption in order for the gentrified to be powered up too?
Mate, the people that use less energy are subsidising the energy wasters already. It's the daily charge, they keep increasing it, while the distribution, maintenance and staff wages haven't increased. Only production and prices in the international market. That would be a £/kwh increase only.
Current price caps (it's increasing at 1/10)
Imagine person A uses 1kwh daily.
Imagine person B uses 5kwh daily.
Imagine person C uses 20kwh daily.
1kwh=30p
Daily charge=50p (or around £15 per month, it used to be around £7.50, before this last increase)
Monthly:
A: £9+£15=£24
£24/30kwh=80p/kwh
B: £45+£15=£60
£60/150kwh=40p/kwh
C: £180+£15=£195
£195/600kwh=32.5p/kwh
Instead of promoting rationing when there's an energy crisis, they're subsidising those that use more energy.
Further more, if C would pay what B pays in the end per kwh, that's 600kwh x 40p = £240, not £195.
Barely no one mentions this, they just freaking mention what an average family (just wtf is that?) pays yearly.
It might be worthy to calculate prices with the old £0.27 daily cap.
You might say the daily charge is a pittance anyway, but this raises undue billions to these companies, and people that might struggle can't save that much money by using less energy because of it. And it's the principle, just why are they raising the daily charge? It's a hidden undue tax. Why not use that excess to pay the energy of poor people, instead of giving it to investors? They're burdening the common people, not giving back to those in need, and act all charitable when they do decide to help, it wasn't their money to begin with.
@@globalist1990 100% agree, all I see are charges going up for what I have not been using. The Gov't has not addressed the chargers/tax that is increasing with energy companies either. They are all the same people anyway.
Well sorry to say many will sell but many won't be able to buy soon and he'll be stuck with allot of stuff because no one will be able to buy anything. Only so far you can buy and resell.
Cash converters are probably having a great time right now
If the small working people have no money big companies will struggle
Nothing you have will last forever. It has to move on to others.
You know you are not in high finance when considering secondhand underpants.
Give the people their Due!!!++++
STOP COMPLYING.
So Lockdown had no effect on cost of living?
This presupposes bad "habits" and "efforts" are the cause of poverty. Have you thought about running for prime minister?
Anybody wants a kidney 😳
It’s a bit misleading what’s said so that should of been corrected before they carried on. It’s not the royal families money it’s government money that they get. Look at Prime Minister spending stupid amounts of our money redecorating instead of using there own. Paying for there travel and food allowance day kn day out when majority are millionaires. That’s day in day out for years. This is a funeral which is a bit different. People shouldn’t be fighting the monarchy they should be fighting the Prime Minister is all those people that have put down people on benefits and tried to shame them and voted for leaders that effectively want to eradicate the benefit system now that more will actually need it to top up their own money soon they won’t have that opportunity
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America is dropping in inflation lol.
I'd sell my children into state owned hor-houses, I I knew it would help
Welcome back to them 19th century
Robin Hood should target Pawn brokers.
On unrelated note about pawning and Royal funeral - out of some 23000 royal jewels, more than 18000 were looted from India.
Yawn
Just another poor tax.
Still enjoying that expensive car that you repay every month but will never own?? ohhh.. good ;)
Hello faith how are you doing?
Not all poor people have the luxury of owning cars.
And you still care how pretty Kate' s dresses are...
I'm a scumbag it's in my family.
this can all be ended. but the EU / WEF and green agenda. dont want it to
Maybe channel 4 should pay them for speaking to them instead of getting free content from the poor.
Clearly thinking isn't your thing. Equating a news station to an expensive funeral (and presumably coronation next year) is not the same. C4 didn't bring up the cost of the funeral, the suffering lady did. Her taxes are going towards it so yes, she gets a say.
@@RankinMsPCalm down Pat. Did I mention a funeral? I just said that C4 should be paying the people it interviews.
you want to see the cost of living in crisis travel africa.
'A working man is worthy of his pay' Jesus Christ said 2 thousand years ago. In other😡 words don't rob people of their proper wages.
Soon it'll be gold teeth.. 🤔
Or a kidneu
or even false teeth think they were expensive years ago
Making a profit from others misery.
Judging by BBC and Sky news, I thought this was over now the Queen is dead
But British govt. has money to send weapons to Ukraine.
Here you go, for all the famines that you have arranged in India, for the millions of lives that have been destroyed, poisoned by opium
Pawning your stuffs just for electricity bill is just something new and even more disgusting.
It's not new. Trust me.
No to vaccine passports, mandates or lockdowns
Wrong video
to mandate port locks or no vaccine down
£3001!!! The man is rich!!
Plan your life better
Lol you sweet summer child. You'll learn
@@dudette2x my last journal article was published in the journal of clinical oncology. I'm half your age.
You failed in life...not me.
@@seamusmcfitz913 You don't have a CLUE what t heir life is. You read a half sentence from them on UA-cam and jumped to instant conclusions and filled gaps because they criticised a frankly callous comment you made. You're half their age you say? How do you know how old Seamus even is??? Life experience teaches you a LOT. I should know. I'm 39. I bet you're not much older than 20.
@@SevenEllencool story.
keep making excuses for your/their lack of sucess while other people eat your/their lunch.
Everyone deserves who/what they get.
You sound like a liberal arts graduate.
In that case: I'll take a tall Americano 2xcreme and 2xsugars thanks, hun.
Off to go save cancer patient's lives....you?
Booo who don’t blame the queens death for being poor…
Return the looted treasure to thier countries.
Sure, as soon as the Scandinavians give us back all the looted gold they stole from our own monasteries.
Return 1 million indians living in the U.K 🤣
Get another job
Love to see white people struggle. Guess it's not only an Africa thing, eh?
This is offensive. The Nation is in mourning. Even if we go hungry and cold , we have to pay our respects. Edit: Don’t we ?
You are probably a rich muppet. The welfare of the living populace is more important than a dead lizard.
Loool right on!
How is talking about people starving more important than some old lady's death? She's been queen for 70 years and has been amazing at it for the U.K., I don't deny that, but there are more serious things at hand than some fancy funeral and (upcoming) coronation ceremony, this cost of living crisis will ruin us all..
Fuel poverty, food banks and a cost-of-living crisis for millions of struggling people is pretty offensive, don't you think?
@@stephenwalker2924 Exactly !!