The epitome of frugality

I thought I'd share with you a description of my aunt as an example of living frugally and simply. She hasn't actively chosen to live this way, more fallen into it as a natural and sensible way to live.
My aunt is 92 this January. She lives on her own in the same terraced prewar house that she has lived in since she was 9 years old. The house has no central heating, no double glazing, no fitted carpets and in fact none of the modern conveniences we have become used to. Her kitchen consists of a very old stove and 1940s free standing units. She does now have a kettle, but for many years, water was boiled in a pan on the stove. We bought her a fridge with a small deepfreeze, but she refuses a microwave.
She has a range of small (probably leathal) portable heaters which she moves around, heating only the room she is in. There is no heating in the bedrooms - she wears a bed jacket and snuggles up under eiderdown covers and throws with a hot water bottle if necessary.
The toilet is a high flush toilet, mostly likely original and the bath is a metal, claw footed tub. She washes her clothes by hand, drying them outside or over the bath on a wooden airer.
She makes the best tea in the world - proper tea leaves, warmed China pot and China cups and saucers. My children all love afternoon tea with their great aunt. She still bakes fairy cakes decorated with chocolate buttons, butterfly cakes and a fruit loaf or Madeira cake. All this is served on proper china with pretty napkins and cake forks. Needless to say, washing up is done by hand.

She keeps brown paper and setting to wrap things and always has recycled plastic tubs in the understairs cupboard so we can pack cakes to take home with us. Wrapping paper is carefully removed, smoothed out and reused. Nothing is thrown away as it might have a use, but her home doesn't become cluttered because not a lot comes in to her house either. She is very good at repairing things even though her eyesight isn't what it was.
In the garden, she still has apple and pear trees and grows her own tomatoes and runner beans. She used to grow a lot more. The apples are made into a lovely chutney. She eats very simply, walking to the local supermarket with her shopping trolley to buy supplies every now and again.
We have bought her a small flat screen TV and a DVD player because she likes to watch gardening programmes and nature documentaries, but she would have done without had we not bought them for her. I'm not actually sure she ever uses the DVD player actually, but I'm too polite to ask!
Over the years, she has embroidered, crotched and knitted her own clothes. I bought her a set of new teatowels one Christmas to match her newly painted kitchen - she made them into chair seat covers.
Despite such a simple existence and a life that hasn't afforded her many opportunities, my aunt is 'savvy' and keeps herself up to date and aware of  world affairs. She is wise and clever. She may have never travelled or married but has friends whom she sees regularly.
Her incoming budget is probably tiny, but her outgoings are very low too.
She lives a quiet and fairly solitary existence, but I never feel that she's unhappy. She is still generally in good health and is managing to do everything that is needed albeit at a much slower pace. I admire and look up to my aunt who has lived this way all her life, not doing anything that isn't necessary, having minimum negative impact on the world. She is the very epitome of simple and frugal living and she doesn't even know it!