If you make say 10 relatively simple adjustments to your life like this then it ( at the risk of being boringly obvious :) ) would be 300 a year which becomes much more significant.
So learning about them is important or you can't make any adjustments.
Well if you want to be silly about it, sure. (I even put in a friendly note to hopefully avoid such comments). But if we remain sensible then there is quite likely room for a dozen or so such adjustments in many lives where the inconvenience is negligible in proportion to the potential gains.
> But if we remain sensible then there is quite likely room for a dozen or so such adjustments in most lives where the inconvenience is negligible.
I doubt that. Which is my point. You can try to forestall 'such comments' but then you probably should show where you believe 10 (or even more) such adjustments with negligible inconvenience can be made in the life of the people for who this sort of advice would matter. Because I don't believe that to be the case.
Could you name, say, two more? Reducing your use of heating or AC is the only other similar adjustment I can think of. I don't think 10 such adjustments exist.
Those go far, far beyond the negligible impact of turning off your devices when you're not using them. Nobody is claiming that it's impossible to save money. We're saying there are a limited number of options with negligible-to-no impact to you. Most of the things you mentioned are absolutely not worth it to me, I'd rather not save the money.
It not about you
It’s about people for whom 300 a year is not negligible
For those people the things I listed are worth doing and negligible effort compared to the reward
Again, nobody is saying it's impossible to save money. That would be ridiculous. We're saying that there are few low-hanging fruits that have negligible or no impact on your life. The word "negligible" here is applying to the impact on your life by doing the cost-saving thing, not on the dollar amount savings that you get by doing it. Turning off devices when you're not using them is one; you're literally not using it, it doesn't impact you by being off instead of on standby. It's like free money. Switching to a more vegetarian diet is, and I hope this is obvious, much more impactful and more of a life change. Obviously you can save money with life changes.
I'm not saying you are saying it's impossibe to save money! Please, no straw men.
I started this dicussion by making a specific but limited claim that learning about £30/year money saving tips that are easy to adopt is worth it for some people when they learn several and add them up. You are trying somehow to claim that if the tips are not identical in character to turning off devices that my claim is invalid. This makes no sense.
Regarding the more vegetarian meals point; No it's not obvious to me that it is life changing. Having more vegetarian meals that it saves you £30/year is about as effortless as it gets. It's far far less effort than turning devices on and off almost every single day compared to maybe 10 times in an entire year to substitute meat with something plant based in a meal. Nothing life changing there. Just prepare a handful of meals little differently.
I'm not sure what your point is. Yes, people are doing the thing I explained from the very start of this conversation. To recap, OP was curious why people would do it for a such a small amount of money and I pointed out, what I incorrectly assumed was non-controversial, that they don't just do one thing they do several and it adds up.
So learning about them is important or you can't make any adjustments.