I use cotton dish cloths, and a brush

Peppermint tea. If you have a garden you can grow it yourself. But you have to keep it from spreading everywhere.

Our first colour tv cost about 3 months of my dad’s salary in the early 1970s. And the Siemens mainframe computer in the company he worked for was tens of thousands (which was more than a year’s worth of the average salary). Rent. Every month. It had less computing power than my smartphone.

A brand new coffee grinder (hand crank) for free, and 15 silk neckties for €1 each.