These days I play similar to you guys in that I’m just trying to budget manage and play for fun when the kids are asleep and honestly what I’ve found more fun is starting way lower deposit and moving through the stakes on those ‘lucky nights’ rather than doing 60p consistently.
So I tend to stick a £50 on and we just play 20p if it goes super well early we move up to 40p, 60p etc on games we enjoy if it goes bad we just stick to 20p and you know sometimes that last £10 you hit a 20p 100x that gets you another few hours play. The days it goes wild and you go up the stakes sometimes you cash out £400.
In the end we all end up at RTP but I find it more fun to start low and the big wins come from ‘nothing’ than to put £250 in like you guys and sometimes have it just vanish in an hour which it totally can on 60p/80p/£1 stakes – it’s only a few hundred spins if the base goes dead at those stakes.