Cost cutting tips. So with the spiraling cost of food and electricity I thought this would be good.

Gather roadkill early in the morning , obviously if there's maggots it's not to be eaten .Nothing like a badger stew on a Winters day.

Jog 5km round the block every morning and evening to warm up.

Baby wipes instead of shower and dry shampoo for hair.

Eat canned food by candle light.

‘ Shur it’ll be grand.’

Nope. We will not see any benefit.

Not really a cost cutting tip, but more like a saving tip for anyone with cheap enough rent or anyone who can manage it.

If you can, save rent over 3 weeks but also save rent for the fourth week. That fourth week adds up every month, which helped me when I was given my notice last year as I had a rental deposit and first month saved up without having to wait to get deposit back from previous landlord. Also helps if you need to take a day or two off sick and you get low pay one week, you have the rent saved over three weeks.

My granny has always done her cuppa like this

They all do.

Its significantly more efficient (seconds at 800w vs minutes at 3000w), but the water doesn't get consistently boiled and if you leave it too long, can 'explode' from locational superheating.

Using just the right amount of water in a kettle is much more efficient than the usual fill-and-boil, and possibly safer than microwaving it albeit still using more power than microwaving.

Best advice I could give anyone to save electricity/heating bills would be to replace all windows and door seals. We got this done last year, guy came out and replaced all the rubber seals and adjusted all the doors and windows , made a massive difference to heating as regards how long it needed to be on and how it retained it for afterwards. Cost of doing a 250sq m house was €120, plus a noticeable reduction in wind noise.

I know a lot of people who put the heating on far too often. I have one friend who would have the heating on and sitting there in shorts and a t-shirt. A lot of the time a pair of pjs socks and a warm top or housecoat is enough and leave the heating off. Ok there are times in the year when you absolutely need the heat on but some are far too trigger happy with it.

Also, completely cut out to go tea, coffee and sandwiches. Make your own sandwiches, they can be nicer anyway.

On the topic of 30'c vs 40'c for your washing, I've never used heated water for washes my entire life and nothing bad has happened.

My bad, @AMKC.

I know this falls into the "only joking, but not really" category, and my wife is the same.

I've turned into my father walking around the house turning off lights and things. It wouldn't be unusual for me to come home to a house with ceilong lights on, bathroom lights and fans on, lamps on, television on, sometimes a hair straightener still plugged in - and she's left the house 3 hours ago.

Despite repeated requests to be a little more careful... Still fairly regular carry on.

Do you want legionella bacteria? Because that's how you get legionella bacteria.

Keep your hot water above 60'c.

Same in my house. All lights have to be on regardless of how dark/bright it is. But do u think she’d turn on the extractor fan whilst having a shower???

Fair one. I'll look into that. Cheers.

FFS, you can't win.