That's two quid a month saved

Excellent news today - Giles Coren's weekly restaurant review, which I buy for £1.50 every Saturday from my local newsagent (inexplicably padded though it is with literally hundreds of other pages that, annoyingly, I have to carry home before I can ignore and recycle them) is now available for a mere £1 a week. That's a definite £2 a month that the credit crunch is saving me. I've yet to so clearly identify any other positive benefits of this recession but since it has yet to inconvenience me either I'm currently counting the recession as a net win.  

Comments

[Ian Douglas]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/eating_out/giles_coren/

It's a fantastic thing, the internet. That's another £4 a month.

[Seamus McCauley]

Ian - when I can follow that link in the bath on a Saturday morning, with my breakfast bagel and my tea, I'll be another £4 a month better off. Until then...

[Russell]

http://www.vartechsystems.com/products/All-Weather-Displays/VT104XA.asp

[Ian Douglas]

You eat bagels in the bath? Don't they get soggy?

But yes, I know. Paper's good for lighting fires too.

[Ian Douglas]

Unless you've been reading it in the bath that is. Then it becomes difficult to light.

[botogol]

Large, exotic fruit juice mixes in Canary Wharf - down from £3.75 to £2.50.

thirsty investment bankers find themselves £6.25 a week better off.

[Seamus McCauley]

Ian - I don't dunk my bagels in the bathwater. That would just be weird.

Botogol - strange how pointlessly binary responses to recession always are. Some people get laid off (so have no money at all), retailers drop prices (so the newly unemployed still can't afford to buy from them but everything's a little bit cheaper for the rest of us). Odd.