A tight budget is a creativity class nobody enrolled in on purpose.

Being short of money is not a gift and nobody should pretend otherwise. It does force a kind of problem solving that people with room to spare never practice, working out substitutes, fixing rather than replacing, making a small amount go further than it should. Those habits are real skills. They do not make the situation fair.

Notice the workarounds you already run without thinking, because they are worth more than they feel. Keep the ones that serve you if things get easier later. And take help when it is available.