Each week, between 2 of us, usually comes to around £25 but does vary with some things that are infrequent purchases.

Around £5 on cheese. Then everything else, typically some mix of: potatoes, onions, carrots, rice, beans, chickpeas, lentils, soy sauce, hoisin, frozen peas and sweetcorn, flour, chicken, sausages, honey to make mead, lettuce, cabbage, grapes, tinned chopped tomato.

I just know that with my garden I have seen more bees than anywhere else so I must be doing something right.

Is Ukraine still offering bounties to surrender with equipment like Ka-52s? Could have tried that instead.

Strap a generator to it and remove the battery. It’s not an electric bike, it’s a diesel electric bike - WHAT? - I SAID IT’S A DIESEL ELECTRIC BIKE!

Cheese. Other ingredients optional.

Well if it was out of nowhere, imprisonment sounds like a tempting choice.

If it was in response to being attacked, yeah that makes more sense.

Reject CNC machines, return to rock!

A $10 burger, medium fries and, 2 energy drinks

Is that a normal lunch to you?

We usually spend £10-15 each a week on food. Internet is £24/month, electricity about £100 a month averaged out over the year with no gas connection. Probably going to be cutting energy usage down quite a bit soon too.

A lot of people own cars here too and insist its required. Either way I don’t have one. Scooters are pretty cheap to run if you actually need to drive around.

Other than South Sudan I am not sure of anywhere that has seen that amount of inflation. Tbh over the past few years my bills have barely changed, the largest change is the mortgage getting cheaper by almost 20%. Council tax is up a little but that is nothing compared to how much the mortgage reduced. Food is a rounding error compared.

Oh I thought we were still comparing to AAA games

Started living there and working in that job before covid, continued after. Never lived in a city though, that was a mid sized town. At the time I didn’t have a car or garden. Still don’t have a car.

Sequel to four lions, four bears.

Ok, but if great games exist why should I care about the ones that are only good?

You can get those here, but its normally cheaper overnight when I am not using anything and more expensive during the day when I am. There isn’t much I could load shift so it probably isn’t worth it.

At some point looking to get solar and maybe a battery, the battery depends on the export rate as if only terrible rates are available it makes more sense to get a battery and possibly even cut off from the grid entirely as you still have a standing charge here even if you use nothing or only send energy back to the grid.

No, no one else was paying those things. A lot of bills were included in my rent so I had very little expenses after paying rent. Landlord was still a wanker, but he died of karma cancer.

Got a heat pump, tbh the best single energy saving thing I could do is switch to gaming on a steamdeck. That may even take around 1/3rd off my already low energy bill. Maybe get a fairly low spec and low energy usage mini PC. How much do you really need to run Rimworld, Factorio or CDDA?

The idea of having 2 PCs for my own gaming seems odd, higher hardware costs but it may pay for its self in energy savings. Should get a meter to check what my PC actually uses when running these games though. Or just drop higher end games entirely?

There were loads of free browser games back then

Unable to save, or unwilling to? Even when I was earning £8k several years ago I was able to comfortably keep a few thousand in the bank. Just made sure not to spend more than I earnt.

A lot of those habits remained. Now I don’t know what to spend money on, saving multiple hundreds a month and my only increased expense is that we bought a house. Give it a few more years of inflation and that won’t even cost much more than renting a bedroom did.

I like cooking all my meals so why would I change? Costs like £10-15 a week each. Now that I have a house with a small amount of garden space I have also started growing herbs, if anything that is reducing my food bill. Unlimited rosemary!

Not played those. You can make Factorio with that team size