Going shopping when full is definitely a good tip. Not wasting is another. We stretch out food well in our household too. Whatever isn’t finished for dinner- goes in my lunchbox to bring to work the next day. Kind of like the spaghetti I brought today.
Yeah we cancelled our cable too and now use a USB stick / TV tuner connected to a PC- it works wonders with Windows 7 Media Center in getting the basic channels to display on the LCD monitor in the living room. Lot of internet sites too can be used to pull down episodes and stuff for free.
In the end, my wife didn’t miss the cable too much. As for me, I never watch TV anyways so it was a risk free experiment to cut the cable haha.
Heating only the room you’re in is very common in Japan- no central heat in many houses. When I go to my in-laws, one or two rooms are somewhat warm and the rest of the house is like 40 F in winter. Tough on the system but good on the wallet.
Have to balance this approach out though too since hospital bills for pneumonia are not cheap, either. :lol