With the Easter holidays rapidly approaching, Kleeneze research shows that austere times continue to bite, with over a fifth (22%) people admitting to forgoing a family holiday so as to fund everyday necessities.
Families feel the impact…
Over 1/2 families within the survey who had missed out on holidays (51%) said it were difficult and caused disappointment and one in ten (10%) said it had ended in family arguments.
Perhaps more surprisingly, almost one in five (17%) admitted to having to pay for other treats to make up for it, potentially resulting in a false economy partly.
Finding a solution…
Rather than cancel family holidays, over a 3rd people (34%) said we had taken specific steps to prevent having to try this.
The most appropriate solutions to the difficulty were to scale back on other non-essential spending (64%), working extra hours or taking up an element time job (59%), counting on others equivalent to parents or grandparents to hide the price (19%) or sharing with other families to bring the price down (19%).
Commenting at the result of the research, Lisa Burke, sales director of Kleeneze, said: “It’s clear many families are having to work harder to balance the household finances – pay freezes, reduced hours and sadly redundancies are all having a major effect.
“Because Kleeneze distributors are self-employed and might work the hours they wish, we continue to work out a serious choice of new recruits who sell Kleeneze products as a second job on top of existing full-time employment. Often, the cause of joining is as a way to continue to afford the life-style that they had previous to these more austere times.”
The regional picture…
The Kleeneze research revealed that those in Northern Ireland were in all likelihood to have forgone a vacation with a 3rd (33%) indicating that they had – next it was those within the North West (25%) and people within the East Midlands (24%).