What do we do about the recession?

For English minded people like myself, yourself perhaps? How does it feel - when 1e used to be 75p and now 1e is about a pound - and the French still have the audacity to put the prices up.

Im finding it hard - everything that used to be cheaper, or in Marseille at least relatively similar prices to UK, now its much more expensive. The budget I set for the following year, as I always do, has never been so over budget in such an early month in the year before in my life!

Does anyone else have any fantastic solutions at this time???