there was this BBC programme in I think the 2000s or early 2010s, about "how to save money on food/shopping" and I fucking loathed it so intensely. And that was before another decade of fascism - sorry, "austerity" - made everything even worse
It featured a "real" couple every episode, and would take them through the ways they could save money. And every episode I saw, these couples were the most bougie money pissing arseholes you've ever seen. So all the advice was this smug, patronising shit that everyone who was poor even briefly already knows, and even a lot of people WITH money are smart enough to know too.
