what can you remember your parents doing to save money?

[HoraceCope]

we had to clean the bath with cold water
my dm would reuse foil

I could write a book about PIL. Including staying at a youth hostel in their 70’s rather than a hotel. When they died they had over £1m in assets.

I remember all of these

My aunt, her partner and my mother went to Tenerife together. Their flight was delayed. At my aunt’s insistence they spent the night on the floor of the airport rather than finding a hotel. They were 85, 88 and 90 at the time and between them had something like an income of £65,000.

I do this with my Henry Stick Hoover. Had it a year still on the first bag.

Historically that was what you did. The bag was cloth and acted as a filter; when it was full you emptied it.

I inherited a late forties Hoover Junior with exactly that set up.