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Young Life and Times Survey, 2023

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Label18. What are some of the things there is not enough money for?
Responses
- -luxuries 1
-holidays - -furniture - -treats - -fridge - 1
A brand new car etc 1
A good car, - Public transport (previously daily) 1
A helicopter - A yacht - Castle - A big freddo 1
A holiday abroad, new games console, less family trips 1
A holiday this year ( we are saving for a wedding) 1
A holiday, a new family car, 1
A house , car 1
A new bed - 1
A new boiler 1
A new car 1
A new phone 1
A nice holiday 1
Abroad holiday 1
Accessories 1
Anything new 1
Anything unnecessary like holidays or gifts - 1
Anything unnecessary. Most of the income we get now has to go toward the necessities and it is always almost gone each week or two before we can even think about anything we may want 1
At the minute with the cost-of-living crisis and inflation, holidays abroad, the latest gadgets and phones. 1
Because my mother is a single parent 1
Big expensive holidays, really expensive cars 1
Big holidays 2
Big holidays abroad 1
Big holidays, expensive clothes and trainers 1
Bigger Holidays 1
Bills 1
Birthdays and presents 1
Buying groceries all the time - 1
Can't really think of anything major tbh 1
Cars 1
Changing cars and going on a lot of holidays. 1
Clothes - Treats - Food - After school clubs - Hobbies 1
Clothes , big food shops, having days out as it all goes on the - Mortgage 1
Clothes and holidays etc. 1
Clothes food 1
Clothes shoes & Toiletries 1
Clothes, electronic goods 1
Clothes, fuel and house bills such as electricity and heating 1
Clothes, money for nights out, 1
Clothes, repairs for appliances (oven, fridge etc) 1
Clothing excluding underwear/socks, new electronics, subscription services, more expensive food items, music lessons 1
Days out 2
Days out are normally cheap and rare, there\s not always money for my allowance I get £7-£10 a week, depending if I'm at school that week or not we need to go to Dublin for three days in june, and we've had to cut down on some things to save up for it. 1
Days out with family, some treats for family 1
Designer clothes - Designer shoes 1
Diesel 1
Diesel, sports equipment, school dinners, clothes, makeup 1
Don't go away on holiday as often and not eating out at restaurants as much as we used to. We don't receive as many presents for special occasions. 1
Don't know 1
Dunno we just dont go on holidays 1
Eating at restaurants and some abroad holidays 1
Eating out - 1
Eating out / clothes 1
Eating out and holidays 1
Eating out/ holidays/ expensive clothes - 1
Electric 1
Electric home heating 1
Electricity 1
Electricity, hobbies, personal everyday items from shops etc 1
Electronic Devices 1
Electronics eating out 1
Essential foods, new clothes or replacements - Not enough money for heating or gas 1
Excess amounts of clothes, expensive technology 1
Expensive birthdays somtimes 1
Expensive clothes, many technological items eg TV or computer 1
Expensive clothing and accessories 1
Expensive electronics 1
Expensive family holidays 1
Expensive gadgets and long holidays to name a few 1
Expensive gifts and expensive clothes 1
Expensive gifts/holidays 1
Expensive items 1
Expensive luxuries 1
Expensive products 1
Expensive school trips, getting the dishwasher fixed, sometimes diesel for the car 1
Expensive stuff 1
Expensive trips and holidays 1
Extra things that aren't necessary for living 1
Extras e.g going out for dinner 1
Extravagant holidays 1
FOREIGN HOLIDAYS 1
Family hoiday 1
Family holiday 1
Family holidays abroad 1
Family holidays extra food extra heating 1
Fancy car 1
Fancy holidays 1
Food 1
Food , electric and gas , new clothes 1
Food, Transport, school dinners 1
Food, clothes. 1
Food, transport, gas and electricity 1
For a holiday 1
For build one hour in Romania 1
Foreign holiday 1
Foreign holidays 2
Foreign holidays - new car 1
Game consoles, new cars etc 1
Games 1
Games consoles new clothes etc 1
Games for PlayStation or gaming vouchers 1
Gas and electric 1
Gifts, Family activities 1
Gifts, petrol, holidays 1
Gifts, repairing of house electrics 1
Going abroad 1
Going in Holidays is a struggle getting flights and everything paid for - Going out for food as a family or shopping 1
Going on holidays - Going out for meals - Disability aids - 1
Going on holidays and when Christmas comes up I barely see my parents due to them working 1
Going on holidays, going to theme parks 1
Going on trips, holidays, to the cinema, going out for meals etc 1
Going out AS a family 1
Going out places with friends and going out to eat 1
Going out to eat or holidays and things like that 1
Going out together as a family and some times the bills 1
Going out with friends - Formal - 1
Going out with mates for takeaways. As many clothes. As many Showers at home, heating at home. 1
Going to another country for a holiday has started to seem unattainable, even without hotel costs. Going to places nearby like Donegal can't even happen. Sometimes it is hard to get food other than the basics, and we can go a week on around a fiver. 1
Going to the Bahamas 1
Going to the resturants and entertainment places reguraly! 1
Golf simulator 1
HOLIDAYS 1
Hanging out with my friends and holidays 1
Heat sometimes food 1
Heating , electricity, take aways , holidays 1
Heating along with clothes and sweets/presents 1
Heating, treats 1
Hoildays 1
Holiday 10
Holiday - Technological devices - Window fixing 1
Holiday /Leisure ,Videogames. 1
Holiday abroad, new technology, lots of days out (cinema, restaurants), expensive clothes, luxuries such as expensive presents or extra money 1
Holiday every year 1
Holiday or meals out 1
Holidays 64
Holidays - 2
Holidays - Days out - Activities 1
Holidays - New clothes 1
Holidays - Restaurants 1
Holidays - all non-necessities 1
Holidays and family days out 1
Holidays - 1
Holidays - Days away - 1
Holidays - Electric - Clothes - Diesel - 1
Holidays - Going out to dinners - Driving many places 1
Holidays - Out for dinner 1
Holidays abroad 5
Holidays abroad - A car - Electric - Heating oil 1
Holidays abroad - Expensive gifts 1
Holidays abroad every year, top of the range cars, clothes etc 1
Holidays abroad we usually take. 1
Holidays abroad, eating out at restaurants and costly activities/day trips eg. Mini golf 1
Holidays abroad, overly expensive gadgets etc. 1
Holidays and eating out 1
Holidays and eating out together as a family 1
Holidays and extravagant treats 1
Holidays and going out for dinner 1
Holidays and more 1
Holidays and other unnecessary luxuries 1
Holidays and regular days out 1
Holidays and some household appliances 1
Holidays and that sort of stuff that we don't necessarily need to have 1
Holidays and treats 3
Holidays and trips 1
Holidays and trips - 1
Holidays away from home. Family outings 1
Holidays branded clothes 1
Holidays eg Spain, France 1
Holidays etc 1
Holidays every year 1
Holidays need to save for that 1
Holidays or big presents 1
Holidays or days out 1
Holidays or family trips 1
Holidays or new expensive games consoles/computers etc. 1
Holidays or random dinners out 1
Holidays or trips 1
Holidays to different countries 1
Holidays to foreign countries. 1
Holidays to other countries. 1
Holidays, 1
Holidays, Daytrips, Going out for meals & gatherings, certain shopping products, house renovations. 1
Holidays, PlayStation games, eating out, school trips 1
Holidays, Trips away, Eating out in restaurants 1
Holidays, a car 1
Holidays, and getting spoilt. Just money to make sure we are content 1
Holidays, day outings, shopping, day trips 1
Holidays, day trips, snacks 1
Holidays, days out, new carpet and things in the house 1
Holidays, eating out, home repair, new electronics 1
Holidays, eating out, unnecessary journeys and days out. 1
Holidays, expensive games or devices etc 1
Holidays, expensive items, etc 1
Holidays, filling up the car 1
Holidays, furniture, home property damages 1
Holidays, going out for dinners, new phones 1
Holidays, going out for meals, 1
Holidays, going out, diesel/petrol, proper meals and after school activities that cost money. 1
Holidays, my own room, decorating the house. 1
Holidays, new and clothes regularly, days out as a family, fuel 1
Holidays, not essential in our lives but everyone likes a holiday. 1
Holidays, presents 1
Holidays, school trips 1
Holidays, shopping every week, always going out at the weekend 1
Holidays, special treats at home 1
Holidays, treats such as sweet snacks, getting new items of clothing often, 1
Holidays, trips 1
Holidays, trips, technology products that are new, restaurants, 1
Holidays,Advanced education, Cars and other small miscellaneous expenditures like sweets. 1
Holidays. Expensive things 1
Holidays/trips 1
Holidays/trips - High end technology - Eating out 1
Houses 1
Hurling Sticks 1
I don't Know. 1
I don't know 6
I think my family could use a vacation since they never had one, also I wish I could attend sports and fun days, but always money comes first :) 1
Like a new tablet for my little sister or for the car to get fixed when it's broken. - 1
Like house renovations, not that house needs it. There is just no real money in the budget for big things that we don't need 1
Like luxury things 1
Luxuries 3
Luxury Holidays etc 1
Luxury items 1
Makeup or jewellery that might be around a tenner, if you want it you buy it with your own money kind of attitude. But it wasn't always like that sometimes you would get the odd 5 pounds or ten pounds here or there as a treat. 1
Maybe if i was to make plans to go out with friends doing activities 1
Maybe some things we used to get before inflation 1
Meals out and special activities 1
Meals out etc 1
Millennium falcon lego set 1
More than 1 holiday 1
Mortgage, but we're managing from what I hear 1
My dad has money but my mum wouldn't have that much, we wouldn't go on exotic holidays. Last time we flew was 2015 maybe but going to France this year. Used to budget a lot more than now so its a small bit less of a worry 1
My family 1
My mummy has a hard time paying rent/ gas and electric, so I tend not to ask for much or sometimes nothing. 1
My own bedroom 1
Name brand cereal 1
New Car - Holiday 1
New Car, Holidays 1
New Clothes/shoes - Holidays - More expensive food - lifts home from school because of fuel costs - - 1
New House 1
New car parts 1
New car, holidays abroad 1
New car, house etc 1
New chothes sometimes food 1
New clothes 2
New clothes or new accessories 1
New clothes or video games 1
New clothes, holidays, latest phones 1
New electrical items and expensive clothing 1
New electronics or unnecessary items eg toys games etc 1
New electronics, new home, higher-end clothes 1
New expensive luxuries 1
New phones - Clothes etc 1
New phones all the time 1
New phones, holiday this year, decorate mums room, get garden done up, pay for all the formal stuff I want or for mum to buy stuff she wants sometimes 1
New phones, new brabded items that sort of thing 1
New shoes new clothes or holidays 1
New technological devices - Concerts - New hobbies (equipment Involved) - Certain holidays - 1
New technology 1
New technology e.g. more smartphones, consoles, etc. - - 1
New tv 1
Nice holiday 1
Nice things 1
No 1
No things in particular 1
Non-essential items - 1
Not a clue tbh 1
Not enough for multiple school trips like other pupils. - 1
Not had a holiday for 5 years as bills too expensive 1
Not sure 2
Nothing 1
Nothing specific. Everything is more expensive so some unnecessary things aren't bought. 1
Often times, electric, basic house supplies, food and heat etc 1
One of my parents less financially stable that other and we wouldn't go on holidays or over the top ever with presents or anything 1
Only "special" things, like holidays abroad and occasional treats- such as certain types of food and snacks- that we had more frequently a couple of years ago. 1
Other items that aren't essential 1
Out of country holidays, expensive presents and gadgets etc. 1
Outings - New clothes or gadgets - 1
Outings, day trips, takeout meals 1
Outside activities 1
PS4 games 1
Petrol so we can drive to appointments more, oil heating 1
Petrol, electric and food 1
Petrol, oil and electricity are very expensive now. We can struggle sometimes and my mum is paid monthly. 1
Pocket money 1
Prices are ridiculous - electric mad 1
School trips and holidays 1
School trips, birthdays new clothes. Fresh food 1
School uniform, holidays, trips away 1
School wear like a blazer since they are overpriced. 1
Shoes all the time 1
Since I live in poverty I have never had the luxury to go on holiday, I have to work part time to earn pocket money so I can go out with friends, we can't have takeaways more than once a week, I don't have the same luxury as some of my middle class friend 1
Snack items, such as crisps or even electronic items like chargers 1
Some clothes - Some foods - Some tablets or iPad for family who needs upgrade 1
Some holidays or to buy a house 1
Sometimes we can't afford to get snacks and stuff from the shop which I suppose isn't bad but it can suck 1
Somtimes food - We never do family holdidays which I don't mind I understand 1
Special expensive items 1
Special things 1
Special things like large scale holidays abroad 1
Spending money carelessly or not essentially e.g takeouts, shopping at weekends, buying snacks or treats and going out with friends 1
Studying away from home. Told wont now be able to do that. Parents can't afford it 1
Stuff like getting electronics fixed 1
Subscriptions, expensive items such as new TV, stuff like that. It's not needed but we aren't exactly interested on wasting money on stuff like that. 1
Summer holidays 1
Summer holidays - Presents for birthdays 1
Sweet treats and other stuff 1
Sweets, electronics and vet bills. 1
Swimming, fixing the car, hotels and dogsitters for going away to competitions, i mostly pay for the hotel now and some swimming fees with my PIP money. 1
Take ways meals, we used to get take out once a week, now we get it once a fortnight. - I get sports clothes only on birthdays & Christmas. - holidays.. home or abroad - 1
Technology for school work 1
Thankfully my mummy is able to afford the basics clothes rent food heating electric so there is enough money but I think other should be getting help with paying bills and rent 1
The unnecessarily expensive things like £300 coats or all the extra equipment that comes with doing a sport 1
There isn't enough money to waste on things we don't need. 1
There would be enough money for "small" luxuries although that doesn't mean they will be bought I don't know any off the top of my head but I know we cant afford like a helicopter. the way I see it is we could afford things like expensive clothes maybe bu 1
There's not enough money for holidays, or enough money for new kitchen items etc 1
Theres not enough money for all of us to go on holiday with my mums side but we get the normal things on our birthday or joint presents 1
Things like driving lessons, Uni, etc. I'm looking into jobs and making money off of my art and stuff though too though, so hopefully it'll work out. 1
Things like the Wi-Fi bill and other monthly bills 1
Things such as holidays or vacations that kind of "Big" and I like expensive clothing so maybe that aswell I guess. 1
Things we want but don't need like new clothes 1
To be honest 'm not really sure. We can't go on expensive holidays outside the EU, that's one thing. I'm usually just told to be cautious of how I spend my money and get what I need not what I want 1
To buy new clothes, snacks, computer science courses 1
To get taxis from work to home and special activities with friends 1
Treats 2
Treats - Horse and dog accessories - Things we want but do not intentionally need 1
Treats like Xbox purchases, - Takeaway food, - Heating oil - Nice treats in the shopping - Sometimes food for mum 1
Treats like trips out to places for example the cinema 1
Treats, as many presents on birthdays than in previous years, going out 1
Treats, holidays, brand name clothing, electricity, gas, groceries 1
Treats, sometimes electric, if somethings broken we can't fix it, as much food as we used to get 1
Trips out - Sweets - Shoes sometimes - Haircuts sometimes 1
Trips out all the time 1
Trips out to dinner/the cinema, bowling etc. 1
Trips out, sporting events which I normally compete in. 1
Trips to fancy places, expensive electronics 1
Typically, it's more about weighing the upside of buying something, and reducing impulse decisions for quick spendings 1
Unnecessary items and things that arent essential 1
Vacations 2
Very expensive items that I don't expect to be bought 1
Visiting family due to the cost of fuel - 1
Wants that we don't need 1
We have money but just I think we are more careful about saving it I am not sure though 1
We have never been on holiday together - We don't own loads of clothes or shoes we mostly get that stuff from charity shops 1
We only have enough money for what we need but not we want 1
We spend more on home brand and cheaper alternatives for products rather than big brand goods 1
Well if we really want something we end up getting it by saving etc but probably more high class modern stuff 1
Working 1
a big holiday 1
a good food supply and treats and electricity/gas 1
a helicopter 1
a laptop for school works and assignments and for more clothes. 1
a window replacement - a nice holiday - new clothes 1
all money goes to the house and bills taxes etc very little left for spending or for groceries etc 1
alot of clothes, random things that we may want, being able to balance all costs for electricity and heating, for example, due to rising in price and we have to save more so we still have enough money to buy essentials, or to plan things for the future 1
being able to get oil to heat the house, cant afford family holidays, childcare is too expensive to be full time, sometimes its hard to afford basic items like milk and bread 1
better car, new technologies e.g xbox, eating out for dinner, school trips - 1
big treats like holidays 1
branded clothes 1
can't afford to go on holidays, buy christmas presents & birthday presents 1
car , oven , etc 1
certain clothes or foods - expensive stuff - 1
change of car, holiday, repairs to house 1
consistent holidays 1
day trips, school trips, new car, heating, new clothes, meals out, going out with friends 1
days out, meals out, sometimes things like hair cuts or things we would consider treats. 1
electric , petrol , heating 1
electric - oil - food 1
electric, food, heating 1
expensive clothes and shoes 1
expensive clothes, holidays and luxurys like that 1
expensive holidays to places needing planes to get to - eating out excessively over the holidays 1
expensive things 1
expensive wants 1
extra things like new clothes 1
family holidays 1
family holidays - 1
food, heating (gas/oil), electricity, holidays 1
food, hygiene products 1
for entertainment 1
for everyone to get phones 1
foreign holidays 2
foreign holidays - 1
frequent holidays 1
fresh fruit and vegetables meat sometimes clothes shoes underwear toothpaste deodorant shampoo socks 1
fuel for the car 1
games 2
gaming consoles, tv's mostly electronic items - 1
gas 1
gifts 1
gifts and foreign holidays during the summer 1
going on holidays every year or going out for dinner 1
going out as a family 1
going out on day trips or on holiday abroad 1
going out to eat etc. 1
going out, new electronics, shopping often, a lot of electrical and heat used within the house 1
good quality clothes - 1
heating 1
heating and electricity 1
hoildays 1
holiday 2
holiday present like Christmas, birthdays 1
holiday, car service, treats 1
holiday, expensive days out, sometimes struggle to fill the car with petrol. 1
holiday, our house extension, petrol, new furniture 1
holidays 16
holidays "once" - - new clothes, - technology 1
holidays - 2
holidays - new clothes - going out to eat 1
holidays abroad 1
holidays abroad, new clothes/shoes, going out places like the cinema or for dinner etc. 1
holidays and day outs 1
holidays and home heating - kennels for dog when on holiday - tuition for GCSE's 1
holidays and loads of new stuff 1
holidays or an expensive phone 1
holidays somtimes food and activities 1
holidays to warm countries, eating out often 1
holidays, cars, branded items 1
holidays, days out 1
holidays, funding for further education eg drama school and music lessons 1
holidays, going out for dinner 1
holidays, new car 1
holidays, new car, maybe even university fees i don't really know 1
holidays, new cars, home repairs 1
holidays, new sports gear etc 1
holidays, nicer clothes 1
holidays, outings, going out for meals, cinema, family activities or going out with friends, school trips, replacement tablet, phone bill 1
holidays, shopping for clothes more than once a year, any type of travel, i've been really struggling to keep up with my gym - memberships recently, make up, perfumes - anything over £20 really. 1
holidays,new furniture,or to buy a house 1
house 1
house renovations and big family holidays 1
i don't know 1
i don't really know but like some things 1
i dont know 1
idk moneys a little tight rn with the changes to my dads pension and stuff but i dont really get told that stuff 1
iphones 1
just more expensive things in general eg iphones etc 1
latest electronics 1
long showers or ever using the heating 1
many holidays or new cars 1
maybe food like monthly shopping getting like a 2nd hand car or anything over £100 without talking about it for weeks 1
meals out - holidays - 1
meals out - fashion - things that are not essential 1
more branded clothes 1
my playstation+ monthly 1
new car 1
new clothes, extra surprises etc - we got just enough for food, electric and heating 1
new clothes, new video games, expensive chocolate just unnecessary things 1
new clothes, outings, going out with friends 1
new electronics - holidays 1
new house, new car, pet 1
new phones and new technology, room decorations/ new furniture etc. 1
new phones or high technology like laptops. Also expensive things like bags and some expensive brands of clothes 1
new school supplys, vegan food to cater for my intolerances 1
new shoes 1
new technology items 1
no holiday - 1
petrol 1
pocket money / sometimes electric 1
prefer not to answer 1
presents i guess? 1
ps5 1
random stuff 1
school trips, treats, holidays 1
skin care 1
some essential clothing items 1
some holidays 1
some of the time we cant pay for electric or gas and rarely get clothes. 1
sometimes we can't buy a new clothes, or makeup things. i can't go to different towns because we don't have enough money for a bus or taxi 1
special outings gifts little things like takeaways going out on family stuff and more snacks in the house, heating 1
special treats like going out for dinner every once and a while etc 1
stuff 1
takeaways, new games, going out for dinner, going on holiday/trips 1
the latest phones,shoes or clothes 1
things like buying unnecessary items such as clothes if they aren't needed 1
things like getting takeaways all the time 1
things that aren't essential, essential things are bought first without question eg food, clothes and even bus money to get to and from school, then if money is left over it is put towards other things that are of importance 1
things we don't need 1
treats and things to make u happy 1
treats like holidays or things we would like such as books ect 1
treats, new games, less expensive shoes and clothes, less holidays. no eating out. 1
trips like going out for a meal or bowling 1
very expensive holidays e.g. cruises but mostly we can afford things 1
we do have to watch our money. its not that there is not enough, its just what to use to money on is an important thing to weight up before spending it on something special 1
we have enough money for basic food but not to be getting loads of treats and stuff 1
well obviously expensive stuff but i don't really need anything dear anyway 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationYoung Life and Times Survey, 2023
UniverseIn 2023 all 16-year-olds who celebrated their 16th birthday in January, February or March 2023 were invited to take part. YLT 2023 was a split survey. YLT is part of a suite of surveys, which includes the Kids’ Life and Times (KLT) survey of P7 children (10-11 year-olds), and Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) survey of adults (18 years +).
SamplingSimple random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study