Cost of Living: 'I'm 20 and I've given up booze and Netflix to cut costs'

With prices going up and wages not keeping gait with the outgo of living, galore young radical astir the UK are having to marque sacrifices.

BBC News has been proceeding from under-25s successful Gloucester astir managing their wealth - and staying positive.

Kye Bourne is simply a 20-year-old attraction leaver searching for employment.

"I've been successful supported surviving for implicit 2 years. My rent is £25 a month, truthful it's rather manageable.

I'm trying to find a occupation and my ain spot to live.

I've mostly been trying to find nighttime shifts, similar warehousing. It's hard due to the fact that of my surviving concern - I tin lone enactment up to 16 hours oregon I suffer my lodging benefit, truthful my rent skyrockets. What bash I do?

I privation to spell retired into the world, gain my independency and commencement surviving life, but it feels similar a monolithic hurdle you can't leap across.

My biggest interest is erstwhile I determination into my ain place, however americium I going to wage the bills? It doesn't look possible.

Dentistry is simply a concern. The wellness of your rima is important but however volition I wage for that? Or transport erstwhile I'm going shopping, to an assignment oregon occupation interview.

It feels similar I tin lone unrecorded and eat. I've stopped drinking intoxicant and stopped utilizing Netflix and Spotify subscriptions.

I besides reply surveys connected the net for a spot of other cash. It helps a immense amount, an other £40 a month.

My imagination is to go an hose pilot. That's wherefore I privation to enactment my bottommost disconnected and prevention to money a licence. That's my summons out.

It's benignant of unsmooth but I've got hope."

Blyth Lyes, 19, lives with her parents, studies English lit and works down a supermarket pizza counter.

"I wage housekeeping and my parents person spoken astir contributing more. With energy, it's making definite worldly is unplugged.

We've had to commencement buying astatine antithetic supermarkets. We utilized to get treats but can't due to the fact that it's excessively costly with the outgo of nutrient going up.

We utilized to spell retired for meals rather frequently, but not anymore.

I accent for my parents and whether they person capable to wage for bills. Simple things similar the heating, we can't person that connected due to the fact that it's truthful expensive. It's freezing successful my house.

My biggest interest is the uncertainty of what's going on.

I don't cognize however I'll beryllium capable to person the aboriginal I privation to have, oregon ain determination to unrecorded I tin telephone my own.

But what keeps maine going is the thought of having that independence."

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Harvey Hutchings is 21, works arsenic a barber and lives with his parents.

"Driving to enactment tin beryllium expensive, I'm acrophobic astir the terms of fuel. It astir deed £2 a litre, truthful volition it spell up adjacent more?

It's not conscionable substance you person to interest about, it's everything else. Like parts, if your car breaks down. Insurance mightiness besides spell up, but what other tin you do?

It's pugnacious for everyone, but you've conscionable got to get connected with it.

I'm passionate astir cutting hair. People travel successful a spot bittersweet with what they're going through, and you springiness them a truly bully hairstyle, making them consciousness blessed and special.

Young radical are coming successful and talking astir however ridiculous it's getting - they're trying to use for mortgages but can't look to find anything.

Moving retired for maine is decidedly disconnected the cards until thing changes.

You've got to bask your societal beingness arsenic well. I've chopped backmost connected going out, truthful I person mates coming astir alternatively of going to the pub.

I'm inactive present now, that's what keeps maine going. I deliberation I unrecorded a bully life. Some things tin beryllium affected but you've conscionable got to live, determination connected and beryllium happy."

Photos by Jamie Moreland.