You know that it's a recession when...

1. The  early morning Starbucks queue that usually adds 10 minutes to a commute now consists of you and just one other person
2. Three times the number of clients as last year show up at the agency-client xmas party
3.Cabbies are delighted to take you back home south of the river at 1am

Just three observations in the last 24 hours...

Would love to add to this list. Can you help get this moving? Calling on the likes of: Dan. Colin. Neil. Asi.  Nick.

Comments

[gemma]

You Know It's A Recession When:
- you can get the much coveted after work slot at the beaticians on 48 hours notice
- one franchised car dealer undercuts another by £100 for the same service
- the taxi driver arrives to pick you up 10 minutes early and doesn't complain when you keep him waiting

[Robin WIlson]

1. You no longer get biscuits at meetings
2. You see Range Rovers in Aldi and Lidl car parks
3. You find conversations about mortgages actually interesting

[Mikej]

My fellow countrymen have taken your view of the queue at starbucks a little bit further with some analysis
http://www.badidea.co.uk/2008/11/desperate-economic-indicators-muffins-ipods-starbucks-lipstick/

[Simon]

There are still decent sandwiches left in Pret a Manger if you arrive after 2.30pm.

[Mark]

You know it's a recession when:

1. Recruitment Ads for the British Army use the line "Get Job Security". What about actual security?
2. No more free little biscuit on your saucer at Costa but same price for coffee
3. It is almost impossible to buy one item (of anything) in the supermarket because everything is on BOGOF

[branwell johnson]

1. You know it's a recession when you have bought all your Christmas presents weeks early instead of Christmas Eve because of sales offers.
2. Industry conferences cut the price of attendance drastically in the last few days before the event.

[Asi]

1. You know it's a recession when a news-addict like yourself haven't watched the 10o'clock news for 3 weeks straight

2.when you are secretly happy to be Jewish this year so you can avoid the x-mas presents duty and go back home for 2 weeks...

[Victor Houghton]

1. You make your kids work for their pocket money.
2. You tell your kids that this time they really will get a cardboard box and a piece of string for Christmas, just like Daddy did when he was a boy.
3. Your kitchen skills expand to the creative use of leftovers.
4. Fewer newspapers are left on the trains.
5. The queue for the office microwave gets longer.
6. Booking a place for your departmental Christmas lunch is a lot easier.

[Katie]

You are not only able to book a ticket for dinner on New Year's Eve with only 3 weeks to go, you are still toying with the idea of whether you really need to.

[John V Willshire]

It's pretty easy to get a table anywhere on Charlotte Street, yet the Greggs just around the corner on Goodge Street is queued out the door every day...

[Lodon BFG]

1. Jonathan Ross vanishes from your TV screen - remember Wossy rising to fame in the late '80s with The Last Resort. Can't remember him doing anything in 1990 - 93.

2. Alan Bleasdale will probably write a cracking drama - Boys from the Blackstuff in 1982, GBH in 1991...

3. Your buddies who work for hedge funds are even slower to buy their round.

4. Robert Peston becomes one of the top names googled in the UK, and has 5 Faceboook groups.