In the first of three reports, Sky News investigates how increasing bills are impacting some of the 262,000 that call Plymouth home.
"Then I'll get paid Wednesday and I thank god I get paid every Wednesday. But then by the Thursday or Friday with bills coming out - and I've got to buy food - I'm very lucky to have any of my wages left," she adds.
"I shouldn't have done it. But if I haven't got the money in the bank, I'm in the red, it's just a constant…you're constantly worrying."She isn't alone."I think with the cost of energy and prices going up people need us," says manager Sarah Brown. "We budget a lot - well, we try to. Bread. You shop around for things. You can't go to one supermarket for everything, you have to go to about three or four different ones.
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