We are slightly better off, mainly from savings on the two overseas holidays we haven't had. We never have spent a lot on going out, or day strips so not saving much there. We did get a holiday last October, a week on the Isle of Wight so was lucky there.
We have both worked through out, my wife is an NHS Therapy Assistant, and I'm a workshop manager on a salary. I had a small pay rise last October, and my wife managed to move up a band recently so a small rise there.
We only ever buy what we can afford, apart from the house and some 0% credit cards we never get finance for anything, and we always have some savings to fall back on. Our cars are paid outright at time of purchase, we've never had a new car, current ones are 11 and 13 years old. I have money put by to pay the 0% cards off if need be - most of the 0% cards was for my cinema room build, rather than pay the credit card spending off I put the money in premium bonds and transferred the credit card to a 0% card. I can't help but feel that a lot of people have been caught out because they always spend what they have, cars on finance, expensive phones, expensive TV packages etc. We've never lived that way. So I'm hoping that a lot of people once they are able to will save a bit for a rainy day and look at where they can save money, mind you if we'd both lost our jobs a year ago we would have really eaten in to our savings, and what I've been able to put in to my pension so would have had a big future impact for us, being in our fifties there wouldn't be time to rebuild it.
I'm not one to suffer with depression, but I am finding life a bit monotonous these days, seems to be get up go to work for fives days, and the weekends gone in a flash with just a couple of walks out, then rinse and repeat week after week. My wife is obviously finding work extremely stressful - she has to look after Covid patients, but is bearing up really well considering only a year ago she had only just got over a really bad period of anxiety.
The sooner we get on top of Covid, and things get back to more like normal the better.