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You will save even more money if you don't have a mobile phone to charge. Another tip: don't have pets.
They have to be fed and pampered which consumes money and time.

I've seen people in supermarkets queuing at the checkouts with baskets full of ped food, presumably to feed their peds, with a measly couple of tins of baked beans for themselves.

Of course, they might be eating the dog food!

I'm amazed by the number of people with pampered pooches.

Where I come from if a dog doesn't earn its keep, it becomes surplus to requirements.

We have lovely neighbours but culturally they might as well come from a different planet. The lady of the house recently travelled a substantial distance by train solely to feed her granddaughter's goldfish because the family had gone on holiday.

I once had a goldfish as a pet. When it died I used it as bait for pike fishing. It barely hit the water and bang! a 12lb pike was on the line.

I caught another two with the same half-chewed, dead goldfish.

I suspect that we will just have to get used to living in cold houses over Winter and eat raw food.
When the Innuit lived a traditional hunter/killer lifestyle they were amazingly healthy. They rarely, if ever, ate vegetables (now called veggies), or fruit, with the exception of a few berries in "Summer". They ate their food raw.
Also, they didn't have gas central heating in their igloos.
We just had to man-up, wear more clothes, be more active and eat more raw food.
Nowadays people have their central heating on full blast in Winter and walk around the house in "leisure wear" including shorts and sandals.

Swap porridge for muesli. Similar content, no oooking.


On feeding goldfish:
In a pond they don't need any human help with food. They can easlly last a month.

I feed mine regulaly so they cme out to greet me. Otherwise I might never see them, hidden amongst the weeds and water lilies.

I kept tropical fish as a youngster. I got a neighbour to feed them for a fortnight. When I got home, the water was black and every fish dead. After than I just left them "home alone".

On watering gardens:
On a similar line. I have trained my garden to live for two weeks without me.
I have noticed from this and other houses, that neighbours get people in to water. As I peep from behind the curtains, I see people watering busily the evening before the return. They never viisited before.

Some Top Tips today in the Daily Mail, e.g. shower at your gym and charge your phone at work. I might have to spend more time at my clubs, which will no doubt have more old codgers like me infesting them as the nights draw in. Meanwhile my Octopus gas meter reading for end-August is "under review", the nice people at Octopus clearly thinking that I am taking the piss as my gas usage has been so low over the summer.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...-meals-energy-hacks.html

Economy is the luxury of the rich, extravagance that of the poor...

Many years ago, I was on Madeira and heading off for a long walk through the mountains. Setting off on a warm, sunny day, in shorts and T shirt, I passed a bloke selling thick, home-made sweaters from a trestle table and thought what an idiot. Turning the corner of the hill I walked into one of the many of Madeira's strange micro-climates, and it went from warm to freezing, so I went back and bought a sweater. Wish I still had it, but it was heavy on lanolin and some years later the moths got to feast on it. Always reminded me of the old joke about the guy selling ties in the desert.