3 ways you can save on transactions fees today

[audaciousbeing]

1. Save up all the payments you need to make and send them in one transaction.
On electrum, go to tools > "pay to many" to do this, enter in each payment as <address>,<amount>

This is ome that really relates to me as this is something I have practiced as well and I have equally maintained that there is no way the fees wont go up so far we are always happy about the increase in price and the difficulty experienced in mining a bitcoin. I guess the only way around it is to manage the situation to our advantage in which OP has rightly enumerated.

[AngryDwarf]

Not everybody has a need to do a one-to-many transaction.

The way to keep transaction fees down is to minimise the number of inputs required. I consider it good practice to use coin control and manage the UTXO set. I combine smaller UTXO's into larger UTXO's when the system is less busy, and I am prepared to wait for it. When it comes to needing a fast transaction during high demand, then I need only one input on the high fee transaction, thus saving fees in the long run.

TIP: Core haven't fully removed the coin amount * coin age weighting in transaction priortisation yet, and there are pools out there that still use this in addition to the higher fee prioritisation. If you have a large enough UTXO with enough confirms on it, you can combine UTXO's for only 1 sat/Byte. During low demand the confirm might be in the next block, or may only take a couple of hours.