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Popping more posts in Aussie Frugal to keep it kicking.
I think some traditional frugal advice doesn’t really apply anymore (some stuff is no longer cost effective or as feasible) but am trying to think of the stuff that would still be useful to people adjusting to a newly lower budget.
A lot of it is long term habitual. His Lordship is struggling with his personal budget because he comes from a decently well off family and has always had good disposable income...meanwhile i earn half of what he does now but i grew up poor so i'm beetling along
Second this - if you've ever been really poor then for the most part the current 'crisis' isn't one. And I have been. Choices get made on habit, but the absolute basics are still available and affordable. Does one really really need to drink only bottled water at a zillion per cent markup? Energy is another matter - what shits me about this is the unpredictability of current energy costs. Chalk that one up to capitalism.
It’s definitely stressful when there are things you don’t have wiggle room on. Most of my life I did happily beetle along with the bare minimum basics but now my body has decided to be intolerant or allergic to everything cheap 😣
I have been doing my own diy cleaning stuff for a while. I am working today but will pop a post over there as soon as I have time. I need some feedback on it too.
My frugality is equally driven by money and sustainability so sometimes there's a clash - paying more for something repairable. But like you say there's a lot of folk who are tightening up by budgets for the first time in a long time so I will try to throw a range of ideas out there too.
Yeah there’s some people are definitely new to it.
Like with one tip some guy went out and bought full amounts of ingredients he didn’t normally use and had no other plan for, then told me it didn’t work out cheaper…