Retirement - looking for savings ideas

Been retired for nearly four years. You have to look at re-occurring monthly expenses, we went to a cheaper cell phone plan, went to a cheaper internet provider, changed cable TV providers,....you get the picture. When I got my 401K, my financial advisor asked if I had any personal thoughts on investments. I told him my thoughts were 1) no tech stocks, today's darling is tomorrow's has been 2) stocks in products that people can't live without, we have Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Boeing, GE,...you get the picture, and 3) any stock had to pay dividends. The stock value can bounce all over and the income is pretty consistent. Downfall is that return is only 3-4% but so far it's been reliable. Even with this current stock market debacle, we've been doing pretty well. We even took money out of our cash savings account and told our advisor to buy more of stock that met our criteria whose value has fallen through the floor. Just our experience, yours may be different.