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My deadlines and my difficult weeks collided once and I had to be honest with a tutor, which was frightening and completely fine.

What I would say to somebody starting is that there is no shame in the cheap version of anything. It works or it does not, and mine works.

My storage question in a house with five people and one fridge got answered here in about twenty minutes, practically, by somebody in the same position.

Sitting with you on this one.

I found that being organised was the substitute for being able to throw money at problems, and it worked most of the time.

What helped most was one member here who had done this on a similar budget and simply told me the practical order to do things in.

The bit nobody mentions is how much of this assumes you can take a phone call during working hours. I could not, for a year.

What surprised me was how much support was available once I actually asked. I had spent a year assuming there was none.

I would gently say that if cost is about to make you stop, please have the conversation before you stop rather than after.

The holidays are the difficult part. Term-time arrangements do not survive four months at a different address.

Recognition rather than advice, if that is any use at all.

Eating well on very little was already my situation before any of this, and the appetite change actually made the money side easier.