“What’s your power bill worth?” my neighbour asked me. He lives opposite me across the landing, and I’d just dropped off a newsletter I’d made offering my friendly neighbours my help.
After some information sharing, it turns out he was paying close to $700/quarter — more than double my electricity bill. “I’m a fairly frugal user,” I said. Next he asked me if I kept the heater on all night; and it was then I realised he perhaps didn’t really get what I meant about being frugal.
I hear constantly on the news, in conversations, and across the internet about ‘cost of living pressures’ and how much everyone is struggling. And here’s the thing about that:
I totally can’t relate!
Right now all kinds of assumptions may have come to mind about me…
· Rich parents
· Married into wealth
· High paid job
· Shareholder or Bitcoin trader
· Tax dodger
· Got a fat inheritance
· Raked it in during the property boom….
But none of those things are true. Not a single one. In fact, I earn less than 50% of Australia’s median wage, which technically puts me on the poverty line. That may leave you…
