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If you make say 10 relatively simple adjustments to your life like this then it ( at the risk of being boringly obvious :) ) would be 300 a year which becomes m

• blitzar 5y ago
  If you cut out the take-away coffee and avocado on toast and you will have enough to buy many houses. Apparently going without 24,499 times would mean you have enough to put down a deposit for the average first time buyer in London.
• jacquesm 5y ago
  If you made 100 such adjustments it would be 3000! And so on... but really: how many such adjustments can you make? And how much inconvenience will that cause?
  • nicoburns 5y ago
    If you have a low income, then potentially much less inconvenience than not being able to afford things that you need.
  • jahnu 5y ago
    Well if you want to be silly about it, sure. (I even put in a friendly note to hopefully avoid such comments). But if we remain sensible then there is quite likely room for a dozen or so such adjustments in many lives where the inconvenience is negligible in proportion to the potential gains.
    • jacquesm 5y ago
      > But if we remain sensible then there is quite likely room for a dozen or so such adjustments in most lives where the inconvenience is negligible. I doubt that. Which is my point. You can try to forestall 'such comments' but then you probably should show where you believe 10 (or even more) such adjustments with negligible inconvenience can be made in the life of the people for who this sort of advice would matter. Because I don't believe that to be the case.
    • electroly 5y ago
      Could you name, say, two more? Reducing your use of heating or AC is the only other similar adjustment I can think of. I don't think 10 such adjustments exist.
      • jahnu 5y ago
        I’ll name the ones I do myself - Reduce heating as you suggested (we have a crisis going on in Europe and I reduced it even more recently) - Drive a little slower - Make sure I check for discounts at the supermarket and plan accordingly - Try to fill the dishwasher optimally - Cook more vegetarian meals - Check used goods online markets before buying new And that’s just a quick list
        • electroly 5y ago
          Those go far, far beyond the negligible impact of turning off your devices when you're not using them. Nobody is claiming that it's impossible to save money. We're saying there are a limited number of options with negligible-to-no impact to you. Most of the things you mentioned are absolutely not worth it to me, I'd rather not save the money.
          • jahnu 5y ago
            It not about you It’s about people for whom 300 a year is not negligible For those people the things I listed are worth doing and negligible effort compared to the reward I don’t understand why this is so hard to get
            • jacquesm 5y ago
              Because most people who need to make such adjustments have already made them.
              • jahnu 5y ago
                I'm not sure what your point is. Yes, people are doing the thing I explained from the very start of this conversation. To recap, OP was curious why people would do it for a such a small amount of money and I pointed out, what I incorrectly assumed was non-controversial, that they don't just do one thing they do several and it adds up.