A Welsh pensioner has opened up on how she lights her home with solar lights and only cooks once a week to cut bills during the cost of living crisis. Sandra, who is in her seventies, has shared the sacrifices she's made in a bid to cut costs at a time where the price of energy is spiralling.
Growing up, Sandra’s parents had to make sacrifices as money was tight following World War Two and she thinks the current crisis may see a return to the same “make-do and mend” attitude. She told North Wales Live : “For people of my generation, making do with what you’ve got is second nature because we’ve done it for so long.
“You get up in the morning and the first thing you think about is what you can’t do in the house, whereas if you’ve got loads of money you can put the heating on, be warm, and do as you please. I think people are going to have to go back to the fifties and to how people lived then."
