I'd love to spend less money on groceries and every day costs but it's just not possible with the prices of everything going through the roof like you said. People are still spending more because they have to.
The government seems clueless on what to do. Their only action is for the RBA to increase the interest rate and then hold onto their butts and pray.
The base level of storage and cost of upgrading to higher storage should be cheaper, but micro SD cards are garbage, especially on android. I had nothing but problems with them on mine, leading to me ignoring the slot on my last few phones that had one.