If I understand it right, if you boil the kettle only once a day, you save a massive £15 a year! They say that boiling the kettle just once a day will cost you 8 pence which over a year will cost you £29.20.

I’m not sure where the £15 saving is coming from. If a person boils the kettle twice during the day and then drops down to only once a day, shouldn’t they save £29.20?

Unless they are using off-peak hours to calculate the saving but I don’t know many people who get up at 3 AM just to have a cheap brew.

Those like our techy guy Andi who drink bucket loads of tea each day, using the kettle just once a day would probably save them several thousand pounds.

But they’ll probably be miserable buggers.

Struggling to pay the bills is bad enough, but not being able to regularly enjoy a coffee or a tea during this tough time is simply going to make you more miserable.

Drinking cold water straight from the tap is fine, we need water and it’s cheap, but I don’t fancy doing it all day every day. Do you?

Thanks to The Sun, people can save £12 a year by doing a cooler wash and they can save £15 a year by using the kettle less.

So that is a grand total of £27.

That is really going to keep the wolf from the door, isn’t it?

Maybe I am being a bit harsh here, when you combine all of those savings together as seen in the picture above, you can probably save a few hundred pounds a year… but it’s not going to touch anything when your actual bills have trebled or even increased fivefold a month.

The last piece of advice that made me question my sanity was to buy a new kettle to save £10 a year on your electricity costs. I suppose if you use that new kettle only once a day then you’ll be rolling in money!

Or at least £25 better off.

Okay, there are people debating whether Boris Johnson (the British Prime Minister) actually meant that as a real suggestion or was using it as an analogy for people to make smarter decisions which lead to savings.

Maybe he could have said it better. There is a logic to it.

One guy worked out that his big American style fridge was costing £800 a year to run and so he intends to sell it and replace it with a small fridge which will cost far less.

When times are hard and your income is stretched to the maximum, trying to cut back and save money on things that you don’t need to use or need to do is a good way to help… but it’s not the only way… or even the best way.

If washing your clothes at 30 degrees Celsius is going to save you just £12 a year and using your kettle less is only going to save you £15, wouldn’t it be better to actually find a way to make more money instead?

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