1. Die.
2. Grow a veggie garden. You get fresh air and exercise, and three to six months later you may also get a grub-infested head of organic broccoli and three whole green beans.
3. Check the prices on grocery items*. Did you know underneath every item on the supermarket there’s a little tag with numbers on it? And those numbers tell you how much each item costs? Amazing! Now you’ll be saving heaps of money choosing the jar of pasta sauce that costs $19.60 instead of $19.85.
4. Cut your power off (not deliberately, because that also costs money). Wear three jumpers. Say “Nobody dies of hypothermia in Australia”. Tell your friends you’re re-enacting pioneer days. Sing Botany Bay softly to yourself as you lie in bed in the dark.
5. Sell one of your investment properties.
6. Get in a time machine and go back a few hundred years to head off the advent of capitalism and the incipient creep of the lionisation of corporate power, to the point where the social contract has broken down completely and full-time work can no longer guarantee you can support a family, secure a home or put food on the table and there’s nothing we can do about it.
7. Stop eating, and call it “intermittent fasting”.
*This was actual advice from an actual really-real article on how to beat the cost of living