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Not only for monks and novices did Luang Phaw emphasize non-attachment. He taught his lay disciples the art of thrift - to avoid extravagance. He taught that wealth is vital to the householder's life. Everyone has to work hard for a living in order to support their families, however anyone who fails to realize the benefit of thrift, will never manage to set himself up in life. Monks and novices should be easy to support - and laypeople too, should have a standard of living befitting their social status. Luang Phaw taught his disciples the way to make cheap tomyam soup. He said: "...make tomyam soup from fish sauce. If fresh fish is used for the fish sauce, the sauce will be clear in colour and will have no unpleasant smell. The fish sauce will be sweet and the taste can be adjusted to make it sour, salty or spicy. When you take the soup you should drink only the liquid, but leave the fish intact. When the fluid runs out, simply top up the soup with boiling water, adjust the flavour and drink the soup until the liquid runs out again. Keep on topping up with boiling water until the soup has no sweet fish flavour left. Even then the fish is not thrown away, but used as an ingredient for other foods such as fish chilli sauce to fill it out and improve the consistency." Luang Phaw taught that the wise eat to live, but fools live to eat. As the catering, so the lodgings. Accommodation in the temple for monks was very limited.