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I shower while brushing my teeth and then soap my body down after the 3 mins it takes. Shower time didnt get longer just more efficient
The fun part is if you actually do enough of these things, it effects the economy negatively, so they’ll find ways to force you to spend anyway.
Yeah now they’ve got their panties in a twist that we’re not making enough new consumer slaves. I’ve got enough worries keeping myself alive, let alone bringing a kid into it.
The only way is to destroy wealth inequality, and the only way to do that is to destory the oligarch billionaire class.
Also playing video games and watching tv shows helps.
Its all bread and circuses since the roman empire.
“cook at home” is a solution to grocery prices? WTF are you going to cook?
I live close to work, and have never lived alone - but living close to economic opportunities costs more, not less. Not having to drive saves some money, sure, but probably not enough to make up for the difference in housing cost.
Cooking from scratch at home is more a quality of life thing, I do that so we can eat well & reasonably healthy. The more money we make, the more I cook from ingredients. Have a garden now, even - it’s a luxury of having space for one, not a cost saving measure.
Nothing you can do on the expense side will ever make up for the depressed wages - productivity and costs have increased much faster than pay, and nobody can save their way out of that.
Cooking from scratch at home is more a quality of life thing, I do that so we can eat well
again for people who weren’t listening. most of my fun money goes into more expensive, higher quality foods or recipe experiments.
For real, I’m always impressed when home cooks can get it done cheaper than restaurants (who are buying ingredients at wholesale, cook everything in batches, etc). Most can’t. People look at me like I’m crazy when I say this, but there’s a reason working class people get so much takeout: it’s cheaper than cooking, when you factor in the time spent cooking.
Yes. Say you make $20 an hour and can get a takeout meal for $20 or ingredients for $15 and cook for an hour to make something better and healthier. I enjoy cooking, and am in a multi income household, but if you need to maximize work hours to make it, better to spend more time on what you are good at & pays the most.
How does cooking at home even fix grocery costs? I’m already doing that. It’s the cost and quality of ingredients that’s the problem, bit to mention avoiding any of the US products in anticipation of the next version of diarrhea-lettuce or cancer-beef.
Some of these are based around good ideas, but the overall post is not intended to be useful advice.
Realistic version: Cook at home instead of ordering out, don’t buy expensive things that you don’t need (especially on credit), and move to somewhere with a lower cost of living. These are all obvious things that we know about. But they do work to keep expenses down.
My favorite is conservatives complaining about avocado toast. I am anti-consumerist myself but it still just reads funny.
“You are not poor! You are just financially in a situation where, as a working class person in one of the wealthiest countries on earth and its history, buying avocado spread once a month can bankrupt you into lifelong debt. Economy is fine!”
