A consumer price index that looks at the price movements of goods and services consumed at home.


Last month, which was a "price increase rush," the index excluding fresh food, which fluctuates greatly due to the weather, exceeded the same month last year by 3.6%.


The 3.6% increase rate is the first level in 40 years and 8 months since February 1982.


More and more people are registering on sites that introduce part-time jobs.

About 14,000 new registrants last month on "Shufu JOB", one of the introduction sites for women, is an increase of about 2,000 compared to the same month last year.



In addition, it is said that jobs that work three days a week have been popular so far, but there are many applications for one-off jobs that can adjust shifts in about one day a week.



Seibun Ishibashi, president of B-Style Media, which operates "Shufu JOB", said, "Housewives tend to want to work in their current workplace for a long time, but recently there are relatively more side jobs that allow you to work in your spare time. It's becoming more popular.I think that people are starting to think that they need to increase their income as a household due to the impact of high prices, and that they want to earn extra. I have the impression that more and more people are thinking about working as full-time employees."

In order to protect their household finances from rising prices, some people have started new side jobs in addition to their existing jobs.



Rie Yanagishita (47), who lives in Yokohama, lives with her self-employed husband, her eldest son who is a high school student, and her eldest daughter who is a junior high school student.



She usually pays attention to saving money, and buys foods at the cheapest prices at membership-based large supermarkets and neighborhood drugstores, but she says that she feels the rise in prices every day. .



If you check the receipts you keep, for example, at a large supermarket where you buy food in bulk once every two weeks, the price of 20 eggs was 258 yen at the beginning of this year, but it went up to 435 yen this month.



In addition, it is said that the cheapest loaf of bread purchased at a drug store was 68 yen per loaf at the beginning of this year, but it has become 98 yen this month.



Gasoline costs for the car and motorcycle that the family rides also increased by more than 4,000 yen a month compared to last year, to about 20,000 yen.



In addition, the monthly tuition for her eldest daughter's guitar class has increased by 500 yen since July due to the increase in facility usage fees.



Under these circumstances, Ms. Yanagishita started her side business.



Until now, she has been contracted to clean apartments, but from July this year she started a one-off job recruited through a mobile phone job introduction app.

On this day, there was an order to collect information to be posted on an app that introduces information about the city, and Mr. Yanagishita took pictures of a drug store near his home, added an explanation, and sent it.



The compensation is about 10 yen to several hundred yen per time, and the monthly income is about 2000 yen, but if prices continue to rise like this, it is said that there is no choice but to continue the side business in the future.



Mr. Yagishita says, "I'm worried about the future because I have to keep buying things that I have to buy no matter how much the price rises. I'm worried about what will happen if I go shopping because of the price increase. I don't want it to continue.It will cost more money for my child to go to college from now on, so I have no choice but to find something I can do even a little."