Aussie battlers are taking extreme measures to survive as they are crippled by soaring costs of living.

As electricity prices continue to increase, people are going to creative lengths to get by on tight budgets.

From Vegemite soup to using candlelight in the evening, nothing is off limits when it comes to saving dollars.

Aussie battlers are taking extreme measures to survive as they are crippled by soaring costs of living with some using candlelight at night instead of using electricity (stock image)

As electricity prices continue to increase, people are going to creative lengths to get by on tight budgets by making soup with left over vegetables or even out of Vegemite (stock image)

The tips were shared in a Facebook group this week after a pensioner explained she was disappointed to see people complain about not getting meat on a free bacon bone (pictured)

The tips were shared in a Facebook group this week after a pensioner explained she was disappointed to see people complain about not getting meat on a free bacon bone.

'We have become a generation of self absorbed entitlees. We have no idea what our grandparents and great grandparents had to scrape by on during WW1 and WW2,' the woman shared.

'There was no such thing as Centrelink benefits, rent assistance, and child support only started when I was little and it was 50 cents per month,' the woman shared.

The pensioner explained when she was young, her and her sister searched for mushrooms to sell to the grocer and hunted for rabbits to trade for sausages on nearby farming land.

FRUGAL MONEY SAVING TRICKS Mixing spoonful of Vegemite with boiling water to make soup

Using candlelight at night time

Unraveling knitted jumpers and reknitting to make new ones

Sewing old dresses into new frocks

Cutting and restitching worn sheets

Turning old towels into bathmats, face washers or dish cloths

Heating bricks with boiling water and wrapping in a towel to use for warmth

Buy standard white sugar and grind to make caster or icing sugar as needed

Add baking powder to plain flour to create self raising flour

Big block of cooking butter and mix with oil to make it spreadable

Use bucket in shower to catch water then use caught water on the garden

Put a wet sheet in front of a fan to cool down instead of using air conditioning Advertisement

In other attempts to get through life, the woman's mother unraveled old knitted jumpers and reknitted them into new ones.

'I can remember (my mother) making me a new dress for one of her old ones,' she explained.

Hundreds of other people shared their money saving tricks which were passed down through generations.

'My mum lived in Fitzroy (Victoria) and they had an earthen floor. They heated up bricks (with boiling water) and wrapped them in towels and put them at the end of the bed on cold nights,' one woman recalled.

Some people explained a spoonful of Vegemite mixed with hot water, known as Vegemite soup, provided a warm dinner option as others remembered having dry Weetbix for lunch.

'No bread for lunches, mum made pikelets or dry Weetbix spread with butter and Vegemite, honey or jam,' one shared.

One thrifty home cook said she always buys white standard sugar and grinds it into caster or icing sugar as needed with a coffee grinder. Similarly, she only buys plain flour and adds baking powder to create self raising flour as required.

Some people said they had showers set to a two-minute egg timer and the water was caught in a bucket and used on the garden (stock image)

One person recalled her mother making baby singlets with her father's old shirts (pictured)

Many shared cooking tips (pictured) and one woman explained she bought a block of cooking butter and adds oil to it to make it spreadable

Another woman explained she learned to buy a big block of cooking butter and adds oil to it to make it spreadable.

One person said she turned 'wonky fresh vegetables' into veggie soup and used the left over carcass of a roast chicken to make chicken soup.

Others said they used old towels as dish cloths, face washers or bath matsand unwrapped presents carefully to reuse the wrapping paper.

Many explained they would cut sheets in half and restitch them together, or add old pillow slips to patch them up, to double their life or simply turn them into underwear or singlets.

In warmer months, some thrifty people said they put a wet sheet in front of a fan (pictured) as a way to cool down instead of using expensive air conditioners

'My mum made singlets for the babies from dad's old singlets,' one person said.

Some people had showers set to a two-minute egg timer and the water was caught in a bucket and used on the garden.

In warmer months, some thrifty people said they put a wet sheet in front of a fan as a way to cool down instead of using expensive air conditioners.

The frugal money saving hacks come as Australians struggle to afford to live with electricity bills increasing by 56 per cent since 2007/08 leaving households paying an extra $538 a year in bills.

