Signs you've recalibrated your relationship with spending:

• A bag of seasonal, organic fruit and veg excites the hell out of you

• You find expensive restaurants less impressive than a really good homecooked meal

• The flask of coffee and tin foil biscuit from home beats the £7 combo from the station

• You take more pleasure from one gorgeous, handmade thing than several mediocre ones

• You stop confusing price with quality

• You walk down Oxford Street and realise the faint absurdity of the whole thing

• People describe you as ‘low maintenance’ and you take it as a compliment

• You realise just how much is made from plastic, even £100 ‘designer’ blouses

• Buying food outside the house becomes an intentional event rather than what happens when you suddenly realise you’re hungry

• Sales don’t excite you anymore; they just mean expensive tat is slightly cheaper

• Enough starts feeling like plenty

You realise living frugally is a life skill that allows you to extract joy from the simplest things. People think frugality is eliminating pleasure when it’s in fact the whole mechanism by which pleasure actually works.